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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
$2,180 a month for 310 square feet. The mind boggles.
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Welcome to California housing costs.
I used to live about 12 miles south of Berkeley. In 1998, I bought a 1286 sq condo for $115k. Six years later, I sold it for $350k. Yeah, I painted the whole thing, put in a ceiling fan, and installed a new heat/AC unit, but a nearly $40k increase in value per year is just nuts. (According to Zillow, that condo is worth $500k today, and the HOA charge is now $500/mo. Jeez.)
What's more nuts is, after I sold it, I couldn't find a fucking shack for less than $400k (unless I wanted a 1.5 hour commute to work every day).
Which is why I live where I do now.
