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

[stainlessbanner]

bttt

[from occupied ga]

Hmmm. Good pizza and Chinese food on one side, Hitlery, gun control, upChuckie Schemer, Nadler, Owens, McCarthy, Rangel, astronomically high taxes, outrageous cost of living, aggressive panhandlers, terrible traffic, worse roads, a culture where you have to bribe people to do their jobs, Bloomberg, etc. on the other (not to mention blackouts). Sure is a difficult choice.

[glory]

AGREED! Visited a few times, thought it was highly overrated. Could not imagine, nor would I want, to live there.

[glory]

I'll bite(and I'll give you for both places we've lived)

State ----- Ohio
City or Town -----Enough out of Columbus to be considered rural
Square Ft. -----
2000/1/2-3/4 acre lot/2 car attached/excellent school district as graded by the state review
Approx. Price
156K--could sell 18 months later for 170k

Our first home we bought in 96, brand new--we were married the same year


State ----- Arizona
City or Town -----just on the outskirts west of Phoenix
Square Ft. ----- 2100/3 car attached/1/3 acre lot/ pool/tile throughout
Approx. Price---House 100k, house and pool 117k--sold for around 150k in 2001

[glory]

Not anymore--you should see what subsidies get you here(my husband has neices on this). 3 bd, 2 bath apart or townhome--it's getting to the point where, like daycare, these folks get a voucher type of thing and can use it at apartments that accept them or apartments are approved directly to take section 8. This has section 8 people in with people actually paying their own way in apartment complexes. At least where I live, there isn't anything formally called the "projects" since section 8 can live anywhere section 8 is accepted, approved, or what have you.

[glory]

Personally, I'm glad so many of you love to live in the city. It lets those of us who like the sticks live in relative solitude with other like minded folks. If everyone decided to pour out of New York City tomorrow, it would make the places we consider dreams to live in, unbearable and crowded so I'm glad people like the city!

[glory]

Patton...agree with you...and I grew up in the Baltimore area and Miami, both big cities in their own right and I am so glad we live "in the sticks" now. I'd never go back. I recently visited south Florida to see my brother in the hospital and I was feeling claustraphobic the whole time--too crowded!
I wonder how many city dwellers have a different experience with which to compare it too? I have lived in both and LOVE living further out. For working reasons we can't live any further out than about 40 miles, but thankfully in central Ohio that will put you out in what is quaintly referred to as the sticks--go one direction and you can have a nice little horse farm, go another and you'll be living in beautiful cabin on a hillside of land. It's just gorgeous!

[NYC GOP Chick]

The good places here wouldn't accept them.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Well, I wish the hicks would stop coming to lower Manhattan to gawk at the hole in the ground and act like they're at a circus sideshow -- and then go uptown when it's time to shop and stuff their faces.

[lowbridge]

Personally, I'm glad so many of you love to live in the city. It lets those of us who like the sticks live in relative solitude with other like minded folks. If everyone decided to pour out of New York City tomorrow, it would make the places we consider dreams to live in, unbearable and crowded so

Alot of New Yorkersd are doing this as we speak. Mostly moving to either Florida or North Carolina.

[Hank Rearden]

Even out in Fredericksburg,VA (50 miles from DC, 50 miles from Richmond), they're building townhouses which start at $150,000 (two level, no basement). 2-3 years ago that bought you the same thing 20 miles closer to DC.

Hey, I'd pay more to be farther from D.C. too; why would anyone want to be closer to that parasite-infested nightmare?

Imagine what I had to pay to be 3,000 miles away!

[brianl703]

And that put you 3000 miles closer to Seattle, Washington, home of the "Starbucks Socialists".

From the frying pan to the fire, as it were.

[Mamzelle]

Don't forget "maintenance"--what does this mean, utilities? Or the doorman and other stuff? That's pretty steep to heat and cool an apartment that size.

--country girl, 4ever...

[Mamzelle]

re: engineer type who's moving up from San Jose to a place he just built )))

Did he swing a hammer? :') Wonder what engineering school he went to.

[Noumenon]

Well, he seems like a capable do-it-yourselfer, but he prefers to let professionals handle the big stuff. Even though he's just across the runway, he's in Kootenai county and thus has to deal with compliance with codes, inspections, etc.

I do my own electrical, but I leave plumbing and drywall to those who can do it right the first time.