the former question is easier to answer. we have population growth, both from immigration and reproduction
as for how they afford it, it is beyond me. my mortgage is for about 140k. with taxes and escrow and the like, it comes to over a grand a month. i consider that a lot of money. my house in a decent neighborhood in the NYC metro area or the valley of silicone would be about $600k. all things being equal, that would put the mortgage at over $5k a month for pretty basic, albeit comfortable, housing. so you are 60 grand in the hole before you pay for anything else to have ordinary living. how can people afford this? there are railroad flats in greenpoint, brooklyn. 20 years ago, these would rent for about $350 a month. so 2 or 3 young people with low paying jobs could get together and live very affordably in a nice safe neighborhood. same railroad flat today is about 2500 a month. you make $250 a week working at burger king. the government will maybe let you keep $175. you do that math. On 2/21/06, Bob Rentfro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We still have land, lotsa land that looks like that...but more and more > get > eaten up each day by new housing tracts. > I don't know where all these people are coming from...or how they can > afford > these ridiculously high priced crappy new homes. > > Bob Rentfro > '77 300D 149K > '01 VW Beetle TDI 61K > Litchfield Park, AZ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:48 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Pics from my latest Beater-Benz journey > > > > having spent nearly my whole life in the east, it still stuns me to > > realize > > how much of the USA looks just like this > > > > http://www.pbdev.com/westtex/westtexas135.html > > > > > > On 2/20/06, Rich Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Those are some great pics! Where (in W Texas) were they taken? Making > >> me think about a road trip. > >> > >> --R > >> > >> Pablo wrote: > >> > >> >Dell City/My Land/Carlsbad/Hike to Guadalupe Peak > >> > > >> >http://www.pbdev.com/westtex/ > >> > > >> >p. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________ > >> >http://www.striplin.net > >> >For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > >> >For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > >> >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> >http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.striplin.net > >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > >> > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.striplin.net > > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.striplin.net > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net >
