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Cost of living??

marinerahmarinerah Member Posts: 99 ✭✭
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
How is the cost of living where your are? For me, it is absolutely ridiculous. Townhouses start at 250,000 and single family homes are 300,000+. I still wonder what these people do to make a 1500 or 2000 dollar a month payment for their homes. Thats why I need to leave!!
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Not near that bad here. The same house would be around $125,000.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Out of this month's ads.

    432 sf, 1 bed, 1 bath--$172,000
    745 sf, 2 bed, 1 bath--$182,000
    2,350 sf, 2 bed + office, 3 bath--$565,000
    2,729 sf, 3 bed, 3 bath--$540,000

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  • spectre7spectre7 Member Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    don't know what the going rates are here, but in Greene County TN, where I grew up the cost of living was extremely slight.

    3 Bed, 2 Bath, Kitch, LR; 2000 SF on 1.5 acres property, $125,000

    3 bed, 1 bath, kitch, LR; 1100 SF, on .75 acres property, $65,000



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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I have 2,000 square feet on 4 acres. Trying to refinance for $100,000 and don't know if I will make it.

    $120,000 would buy it real fast.

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  • ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
    edited November -1
    I'm out in California and the price for a small 2 bedroom, 1-1/2 bathroom house was on the market for $676,000. How's that for friggin' insane?
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Small town pop a little over 10,000, dead end street, town garage on the dead end so I'm the first one plowed out after a blizzard, 66'w x 210'd lot, small 2 story barn that could hold 4 cars, 1500 sq ft 3 bedrooms all off a sitting room not a hallway, kitchen, dining, lvg rm.

    5 yrs ago they were asking $59,000.00, I offered $62,000 and made them put in a new electric service with breakers, + new roofs on house & barn. Taxes county,school & town run $1790. a year.

    I can run the house for under $800.00 a month utilities included.

    The one bad thing. It's in western NY and the politics and gun laws stink!

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  • Nomad00Nomad00 Member Posts: 306 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NE Pennsyltuckey (current home) isn't good and NJ (near future home, again) is even worse; comparable to pickenup's prices. It varies dramatically in NJ depending on the area and tax rate.

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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A friend of mine just sold his 980 sf, 3br 1.5ba split level for $86,500. He just finished completely remodeling; its in a quiet, low traffic neighborhood, and close to elementry and middle schools and is great for kids ... it was on the market for 5 hours when they got an offer for $1000 more than their asking price.

    In Feburary, we bought a ranch style home, built in 1977, we'er the second owners ... 3400sq + 2 car ovresized garage. 1750sf finished on top of 1650sf unfinished basement, lot is just under an acre $124,000

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  • BOBBYWINSBOBBYWINS Member Posts: 7,810
    edited November -1
    Paid $121,000 for 2br,1 bath 1 car garage built
    in 1955(1600 sq.ft.).800 sq ft Smoke house,seperate
    2 car garage,24x60 shed,30x80 two story barn.All
    out buildings were built in the 30's.All on 20 acres
    of pasture w/24 large pecan trees and a stock tank.
    Bought it 7 years ago,was offered 250k awhile back.
    The way my taxes keep going up,I may not be able to afford
    to stay here much longer.[V][:(][:(!][B)]


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  • mballaimballai Member Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    marinerah the prices you state aren't all that unusual. The cost of living where I am is high too. You have to factor in distance from large cities and if you can make a living in a more rural locale. I am working at seeing if I can make that sort of move at some point.

    There are probably some parts of nearly every large state where the cost of living drops dramatically. One location I looked at in another state would drop my monthly housing payment more than 10% and that wasn't a rural location either.



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  • powdersmokepowdersmoke Member Posts: 3,241
    edited November -1
    Lower than alot of other places up to now. Stay out of the cities of course. But that's changin' with all the yankees and city folk moving to this area. [:(][:(][}:)][:(!][:(]

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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,236 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    1650 sf with 24x36 shop on 5 acers. It would probably sell for 115K-125K today. Taxes are $1200.00 a year.

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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ElMuertoMonkey its about the same here 650k 675k for a run of the mill home. The ones on the coast here start at about 2.5 million and go up.


    marinerahAs for where I am at on the central coast of CA. During the dot.com boom in the silicon valley it was not suprising to see jobs that were paying 75k to 250k a year. Some of them invested in property here and along with our housing crunch (Anti-Growth for us) every thing has become very expensive.

    I have a newer modeler home 2bed/2bath (Mobile home) that is now worth about 200k to put that in perspective 10 years ago I might get 60k for it.

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  • longhunterlonghunter Member Posts: 3,242
    edited November -1
    [:0][:0]What???// Out here in the puckies ya could buy a 2-3 bedroom on a lot for oh,biut 50,000.00 We are lookin at a little place with a mobile on it ,3 bedroom,5 acres,a small bunkhouse for the huntin buddies,and another good sized shed,35,000.00.I thought it was a bit steep...For 350,000.00 you could by a 525 acre farm with 3 barns and 2 houses.Acreage will run some where between 350.00 to 1200.00 per acre if you buy a good bit and stay away from the water....Guess I'll stick here....L.H.
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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For you city dwellers, Oklahoma City was among the top 10 cities in the USA (if I recall it was for cities with population over 500,000) for cost of living vs. income.
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 51 ac and am putting a 4br 3 bath modular (not mobile) home on a full basement, garage under house, radiant heat in gar and basement from a outdoor dual fuel woodburning furnace, here in western PA, total land and house will be around 210,000 when all is said and done.

    Hope to be done early Nov. I cant friggin wait.

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  • Nomad00Nomad00 Member Posts: 306 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LOL, my girlfriend and I are looking at 6 acres in Tewksbery, NJ for 300K.

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  • longhunterlonghunter Member Posts: 3,242
    edited November -1
    [:0][:0][:0][:0]OK,I am just.......speechless....
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,531 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My personal home in which we lived before moving is up for sale. 2200 SF , 3 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors, new heat pump, sxs refrig, smoothtop stove,fenced back yard, cement drive ect... This is a home not a mobile home for $60k.
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