Ridiculous Prices
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Anders Molin wrote: Hehe, the funny thing is that nish have corrected a lot of other people, and then he writes "prolly" himself Yeah, I know :-( From now I am going to put an honest effort to try and avoid words like prolly, gonna, wanna etc. Nish p.s. It's "Nish has corrected" and NOT "Nish have corrected" ;-) ;P
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: and bought a 2200 sqft house on 3/4 acre for less than $109,000 That has to be out in the sticks, though. Near Greenville, SC I could get that house for about $125K, but it would be 10-15 min. outside of any main center, and about 30 min. from downtown. I visited a buddy up on Long Island, NY. about 30 min. from Manhattan, and he rents a house thats about 1800-2000 ft2, and virtually no yard. It's in some disrepair, and goes for about $450-500K. Crazy! Anything he would actually consider buying would be upwards of $600k BW "In a world full of people, only some want to fly,Isn't that crazy?" - Seal
brianwelsch wrote: That has to be out in the sticks, though Nope. I'm within the San Antonio city limits - 15 minutes from work, and 20 minutes from downtown (in normal traffic conditions). ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
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Now, I'm definately not native english, but I know that "prolly" is wrong ;P Whats wrong with "probably" ? Or is "prolly" some slang I haven't seen anywhere but here at CP ? Anyway, it looks kind of ugly. And your children will never learn to spell correctly when they're reading through dad's CP-posts. heh.. Just my 2 cent. /Jan Do you know why it's important to make fast decisions? Because you give yourself more time to correct your mistakes, when you find out that you made the wrong one. Chris Meech on deciding whether to go to his daughters graduation or a Neil Young concert
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Now, I'm definately not native english, but I know that "prolly" is wrong ;P Whats wrong with "probably" ? Or is "prolly" some slang I haven't seen anywhere but here at CP ? Anyway, it looks kind of ugly. And your children will never learn to spell correctly when they're reading through dad's CP-posts. heh.. Just my 2 cent. /Jan Do you know why it's important to make fast decisions? Because you give yourself more time to correct your mistakes, when you find out that you made the wrong one. Chris Meech on deciding whether to go to his daughters graduation or a Neil Young concert
In defense of Nish: 'Prolly' - Literally wrong, but phonetically correct (in terms of English street slang). I have often when writing to close friends, use phonetic or SMS spelling instead of the 'correct' Queen's English. I know what i'm on about, they know what i'm on about, no harm done.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 2200 sqft house on 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. Cool. That's cheap even by Trivandrum standards. In the main city area for USD 109K you would prolly be able to buy about 1/5 acre of land (just the land, no house) Nish p.s. What's the sub unit for an acre? Here I have heard people use cents as in 1 acre = 100 cents. But it feels somehow incorrect
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Nishant S wrote: What's the sub unit for an acre? We don't usually use subunits when discussing land here. You use either a fraction of an acre, or square feet. Surveying is done by marking off square miles of land, called sections. One acre is 1/640 of a section, or 43,560 square feet. City lots are usually between 5,000 and 7,000 square feet.
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In London, one bedroom apartments often sell starting at $300,000 and up... And that isn't the nice bits of London X| The tigress is here :-D
Here you can buy or build a nice house on the riverfront for that much. How well do you tolerate heat?:-O
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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In Los Angeles, Houses on postage-stamp-sized lots and with less than 2000 square feet (and that don't even have central air/heat) are selling for $700,000+. I moved from San Diego (where prices are comparable to those in L.A.) to Texas, and bought a 2200 sqft house on 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: In Los Angeles, Houses on postage-stamp-sized lots and with less than 2000 square feet (and that don't even have central air/heat) are selling for $700,000+. Are you sure that price isn't for just you personally? After all, think what your neighbours would have to put up with ;) "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can." "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
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In Los Angeles, Houses on postage-stamp-sized lots and with less than 2000 square feet (and that don't even have central air/heat) are selling for $700,000+. I moved from San Diego (where prices are comparable to those in L.A.) to Texas, and bought a 2200 sqft house on 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. Must be City's westside, huah? Is it towards the Sea World or UTSA?? I was once frequent visitor to San Antonio when I was working at Austin.
