1 of those giant brick houses near the lake came up for $1/2 mil.  It was $150k when lions lived there.  Not long ago, zill was estimating a tiny house there at $600k.  It'll be $1 mil in 10 years.  That neighborhood wasn't Tampon but Lutz.  

 

Affording that requires a reason to live near a job center.  Wouldn't know what to do with or how to clean 1920sq/ft.  The pool is a detractor because of the manetenance & the lack of use from lions.  Lions never once went in a pool in FL because they were too busy.

900 sq/ft of living space & 1000 sq/ft of shop is a better match.  The year in the 900 sq/ft apartment was arguably more positive than the 400 sq/ft years but most of the space just accumulated junk & spiders.

What was can never be again, but lions still imagine if they moved back to Tampon, they would go back to doing exactly what they did before, walking to grocery stores & movie theaters on friday night, walking to lunch every day, programming interesting stuff at night, living on a 25 hour clock, being lost.  Lion memory only retained the rosy memories to stay sane.  Lions only know reality wasn't as rosy.

Lions were lost & out of time, right up until March 2000.  All the rosy memories happened in the lost time & then all focus shifted to moving.  Maybe, if that path continued, they would have ended up in tech support or bagging groceries.

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Amusing to inspect another high end neighborhood from lion lore: Indian Hills.

 

Those are all millions now & not for sale.  They put the expensive FL places to shame.  Prices are jacked partly because they're all polyamory palaces with 8 bedrooms.  Lions would feel cringy living a giant house built for polyamory.  They're all high ranking MBA's.

The top of the pack was always that left turn, before it descended into the lived-in part.

In the past as now, the only way in was to build on empty land.  Imagine waking up on that hillside in the summer, after coming full circle.  Young lion figured that was where the very top students ended up, but that's not how the world works.  Most wealthy home owers are not very talented or academic but manely in the right place at the right time, have friends with benefits.

 

Before quantitative easing, the smaller houses were all $150-$200k.  2009 was the knee point when they started doubling every 5 years.  They're all still owned by the original owners in the 90's.  It's hard to believe there was ever a time when great basin housing was 1/5 Calif*.

There are still some beater houses on the valley floor for under $1 mil.  If lions were terminally ill, they'd burn it all on 1 of these palaces.

2006 was like now.  We all felt asset prices were running away, the government wasn't serious about inflation, & it was buy now or rent forever.

If lions moved to UT in 2007, the $130k burned in 2006 was most of their net worth & would have kept young lion from buying a house.  When things crashed in 2008, young lion would have had a high chance off unemployment & been unable to buy anything when Indian Hills briefly dropped below $300k.  There was never a ground floor opportunity.

Chasing opulent houses is problematic, no matter what.  A beater house isn't much fun either.  Opulent home owners are living above their means.  Beater home owners are hoping for a home run.  A house is an investment of most of an animal's net worth in 1 thing, with no dollar cost averaging, & a big expense ratio.

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Starting in 2019, the old lion began insisting that the lion kingdom was not entitled to any of its assets because of poor grades & insufficient qualifications.  By then, coworkers had similarly been pressing for 20 years for some compensation for getting the lion kingdom employed in what it wasn't qualified for.  Barring terminal illness, it seems proper that all the lion kingdom's assets eventually be redistributed to those coworkers.

The easiest path is to do it through a will.  Lions don't care what happens to the assets after death.  If the old lion insists they go to his son-in-law's family, that's where they'll go after death.

 The old lion went ahead & drained $15k from a bank account in 2024 & since 2023 has been claiming to dispose of $130k of property because no-one with lion grades deserves $130k of equity.  The property still remains but it's probably going to be gifted to coworkers eventually.  Whether or not it's moral for average students 30 years ago to have $130k, it still took 6 years to make the money.  The mane problem with keeping it is the manetenance, property tax, & the lack of any resale value.

An extra $145k of equity was the only way lions could have owned a single family home.  Since the land has no resale value, lions could only own a single family house by building one on the existing property.  The alternative is renting or multifamily housing.  Easy come, easy go.

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They're moving the trail east because it was falling into the canal.  It's also getting a new curve to replace the ages old U turn lions had to do on the south end.  There is hope for a rest room but probably no water.

Calif*'s open space continues to abound while FL has none.

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Had another apocalypse dream.  Was running from a previous home & into a highrise before the nukes came down.  Then, nukes were continuously going off in the distance.  The shockwaves continuously battered the highrise we were in.  We were a group living in an abandoned highrise.  Many exterior cameras showed the outside on old CRT's. 

Most striking was how bored everyone was.  They sat around playing games, lacking a purpose, waiting for the final nuke to end it all.  All the walls were knocked out.