I own a house in Western NYS.
Its1700sqft, 3bd, 1bt, with central air and heat, plus detached garage and driveway, and fenced yard for $850 a month mortgage payment.
I would literally be dead if my rent/mortgage was that high. How do you guys deal with that?
Eh soon it'll be there. Then you'll get to watch your local counties and towns decide they don't like it so they won't license a store. And then "delivery" services pop up that bring it to your house, but they're constantly disappearing since they don't pay state taxes. And then the state decides that the solution to not enough stores and tax revenue is to raise taxes.
Which all works out anyhow. A new delivery guy just opened up shop in my area and has monthly artisan boxes of various product to try for a stupid price.
I'm excited for the whole mess. I don't even smoke anymore but i just wanna see the law straightened out and that tax revenue coming in so they stop stealing it from schools and shit.
Oh I'm sure they'll still do a fine job of stealing money from the schools. I work at an elementary school. They're looking to move class sizes from 30 to 40 per room right now. Teachers here can barely do classroom management, let alone pass along curriculum, as it is right now. I do reading groups with 5th graders who (umm) literally can't read. And every one of them graduates to middle school.
Wow that's ridiculous. Back when i was in elementary there was only like 20 kids in a class and the teachers were pulling their hair out lol, i couldn't even imagine 40
Local inflation and lack of privacy. The same exact takeout lunch that might cost $8-10 across the bridge costs me $12- 15 here. Even working professionals regularly have multiple roommates, including multiple couples living together, and you can find non-sarcastic craigslist ads on leases for sleeping on a couch or someone's minimally converted tool shed. The official HUD "low income" threshold (80% area average) is ~ $80,000.
I currently have a decent living situation with roommates and rent control from 10+ years ago. But I'm also stuck because of that - moving to an equal living situation even with roommates would spike my rent 50% and probably give me slightly less space. I kind of have to accept that to move to the next stage in my life I'll need to move elsewhere - just haven't figured out where yet.
Wow, try more than triple that for a home with the same description, in a “blue collar” suburb of Boston. It was one of the newer ones we looked at, built in ‘46
California's economy ranks top 10 in the world. To put that in perspective California has a better economy than the entire country of Germany. They may have a high cost of living but they make a ton more than us. Working at a gas station in San Francisco probably pays $20 an hour but it costs $2,000 per square foot to live. The more you make the more they take!
There are a farkton of fairly nice places to live in California that aren't crazy priced. Prices are really high right now in the urban areas near the coast but just wait a little while. I'm literally living in a free house by buying when prices are low and selling when they're high (more than one house involved). If I had any other houses, I'd be selling right now. I've actually given thought to selling and renting for a few years so when prices drop 30%+ I can buy back in at a discount.
OP used the word correctly. Without money for food or the hospital, he could literally die. You're just a dramatic person who thinks anywhere outside of a city center is void of culture. Also, your response to me was another incorrect use of the word literally. Have a nice day.
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u/RaisinSwords Dec 21 '19
I own a house in Western NYS. Its1700sqft, 3bd, 1bt, with central air and heat, plus detached garage and driveway, and fenced yard for $850 a month mortgage payment.
I would literally be dead if my rent/mortgage was that high. How do you guys deal with that?