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Record Drop in House Prices in October
Topic Started: Dec 26 2007, 08:58 AM (1,057 Views)
QuirtEvans
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Optimistic
Dec 27 2007, 02:10 PM
justme
Dec 27 2007, 01:59 PM
Let me know if you need a babysitter. I can be a regular Mary Poppins if needed :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

*AHEM*

Justme may be a fantastic grandmother, but I am a PROFESSIONAL nanny.

:P

But, are you practically perfect in every way???
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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QuirtEvans,Dec 27 2007
11:11 AM


:P

But, are you practically perfect in every way??? [/QUOTE]
No chock full o' character flaws...

What's that from..."practically perfect in every way?"

Hey I have a lawyer joke you've probably heard before. It's popular at the ski area.

"Hey did you hear it was so cold today that the lawyers actually had to put their hands in their own pockets?" :lol:

OK, so now one about a ski bum/raft guide/ski instructor...(fill-in-the-blank post college/pre real-world adolescent fantasy)

What the difference between a ski instructor and a saving bond?
A: The savings bond eventually matures and earns some money!

And of course, the super-rich:

Rich guy #1: "Hey look, I just bought this Rolex! It cost me $10,000!
Rich guy #2: "You idiot, I just got the same one for $15,000!"
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Aqua Letifer
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Dec 27 2007, 11:18 AM

What's that from..."practically perfect in every way?"

Marry Poppins.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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justme
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My sister's married to one of those ski instructor during the winter/sailing instructor during the summer persons. We love him anyway :biggrin:

But then again we rarely see him! :lol:
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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Daniel
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In other words she's married to a bum. :tongue:
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justme
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Daniel
Dec 27 2007, 03:27 PM
In other words she's married to a bum. :tongue:

Oh no, he's no bum. He's a Ivy League graduate. He just likes to enjoy his work. Trust me, his family is well fed. She's a buyer for a major sportswear company. She's been there quite a long time. They do wonderful together and are very happy.

Her first husband was the bum.
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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I suspect that other places in the world that are surrounded by wilderness and beauty act like magnets to young people...

Typical here is the young, athletic 20-something outdoorsy type.

It is so true that wilderness and huge open landscapes are vital to preserve. Where else can you go and feel the way our anscestors did? Dwarfed and insignificant they respected the land. Tiny, like a speck of sand on a beach is a good thing to feel.

Here's a remedy for stress and depression:

Go find some place where you feel swallowed up by the enormity of our physical world. Spend some time there. Repeat as necessary.
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Optimistic
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QuirtEvans
Dec 27 2007, 02:11 PM
Optimistic
Dec 27 2007, 02:10 PM
justme
Dec 27 2007, 01:59 PM
Let me know if you need a babysitter. I can be a regular Mary Poppins if needed :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

*AHEM*

Justme may be a fantastic grandmother, but I am a PROFESSIONAL nanny.

:P

But, are you practically perfect in every way???

No, but that's ok. Who wants to break out into tiresome song and dance routines all day, anyway. :wink:
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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sue
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Dec 27 2007, 12:44 PM
Here's a remedy for stress and depression:

Go find some place where you feel swallowed up by the enormity of our physical world. Spend some time there. Repeat as necessary.

So true. I find that peace at Long Beach, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The noise from all those waves, crashing into shore....I can sit there for hours, just watching and listening.
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Hey Free, any suggestions for a good Colorado town for a not-so-wealthy 20-something? I will probably be done with my Masters program in a year, and although this area is probably better than any other for job opportunities for my field (international ed.), I'm thinking I need to get away, if only for a bit. Preferably to a place where there are more of my kind (outdoorsy).

I've heard great things about Colorado. I've also heard it's very expensive. How hard would it be to just move out there and quickly find a job that would pay the bills?
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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QuirtEvans
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Dec 27 2007, 04:45 PM
Hey Free, any suggestions for a good Colorado town for a not-so-wealthy 20-something? I will probably be done with my Masters program in a year, and although this area is probably better than any other for job opportunities for my field (international ed.), I'm thinking I need to get away, if only for a bit. Preferably to a place where there are more of my kind (outdoorsy).

I've heard great things about Colorado. I've also heard it's very expensive. How hard would it be to just move out there and quickly find a job that would pay the bills?

Go to Oregon, young lady. Outdoorsy and not as expensive, because there's less skiing (and fewer ski bums).
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Telluride or Durango

Boulder is great for music, but a little big-city for me.

BTW Colorado sucks and Wyoming blows

(Wind Joke from I-80)
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The wind usually blows another direction but Wyoming doesn't suck. The way I heard the joke is the wind doesn't blow in Wyoming, Nebraska sucks.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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JBryan
Dec 27 2007, 03:10 PM
The wind usually blows another direction but Wyoming doesn't suck. The way I heard the joke is the wind doesn't blow in Wyoming, Nebraska sucks.

Yeah, Nebraska sucks, too. Between the two states they sure create a lot of wind. You should try driving westbound on I-80 when the say "breezy"

One time I swear I could feel wind rattling the floorboards of my (then girlfirend's) Jeep. I thought the whole vehicle was going over....backwards!

