http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/16741-New-Providence-Ln_Charlotte_NC_28277_M57282-67746

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20570366)

and there are like 20 plan-2s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20570479)

probably.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20570610)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20570650)

gl dood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20570714)

then again ragnus seems like he'd want his kids to turn into generic tiger parent children

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20816607)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#21799757)

i'm serious about your response, because i fucking moved away from the bay area after living there for three years because the cost/benefit just wasn't worth it if you've ever experienced any of these other places that are still cool but have a fraction of the cost of living. i'm surprised you took the long-term plunge with this. did you happen to spend your entire life in crowded and expensive cities by any chance? i know that a lot of foreigners or FOBs are willing to pay that sort of money in the bay area because it's actually spacious compared to the TTT third-world shitholes they came from, but they've never been exposed to something like austin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20811432)

nature stuff is only theoretical because it gets jam-packed on any nice weekend. walking through a forest or along the beach around the bay area might as well be an amusement park given the crowds.

in austin or NC you can actually get out in nature and feel you have some space to yourself. case in point - today it was a beautiful sunny 57 degrees along the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC, yet I was easily able to find a hike up to a pinnacle through tunnels of blooming rhododendrons and only passed a small handful of people the entire way. you take an epic weather day like this and plunk it down in the bay area, and you might as well forget avoiding crowds.

as for "better living," all the cool stuff is in SF itself. you try living down in the SV area or east bay, and that shit is as mediocre and prolish as anything in a generic "flyover country" city.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20815120)

but i'm actually part asian, and i found a lot more instances in SF where i felt "out of place" when i wasn't following one of a) or b) above. it's as if because cultural diversity is "accepted" so much in the bay area, people in the bay area expect that you will hold with your stereotype. i got a lot more weird glances in the bay area or outright comments if i showed up at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant serving food that asians wouldn't be expected to like, or activities like bluegrass jams or pool halls. in north carolina, folks here presuppose that if you're showing up to do something, it's because you genuinely enjoy it, and they apply no preconceptions about whether you should or shouldn't be liking a particular thing just because of who you are. i think where NC gets pissed off is when you have some ethnic minority who just chooses to be shut in instead of joining the broader community of experiences and ideas - in the bay area that gets a pass because "community cohesiveness" isn't as important out there - people just let you be how you be. but in the south, feeling you can relate to everyone else is important because you want to feel like you can care about others, but it's made difficult when those others choose to remain completely separate for no good reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20816775)

congrats. I dont think you can afford kids yet though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20815475)

http://www.burbed.com/2011/08/06/take-on-the-world-then-come-home-to-your-tandem-garage/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20816590)

1) if you look at where the community is, it's literally only 1500 feet removed from Highway 101, one of the busiest highways in the entire Bay Area. he'll be hearing fucking traffic 24/7, smell exhaust fumes, etc.

2) northern sunnyvale starts getting to be a bit close to that huge milpitas sewage treatment plant. whenever you get a "seabreeze" off the bay (times in which you'd be most appreciative of cooling/freshening breezes normally), not only will you get exhaust blown in from 101, but you'll get the stench from that sewage treatment plant.

3) you're right across the street from a "barrio"-type neighborhood. i'm pretty sure that at the corner of duane and fair oaks, pretty close to where you are, i've routinely seen 'spics hanging out at 7-11s and shit, with "checks cashed here" establishments and stuff. not the best surroundings irrespective about how nice your actual development is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#20816783)

That's $1,391 per day, 1.20% per month, or 15.37% per year.

If you made enough to barely buy the house in 2012 (say, $500,000 per year), your house would have made you more (about $507,000 per year).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1935563&forum_id=2#34155315)