Martha Stewart plans to sell Connecticut home

WTNH.com ^ | October 31, 2005 | WTNH - Channel 8

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(New York-AP, Oct. 31, 2005 2:30 PM) _ Martha Stewart tells Fortune Magazine she plans to sell her famous Turkey Hill Farm in Westport.

She says she hardly ever goes there anymore and does not miss it.

Stewart now spends most of her time at her home in Katonah, New York, on 153-acre estate in the rolling horse country 40 miles north of midtown Manhattan. She bought the property in 2000 for $16 million .

Stewart had been a fixture in Westport since 1971, when she and her former husband, Andrew, purchased the nine-room, 19th-century Colonial house and gated Turkey Hill estate for $50,000. They spent the next decade renovating the home and added chicken coops, barns and gardens.

But in 2000, Stewart said Westport had changed from a small town where butchers knew their customers' names to a place with a "more elitist, and much less charming, retail scheme."

[Liberty Wins]

"Stewart had been a fixture in Westport since 1971, when she and her former husband, Andrew, purchased the nine-room, 19th-century Colonial house and gated Turkey Hill estate for $50,000. They spent the next decade renovating the home and added chicken coops, barns and gardens."

Updated version of "George Washington Slept Here," with Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan. Funny.

[LurkedLongEnough]

It isn't what you do for a living - the majority of work is done in New York City. Therefore, everything seems bloated in this area, including salaries. Look at this data from five years ago; you can bet it has nearly doubled since then:

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2000 in Westport, CT (CityData):

$300,000 to $399,999: 787
$400,000 to $499,999: 1297
$500,000 to $749,999: 2308
$750,000 to $999,999: 1352
$1,000,000 or more: 1243

Household income in 2000 in Westport, CT:

$100,000 to $124,999: 1053
$125,000 to $149,999: 538
$150,000 to $199,999: 1165
$200,000 or more: 2898

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And I forgot to add:

Median worth of mobile homes: $1,000,001

[Vicomte13]

Me.
I live in Westport, Connecticut.

It's a beautiful town, with great schools.
I've got a herd of deer in my backyard, two foxes vying for supremacy, raccoons, skunks, wild turkeys, oppossums, and an owl that parks itself on a tree branch right above our bedroom. (I could do without the owl.)

Martha Stewart's "It's snobby" is a bit rich, coming from her, don't you think?

We live on a cul de sac and have block parties every year. I've never lived anywhere else in the US where the place I lived had an actual block party. Snobby? No.
Last night we had Hallowe'en trick-or-treaters come by. Because of the block parties, everybody knows everybody else at least by face for a couple of streets around.

Houses are pricey.
But this is the New York suburbs, and one of the nicest to boot, so of course they're pricey. Apartments in Harlem you wouldn't want to live in are pricey. Everything costs too much.

Bye bye Martha. Nice that you felt obliged to piss on the neighbors before you left. But not a bit surprising coming from you.