Today I exchanged some emails, made some calls, and looked at two potential apartments. I do not exactly know how I will proceed to accommodate my need for comfortable and appropriate and proximate living quarters. But I have concluded that I will know when I will know and that a watchful waiting will prepare the way for me. Yes. Verily.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Saturday, January 13, 2007
The $250,000 Question
What kind of second home can you get these days for 250,000?
That's the question bothering The New York Times and its impoverished and restless readers. Appropriately enough, the articles was in yesterday's Escapes section.
Yeah. That's the question keeping me up nights.
Truth be told, we would be lucky to get $90,000 for our recently painted house. Clarification: our first house, not our weekend home or summer demesne. Location, location, location. City, city, city.
Of course, those poor unfortunates struggling to buy a second home for 250,000 beans are not considering locations like the urban location of our manor. (Mind your manors! HAHA!) Oh no. It's got to have a view or be near water -- ideally with a view of water on a hillside. And they certainly do not want messy things like people nearby, especially nonwhite, nonupperclass, nonprofessional people. (Animals are okay, though. "We just love the varied wildlife here.")
I'm willing to wager these are the same folks who have fear and loathing of the "wild life" of our cities, who devise terrific policy solutions for our cities, and who proudly sport their so-called tolerant and liberal-minded moral credentials.
How much do you want to bet?
Bets starting at $250,000 being accepted now.
Right here, right now.
As Tony Soprano might say, while grabbing an important portion of his anatomy,
"Right here."
That's the question bothering The New York Times and its impoverished and restless readers. Appropriately enough, the articles was in yesterday's Escapes section.
Yeah. That's the question keeping me up nights.
Truth be told, we would be lucky to get $90,000 for our recently painted house. Clarification: our first house, not our weekend home or summer demesne. Location, location, location. City, city, city.
Of course, those poor unfortunates struggling to buy a second home for 250,000 beans are not considering locations like the urban location of our manor. (Mind your manors! HAHA!) Oh no. It's got to have a view or be near water -- ideally with a view of water on a hillside. And they certainly do not want messy things like people nearby, especially nonwhite, nonupperclass, nonprofessional people. (Animals are okay, though. "We just love the varied wildlife here.")
I'm willing to wager these are the same folks who have fear and loathing of the "wild life" of our cities, who devise terrific policy solutions for our cities, and who proudly sport their so-called tolerant and liberal-minded moral credentials.
How much do you want to bet?
Bets starting at $250,000 being accepted now.
Right here, right now.
As Tony Soprano might say, while grabbing an important portion of his anatomy,
"Right here."
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