Originally Posted by sloinker
Originally Posted by JeffKeryk
Originally Posted by sloinker
The house my folks bought in San Jose in 1960 and sold in 1968 was originally $16K. It is now worth close to a million bucks. 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage on 8000 sf lot in what used to be the barrio near Reid-Hillview airport. My uncle lived in Campbell and had a similar house/price which he sold a decade ago for right at a million bucks, it did have a pool though.
Campbell is a great place to live. Schools are top notch. There are zero houses in Campbell for $1M. Anything close to that is a beater.
My late grandmother's hunting cabin turned home on an acre in Mill Valley was eventually subdivided into two parcels. The cabin/home was torn down 20 years ago and both parcels had custom homes built on them since then by my aunt and uncle. They took the profits and comfortably retired to Paradise,Ca. that's another story. 10 minutes to San Fran from grandmas place. Don't even ask what those places are going for now. They went for 3 million each 15 years ago. It is funny to think that anybody would have considered Mill Valley hunting cabin appropriate but she got it in the 1940's.
Yea my dad went to college in the early 70s out of state and he always has lamented to this day the loss of space inbetween the little bay area towns. They all grew into each other whereas in the 50s and early 60s there was still farms between these little towns going all the way up the peninsula.
On a side note. There are still some affordable places in California if you are willing to live WAY out in the sticks. Somewhere like say Yreka. You'll find the climate much more continental there than in the Bay Area though.
Originally Posted by JeffKeryk
Originally Posted by sloinker
The house my folks bought in San Jose in 1960 and sold in 1968 was originally $16K. It is now worth close to a million bucks. 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage on 8000 sf lot in what used to be the barrio near Reid-Hillview airport. My uncle lived in Campbell and had a similar house/price which he sold a decade ago for right at a million bucks, it did have a pool though.
Campbell is a great place to live. Schools are top notch. There are zero houses in Campbell for $1M. Anything close to that is a beater.
My late grandmother's hunting cabin turned home on an acre in Mill Valley was eventually subdivided into two parcels. The cabin/home was torn down 20 years ago and both parcels had custom homes built on them since then by my aunt and uncle. They took the profits and comfortably retired to Paradise,Ca. that's another story. 10 minutes to San Fran from grandmas place. Don't even ask what those places are going for now. They went for 3 million each 15 years ago. It is funny to think that anybody would have considered Mill Valley hunting cabin appropriate but she got it in the 1940's.
Yea my dad went to college in the early 70s out of state and he always has lamented to this day the loss of space inbetween the little bay area towns. They all grew into each other whereas in the 50s and early 60s there was still farms between these little towns going all the way up the peninsula.
On a side note. There are still some affordable places in California if you are willing to live WAY out in the sticks. Somewhere like say Yreka. You'll find the climate much more continental there than in the Bay Area though.
