On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:46:43 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

> On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:54:46 -0800, sf wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:35 -0800, wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:00:34 -0800 (PST), Kalmia
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:28:49 AM UTC-5, Chatty Cathy wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Times like this make me realize that things in southern California
> >> > must be
> >> >>
> >> >> expensive.
> >> >
> >> >Housing is absurdly high in So Cal. That's why you hear of some ppl
> >> >making an ungodly 2 hour each way commute to work.
> >> >
> >> >Try Hawaii if you REALLY wanna see a high cost of living.
> >>
> >> If memory serves me right, she doesn't live in southern California,
> >> she's in San Francisco.
> >>
> > That's okay, I wasn't going to say anything.
>
> Oh well, at least I got the state right <g>. Must also be expensive to
> live in northern California too then ;-)

Unlike certain people here who think the earth revolves around them,
I don't expect someone who lives half way around the world and hasn't
checked in here for months to remember a detail like that. I figured
you were doing well enough to remember I lived on the West Coast.
Yes, coastal California is very expensive, even in rural areas.
Everybody wants to live on or near the coast and they can afford it:
first homes, second homes and vacation properties, Open space:
viticulture, lumber and even some real pasture land is protected by
the state or else the entire California coast would have been wall to
wall housing developments as of 30-40 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...tal_Commission

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