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Each day on my walk to work, I pass by a couple houses for sale. They are on .25 acre lots, less than a mile from the beach, and likely to sell for about $250,0
by souprock 8y ago
Each day on my walk to work, I pass by a couple houses for sale. They are on .25 acre lots, less than a mile from the beach, and likely to sell for about $250,000 each.
That is, uh, about 10% of the San Francisco cost or 20% of the general Bay Area cost. Salaries are more like 50%, and of course that also means a lower income tax bracket. Other stuff is cheaper too, like food and gasoline. Last I checked, the price of gasoline was about 50% of what you have to pay.
The finances work out fine. I have 11 kids.
At age 35, probably 2/3 of the childbearing years are gone. (could be all gone, could have another dozen years) You'd better hurry.
- nuna 8y agowhere
- souprock 8y agoIndialantic, FL This is a 4-bedroom house, supposedly for $275,000 but likely to go cheaper: https://www.trulia.com/p/fl/indialantic/421-e-riviera-blvd-indialantic-fl-32903--1068558733 https://www.trulia.com/p/fl/indialantic/421-e-riviera-blvd-i... There are a couple smaller places, a tad cheaper, on neighboring streets. One can work for Raytheon, Northrop Grummen, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Thales, GE (trains), and several cybersecurity startups. All of those are doing well. Doing less well I think, there is also: Intersil (a wireless chip company), DRS (a military optics company), NASA contractors, etc. I don't believe this place is particularly special. All across America, there are smallish cities in which the finances work out for tech professionals.
- nuna 8y agothanks for replying, the schools here are awful so I am looking at other places as options