Posted on 02/27/2006 7:35:12 AM PST by SmithL
Me personally, I aspire to a more mainstream lifestyle without the craziness.
A colllections lawyer...... do you have a babe to bring along like Vinny??
I had a business associate who lived in New York and found he loved Tennessee. He moved to a 10 acre minifarm and was a wealthy man. He saved so much on taxes that his retirement resources were tremendously magnified. He was contstruction superintendent before retiring and didnt know a cow from a horse.
I have to get to work, so I'll answer whatever you respond when I return in a couple hours.
I don't know what you mean by "mainstream," but I suspect that you won't find it in NYC. I can't remember the last time I saw a white house with a white picket fence within the city limits. All the fences are wrought iron and painted black, which is as good a metaphor as any.
From what I saw, the kids and children are the real victims of the excess.
They grow up warped, delusional, weak, and totally not prepared if the spiget is ever cut off.
I had an intern from Scarsdale High School. The father is a client and like me for my street smarts, get it done attitude, and boot straps mentality. Nice kid, but soft!
Anyway, I had to give a little speech to the class about being in business for yourself. As I walked in, there were literally girls in pajamas and bunny slippers walking around the hallways! WTF???????????
I can't imagine the parents these kids have.
My girlfriend, hope to be wife, is very attractive.
I am 5'8" very muscular, shaved head, Italo-American, Nu Yawk accent, Black Leather jacket, Mustang GT Conv., type of guy.
She is 5'10", blond, very fit, also an attorney (But hates it since she is way too nice), and comes from a more "priviliged" background than I do. She plays ice hockey on a men's team and is pretty bad-ass. I won't mess with her.LOL. She does not have an accent like I do.
Believe it or not, I got her to learn to shoot a gun and drive a motorcycle. She is a really remarkable person. Underneath the long blond hair is a very tough chick!
Weren't you and your girlfriend in The Pope of Greenwich Village?
For the record, I don't judge the upper east siders etc. They are what they are, and, generally speaking, they only hurt themselves, if anyone. The kids will either toughen up to meet the world or get placed in a "nice job" through a well-placed phone call or sink without a trace, managing a Red Lobster restaurant in Florida.
ping! (some discussion of NYC real estate prices on this thread)
We actually just saw Ring of Fire since we both are Cash fans. The show was so so. There is just something not right about a bunch of gays singing Johhny Cash in chorus.
"Big River", my favorite song, sounded terrible.
I've never understood the appeal of a far-left wing, freak-infested, foggy, overcrowded city with 2 hour commutes each way that justified $800,000 prices for crappy run-down houses.
I saw the gay men's chorus a couple of times. They weren't bad, but they are a chorus. I imagine the Cash songs are particularly ill-suited (along with most country/western)for a chorus since they are mostly highly personal songs.
I've never understood the appeal of a far-left wing, freak-infested, foggy, overcrowded city with 2 hour commutes each way that justified $800,000 prices for crappy run-down houses
The appeal is very simple: $
That's exactly what I mean. It's overpriced! How is money a motivator when it costs so much to live there?
Incomes in Marin County are twice the national average. But housing costs are nearly FIVE times the national average!
Opportunity. Access to the opportunity to be really filthy, stinkin' dirty rich is a powerful motivator and only exists in a handful of American cities.
Granted, not many will get rich, but the opportunity is there.
So when 40% of the residents leave, and housing costs drop, will they move back?
The cost of housing? How about the smell of urine and the risk of infection?
shows how much you know about the area.. the bit between pismo and san simeon is not even close to the expense of SF and it is a RED area.. check the charts from the last election..plus, I've been vacationing and living part time in the area for 40 years, so I think I know what I'm talking about.
I didn't mention anything about san diego.. i don't know the area but I do know SLO county.
wow..snobbery at its finest.. I do NOT include the monterey area because it is a liberal enclave and well overpriced... the beauty of the coastline is in the less expensive cities as well.. they may be sticks but they don't vote democrat and you can move in for well less than a mil.
Johhny Cash was a man's man. His songs are very personal songs and are not suited for a chorus, especially of gay men.
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