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He's just trying to make me happy by telling a beautiful fantasy tale

"And you'll have a yard without committing to a 3 million dollar investment!"

Oh well, back to patching the grout on my dilapidated million dollar shithole condo..

Yeah, I'm still going to buy that house this quarter. Not too worried about the long-term value, there is literally no more land area to develop in the western region of the Bay Area.

Semi-related: What's the deal with all the empty land between SF and San Jose? I get that it's mountainous, but it seems like at $2,000,000 for a tiny parcel of land someone could figure out how to build on it

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it kinda looks like a national forest or something when you drive along 280

Take Skyline early one morning and grab breakfast at Alice's. Whole lot of people with loads of money don't want to give that up.

Do you mean off to the side of I-280? It's government protected nature park reserves at the northern end, and the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest.

One of the perks of living in Silicon Valley; you can get out of the office and go hiking or biking in nature

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