[wplug] The evilness of it all (Verizon OT post)

[smk]

I live in Lawrenceville and own a home.  (Well, the bank owns it, I'm
paying for it.)  My house is modest but nice.  I would have to look, but I
think I only dish out around $800/month to live.  This includes car
payment, insurance, cable TV, electricity, gas, water, beer, and all the
geeky things I do.  I do pretty much what I want and ignore my budget.

I'm not against moving to another city, but I know my days of cheap living
is but a memory if I leave.  

Earlier in the summer I visited Boston.  I loved it.  However, $1800/month
for an apartment to me is crazy.  Chicago seem reasonable from the
apartment advertisements I saw (I know nothing of the nieghborhoods,
though).

my $.02
	
 - smk


On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:

> On 08/23/2006 10:31 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote:
> > Doug Green wrote:
> >> In Shadyside you'll pay every
> >> penny of 1200 for a decent 690sf apartment, and then some. PLUS
> >> you'll have to pay outrageous utility bills.
> > 
> > $1200/month for a choice pad in an excellent part of town.  Compare that
> > to Manhatten, where $1200/month won't get you in the smallest door. 
> > Squirrel Hill is very reasonable, where $600/month will get you a very
> > nice one bedroom.  Thats within walking distance (long walk, I'll give
> > you that) of the Universities.  15 minute bus ride downtown.
> 
> I'm paying $1470/mo for a small 2 bedroom apartment in NJ, in a fairly 
> reasonably-priced neighborhood.  That's about twice as much as we paid 
> for a similar (but nicer) apartment in squirrel hill.  Most people 
> around here actually commute to NYC from Jersey because the apartment 
> prices are so prohibitive in the city.
> 
> 
> It's just cheaper to live in Pittsburgh.  I don't know where the OP 
> found such a cheap place in california, but I know from my brother and 
> sister that you just can't find as cheap apartments there either.
> 
> The only problem I can see is if you've lived in Pittsburgh all your 
> life, and want to sell your house to buy a nice retirement place 
> somewhere out of state.  The money you get for your place might be 
> enough for a down payment on a smaller house in florida.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> 
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> 		-- Euclid
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