how much does career suicide cost?

[Michael]

I want a yurt. If I decide to move I can pack it all back up on the back
of my pickup and take it with me, it's a lot cheaper than most homes, it's
sort of hackable which appeals to the geek in me, and as it wears out I
can just toss it and get another one for less than most people would pay
to maintain their normal home.

Seriously though.. what do people need with a quarter of a million dollar
home? I want a place to sleep, watch tv, use my computer, shower, input,
output, and occassionally invite a female over. I can do all that in 500sq
ft of space with room to spare. I could custom build a house to my needs
for under $30,000 including the land and a nice solar/wind system.

Don't dream it. Be it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Rusty wrote:

> Here's a side note (at best) about housing. On the way to work just
> yesterday I heard that the average new home cost in the KC area (may
> have been JoCo, I wasn't listening with both ears since I'm light years
> away from home purchasing with just being divorced and all...) is
> $287,000. I'd like a job that would allow me to buy half that. And then
> find something worth that...
>
>
> --- Bradley Miller <bradmiller at dslonramp.com> wrote:
> > At 07:02 PM 8/1/02 -0500, Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy wrote:
> > > BTW, to you
> > >home owners out there with some business knowledge.  Why is the
> > housing
> > >market still climbing?  You'd think that the value of housing would
> > drop
> > >now that fewer people can afford them.
> >
> > That's the wildcard in this weird economy -- a lot of people are
> > asking
> > those same questions.  I *thought* I read that existing home sales is
> > down,
> > while new home sales is still up?  Perhaps I'm wrong . . .
> >
> > My theory?  (And it can only be called that at best . . . )  I think
> > that
> > some people are still trading up/out/etc... while the interest rates
> > are
> > lower.  Why buy someone's used home for $100,000 when you can get a
> > brand
> > new home for $140,000 and about the same payment that someone 4-5
> > years ago
> > had?  That being said, I haven't seen too many new homes that I would
> > want
> > to pay even $100,000 for.  They are sloppily put together, cheap
> > looking
> > interior wise, and about as useful as  . . . well you get picture.
> > I'm
> > quite happy with my 20 year old house (1982 - hard to fathom . . . )
> > that
> > has a nice large driveway and real wood everywhere.  Our home was
> > model
> > home for this subdivision when it opened up so it has a lot of little
> > neato
> > (for the time) things to spruce it up
> >
> > -- Bradley Miller
> >
> >
> > majordomo at kclug.org
> >
> >
> > majordomo at kclug.org
>
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