SJ,
We're in the same boat in SoCal. Gas is $2.15 everywhere but I did find 87 for $1.99 at a new 76 station in Los Feliz this morning. It's the lowest I've seen.
As far as home prices go its ridiculous. It helped us on our re-fi and will allow for a nice addition but c'mon the house at the top of our street was listed for $975K with only 1 more bedroom than we had AND the house was chopped up with at least 2 additions! I am amazed when I travel back home to Ohio how cheap everything is. My family built a 4500 sf house for half the price of our 1937 house in Glendale
But the trails out here are great!
