Hear about the house that went for $800,000 above asking? Welcome to California
(LA Times Dodgers)

The population of California was just above 10 million when I joined the party in 1953. Today we´ve got nearly four times as many residents, or just short of 40 million. Is that too many people? Plenty of folks think so, judging by the reaction I get whenever I write about California´s housing...