Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose

Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by tjr225 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:01AM (#16798890)

I moved out here last year - I do not live in Seattle proper, but I work there. I love Seattle but it is a crazy town that to me seems like it must've always been in flux. For the love of God do not move here if you don't want to be stressed out about housing costs and don't want to deal with an insane commute regardless of almost anywhere you live.

I'm trying to find it but there was this old video recording from either 1995 or 2005 (I don't remember which) of a Bob Dylan-ish parody song being performed on acoustic guitar and the lyrics were complaining about the exact same things back then that you hear complained about here today. As a matter of fact, don't move here if you can't handle complaining.

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by saratogacx on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:24AM (#16798977)

There are a lot of them from an old tv show called Almost Live. Here's a good spot to start from '97

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr5-Obhi1pE

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by tjr225 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:34AM (#16801648)

That is the exact video I was searching for! Thank you!

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by mulmen on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:06AM (#16798907)

Seattle is a boom(and bust)town. Always has been. That's what makes it appealing to me. I'll ride out whatever happens next because I have no illusions that this crazy growth can continue. I'm willing to accept the complaining, it hasn't driven me out yet. As one of the most educated cities in the nation I expect to be able to challenge perceptions. I hear the line repeated often in local media but nobody has ever been able to explain to me what magic thing Seattle has lost. I suspect that's because it hasn't actually lost it.

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