Area must have over 1 million people with mass transit/easy commute, area must have 80% workforce penetration either working or actively looking for work, and the area must have a vibrant tech based higher educational system.The cities are:BostonDallas (sorry Austin) PhiladelphiaHere is why I think these are the markets to beat and why others are not on the top three list.Pros:Boston has Harvard, MIT, Brown, BC, and UMASS is not far away either (Best).

Just wondering if anyone has experience with negotiating/modifying a plan to get decent insulation with moisture barrier blown in without spending that much. 

Even if you can't see it if they drywalled the interior of that crawl, you might be able to feel moisture.

If you only have piping penetrating the exterior walls it's a fairly small job.

Minimal moisture sensitivity, the quality products are extremely resistant to almost anything you can throw at it.

Besides the obvious things like kitchenette and bathroom, the city of LA requires you seal the slab with a moisture barrier and that you insulate the crap out of it because of a California title 23 requirement.

The author was just saying that many other types of paint could end up trapping moisture inside the brick which would cause it to deteriorate over time, that's all.

Is this a high moisture area like a basement floor or just a concrete slab in a relatively dry climate?

The first one left the place imaculate (100% security depost refund) and this last one had leaks occuring for months that she never reported, and actually moved the moisture alarms without thinking to give us a call and notify us, as well as kids with permenant markers, nail polish left on the countertops, sheetrock damage, carpet trashed, oven gross, you get the picture.  

I also work with John Edwards that does my termite/moisture inspections.