RetiredAndLovingIt
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Very interesting, and we're not that terribly far from each other.We are in Los Angeles county. I can assure you that there are no Walking Dead homeless where we live. We live at 2100 feet elevation in a cul de sac and no Walking Dead Homeless would ever push their shopping carts up to these elevation or have the stamina to walk up the steep grade. The Sand Canyon area in the SCV is void of homeless people. It's a very safe area with no porch pirates, bike thieves, or automatic weapons fire waking you up while you are sleeping which unfortunately we encountered in downtown West Palm Beach Florida. We have never been a victim of crime in California, but I can't say the same about Florida.
California was not impacted by the 2008 crash like Florida was. Any significant price drops were in the desert communities or locations like Stockton. We were looking for bargains in Del Mar, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, and other coastal cities but could not find any. Any properties that seemed like bargains had other issues such as the backyards eroding down hillsides. As for price appreciation, our home is worth 3.5 times what it was in 2008 and almost 9 times what we paid for it in 1996. Whereas we sold our in Florida condo at just 15% more than what it sold for in 2008 and 6.8 times what we bought it for in 2011. Homelessness is an issue across the country but some areas have managed to escape the issue due to geography or security gates. When we walk around our area, we see a lot of wildlife but never the homeless Walking Dead.
I may check out the area next time I'm over that way.