tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post4230132235645510504..comments2008-07-14T08:23:14.298-07:00BadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251badtux99@gmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-66845583837332035702008-07-14T08:23:14.298-07:002008-07-14T08:23:14.298-07:00"Goodbye to your retirement if you hoped to sell your home and move out to the desert to retire on the proceeds, 'cause there ain't going to be any proceeds!" <BR/><BR/>We have about seven years left on our mortgage on a house that would have sold for about $300,000 in last year's market. We actually HAD discussed doing just what your quote above suggested. That talk lasted about two weeks, when I watched our so-called 'healthy, comparitively' housing market crash. And unlike others, I don't think seven years is going to fix it. Good thing I like it here, besides, the desert I wanted it running out of water.Labryshttp://www.walkofthefallen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-67322620267323295022008-07-14T05:57:28.827-07:002008-07-14T05:57:28.827-07:00It's not just going to be stagflation in the Greater Depression -- it's going to be stagflation on steroids. The Schwarzenegger of stagflation!<BR/><BR/>I hope I have a chance to come back to the United States (before OR after they split up) to wave my mighty plastic Aussie banknotes around. Or possibly Canadahoovian ones. (Mrs. Bukko wants to migrate to Vancouver. It's good to be a trained arse-wiper. With a bit of jumping through bureaucratic hoops, you get to live wherever you want to in the English-speaking world. Except San Francisco, sadly.)Bukko_in_Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com