Palm Springs Gets The New York Times Treatment

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Realtors and builders in Palm Springs must be very happy with this New York Times story over the weekend celebrating the area’s rise as a year-round place to live. Highlights:
-- ‘An increasing number of home buyers are turning the desert city into their primary residence.’
-- Who’s Buying? ‘An influx of young buyers from neighboring Los Angeles and Orange Counties, with most of them finding work in the growing financial-services sector.’
--Why? DataQuick reports the median home price for Palm Springs was $407,000, versus $540,000 in Los Angeles County and $630,000 in Orange County.
--But Isn’t It Really Hot? Yes. ‘Temperatures can rise to 120 degrees, causing dashboards to pucker and the Desert Regional Medical Center’s emergency room to fill with cases of heat exhaustion — mostly from overzealous yard work.’

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