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  • #61
    Re: Re: Re: Fargo

    Originally posted by Provost Harrison


    532 people and a 100k place is 45 minutes away...that would drive me utterly insane
    It drives ME insane.

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    • #62
      MtG can buy property in Mexico because he is married to a Mexican citizen. US gringo's cannot legally buy property in Mexico. We can get leases for up to 99 years on property but foreign ownership of land is anathama to Mexican nationalists.
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      • #63
        Originally posted by Oerdin
        BTW as an update the old man and I went looking in the Mira Mesa area today. I found a detached town home for $395,000. It's a 3bd/2bath 1350 sq ft place with a two car attached car port. There are no front yards but there are lots of green open spaces in the common area plus the units were built in the late 70's so the trees are all mature. My parents actually own three places in the same complex which they rent out including one they bought in 1979 for $68,000. It's in a nice middle class area with two parks, a good elementry school, a good middle school, and a community college with in .75 miles. There's also the same high school I graduated from with in 1 mile. The place is even at the end of a cul de sac.
        sounds good
        A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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        • #64
          $400,000 doesn't even buy you a yard?

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          • #65
            Originally posted by JohnT
            $400,000 doesn't even buy you a yard?
            I'm thinking 3000 sq.ft on the lake, with a boat dock for that in West Knoxville, wouldn't you say John?
            "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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            • #66
              Originally posted by JohnT
              $400,000 doesn't even buy you a yard?
              So with the JohnT revolution, will you give every homeowner their own yard?
              A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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              • #67
                Most homeowners have their own yard.

                California must be a great place, but I would evaluate how great it really is versus the cost to live there. There are some really nice places to live in the U.S. at very reasonable cost.

                In suburbia Columbus, Ohio where I grew up, $400,000 would buy quite a spread. Even today, after prices have gone up. The economy is doing well too.
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #68
                  Oerdin

                  You could always just move to Barrio Logan.
                  Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                  • #69
                    $400,000 gets you a small backyard with an 8ft grassy border around the front of your house house and along the sides. The grassy border belongs to the homeowners association though and not you. BTW only the older town houses have the grassy border while the newer ones have found that if they eliminate the grassy border then they can squeeze in X number of more units.

                    This complex is quite nice though with several grassy fields, a children's playground, and a soccer field/baseball field. If I wanted a house with a yard I could buy a 1920 through early 1950's fixer upper near the international border (the closer you get to Mexico the worse the neighborhoods get) for around $400,000 or I've found a 1911 vintage cottage in El Cajon (which is in east county and tends to be a problem area) which is very run down but does have a large yard. I'm thinking it is better to buy the smaller place in the nicer area then the larger place in the bad area. At least that is where the best asset appreciation should be.
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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Lonestar
                      Oerdin

                      You could always just move to Barrio Logan.
                      I honestly haven't been to Barrio Logan more then two or three times in my life and even it was by accident. It didn't look good but you never now how things are now considering how fast redevelopment is going.
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                      • #71
                        $200,000 can get you a nice 3500-4000+ sq. foot home in North Texas.

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Oerdin
                          Smiley: Downtown is absolutely full of high rise construction. I was down there yesterday and counted no less then 20 brand spanking new high rises (meaning more then 30 stories) being built. The city has spent alot of money expanding the trolley, building the new base ball stadium, and the new central library downtown and people are now flocking there. I'd say downtown San Diego is one of the few places in California where New York style Apartment living is the norm. There is supposedly 300,000 new high rise housing units being put in over the next 8-10 years.
                          Well there needs to be large scale construction like this. They have a similar scheme in London (Thames Gateway), I think that is supposed to generate something like 150 000 new homes. I reckon that this needs to continue...if there is much greater supply in the housing market (preferably oversupply ), the property prices should become far more sane.
                          Speaking of Erith:

                          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Provost Harrison


                            Well there needs to be large scale construction like this. They have a similar scheme in London (Thames Gateway), I think that is supposed to generate something like 150 000 new homes. I reckon that this needs to continue...if there is much greater supply in the housing market (preferably oversupply ), the property prices should become far more sane.
                            We need to address the almost myopic focus on London/SouthEast and realise there are other bits of this country that people can live in.
                            Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                            -Richard Dawkins

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Starchild


                              We need to address the almost myopic focus on London/SouthEast and realise there are other bits of this country that people can live in.
                              London/South East is the main choking point in terms of supply of property. But I also think there should be more onus on companies to perhaps relocate to other cities in the country where feasible. But the nature of this place and the jobs it provides almost makes it inevitable that someone of my educational background is going to end up down here...
                              Speaking of Erith:

                              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                              • #75
                                They're doing some lovely stem cell work up in Scotland. :innocent:
                                Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                                -Richard Dawkins

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