Update: Evans Signs with Niners

[tryfuhl]

Why would he ever want to be in SF? The offers can't be that different can they? Maybe he feels spited we didn't reach out earlier?

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

Why would he ever want to be in SF? The offers can't be that different can they? Maybe he feels spited we didn't reach out earlier?

Plus if he gets the same amount in San Francisco he will make even less. I mean lets look at the facts. For one the housing markets on the rocks so selling his current home is going to be difficult. On top of that the taxes in California are backbreaking plus the values of homes are about 3 to 4 times more then they are in other parts of the country. For example a house in Ashburn might cost Evans $500,000. In California, especially San Francisco, that same home will cost him about $1.5 million. Basically if the offers are similar he would do best to stay put.

I remember seeing Pamela Anderson with a house at Long Beach on MTV cribs. House was bascially a one story estate that would usually cost barely $100,000. Still given it was on the beach in California I would imagine that it cost her about $1 million.

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Plus if he gets the same amount in San Francisco he will make even less. I mean lets look at the facts. For one the housing markets on the rocks so selling his current home is going to be difficult. On top of that the taxes in California are backbreaking plus the values of homes are about 3 to 4 times more then they are in other parts of the country. For example a house in Ashburn might cost Evans $500,000. In California, especially San Francisco, that same home will cost him about $1.5 million. Basically if the offers are similar he would do best to stay put.

Let's see sales tax in SF and the Peninsula is 8.25% soon to be 9.25% due to state budget crisis, car registration is going to double. Housing is expensive but prices have dropped about 30-40%, thank god they repealed the extra $0.12 Cents a gallon tax that was on the original budget. Public schools suck, not like the one I attended in Rockville back in the 70's. There's a lot of negatives, but at the same lots of nice things. If he's single, he'll love it, more chicks for guys due to gay population.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

Let's see sales tax in SF and the Peninsula is 8.25% soon to be 9.25% due to state budget crisis, car registration is going to double. Housing is expensive but prices have dropped about 30-40%, thank god they repealed the extra $0.12 Cents a gallon tax that was on the original budget. Public schools suck, not like the one I attended in Rockville back in the 70's. There's a lot of negatives, but at the same lots of nice things. If he's single, he'll love it, more chicks for guys due to gay population.

Actually now that you mention it the housing thing might be a wash as even though he'll have trouble selling it the fact remains that it's also easy to buy but I still stand by the statement of house values being 3-4 times higher in California.

As for the single thing well theres a saying that even when NFL players are married they're still single. Antonio Pierce told me that one. By all accounts though Evans is married so it's not to much of a selling point for him.

Ironically though not being able to wear 92 is a huge selling point for Evans.
Evans Pays His Respects To a Long-Lost Friend

I'm surprised though. How do you know so much about California?