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10/18/2005 01:44:36 AM · #1 |
My best friend lives in the hills in Escondido, CA. The area is festooned with massive boulders, which are simply built around. Some of the craziest damn front yards I've ever seen!
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10/18/2005 01:47:08 AM · #2 |
LOL - I wanna see what peed on the rock!
(My shop is in Escondido and have taken a few customers home in some pretty outrageous neighborhoods!) |
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10/18/2005 01:48:39 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by BradP:
LOL - I wanna see what peed on the rock!
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I should have mentioned, the rain had just let up a little bit earlier ;)
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10/18/2005 01:53:36 AM · #4 |
How about the other extreme?
I work in Benton Harbor, MI. The town has pretty much been on an economic downward spiral since sometime in the 60's. Lots of burned out, boarded up crack/meth houses. They have a riot about once or twice a year. At one point, the state had to take over the policing because the city police were overwhelmed.
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10/18/2005 01:54:42 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
How about the other extreme?
I work in Benton Harbor, MI. The town has pretty much been on an economic downward spiral since sometime in the 60's. Lots of burned out, boarded up crack/meth houses. They have a riot about once or twice a year. At one point, the state had to take over the policing because the city police were overwhelmed. |
Any photos? |
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10/18/2005 01:59:36 AM · #6 |
| If you really want to see an extreme neighborhood check out on the news what happened in Toledo, Ohio this past weekend with rioting due to a white supremicists demonstrations there. |
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10/18/2005 02:02:34 AM · #7 |
| Wow, those guys really do still exist? I'm starting to think their continuing existence may disprove evolution ;-) |
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10/18/2005 02:06:20 AM · #8 |
Suspend Toledo members votes this week
Yikes!
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10/18/2005 02:13:16 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Olyuzi:
If you really want to see an extreme neighborhood check out on the news what happened in Toledo, Ohio this past weekend with rioting due to a white supremicists demonstrations there. |
Yeah, nothing like letting the Nazi's march through black neighborhoods, spouting their vile mouths off.
Smooth move there Toledo.
Message edited by author 2005-10-18 02:13:51.
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10/18/2005 02:16:54 AM · #10 |
We got some pretty "extreme" neighborhoods on the Cape; wall to wall, multi-acre properties with rolling lawns, ocean frontage, private docks, tennis courts, pool houses, guest houses, barns, boathouses, the whole 9 yards. You can't buy intot hese places for less than 3 million dollars for a fixer-upper (what you or I would call a "mansion").
On the other extreme we have what could be politely termed "Cape Cod Rustic", but these p[roperties are fast disappearing. The median home price on Cape Cod is around 370,000 dollars now. Soon enough there won't be any natives left. My house, a simple bungalow, used to be the meeting hall for the local Grange, the farmers' cooperative. We bought it as a derelict structure and rehabbed it a couple years ago. Total outlay (for a house that was literally on the verge of falling down, plus restoration) around 170K. It's worth 350K + now. Ridiculous.
We checked it carefully, btw; it's a 100-year old post and beam structure, and the structural members (including the roof beams) were all sound. We ripped off the roof, the walls, the internal walls, everything, and put it all back new around the surviving post and beam framework.
But I digress, don't I? Sigh...
R.
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10/18/2005 02:17:12 AM · #11 |
| I saw it on the news at work (I don't have a TV at home) and there were about 15 or 20 White supremicists marching like Nazi soldiers in the streets. I think it took place on Saturday. I think they went through a largely poor black neighborhood (I don't know how or why the authorities allowed that) and from the film clips it looked as though over 100 young black males were wrecking havoc, including setting buildings and houses on fire and pelting the police and ambulance crews with rocks. Pretty unbelieveable! |
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10/18/2005 02:29:57 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
We got some pretty "extreme" neighborhoods on the Cape; wall to wall, multi-acre properties with rolling lawns, ocean frontage, private docks, tennis courts, pool houses, guest houses, barns, boathouses, the whole 9 yards. You can't buy intot hese places for less than 3 million dollars for a fixer-upper (what you or I would call a "mansion").
On the other extreme we have what could be politely termed "Cape Cod Rustic", but these p[roperties are fast disappearing. The median home price on Cape Cod is around 370,000 dollars now. Soon enough there won't be any natives left. My house, a simple bungalow, used to be the meeting hall for the local Grange, the farmers' cooperative. We bought it as a derelict structure and rehabbed it a couple years ago. Total outlay (for a house that was literally on the verge of falling down, plus restoration) around 170K. It's worth 350K + now. Ridiculous.
We checked it carefully, btw; it's a 100-year old post and beam structure, and the structural members (including the roof beams) were all sound. We ripped off the roof, the walls, the internal walls, everything, and put it all back new around the surviving post and beam framework.
But I digress, don't I? Sigh...
R. |
It's the same here on Long Island...
They developing every square inch of available land and putting up huge multilevel homes that start between $500,000 and $600,000. They have cut down a 25 acre lot next to my home and started putting up residential housing. A few weeks ago I took my camera and began taking pictures from the sidewalk of their construction and before I got two pictures off someone sped up to me in a SUV asking me what I was doing. I told him I was taking pictures for "The Misses" :) in case she wanted to buy. I asked what these homes were going for and was told starting in the low 6s. They look ugly to me too.
So much for the middle class. We keed dwindling away. Gone are the days of $150,000 affordable home. |
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10/18/2005 02:49:06 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Olyuzi:
It's the same here on Long Island...
They developing every square inch of available land and putting up huge multilevel homes that start between $500,000 and $600,000. They have cut down a 25 acre lot next to my home and started putting up residential housing. A few weeks ago I took my camera and began taking pictures from the sidewalk of their construction and before I got two pictures off someone sped up to me in a SUV asking me what I was doing. I told him I was taking pictures for "The Misses" :) in case she wanted to buy. I asked what these homes were going for and was told starting in the low 6s. They look ugly to me too.
So much for the middle class. We keed dwindling away. Gone are the days of $150,000 affordable home. |
Forunately (or unfortunately, according to some) Cape Cod has really strict building codes, so it can't turn into Long Island. Vast areas of the outer cape (the wilder part) are now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore, and there is NO development allowed there at all. People still live there, and always will, but they can't build new houses where none were, nor can they expand current houses into monstrosities. The Cape is very preservation-conscious. Where I live, by Nantucket Sound near the "elbow" of the Cape, they've tightened up to such a degree that there are virtually no buildable lots left. End result; skyrocketing real estate prices, and a still-liveable environment. But there's very little year-round employment here outside the service industries, and even those are hugely seasonal. Kids who grew up on-cape have to leave, for the most part; they can't afford to stay. The average age of Cape Cod residents is, I believe, second only to certain areas of Florida in seniority...
Robt.
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