Outside of the huge difference in property values in the city vs. in the 'burbs, are suburban sellers just more sophisticated, and tend to sell via REALTORS more so than their inner-city counterparts?

Some pretty neat stuff you can throw together in a pinch to run any gasoline appliance.  

Ryan, you forgot a step I think:Pour gasoline, then the match.Anyway, spraying with rubbing alcohol, min. 70%, repeatedly, like twice a day.

I am looking to move in order to save time and gasoline, and I have been toying with the idea of purchasing a 3-4 bedroom house that is closer to work with the intent of renting my current room out to another friend, then living in the new house while renting out 1-2 rooms out in the new house.

Online banks don't have to pay a lot of the costs that their brick-and-mortar counterparts have to, so they're able to pass a little more savings to their investors.

Gasoline and food will cost more dollars.

Save for a gasoline tanker truck spill, but that's another story for another post.  

Also, whatever the real estate ownership agency is there (the counterpart to our places where deeds are recorded) or a title company, you could call and get information.

The trouble with that was with the gasoline rationing, there weren't many cars on the road.The only reason that many breeds of dog survived the rationing was that they were fed road kill.

I don't expect housing to come back up to top-of-the-bubble prices any time soon when priced in inflation adjusted dollars.However, government claims aside, the dollar has been losing purchasing power for a number of years now and I can't see how anything currently happening is going to stop it from getting worse.Anyone who buys groceries or gasoline or heat for their house knows that inflation has been with us for years.