I was just watching the blonde bobble heads on the TV news and they were all excited about the reasonable housing costs to be found in New York.
One of them said - all smiley and giggly - that if you looked really hard you could find a two bedroom apartment in the New York area for a bit under a half million dollars.
Hmmm... a two bedroom in a three or four story hundred-year-old brick building, with hundred-year-old wiring, hundred-year-old plumbing, and a hundred years worth of rats, fleas, roaches and assorted vermin - including mildew and mold - embedded in the hidden nooks and crannies of that hundred-year-old building.
Now, I just recently purchased a brand-new home with three-bedrooms, two baths, a two-car insulated and conditioned garage, with major brand name applicances everywhere, including heating and air-conditioning, all on one full acre, custom built to our own plans. It cost a bit over $107,000.00.
Either I got the deal of the century or those New yorkers are just plain stupid.
Overpaid also. How much do you have to be making to afford a half-million dollar, 900(or so) square-foot walk-up? In all all-brick building that will hit the pavement during the next earthquake?
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Everything in Jew York is three to four times more expensive than in "fly-over country" because of the socialism of the coasters: Excessive taxation on everything, massive handouts to gimmees.
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