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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by jdthomas on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:09PM (#3388149)
> You can get a five bedroom, three-bathroom house in the southernmost part of San Jose for less than $500,000 -- about one-third the price it would cost in Mountain View.

Seems like by considering a 500k house inexpensive reinforces the point that we are in a 'bubble' in Silicon Valley.

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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by taskstrike on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:28PM (#3388184)
Jesus, they don't even build houses that big in a lot of neighborhoods.
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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by paganel on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:27AM (#3388675)
As a guy who lives in a 7x5m studio somewhere in Eastern Europ, in a building like this one http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3152/3082829290_9653703b1e_b.j..., I try and try again to find out why would you need three bathrooms and five bedrooms, but I really cannot think of any reasons.
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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by xyzzyz on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:41AM (#3388687)
You may have wife and kids, for one thing. Or wife, kids, and parents you take care of.

My parents have 5 children, and while now their house is way too big for their needs, it was not the case when me and all my siblings lived with them.

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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by geogra4 on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:47PM (#3388221)
You can get a 5/3 for 1/10 of that price (literally just saw one listed for 65k) in Pittsburgh.

And Pittsburgh was one of the few places not hit that hard by the real estate downturn.

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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by count on Saturday December 24, 2011 @12:00AM (#3388242)
In the same 'quality' of neighborhood? You can get a 5/3 for $39k in Charleston, SC in the middle of the ghetto.
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Re:Eric Schmidt: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In T... by geogra4 on Saturday December 24, 2011 @12:06AM (#3388247)
Not the ghetto, just a normal neighborhood. A bit dicier than your typical picket-fenced suburb but that really just comes with living in the midst of the great recession.
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