I hear you @octoolguy, where I live homes are still on the reasonable side, but quickly rising. Our daughter keeps bugging us to move somewhere closer to her. She lives in Portland, Ore. Prices in Portland are way, I mean, way out of our budget. The old home they bought 10 years ago for around $250K is now worth well over $500K. She keeps sending me realitor listings and none are even close to the house/land we have but priced far more then we could get for ours.... Then there is my son. Lives in Memphis, Tenn. Just bought a beautiful house almost twice a big as ours, brick, just a beautiful home on 2.7 acres with a nice fish pond. Less than $500K. And even more important, he talks to people about things he would like to do on the land and house, asks what permit, licenses, rules to follow, things to worry about and they look at him like "what are you talking about?,,,, it is your land and home do what you want..." Huh,,,??? not where I live. I have to get a permit to burn some weeds, or make a little shed... and I live out in the sticks.... big brother wants a piece of everything I do... I live in Washington. Oh my,,, you got me off in a tangent. Sorry... I will shut up.