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jhaga wrote: Do you have a picture of central Trivandum just in case I feel for moving there? Not now. But I have a new camera and Megan's been giving me some amazing tips on using it. I can take some city snaps and upload it some place :) Nish
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Anders Molin wrote: Hehe, the funny thing is that nish have corrected a lot of other people, and then he writes "prolly" himself Yeah, I know :-( From now I am going to put an honest effort to try and avoid words like prolly, gonna, wanna etc. Nish p.s. It's "Nish has corrected" and NOT "Nish have corrected" ;-) ;P
"I'm a bit bored at the moment so I'm thinking about writing a new programming language" - Colin Davies My book :- Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
It figures... Now that you have corrupted my flawless diction and caused me to start using these shortcuts in chat rooms and elsewhere, you're going to abandon me and revert to proper English. Sheesh...:)
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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It figures... Now that you have corrupted my flawless diction and caused me to start using these shortcuts in chat rooms and elsewhere, you're going to abandon me and revert to proper English. Sheesh...:)
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long:-D Nish
"I'm a bit bored at the moment so I'm thinking about writing a new programming language" - Colin Davies My book :- Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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Nishant S wrote: What's the sub unit for an acre? We don't usually use subunits when discussing land here. You use either a fraction of an acre, or square feet. Surveying is done by marking off square miles of land, called sections. One acre is 1/640 of a section, or 43,560 square feet. City lots are usually between 5,000 and 7,000 square feet.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus LongThanks for the info Rog. I guess some Indian fellow here might know what the sub unit for acre is in India :-) I hope it's not a Trivandrum-originated non-word :suss: Nish
"I'm a bit bored at the moment so I'm thinking about writing a new programming language" - Colin Davies My book :- Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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In Los Angeles, Houses on postage-stamp-sized lots and with less than 2000 square feet (and that don't even have central air/heat) are selling for $700,000+. I moved from San Diego (where prices are comparable to those in L.A.) to Texas, and bought a 2200 sqft house on 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
Welcome back to the sane world! In my area, my house is 2200 sq. ft. on about 1/3 acre of land (80x200 lot size) and I had the contractor build an oriental garden in the lot. My kitchen was custom designed to give me the most cooking space (I do alot of gourmet cooking) and our master bedroom was designed around our bedroom set (which is huge). The kitchen and master open out to a large wooden deck and paths leads back to a 12x30 pond and waterfall. It was built for us for $180,000. I suppose in LA they'd want a cool mil for this. :-) _____________________________________________ The world is a dangerous place.
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In Los Angeles, Houses on postage-stamp-sized lots and with less than 2000 square feet (and that don't even have central air/heat) are selling for $700,000+. I moved from San Diego (where prices are comparable to those in L.A.) to Texas, and bought a 2200 sqft house on 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
Yea I know . I lived on the Left Coast for quite a while before moving to Texas in the late 60's. Not only is the difference obvious in housing but in nearly everything - from quality resturants to clothes to theatre tickets to autos to etc.... Guess now that one could point to the fact the CA is like the world would be if Dems ran everything and Texas if the Independants ran everything. I recently sold my 2300 sq ft home at the height of the housing boom in Dallas and moved to a much smaller ( 1302 sq ft ) home near White Rock lake. Paid more for the samll home than I could get for the larger home. Location Location Location... Richard PS: A friends family sold the home their father had bought right after WWII in Hawaii for 19000.00 for 1.3 million. Now thats the kinda real estate I want to get into. In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles
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Tax assessments don't seem to have anything to do with the market value. I'd consider you lucky, you don't have to may as much tax on it! :-D "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
Navin wrote: Tax assessments don't seem to have anything to do with the market value Here in Ontario, Canada, that is quite untrue. All municipal tax assessments are based upon fair market value. Every two years both my home and my cottage are assesed for fair market value and then used for determining my municipal tax levy on each property. You are correct for up until four or five years ago, when the municipal tax system was completely 're-invented'. Even though a lot of changes were phased in over several years, for some people the tax increases were phenomenal and this resulted in them having to dispose of property that they could no longer afford to hold, simply because the tax payments had increased dramatically. Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "And when you need to hire a programmer to do mostly VB programming, it's not good enough to hire a VB programmer, because they will get completely stuck in tar every time the VB abstraction leaks." Joel on Software Nov 11, 2002.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 3/4 acre for less than $109,000. Must be City's westside, huah? Is it towards the Sea World or UTSA?? I was once frequent visitor to San Antonio when I was working at Austin.
"If a jug falls upon a stone, woe to the jug. If a stone falls upon a jug, woe to the jug. Always woe to the jug"." - KaЯl
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Kant wrote: Must be City's westside, huah? Is it towards the Sea World or UTSA?? Yup. The only downside isthat I can hear the seals barking early in the morning. Of course, the upside is that my dogs have someone to bark back at. :) ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
