So sad...but oh so funny.

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

Right now I can buy a 3,000 sq ft 8 bdrm mansion in Newark for the price of a tiny studio in Manhattan.

mawilson, buy this.

http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdet...nt=21129#Detail

109 k? has someone lost their mind?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Right now I can buy a 3,000 sq ft 8 bdrm mansion in Newark for the price of a tiny studio in Manhattan.

mawilson, buy this.

http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdet...nt=21129#Detail

109 k? has someone lost their mind?

Oh naive midwesterner

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

Right now I can buy a 3,000 sq ft 8 bdrm mansion in Newark for the price of a tiny studio in Manhattan.

mawilson, buy this.

http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdet...nt=21129#Detail

109 k? has someone lost their mind?

Oh naive midwesterner

ya'll are nuts! i'd not give $20 for that bombed out looking building.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Right now I can buy a 3,000 sq ft 8 bdrm mansion in Newark for the price of a tiny studio in Manhattan.

mawilson, buy this.

http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdet...nt=21129#Detail

109 k? has someone lost their mind?

Oh naive midwesterner

ya'll are nuts! i'd not give $20 for that bombed out looking building.

I agree, buying in Irvington is a risky bet. This is being marketed as an investment opportunity, not a place to live. If they ever "fix" Irv like they have other towns in the area, buying this property in 2007 for 110K could end up being a financial windfall, it's only 10-15 miles from Manhattan.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Have you seen the TV ads for the Elizabeth "Urban Regeneration program"? We cracked up at those - they carefully shoot a couple of store fronts (Gamestop, and a couple other B-list mainstream stores) and ignore the homeless guys, shambling drug addicts and the trash blowing around in the wind.

Elizabeth will be the next Hoboken. Trust me on that. A lot of very rich people want it that way and therefore it will happen.

It'll be a while before Elizabeth is anything what I'd call "live-able". Of course it is a far cry from $hit-holes like Newark and Irvington - the North side of Elizabeth, near where they built that new primary school (The "Ronald Reagan" Academy) is relatively ok - but the downtown is not somewhere I'd want to walk around after dark.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Have you seen the TV ads for the Elizabeth "Urban Regeneration program"? We cracked up at those - they carefully shoot a couple of store fronts (Gamestop, and a couple other B-list mainstream stores) and ignore the homeless guys, shambling drug addicts and the trash blowing around in the wind.

Elizabeth will be the next Hoboken. Trust me on that. A lot of very rich people want it that way and therefore it will happen.

It'll be a while before Elizabeth is anything what I'd call "live-able". Of course it is a far cry from $hit-holes like Newark and Irvington - the North side of Elizabeth, near where they built that new primary school (The "Ronald Reagan" Academy) is relatively ok - but the downtown is not somewhere I'd want to walk around after dark.

Elizabeth was a desirable suburb for upper middle class white people up to the riots of 1967. That's about when white flight occurred and the events following have ended up with Elizabeth (and newark and plainfield...) being what it is today. The change from desirable suburb to rundown ghetto was rapid and there's no reason to think that given the political will, a reverse change can't be just as drastic. It can happen. I hope it does.

[Krikit 1,164]

Right now I can buy a 3,000 sq ft 8 bdrm mansion in Newark for the price of a tiny studio in Manhattan.

mawilson, buy this.

http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdet...nt=21129#Detail

109 k? has someone lost their mind?

Oh naive midwesterner

ya'll are nuts! i'd not give $20 for that bombed out looking building.

I agree, buying in Irvington is a risky bet. This is being marketed as an investment opportunity, not a place to live. If they ever "fix" Irv like they have other towns in the area, buying this property in 2007 for 110K could end up being a financial windfall, it's only 10-15 miles from Manhattan.

Bang goes my dream of living in one unit and renting out the other two.

[Fandango 1,439]

Right now I can buy a 3,000 sq ft 8 bdrm mansion in Newark for the price of a tiny studio in Manhattan.

mawilson, buy this.

http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdet...nt=21129#Detail

109 k? has someone lost their mind?

Oh naive midwesterner

ya'll are nuts! i'd not give $20 for that bombed out looking building.

i don't think you guys are looking at this in the right way.....this is a great investor special imo. Great potential for a growing area, great potential for income.

I agree, buying in Irvington is a risky bet. This is being marketed as an investment opportunity, not a place to live. If they ever "fix" Irv like they have other towns in the area, buying this property in 2007 for 110K could end up being a financial windfall, it's only 10-15 miles from Manhattan.

I shoulda read the whole thread before replying

I agree

[~Jess~ 0]

derrrrrr

[Heracles 417]

I just don't get how you could have lived on Earth for more than 20 years and have never once heard the name of the country of Hungary. Or not know that France is a country. I just can't imagine what it's like living with a mind like that. I mean, you have to be pretty stupid not to have absorbed that information SOMEWHERE.

Well not stupid - just ignorant. I can see how it could happen to a person if they lived in the midwest all their life, never left home and scraped through with a highschool education. ...

She's from the South, not the Midwest! And certainly stupidity is (rightly or wrongly) more a stereotype of the South than of the Midwest. Have you been to the Midwest?

Yes because apparently only people from the south are ignorant. Funny how I have had two people in NY ask me whether we learned to speak English as a second language in Australia.

A poor education and ignorance is by no means isolated to the south. EG:

Your long time friend

Infidel..

Edited December 16, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[Alex+R 0]

I didn't watch your videos or anything, but if you look at my post, you'll see I challenged the stereotype that southerners are dumb.

Edited December 16, 2007 by Alex+R

[Heracles 417]

I didn't watch your videos or anything, but if you look at my post, you'll see I challenged the stereotype that southerners are dumb.

I must have missed that part.

She's from the South, not the Midwest! And certainly stupidity is (rightly or wrongly) more a stereotype of the South than of the Midwest.

Edited December 16, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[Alex+R 0]

rightly or wrongly.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This exchange is too funny.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A poor education and ignorance is by no means isolated to the south.

Of course it isn't. But if we're talking stereotypes Ms. Pickler hardly refutes the generalisation...