Comments on: Yet another pink house in San Mateo: San Carlos

By: Pralay

Pralay — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:41:37 +0000

RealEstater,
Where did I say that I don’t have an income?

By: Real Estater

Real Estater — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:32:55 +0000

Pralay,

A person who does not have a job is not priced out, he’s just “out”.

By: Norcalboomer

Norcalboomer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:03:29 +0000

This house makes me feel patriotic, with the flag flying out front. Everyone have a Happy Fourth of July!! Burbed, you are a true American, please continue to exercise your rights to free speech!!!

By: burbed

burbed — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:34:20 +0000

hey burbed, why no new article today?

Because I hit “draft” instead of “publish”.

Fixed.

By: DreamT

DreamT — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:33:20 +0000

Burbed – Yes, let’s stay civil. I’ve got an upbeat one: Happy Birthday to all people born in July!

By: madhaus

madhaus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:12:42 +0000

hey burbed, why no new article today?

By: burbed

burbed — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:53:52 +0000

The problem is that you aren’t smart; you’re just a dick.

Frowns.

To all,

Can we please increase the civility of tone around here.

Thank you.

By: zanon

zanon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:32:57 +0000

As someone who grew up in Dubai, and has family there now, I sure hope that the RBA has more propping it up than Dubai.

The crazy excess that is going on there is insane. Either the 2.5M dirt poor subcontinental construction workers who live there need to start being able to afford $1.5M condos, or 2.5M rich people from the rest of the world need to move there in the next 24 months.

-zanon

By: madhaus

madhaus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:20:58 +0000

Hellboy, I’m of 2 minds on that article you posted. I do see corporate tech purchases getting slowed down, but I also see consumer tech actually going up. It’s a slightly bigger version of the Starbucks paradox, well, if I can’t afford a fancy car or a big house, then at least I can have a fancy coffee drink. Only in this case its an iPhone or some game software.

WillowGlenner mentioned an increase in purchases from Dubai. I don’t see that as a big enough market to make up for the US; yeah they have money to burn, but there aren’t that many people living or even visiting there. And going back to the VC talk, early funding means there are jobs, but it’s IPOs that generate down payments.

By: WillowGlenner

WillowGlenner — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:38:04 +0000

Well madhaus, the ability to cash out with IPOs is definitely suppressed, but the willingness of private capital to fund startup ventures is more significant to us, and that is not in a crisis at all. That story in the Merc about Jatxr getting 20 million unsolicited reminds me of the 90s. And the reason the tech companies are not hurting too badly in this recession is that most of them are offsetting the weakness in US with the emerging markets. Dubai for example.