After 4 years in Snookieville, we finally closed on a house this week. The prices here are abusive, though-- Our new place is a modest 1948 Colonial. $1.15M. That's just c-r-a-a-a-z-y. To add insult to injury, we had to pay a 1% MANSION tax. Does this look like a mansion to you?
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--Foo
Last edited by FooBang; 09-02-2013 at 03:52 PM.
Nice house, but you'd be sick if you knew what kind of place that would buy you in many parts of Montana.
New Jersey?
get a rope
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
Albert Einstein
Glad to hear you got your own digs but HOLY MOLY houses are WAY spendy out there.
There's a house very much like that in the old part of our town that just sold for around $118,500.
Seriously.
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Where's the little statue of the black guy with the lantern and the little red cap?
BKB
I know that house would be a million dollars less just about anywhere else in the country.. I WAS looking at a place down by Cappy earlier, when I was thinking about moving my team down there. That money would have bought a real mansion with a gate and fountain in the middle of the driveway.
We are paying for the ability to get to Midtown Manhattan in 23 minutes, unless it's a work day, which takes an hour and 40 minutes. Parking (in NJ) and ferry tickets cost about $700 bucks/month. You know, when they say that the 1% should pay more taxes, they're not really considering how very f*ing much it costs to just exist here.
--Foo
Last edited by FooBang; 09-02-2013 at 03:31 PM.
Why on earth would anyone go to midtown Manhattan???? Ugh.
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There are nice things in NY, once you get away from Times Square. All locals avoid Times Square like the plague that it is.
--Foo
I'll take your word for it.
I want my epitaph to read:
He never ate a whole bagel and he never went to New York.
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True story: I brought by brother to Manhattan and he had a panic attack and had to leave. This is a guy who has spent time in Kosovo, Guantanamo and Iraq (both wars). Too many people everywhere, like roaches. Big stinky, touristy roaches.
--Foo
No. The windows on the dormer to the right aren't even square.
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I'll stop complaining about how much I paid for my 1949 Cape Cod that is a similar distance to downtown DC. Manhattan is a great place to depend some time. Not sure I want to live there though.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
14,000 Sq. Ft. Keep in mind, we've been looking for 4 years now to find a place we could afford that wasn't a total $#1+hole. We looked at one place-- it was a 1940, asbestos-filled house with a sagging roof for $1.5M that was owned by two surgeons. I was walking through the place thinking, "are you kidding me? This is what 2 surgeons can afford!!?"Originally Posted by Sunshine
--Foo
Last edited by FooBang; 09-02-2013 at 04:45 PM.
Heh. Didn't notice that. Must be a google artifact.No. The windows on the dormer to the right aren't even square.
--Foo
No, that's lot size.. 100ft x 140ft. House is 3120 sq. ft.
Not gated. See, the way things work in the northeast is that there is *no* open space. It is one city. One neighborhood that stretches from Boston to DC and contains about 50 million people. Coming from the midwest, it was frustrating at first that the neighborhood never, ever, really ended. It *just* keeps on going.
--Foo
Would you believe this place is $3M???
..or this one at $4m?
Totally insane.
--Foo
I for one, think it's pretty dang cool
If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.
What's cool, Len? Ass-rapery?I for one, think it's pretty dang cool
--Foo
I'm going to sleep well knowing that I live in a 2 million dollar home. At least if it were moved to NJ.
When I go to NJ, I used to stay in Basking Ridge, which is one of those real corporate kind of places like the Woodlands in Houston. Lots of headquarters buildings built in the woods. Last few rimes I was up there I stayed in Morristown just a few miles up the road and a really nice little burg. The real estate prices I noticed there were in the range or a bit higher then what Foo found. Beautiful place though.
Congrats, Foo! Hope you family likes it! A very nice looking home.
BKB
Foo, that's a Cap Code or Bungalow, neat house, you should love it.
Being from MI you know what that kind of money would buy on the water up here. Someday when you sell that place and come home you can sit on your deck and watch this kind of sunset over the lake.
The older I get, the better I was. I also forget my password and have to have Len reset it for me
Thanks, bbp! BTW, I hunt on the black river WMA, which is in Randolph, right near Morristown. Beautiful place there. I think out that way, you actually get more for your money..
I have 2880 square feet, 2 car carport plus 2 car garage, and 1.1 wooded acre, in city limits. Last appraisal about $125,000.
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I envy you, there.. Sometimes, I ask myself if killing myself to make more money is worth it, when the cost of things here to achieve it is always beyond reach. The man is always fixing the game. You just can't win.
--Foo
I didn't win???
dang******
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BBP, here is a map of NJ. Morris town is in the area denoted as "Executives living mansions driving Mercedes Benz". Incidentally, I live in "Well to-do conservatives. Christie country." Which is about right.
Freaky fact: My kids get Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the Chinese New Year off from school.
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--Foo
Last edited by FooBang; 09-02-2013 at 06:54 PM.
Whoever wrote "Pretty Much Alabama"...............has never been to Alabama................... ha.
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Foo, there's a pretty cool little park there where Washington and the Continental Army spent a winter or two, the first being the critical winter of 1777 when the army was falling apart after Trenton and Washington kept them together.
Lots of history up there among the equestrian centers and yuppies. I still haven't been able to find a liquor store there though!
BKB
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