Bay Area entries
Location, Location, Location
I’m back in the Bay Area for work, and out of curiosity I thought I’d check in on the housing market here. After updating my super-secret source of housing...
published on Wednesday, February 13 2008 ( 3 comments )
Week One in Melbourne
It’s Christmas Eve, and Charlie and I have been on the ground in Melbourne for a week. So far, we’ve got a new mobile phone (sweet), checked in with...
published on Sunday, December 24 2006
Seven Year Itch
In a nutshell: After a lot of angst, back-and-forth, and false starts, we’re moving back to Melbourne next month, seven years and a few days after we arrived in...
published on Wednesday, November 15 2006 ( 16 comments )
The Flipperdex
I’ve been playing with sales data for houses in the Bay area for a while, and have always wanted to come up with an index of same-home sales —...
published on Monday, October 16 2006 ( 3 comments )
Bubble Fun
It seems that the debate has switched from if there’s a housing bubble to when and where it will pop. “Americans pay for their houses with money they borrowed from...
published on Thursday, August 25 2005
Arguments for Buying a House Now
In the interest of equal time, two quotes attributed to Keynes; If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million,...
published on Sunday, May 1 2005
More notes on the Bay area housing market
Carlos sent me an interesting summary page about the Bay area housing bubble. I wish there were more links substantiating the assertions there (a few ring false), but it is...
published on Saturday, March 5 2005 ( 40 comments )
Why I Won’t Be Buying a House in the Bay Area Soon
Benjamin Wallace-Wells’ “There Goes the Neighborhood” captures what many have been saying for a while now; it’s a bubble, a bubble, a bubble....
published on Monday, May 31 2004 ( 1 comment )
Caltrain Scheduling Changes (and other thoughts on Public Transport policy)
Caltrain has proposed a set of schedules that re-introduce weekend services and tweak a number of trains’ timings and stops, to enable “bullet” service. These changes are honest attempts to...
published on Friday, February 6 2004
Cheap Eats
What a steal. If you live near San Francisco, or are visiting this month, make sure you check out Dine About Town — three-course, chef-selected prix fixe menus at over...
published on Wednesday, January 7 2004
Traffic
Anitra is trying to beat a head of traffic that's built up behind an accident upstream; was able to check on the excellent SF Bay area real-time traffic map. I...
published on Wednesday, January 7 2004
Now I remember why I switched...
The other day, I bought a copy of an extremely nifty piece of software, Virtual PC. It didn’t come with an OS, but that’s OK, because I have a copy...
published on Friday, December 12 2003
Frank Chu update
As previously noted, I often pass San Francisco figure Frank Chu on the way to and from work. This morning, I noticed something new - there's a professionally-printed ad on...
published on Thursday, August 28 2003
A sign of bad times?
Hmm. Passed the 12 Galaxies guy on the way home from work today. Usually, he's very polite and keeps to himself. This time, he was yelling at passers by and...
published on Friday, May 16 2003 ( 3 comments )