UK and Brexshit

This might help explain it...

www.theautomaticearth.com/2017/04/the-american-dream-twice-removed/

I live in Fairfield county, although not Greenwich - I'm 40+ minutes north (more depending on traffic) in a *far* cheaper area, you'll pay through the nose to live in the land of Greenwich multi-$million estates, even in a shitty place.  Not sure why anyone without $$$ (lots of it) would choose Greenwich to move to, especially as a renter (whose husband needs a home office).  Most wealthy Greenwich owners are the Wall Street hedge fund banker/broker executive types with their "trophy" wives (and maids, nanny's, groundskeeper, etc).  Even if you were commuting to NYC daily there's cheaper towns to live in for not much more commute, although not by much unless you're willing to add 30+ mins.

If she wants to garden & raise bees, if her husband works from home, I'd be going NE Connecticut, several counties away and far more rural, or moving to another state.

Lots of people bought houses at ridiculous prices in the 2003-7 housing bubble, I gave thought to selling mine when Zillow showed it as being "worth" $400k, which IMHO is ridiculous for what was built as a "starter home" (1600 sq ft) in the late 60s. I paid less than 1/2 that in 1991, no way it "appreciated" double+ in 15 yrs... Its "worth" maybe $240k now (if i put some money in fixing some things, more reasonable, still a gain from what I paid).  Yup, I'm sure some people got themselves "underwater" buying at the peak - I know a few, two who I told to wait a few years and didn't listen - I saw the crash coming, but "who could've known?" (I bought mine after a late 80s boom where houses skyrocketing for a couple years... Just as I started thinking about buying.  Almost doubled then, before "crashing" to maybe 25% over what prices started at.)

History doesn't repeat exactly, but it rhymes. 

I'm betting on a crash in some places that have boomed way beyond affordability - San Fran/Silicon Valley is just silly, Vancouver BC is crashing now after they put 15% tax on foreign investment (China buyers fleeing to I think Toronto I heard, where prices are skyrocketing now), NYC is just way silly and starting to crash...  As the economy declines people aren't gonna be buying multi-$million places, and aren't gonna be affording $6+k/month rentals for a postage stamp sized apartment.  (I was reading how Manhattan retail is suffering and landlords are having to sweeten deals because people are balking at... $1200+ a sq ft - yes, square foot, not a typo - and that's a monthly rental price.  I don't think I could afford a magazine stand in a closet at that price.).

Ach... the proverbial fan is getting severely coated once more... that mad besom May said no election til full term.... which would have been 2020... now it's less than 6 weeks away