Amen and Florida isn't that expensive.

 

i made a carreer of that

 

Average HOUSEHOLD income in the us is like 43K a year. That **** still blows my mind. I have to be missing something.

 

I wish i could have done that for a few years.

 

Thats what Im doing, but my house is only worth $300k and I cant leave anyways

 

umm you must be smoking some serious crack my friend the city of chicago is HORRIBLE.....tax on water bottles, smokes are almost 8$/pack...some closer to 10/pack, alcohol usually has at least 3-7 dollars tax added to it when you buy from the store, if you go to a bar you can buy 5 dollar domestics and 8 dollar imports!!! mixed drinks are 12-30 depending on if you order top shelf. downtown you can buy a 2 bedroom condo in the loop for around 795,000 starting! and the condo is less then 1000sq ft. to buy a parking space for the condo will cost you an average of 40,000.......

Trust me, I work downtown, and I looked at moving downtown!!! its EXTREMELY pricey!

 

Chicago isn't expensive. Downtown is. Thing is if you have a job working downtown outside the service industry you get paid a lot more.

 

youre missing living in the sticks

I saw the house that becky and her ex bought for 40k, and I could definitely live there if i had to. wasnt a pos at all, just a little house

 

my house downpayment fund was increasing by 1200 a month. now its increasing by 200 a month, which isnt enough to keep up with the housing market.

 

yup

 

i visited some friends in the chicago suburbs. they lived in huge mansions that only cost half of what my little house is worth.

 

I could never live out in hillbilly country. I'd have to live somewhat close to the city. The only place I could live and be cool with being that far away from the city is up near Breckenridge, Vail or Beaver Creek area.

 

Food still costa about the same and cars cost about the same. I still don't understand how they do it.
Around here it is.....mostly because the mousing market is losing around here.
exactly.

 

Disagree, I don't make dick and I work in the city.

100% true!

 

I would love to live out in the sticks outside of the city. Problem is yuppies also want to move out to the country and their idea of "Country" is having a 1.5-2 acre plot in a subdivision that looks just like the suburbs only the houses are on top of each other, but spaced out a little bit more.

 

yeah out there its common to have a truck thats worth more than youre house

 

Thats crazy. Thats about double of what everything cost out here

 

the market is 'down' here too, but down for this area means that is still increasing, just not as fast as last year. we're about out of undeveloped land, so property values will never go down unless global warmign becomes an issue

 

what exactly is a yuppie to you? i hear so many different definitions

 

Power transmission industry sucks as well!