What a phony. Emerson took a walk half a mile behind his house and pretended it was the Garden of Eden. I'd kick Emerson's ass.
Thoreau did a fair amount of walking in his day, by New England standards especially. However: John Muir: now there was a walking mother********er!
Ha- you got retards in the South that can walk further than John Muir. I'd like to see Muir keep up with Benjy Compson on a golf course.
I live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods on the South Side, and that's utter ****************.
Hell if I know, but my apartment more than fits my needs and I pay $500/month. And when I go to my local bar I get beer for ~$3 a pint and a basket of 20 wings for $3 exactly.
Mister, John Muir could walk farther than Dale Earnhardt could drive, and he didn't have Zoolander's Syndrome regarding right turns, either.
I live in one of the more expensive neighborhoods on Manhattan, and I don't pay that much for my 1 bedroom, or $8 for a tap. As my parents said to me when a lawyer friend of mine moved to Nebraska to work and bought a house "you can buy a house in Nebraska too." Sure, South Dakota is cheaper. Because its ********ing South Dakota.
Meanwhile, my NYC apartment is in a quickly gentrifying/hipsterfying neighborhood and paying $777 after a rent increase. I go down the street and pay $1 for 5 dumplings or a cup of soup. I walk to a theater that plays movies that open nationwide next week. My life kicks ass.
The Washington DC must be the most goddamned expensive piece of shit hellhole in the whole fucking world. I better move to New York where everything's cheaper.
When I lived in DC I thought it was horribly overpriced, myself. That, and Foggy Bottom was insanely boring.
I pay $2200/month for a two bedroom. And the area's not even that hip. I'm closing on a house next week. You ought to see how tiny that piece of ******** is.
DC is a hellhole to live in. Arlington is cheaper, has as many if not more of those restaurants, theaters, parks, and libraries than DC, and is all of five minutes from uppity Georgetown.
I stayed at a friend's studio in DC that was smaller than any home should be. The kitchen was so small that you couldn't open the stove door all the way without hitting the wall. Before I moved in with the lil' lady, I had a one-bedroom + office in the same hood as C-man. Rent was $700/month and included free (i.e., pirate) cable w/ HBO. On my salary, I could live quite well in Nebraska. But then, I'd be spending my weekends maintaining a lawn and rooms in the house that I didn't actually use, and I would have to drive everywhere. I'd much rather spend my weekends jogging by the lake and to be able to walk to the grocery store or take the train (faster, cheaper, and less stressful than driving) downtown.
I dont see you for a whole ********ing month and the first ********ing time I forget to put your mother********ing gif in a post, you're on me in five ********ing seconds.
Remind me not to bet with you. I lived in the bay area, and have friends in Palo Alto. Believe me, I can imagine.
A friend of mine who moved from the Bay Area used to say that "'Palo Alto' is Spanish for 'high real estate prices.'"
Seattle: The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle ... Liberal latteland -- in fact, we contributed the latte to modern American liberalism. Want to sell a place in Seattle? OK. Put it on the market, then. Blink. Now you're ready to close on the deal. Lewis County, just a little over an hour's drive away south on I-5. What? You never heard of it? OK, well, it's red, red, red. 64 percent for Bush last Tuesday. There are properties that have been on the market in Lewis County for two years. I know someone who recently simply walked away and let the bank foreclose on his old home there rather than try to sell it. I know I wouldn't mind moving back to Seattle someday, as pricey as it is and as screwed up as things can be there sometimes. But Lewis County? Well, why?
My best friend now goes to school at Western Washington, I'll be heading out to meet up with him during the Spring to do some skiing at Whistler and Mt. Baker and a few other things up in Victoria...