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See you later, Cali!

Movin on said:
Being a Cali native a move down south would definately be an adjustment. A few coworkers have gone to Hotlanta to retire and say they love it. If the OP wants to move back to Cali in 2021 I'm sure the greater Sacramento area, Palmdale, Lancaster in so cal will always be relatively affordable. Believe me housing has yet to fully recover in the greater Sacramento area from the CRASH. Coastal areas ........forget about it.


Good luck and enjoy.
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Maybe some of the places you mention may stay relatively affordable BUT, you'll leave a palace in another state, to buy a hovel for the same price in Ca.

Who wants to do that?
 
I think most folks idea of "Living in California" is not Lancaster. I love the California Deserts, but I'm weird (and, no, I don't live in them). But may as well move east to AZ.
 
OP!

Get use to these.

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kangaroo said:
200 miles from Atlanta to the tail. It's a long ass ride and in the summer theys have humidity. I'll take NorCal any day. Lol
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The traffic in Atlanta is truly awful as well. With no lane-splitting. :(
 
berth said:
Best of luck coming back. It's hard to come back once you leave.
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T100 said:
berth said:
This is exactly right. When you sell your home and leave Ca., unless you are wealthy and/or make a huge salary, you are done here trying to buy back into the market.
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Congrats OP....... enjoy the adventure.

This seems to have been common advice for years from Ca. residents to those planning on leaving. Not sure it's accurate. Property as a general rule seems to appreciate at essentially the same rate everything else being equal. If one cashes out in Cali and invest it elsewhere, how does that preclude one from coming back if they choose to do so. Have been watching the market on the eastern slope for a couple of years and have missed the sweet spot. Homes on the NV side of Tahoe, Gardnerville and Minden seem to have appreciated much faster than homes here along the coast.
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The only thing I can come up with is that even if the money was invested well it wouldn't produce an ROI at the same rate as property does in CA. :dunno
 
domingo3 said:
Necro! Coming back next month.
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Me too!
HA! I just looked at this thread as I was prepping the boxes to move back and realized I'd replied to this thread when you first moved. I had prophetically said coming back in 2021 (with 4x the salary on the table! HURRAH! maybe I'm not completely screwed!) :rofl
 
CocoLoco said:
The only thing I can come up with is that even if the money was invested well it wouldn't produce an ROI at the same rate as property does in CA.
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My house in Idaho, that I bought for less than half of what I sold my California house for, has gone up by more total dollars than the house I left. Not that I'm interested in coming back. :cool
 
berth said:
I think most folks idea of "Living in California" is not Lancaster. I love the California Deserts, but I'm weird (and, no, I don't live in them). But may as well move east to AZ.
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Life is weird. Here I am all of a sudden in Cat City, not a hijack, just saying, catching up on an old thread I’d forgotten. What-up berth?😎
 
ScottRNelson said:
My house in Idaho, that I bought for less than half of what I sold my California house for, has gone up by more total dollars than the house I left. Not that I'm interested in coming back. :cool
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Has that always been the case for your region in Idaho, tho? Or is the upturn in property value something of a new phenomenon there?
 
CocoLoco said:
Has that always been the case for your region in Idaho, tho? Or is the upturn in property value something of a new phenomenon there?
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You know the Idaho definition of the word "Californian", right? It's anybody that moved to Idaho after the person using the word did.
 
domingo3 said:
Tonight's my last night in CA. Moving to GA for an unavoidable work contract. Hope to back in the East Bay in 2021, if we can afford a house then. Don't know what I'll do without teh BARF, Doc Wong, and Moto Guild, which all unique to here. Hope this is a "see you later" and not "goodbye".😞
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They say if you once move out of CA, you will likely not be able to return and afford to buy a house.

One way to make sure that doesn't happen is to keep your house in CA.

What I did is to sell my small dumpy house in South San Francisco and buy a mansion ( by comparison) in Auburn, CA which is also much closer to here without all the bay area traffic. I also bought two houses here in Reno.

And according to Zillow the 500K$ house I purchased in Auburn in Dec of 2016 will now cost 750K$, a 50% increase in 4.5 years. However, my small dumpy house in SSF will now cost more than a million bucks. I paid $34,500 for it back in 1978, with all my neighbors saying I paid way too much for that dump. It doubled in value in about five months! Faster than anywhere else in the country at that time.

Perhaps that well overdue big earthquake hitting the SF Bay area will bring the prices there down a bit. Seems not much else can. And I am not even sure about that.

-Don- Reno, NV
 
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Has that always been the case for your region in Idaho, tho? Or is the upturn in property value something of a new phenomenon there?
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When I bought my house in Idaho at the start of 2018, the Boise/Meridian area was the fastest growing area in the nation. Now, for some reason, it is having the highest price increases in the nation. Can't explain either of them. But right now housing prices are going up all over the country, so it's related to that.

Tally Whacker said:
You know the Idaho definition of the word "Californian", right? It's anybody that moved to Idaho after the person using the word did.
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This is more true than I want to admit. :laughing
 
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