Comments on: What is median home price so expensive in Bay Area? http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/ San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley House Price and Mortgage Insanity Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ex-sunnyvale-renter http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2552 ex-sunnyvale-renter Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:03:25 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2552 Then the house ends up a REO property, sits for years uninhabited, unless you count the fact that it becomes a "squat" inhabited by the American whose job the H1B took! See? It all works out! Then the house ends up a REO property, sits for years uninhabited, unless you count the fact that it becomes a “squat” inhabited by the American whose job the H1B took!

See? It all works out!

]]> By: densityduck http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2551 densityduck Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:11:19 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2551 Hey, if he's on an H1B he'll do just fine. He buys the place with two interest-only ARMs, he goes to school and then works out the rest of his time at Google or Yahoo, and then he leaves the country. Eventually the bank realizes that he's gone and trashes his credit rating, but what does he care? He's never coming back here. Hey, if he’s on an H1B he’ll do just fine. He buys the place with two interest-only ARMs, he goes to school and then works out the rest of his time at Google or Yahoo, and then he leaves the country. Eventually the bank realizes that he’s gone and trashes his credit rating, but what does he care? He’s never coming back here.

]]> By: ex-sunnyvale-renter http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2550 ex-sunnyvale-renter Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:32:01 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2550 His shiny new job at Intel will indeed get him a decent house, as long as he isn't paid in US Dollars. His shiny new job at Intel will indeed get him a decent house, as long as he isn’t paid in US Dollars.

]]> By: Moe http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2549 Moe Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:21:05 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2549 Or the non-native English speaker has finally realized that his shiny new job at Intel will never buy him a decent house. I bet his next search was "Why I waste four years of my life in grad school?" Or the non-native English speaker has finally realized that his shiny new job at Intel will never buy him a decent house.

I bet his next search was “Why I waste four years of my life in grad school?”

]]> By: ex-sunnyvale-renter http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2548 ex-sunnyvale-renter Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:47:19 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/2007/10/20/what-is-median-home-price-so-expensive-in-bay-area/#comment-2548 It's not even those things, the answer is right under your nose. "What is median home price so expensive in Bay Area"???? Apparently no one here has noticed that a native speaker of English is much more likely to have entered the search string, "Why is the median house price so high in the Bay Area" or "Why's Them Houses So Damn Expensive Around Frisco". And therein, besides some fun picking on Chindianlish, lies the answer. The US Dollar is tanking and the whole world (except the US, give us a while) knows it. A Canadian dollar is 1.03 US Dollars as of yesterday, and the US Dollar is only heading down from there. So, our intrepid questioner is only asking a reasonable question: Why can't he trade a good water buffalo and one of his daughters for a house in the BA? Or will he have to wait until next week..... It’s not even those things, the answer is right under your nose.

“What is median home price so expensive in Bay Area”????

Apparently no one here has noticed that a native speaker of English is much more likely to have entered the search string, “Why is the median house price so high in the Bay Area” or “Why’s Them Houses So Damn Expensive Around Frisco”.

And therein, besides some fun picking on Chindianlish, lies the answer. The US Dollar is tanking and the whole world (except the US, give us a while) knows it. A Canadian dollar is 1.03 US Dollars as of yesterday, and the US Dollar is only heading down from there.

So, our intrepid questioner is only asking a reasonable question: Why can’t he trade a good water buffalo and one of his daughters for a house in the BA? Or will he have to wait until next week…..

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