When I finished residency in 2001 and moved to Virginia, I gulped when I bought a house for three times the price (but less than double the square footage) of the one I sold in South Carolina.

I'm glad I bought it, though, because even after the bubble of a couple of years ago bursting, it would cost me twice as much now to buy what I bought in 2001.

BTW, for $800,000 in this county, you get a 4000 sqft home in the county's most prestigious gated community, with Arnold Palmer golf course, private country club, huge private lake, and an Audubon-certified sanctuary.

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.