PSX_J if you think that\'s alot for a house, then you should try what I\'ve been doing, checking out house prices in the bay area (cali), that house would go for 400k-half a million. Needless to say I think I have given up on working for a Police deptartment in the Bay Area, and have setteled on Reno. For two reasons, reletivly low cost of living, and my best friend moved up near there a year ago.