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Xyla Foxlin Lab Eviction
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: IanB on December 17, 2023, 06:50:02 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 17, 2023, 06:07:10 am ---Hardly. Dubbo is 6 hours drive.
Somewhere like San Bernardino I pointed out is about 80km from downtown LA.
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I think you picked out some houses in Hesperia, which is a bit further out. But in daytime hours, the drive to LA from San Bernadino or surrounding areas could easily be 3 hours if you include the local journeys to and from the freeway. All the freeways around there have traffic moving at a slow crawl or at a standstill during busy periods. The lower house prices reflect the difficulty of commuting from those communities. And the traffic reflects the fact that so many people have moved out in that direction and try to commute back.
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Another reason to live in LA.
If you lived in say San Bernadino, how often would you have to visit downtown LA if you worked from home?
I live in Baulkham Hills about 50km out in the burbs, and the number of times I travel into downtown Sydney per year I could count on one hand.
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 17, 2023, 06:07:10 am ---Somewhere like San Bernardino I pointed out is about 80km from downtown LA.
For sure you have to look at neighborhoods and a host of other factors, but her options must be very limited for some reason (maybe not by choice?) if she can't find a house to buy.
I'd be stunned if she can't buy a house for $500k
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80km by helicopter, sure. Otherwise it is a 2-3 hour drive. Yes you probably can find a house in a bad neighborhood in San Bernardino for $500k, but between the crime, weather and lack of nice places to go and things to do it isn't a popular spot to be in. But I do see more on the market in my area--which is about half way between LA and San Bernardino--and for $700-800k you might just find something with a decent garage. But I know people that are hard at it hunting for a house and if anything liveable and commutable came up for $500k they'd have snapped it up.
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 17, 2023, 09:12:04 am ---If you lived in say San Bernadino, how often would you have to visit downtown LA if you worked from home?
I live in Baulkham Hills about 50km out in the burbs, and the number of times I travel into downtown Sydney per year I could count on one hand.
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That depends a lot on what things you do, of course. Where we live, my wife's teaching job is 15 minutes away and I worked mostly from home--but if I needed to go to the Federal courthouse in LA it was an all-day trip with me leaving the house at 5 AM. When I needed to go to a hospital in LA for medical treatment, we ended up staying in a hotel the night before or after at least half the time. But sure, there are movie theaters, shopping malls, Costco and Walmart all nearby.
SiliconWizard:
All that is true and we all have good reasons for willing to stay where we are. Experience does tend to show, though, that unreasonable resistance to change doesn't always end up very well. But some may prefer a bad ending having lived exactly where and how they were comfortable, and that's probably fine. I've been told life never ends well anyway. :-//
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on December 17, 2023, 09:23:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 17, 2023, 06:07:10 am ---Somewhere like San Bernardino I pointed out is about 80km from downtown LA.
For sure you have to look at neighborhoods and a host of other factors, but her options must be very limited for some reason (maybe not by choice?) if she can't find a house to buy.
I'd be stunned if she can't buy a house for $500k
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80km by helicopter, sure. Otherwise it is a 2-3 hour drive. Yes you probably can find a house in a bad neighborhood in San Bernardino for $500k, but between the crime, weather and lack of nice places to go and things to do it isn't a popular spot to be in. But I do see more on the market in my area--which is about half way between LA and San Bernardino--and for $700-800k you might just find something with a decent garage. But I know people that are hard at it hunting for a house and if anything liveable and commutable came up for $500k they'd have snapped it up.
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My $500k figure is purely arbitrary, I have no idea what her borrowing capacity would be.
Once she posts the address for the yard sale then you could search what the asking price is.
Sounded like she could maybe afford a bit over the Zillo estimate for the current place, but declined due it being a termite infested box of trouble.
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