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Can you buy a house in Los Gatos, Palo Alto, Cupertino, or even San Jose for $385K? ...Jim Thompson

wasted is wasted, but 250e3 gallons a day isn't going to make much of a dif ference in a city that uses 1.9e11 gallons a year

-Lasse

Imagine a botnet setting, say, 5% of the houses in the country on fire about the same time.

That is about 12 nights a year or 12 days a year if the AC is the biggest load. I don't see that as surprising at all.

Does that mean the solution is to throttle individual thermostats and let people's houses get colder or warmer depending? I'm not sure that is the right way to do it.

Our nominal target is around 50 gals/day per person. We're actually averaging a bit less. That works out to about 15e9 gals/year. So City Hall wastes about 0.6% of the city's residential consumption.

There are zip codes in California that use 600 gal/person-day. That hasn't stopped Gov Moonbeam from insisting that we cut another 10%.

It's pathetic to hear him defending the unregulated agricultural users, to make rich almond growers, well, rich.

(Topic drift at its best).

No. I couldn't qualify for a loan to purchase my own house or one of my rentals. So, what is the point? If you can't afford the local prices, either wait for the next recession, or move to Arizona. Oh wait... you're already in Arizona.

The real problem is that home financing is becoming much like Europe, where no twenty-something recently married couple can afford to buy a house. The usual fix is for the parents on both size to either mortgage their homes to raise the down payment, or guarantee their kids loans. Not pretty, but it works.

The danger is over borrowing, such as what happened in the 1990's when the dot com bubble burst. Many top of the market buyers ended up with mortgages that were larger than what the house was worth, resulting defaults and foreclosures.

difference in a city that uses 1.9e11 gallons a year

yes it does seem crazy to target residential consumption (other than stopping people watering the lawn) when 80% of the water is used for agriculture

maybe they should do like Gran Canaria, they make something like 70% of the ir water desalinating sea water using wind power

-Lasse

Millions, or maybe billions, of people want to live here, and there is no room to sprawl. Of course that bids up the prices.

It's not a bad place to live because the prices are high. The prices are high because it's a great place to live. You can buy a house for a couple thousand dollars in Detroit. That doesn't seem to be making Detroit desirable.

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No different than any hybrid or electric vehicle. It'll sell well in leftyland.

About the same as our 3600 ft^2 story and a half house. We don't use the upstairs much (my "office" and a second guest room). I couldn't have bought a bedroom in SF for what I paid for the house, on 1.5 acres.