Our house is 2, 200 square feet, with four bedrooms and two baths, and a great yard with big trees (a necessary feature when raising three boys).

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Shilling talked of the housing bubble that is collapsing before our eyes: House prices shot up 2.5 times between 1995 and 2005, peaked in October 2005 and now, two years later, have started to fall.

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Financially, in San Diego, we would never have been able to afford our wonderful 2, 700-square-foot two-story house in a nice neighborhood.

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