I was going to do rents, home prices, and income comparisons so I can make a target for what is "normal" for those areas. Maybe I should just look at data sets from the 70s to 2000, because I imagine anything post 2001 is going to be bizarro world.
I agree Marin is too expensive, but it sure is nice. Plus it has a lot of film people around. And less people with boob jobs. (Comparatively). If prices are going to come down 40% there, maybe I'll hold out and live there!!!
I also wonder if some of these areas never have rational rent vs own ratios. Then I'll have to decide if I should just rent for a long time and squirrel away the rest of my money and then buy a house outright when the time comes. (15 years from now).
Anyway, just trying to be fiscally rational about the areas I like.