Posted on 07/20/2018 4:43:52 PM PDT by simpson96
we bought our home in a Chicago suburb for $35,000 and now I see it’s listed for $too,ooo. Wow !
I wish I could show them the Dennis Prager video, “Immigrants, don’t vote for what you fled!”
Eventually the southerly coastal areas of the east coast and especially the west coast will be the realm of the super rich. All others ferrrget it. In CA it’s basically like that now. In fact, if they get their way, they’ll wall off or block ocean access to most everyone..and in fact have already done so in many areas of the CA southwest coast.
Find a woman who hates you and give her a house?
Been there, done that.
Shaheen says she’s the victim of a decades-long effort by city officials to use “bogus code violations” to push her out of her waterfront home
“Taxes there are very high now. It’s very expensive to continue to live there,” said Cathy Szabo, who lived in Golden Beach for 30 years
“I think the town manager and the council were anxious to get more revenue for the properties,” said Krogoll. But she also said she was happy she had moved away from the “political madness” in the city.
He said residents — many of whom pay more than $100,000 a year in property taxes — expect the town to reflect that value.
With the taxes raised to boot too.
divorce rape, you mean.
yup. removal by govt regulations and bylaws.
I suspect ChiComs are buying these properties.
Yep, I vow never to move back there.
I was part of gentrification in a way - one of those white people who started a theater using old buildings that were lent for that purpose. Bought homes when prices were cheap in dicey towns (with interesting housing stock) but wealthier folks came eventually and drove prices up. Then taxes shot up and we moved on.
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