Corinabeads and challenges

In 1973 my rent was $48 a month. And the place was nice, too. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

But see, I don't want to live there. Or even near there. I like it here, and I think housing costs are low for the joy and privilege of dwelling here. :-)

~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

At least we might be working for an American company if we moved there.

Heh, I could set you up with several transcription jobs.

KarenK

That I can most definitely do.

I am so very happy that you make beads for designers and keep the beads so nicely priced.

Tina

Amen!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Oh, I agree. I adore it here where I live even with high housing. :)

True. And there is one province that is about 1/3 Catholic (new source of world's priests and nuns)-- they are doing prayer requests received via email, from all over the world..... Talk about "outsourcing".... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Oh ROFL!!!!! Touche!!! Heh heh heh

Thanks! I'm just happy that there are designers out there, - like yourself - who use lampwork and that allows me to be able to do this for a living.

-Kalera

Christ> I am so very happy that you make beads for designers and keep the beads so

Likewise. I sometimes think about the fact that on my income alone, we could live like kings somewhere else... and lord knows this is not the booming area for programmers right now. (People usually assume that Moxley, as a programmer, bears the main burden of supporting the family... he'd like to, but no, not in this economy!)

But we LOVE it here.

-Kalera

Dr. Sooz wrote:

OMTP

~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]I am so very happy that you make beads for designers and keep the beads so ]nicely priced.

SECONDED!!!!!!!!

In Chicago, depending on the neighborhood, that could be anywhere from $600 - $2500 month. The hubby and I would like a three bedroom apartment, but we're not going to find anything in our price range in the neighborhoods we want to live in .

Cheers, Carla

And that's it, in a nutshell. Folks keep asking the hubby and I why we don't move to a cheaper area...but we *like* the neighborhood we're in, for a lot of (to us) very valid reasons. Yeah, we'd save money living somewhere else, but what would be the point of saving money to be miserable with where we live?

Cheers, Carla

Dr. Sooz wrote:

Carla: When I lived in NYC, I bought my co-op for 125K. It was 700 sf, one tiny bedroom in a good neighborhood. This was in 1984. My parking spot in the garage was 25K. You bought it separately and could get a "mortgage" for it. When I moved, I sold the parking space in 2 days, and the co-op in 6 weeks!! A PARKING SPACE!!!

I am renting a condo here, about 10 miles from Boston...730sf, @ 1100/mo.

That's cheap, it's a nice place (an older couple who kept it for investment, so they just want to cover the expenses)..but no laundry in the unit.

Across the street, an apartment of this size starts at 1400.

OMG!!!! I have 1350 sf and pay $1025!!! I'm in the 'burbs, not right in Phoenix, but absurdly close to major highways, the airport and enough conveniences that I can walk to (well, except when it's 112 out LOL).

Our house payments will be less than our rent, for 2200 sf. That'll be nice. If the damned house ever gets started.

KarenK

BAM! That's why we hate it here, but KNOW we can't afford to leave. Once you get sucked into the whole "It's cheaper here, but it's driving me nuts" circle, it's harder than heck to break out of.