As a former Cali resident of San Francisco, I always wanted to be in Antioch but.

[fishy104]

As a former resident of Cali who was born, raised and educated there, and a resident of San Fran for 30 years as a hard worker at a finicial insitutation, I always wanted to retire out in Antioch where homes are beautiful and the living is great. Yet that was wishful thinking based on the fact I didn't inherit one million dollars to do it.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch,_California

[Cletus]

As a former resident of Cali who was born, raised and educated there, and a resident of San Fran for 30 years...
That explains a great deal.

[Abby08]

That explains a great deal.

I was also born and raised in California....lol...but, I've been gone so long I think, no, hope, it's completely gone from my system.

[donttread]

As a former resident of Cali who was born, raised and educated there, and a resident of San Fran for 30 years as a hard worker at a finicial insitutation, I always wanted to retire out in Antioch where homes are beautiful and the living is great. Yet that was wishful thinking based on the fact I didn't inherit one million dollars to do it.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch,_California


Real estate is crazy. It seems like the price should somehow be tied to polulation growth, but that never seems to bear out. Unskilled workers can't even afford studios and in some cases in some cities rooms. In the mid 2000's we called it a boom. Of course the fed , fed into that. In other industries it's simply called inflation.

[donttread]

As a former resident of Cali who was born, raised and educated there, and a resident of San Fran for 30 years as a hard worker at a finicial insitutation, I always wanted to retire out in Antioch where homes are beautiful and the living is great. Yet that was wishful thinking based on the fact I didn't inherit one million dollars to do it.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch,_California

Real estate has gone nuts. Especially in california and especially in large urban areas and their suburbs. It has always seemed completely out of touch with population growth , which should be a major factor in real estate pricing. I saw the 2008 real estate crash coming and called the period before that near hyper inflation vs. a "boom". But I'm no economist. The fed , fed the out of control prices by cutting interest rates into it's teeth against common economic sense. But it hid part of the house of cards economy until it didn't.
Also people, probably because of what they are paying, tend to want everything when they buy their first home. A bathroom per person, certainly a double sink master bath and a kids / visitors bathroom elsewhere. At least one on every floor, none of them under 150 square feet. New appliances, moserized decor, landscaping and more a bedroom for each child plus one for guest.
But it all and other factors together and house that doesn't look that special from the road on a lot that ain't that big can cost half a million or more.