Big bucks, tiny apartments (For the right price, you can own your own closet, er, studio co-op)

New York Daily news ^ | 8/3/03 | Tracy Connor

[patton]

Lady, you are nuts.

I own two-hundred-plus acres in NY, and pay less per month (about $100/mo, actually).

But it is two hundred miles north of that rathole.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Thanks for your kind words. However, despite your charming manner, I prefer the city to the sticks.

You don't by any chance live here, do you?

[Timesink]

BWA-HA!

[patton]

LOL. Some do. I never did. Born in DC, grew up on 125th & Riverside, my parents still don't know the trouble I got into.

And my kids will never see Manhattan.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Whatever...

[stands2reason]

Where I live, you can still buy a 1,500 sf single family home w/attached garage for less than $125,000 $55,000.

But you'd have to want to live here (Midland, Tx). I do. I hate to leave---gotta move Sat. to San Angelo---got a 2/1/1 (about 1200 sq. ft.) for $600/mo. rent. Older house, corner lot, nice big yard. I think I'm getting ripped though, but Mr. S2R "fell in love", so that's that.

[Big Giant Head]

This thread is a TRIP! I could not imagine living in such cramped quarters that one could not swing a cat, and pay that much per month! Unbelievable.

We have 1300' on our main floor, the upstairs is being finished (add 1300' more) and the basement is 2/3. I'll admit our hardwood floors need a little maintenance, and the 6 lots take a while to mow, but we manage. The two garden plots and fruit trees are nice shade for our 9 "hole" golf course around the house (one green, 9 tee positions, plastic balls only, no foul language allowed). The detached garage is handy also. It also doesn't hurt that the neighbors are conservatives. It's 15 minutes to the city and that's driving the speed limit.

Oh, we paid $37K and our taxes are $60/mo including taxes on our vehicles.

AS far as the other stuff:
eggs $.38/dz
gas 1.48
diesel fuel I don't know
100LL avgas $2.30
bread varies wildly $.33- >$2.50
milk $1.78

[lowbridge]

Yeah, but aren't most of those place hellholes in dicey neighborhoods?

Yep alot of them are, but the ones my friends and relatives lived in, werent all that bad (at least at the times I've vistied there), and in ot that bad neighborhoods. Not great just average, lower class negihborhood, but not that crime ridden either.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, it probably makes more sense than the recent California trend of building 2,200 square foot houses on 3,500 square foot lots. You can reach out your second floor bedroom window and shake hands with your neighbor who is doing the same thing.

[Allegra]

Houston aint a real city. Just an ugly, sprawling conglomeration of suburbs with no zoning laws.

On my many visits to NYC, I have found that attitudes like yours are the exception rather than the rule.

Thank goodness.

[from occupied ga]

Yet another reason not to live in the Marxist sewer known as New York.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

First Freeper National Housing Cost Survey. Please put only the following information. State ----- City or Town ----- Square Ft. ----- Approx. Price

Virginia, Town of Bumpass, 1800 sq.ft. on 3 acres, $110,000. And it's paradise!

[Rome2000]

All that and rats, bums, and high taxes too!

[lowbridge]

times I've vistied there), and in ot that bad neighborhoods. Not

Grrr.......visited...."and in not that bad..."

[lowbridge]

Town of Bumpass, 1800 sq.ft. on 3 acres, $110,000. And it's paradise!

Just what is the historical origin of the towns name?

[lowbridge]

Well, it probably makes more sense than the recent California trend of building 2,200 square foot houses on 3,500 square foot lots. You can reach out your second floor bedroom window and shake hands with your neighbor who is doing the same thing.

Yeah, I've noticed that in pictures of the mutli-million dollar homes (taken from above in helicopters) of the stars in California! Such enormous homes, on such small lots! Those expensive houses take up almost every inch of the lot (except for the occasional swimming pool which takes up the rest whatever ground was left over) . The walls practically going right up to the property line. Even I have more space between myself and my neighbors, and a spacious backyard at that, and I'm dirt poor!

[lowbridge]

Yet another reason not to live in the Marxist sewer known as New York.

Well, the pizzas and the chinese food is good over here. :-)

[holdmuhbeer]

Looked at your profile page, very nice.

[Johnny Gage]

Minnesota - first ring suburb of Minneapolis, 2400 finished sq ft.

Bought it in 2000 for $160k and it's would go now for $240k

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Named after its first postmaster. No, really!