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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother is thinking of moving there, working at  Ames as civil servant making $135k.  Plan is to buy TH in contra costa county and commute.  Insane?[/quote]

Yes! Yikes. I cannot imagine voluntarily choosing to commute from anywhere in Contra Costa County to Ames--people do it, but it's generally because they already lived there when they got the Peninsula job, or because a spouse is commuting in another direction. Tell him to look in Fremont or San Jose--there are townhouses there that are doable on $135K. [/quote]

Schools in San Jose are pretty so-so unless you have a lot more money than is needed in Contra Costa.  Fremont maybe okay, I think schools are okay and [b]prices not crazy? [/b] He has a few kids so private school is a bad deal versus public school and commute.[/quote]
In Fremont? Hahahaha...

I honestly would advise him not to do this depending on where he's moving from.[/quote]

He probably will get down payment from our parents, they live close by and part of moving their is to help them as they age.

Fremont seems to have some homes for around $1M, with decent schools, so he could make that work, and commute won’t be as bad as San Ramon?[/quote]

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