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Mr.Bill

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4. My wife and I shopped for houses in that area

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Sep 5, 2023, 05:45 PM

Sep 2023

about seven years ago. There are some housing tracts where the houses are relatively inexpensive, especially for California. Many of those houses are occupied by military and military contractor families, some as renters, some as homeowners. It would not be good for them if the prices skyrocketed in the area.

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Anti-democratic vistas: Plans for a new city in Northern Californian farmlands draw ire [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 OP

With so much land sales and no one getting wind of the sales, that is something of a concern in SWBTATTReg Sep 2023 #1

Think they keep it quiet to keep land values from rising. Walt Disney did the same with DisneyWorld. Auggie Sep 2023 #3

Yes, and probably Disney could have afforded the jacked up prices Merlot Sep 2023 #5

Can you imagine how cheap swamp land must have been in Central Florida in the mid 60s? Auggie Sep 2023 #6

The first hildegaard28 Sep 2023 #2

My wife and I shopped for houses in that area Mr.Bill Sep 2023 #4