Lorin,  for a post depression wartime house in Portland that's actually bigger than average.  

It is really tiring and depressing to spend almost 2 hours just talking about pre foreclosures. 

Many high-income families are attracted to buying in this area, which depresses rent-to-price ratios.

She's been paralyzed with depression since. 

The lower-income people who lived in these communities were beneficiaries of depressed prices, which allowed them to live in an otherwise unaffordable area at the expense of people who had to take serious haircuts on their housing prices.

I say that with a caveat because when you were around age 10 we were reeling thru the biggest economic slow down since the Great Depression. 

Florida was barely affected in the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, because of its poor financial state from the start.Market crashes always occur in the same manner.

If I had not I would be so depressed right now.

I've read a lot about having a three legged stool approach as a way to preserve and grow wealth involving a hedge fordeflation (depression, falling prices)inflation (status quo, slowly rising prices)uncertaintyIt would seem to me that we have two additional possibilities on our horizon due to our federal debt levels:stagflation (steady prices for extended time.  

:@Bob BowlingMaybe Tim wants to enjoy his life now, not 40 years down the road when life is uncertain.I think down the road, but I get depressed thinking about preparing for when I'm 70.