Nothin' like a good drive from Laramie to Rock Springs in Jan.
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QuirtEvans
Dec 27 2007, 01:58 PM
Optimistic
Dec 27 2007, 04:45 PM
Hey Free, any suggestions for a good Colorado town for a not-so-wealthy 20-something?  I will probably be done with my Masters program in a year, and although this area is probably better than any other for job opportunities for my field (international ed.), I'm thinking I need to get away, if only for a bit.  Preferably to a place where there are more of my kind (outdoorsy). 

I've heard great things about Colorado.  I've also heard it's very expensive.  How hard would it be to just move out there and quickly find a job that would pay the bills?

Go to Oregon, young lady. Outdoorsy and not as expensive, because there's less skiing (and fewer ski bums).

And there are a lot of enlightened liberal types out here, at least in Multnomah County.

Just in case you do -

Oregon - say it just like "organ".

Willamette - "Will-LAM-it".
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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justme
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I thought western Nebraska was beautiful. Scotts Bluffs and all that.
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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JBryan
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Western Nebraska is mostly desolate.

I have driven that section of I-80 many times from Cheyenne to Evanston. I have to think that 90% of the people who have driven through Wyoming have an unfavorable impression from that stretch of interstate. It is the most desolate part of Wyoming aside from the Powder River Basin. The Red Desert wasn't called that for nothing. Of course, I have seen a lot more of it than that so I know better having been born and raised there.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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You know when I first moved out west I did could not get over how suddenly when you're driving you notice there's no trees. The landscape becomes so barren and startk it really freaks us easterners out. I was used to that feeling of trees everywhere...little forest glades and roads winding up and down and around, never seeing what's around the corner.

Then...driving out west, time and distance expand. Miles and miles between towns. The roads are straight and true. You can see everything. The same brown windswept bleak looking landscape for miles and miles.

There are places like Jackson Hole that are unbelievably beautiful, and there are places like Rock Springs that are...well...less than pretty.

Going west is always a trip.

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My favorite place out of all the American west that's I've been to has got to be Bannock, Montana. It was an old mining town that is now a ghost town. We had the most beautiful sunsets, wildlife galore......... Other places were more beautiful but I just liked it there.
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JBryan
Dec 27 2007, 03:32 PM
Western Nebraska is mostly desolate.

I have driven that section of I-80 many times from Cheyenne to Evanston. I have to think that 90% of the people who have driven through Wyoming have an unfavorable impression from that stretch of interstate. It is the most desolate part of Wyoming aside from the Powder River Basin. The Red Desert wasn't called that for nothing. Of course, I have seen a lot more of it than that so I know better having been born and raised there.

You were born and raised in the red desert?

Have you read/seen how many oil and gas wells there are out there now?
It's one thing to allow sane mining and extraction, but what I'm seeing out there is just totally out of control. Really, really sad.

Justme
Montana is really nice. Probably like Jackson was 30 years ago...I love it.
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JBryan
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No, I was born and raised in Wyoming. Casper, actually. My Dad was born there too and his dad was born in a little town in northeast Wyoming that is a ghost town now. Cambria I believe was the name. For me going back east was the opposite experience. Almost claustrophobic. Of course, all those trees are nice but there are a lot of parts of Wyoming that have trees (pine trees mostly) and you don't feel all closed in by "civilization". I always avoided Jackson Hole. It really is not very representative of the rest of Wyoming except the scenery. My dad did a lot of business up there though.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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JBryan
Dec 27 2007, 03:50 PM
No, I was born and raised in Wyoming. Casper, actually. My Dad was born there too and his dad was born in a little town in northeast Wyoming that is a ghost town now. Cambria I believe was the name. For me going back east was the opposite experience. Almost claustrophobic. Of course, all those trees are nice but there are a lot of parts of Wyoming that have trees (pine trees mostly) and you don't feel all closed in by "civilization". I always avoided Jackson Hole. It really is not very representative of the rest of Wyoming except the scenery.

True about Jackson's reputation in the eyes of other folks from Wyoming.

Popular bumper sticker = "My Wyoming has a East infection
Or Jackson Hole...The land of Elk and Money

Don't think everyone here is a psuedo-intellectual cappucino-drinking trust-funded tree hugging gorper with glazed eyeballs....or a real estate agent with dollar signs for pupils....or some dirtbag who thinks he/she is "living the dream" just because they have eschewed a real job and prioritized skiing thinking everyone has to give them a break complete with affordable housing so they never have to work. Or some righteous NOLS instructor telling you how to leave no trace and be a guru even though mommy just bought them a new Audi.

No. Not everyone is like that here. There are some real working class people trying to eek out a living here. I'm in that catagory...used to be a tree-hugging dirtbag ramen-eating ski bum who never showered. But my wife made me clean up before I could sleep with her. That B***ch!



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JBryan
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:lol:

Well, there used to be a lot more working class types until they could no longer afford to live there.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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TomK
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I'm looking for the bail out of the large screen TV companies--have you seen how much the prices of those things have fallen!!!!! :lol:
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Sales of new homes hit a 12-year low in November, falling short of even the most skeptical Wall Street estimates.

The unexpectedly weak report suggested that home prices would fall further next year as the housing market struggles to break out of its deepest slump since the early 1990s.

Sales of single-family homes fell 9 percent last month, the Commerce Department said, for a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 647,000, the slowest pace since April 1995.

Inventories rose as well, despite discounts being offered by home builders to attract reluctant buyers. The government estimated that a 9.3 month supply of homes remain unsold, a slight increase from October.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/business...nd-home.html?hp

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It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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