General Discussion

About 15 mins. San Jose has gone insane as tech and housing demand started creeping across that city. I have a nephew whose girlfriend got a job with Stanford medical after she finished school, so they decided to move down there.

They are paying in rent almost as much for a one bedroom apartment as I am on my mortgage for a five-bedroom house in North Bay. They needed a co-signer (they're early twenties), and the entire time I was standing in the kitchen saying in increasingly hysterical tones of disbelief, "This is a mortgage . . ."

If you're not making money. Don't bother.

As for the poor and working class who are being displaced . . . meh. Someone will get around to bothering about that someday. Maybe.