gunsmoke on 30/11/2012 at 02:12
I am looking @ houses in the small town I was born in here in Southeastern Ohio. You can get really nice, renovated houses with 2 car garage, 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2-2 baths and finished basement on acres of land just outside of town (so not like a distant commute to work and stores) for $40-70,000...
PigLick on 30/11/2012 at 03:43
bought my house for 120,000, now its worth over 400,000 (Im in aus btw), my neighbours are paying more to rent their house than I am for my mortgage!
heywood on 30/11/2012 at 10:02
The median price of an apartment in the Sydney metro area is around AU$ 450k (US$ 500k). The median house price is more like AU$650k. Quite a few of my coworkers have spent $750-800k and are an hour out of the city, just to live in a middle class town with decent schools. They think I'm foolish for renting instead of getting into the property market.
gunsmoke on 30/11/2012 at 12:41
Sounds like a seller's market there, as opposed to here where I am which is definitely a buyer's. Hell, some of these places I am looking at, the land alone is worth what they are asking. Some have gorgeous creeks with small waterfalls, ponds, woods, they all lay over a huge aquifer (gorgeous well water) and one has a natural cave!
Sadly, most are bank-owned so there are sad stories behind their sale.
heywood on 1/12/2012 at 05:11
I know the area you speak of. I used to go riding out there when I was stationed at Wright-Patt, around Wayne Nat'l Forest, Hocking Hills, the hills north from Marietta, and somewhere further south by the Ohio river (memory is a bit hazy). It's really nice country. Unfortunately, no jobs. I could see buying a place now at a discount if you have aspirations of retiring there.
And yeah, pretty much all of Australia is a seller's market. Last year was a slow year in Sydney by standards, but it was still a seller's market. This year is hotter. There are new luxury apartment developments starting all around the city, and they seem to sell out as soon as they're announced. Salaries are relatively high here, which offsets the cost of living a bit. But there's still lots of people mortgaged right to their limit.
Anyway, the last new game I picked up was Dishonored and it was $79. These days, I only buy a couple of new games a year so it doesn't seem that bad. Gaming still has the highest fun/$ ratio of any hobby I've gotten into.
june gloom on 1/12/2012 at 21:06
You sons of bitches stop making me want to stay in Ohio.
Sulphur on 1/12/2012 at 21:11
[video=youtube;zZV9ETtK4Bw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZV9ETtK4Bw[/video]
june gloom on 1/12/2012 at 21:17
well that cured it
gunsmoke on 6/12/2012 at 20:14
Quote Posted by dethtoll
You sons of bitches stop making me want to stay in Ohio.
Ohio is awesome. Considering Lake Erie, the Wayne National Forest/Hocking Hills, N.W. swamps, modest skiing in the N. Central hills, and the riverfront...we got it all.
@ Heywood. I am from Nelsonville (11 miles up from Athens). Familiar with it? This is around the area I speak of. Up to as far north as Logan where several other family members live.
june gloom on 6/12/2012 at 20:28
Ohio is kind of a crap state. Most of it is very flat, the locals in rural areas are crazy right-wing (especially up around Zanesville) while the locals in the cities are just plain crazy, it's had a successive series of governors who have done their very fucking best to drive the whole state into the ground, the weather sucks and we're right next to Kentucky. And there's almost no opportunity out here unless you like farming or working for McDonald's.
Fuck Ohio.
