California Home Prices Drop ...

In CA and NYC, those will be the hardest hit areas. Cities that are "up and coming" and still growing rapidly, will probably still see increases, but they will be more steady and not what they were before.

From a personal perspective, I can't imagine anyone choosing to move to either location. Yeah, there are alot of things to do and the weather in CA is great, but the quality of living and expense? No way.

well thats true ... but like if you're already accustomed to CA lifestyle its not that hard to just work hard and get through it haha ... even while griping about the taxes *yes my parents nag about it and moan plenty haha*...

boy wouldnt that be a dream come true to have a house as a present after graduating as an RN? lol

Market corrections are good and bad... They make it possible for people who couldn't afford to buy a house otherwise to become homeowners. That's how we were able to buy our first house in the early 1990s. We're not concerned about this correction, because we actually bought our house to live in, not to flip.

I agree, and I have said the same thing many times. For reasons no one seems to care to explain, it is perfectly fine to bash California. I wonder if it is also fine for us to say ''Great. We don't want you here, anyway"?

I never posted that it was a bad place to live and that OTHERS shouldn't live there. I said from a personal perspective I couldn't understand why someone would want to live there, because the expense is through the roof!

Really? I have never been on the CA forum so I wouldn't know, but I always thought of CA as a place with tons of people WANTING to move there, not bashing the state! I guess it is different in nursing? Seriously my friend here at college is from CA and you should see people's faces when she tells them that. That and the friend from NYC. People are usually pretty jealous. Yeah, I know if people make fun of Jersey, we don't take it too well
I personally would love to go visit CA sometime. I don't know about living there since I don't really have a desire to leave the east coast, but I think me and my friends are going to go there this summer.