cris,

>
> so where do the "average" people live..if they cannot afford a $200k+
> home??
> i always wondered how people survive on the west coast..those like me
> who do
> not make over $25k a year..  i have known so many of my friends who
> have moved
> out there to the west coast, only to move back to the east coast in a
> year
> becuase they say its so expensive and cannot make ends meet..
>
> chris
> scraping together pennies in pennsylvania...

$200K???  check out berkeley - 1200 sq ft houses for $800k.  i lived
there for
years before moving to tennessee.  i decided that on a university
salary i'd
never be able to afford to buy a house.

r

Ron Tipton
IT Specialist III
Laboratory for Information Technologies
University of Tennessee