For most of the past month, Carlos and I have gotten to the studio before 8:30 in the morning and we don’t leave until 7:00 at night. It feels great to get all that work done, but it’s a yucky feeling to know you only have time to eat dinner and go to sleep before you have to get up and do it again.

Today after work, I drove around the neighborhood that I want to live in. The sun was setting and it was cooling off, so I decided to take another drive around and look which houses are for sale.

It’s been a few months since I’ve been looking, and in that time, the homes have gone up in price about 10-15% each month.; Now everyone in the city is trying to pack into the neighborhood, and fools are paying mountains of cash for a small ranch house on a small lot. The prices are so expensive now, I think people have stopped using their brains.

If things keep up at this pace, there will not be a single house in the neighborhood worth less than a million. Part of me is disappointed because the prices are so high that there is little chance that I can afford a house worth living in. Two years ago, I predicted that the neighborhood would get hotter, but but I didn’t take it seriously enough.; Now the prices are so high, I wonder if it’s time to start looking somewhere else.

I’ve started to shop around in different parts of town, and even in San Diego. I’m not seriously ready to put in an offer on a home, but I am enjoying the experience of learning about different neighborhoods, speculating on cost and value, and deciding what work to do on a house. I love it! It’s the same thing I do at work with the Internet with all my websites. I just love building things.;

I enjoy the game of numbers, but it’s more than that. Your house and your neighborhood are the backdrop for your life. I’m not talking about a “lifestyle”, but the very basic yet intimate parts of life. Buying a home is part of the story of your life.