Here's the Wage You Need to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment Around the Country

Post #418,805 by Ashton 7/9/17 5:27:39 PM 7/9/17 5:27:39 PM Reply	Here's the Wage You Need to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment Around the Country "Don't move to California." er, [sic] Esquire. (Zillow also says: my former White Elephant in the academic ghetto (in Berkeley hills) is now pegged at 1.313 Mega-bucks.) ... .... ..... ........ [Judy Collins] I really don't know Clouds at all.. [/Collins]
Post #418,813 by Andrew Grygus 7/9/17 10:42:24 PM 7/9/17 10:42:24 PM Reply	Ummm . . . that chart says . . . . . 2 bedroom home, not apartment.
Post #418,823 by mmoffitt 7/10/17 11:20:16 AM 7/10/17 11:20:16 AM Reply	The point remains, though. In 1969 my father had been a teacher in the Long Beach Unified School district for 5 years. My mother worked week-ends as an R.N. I don't know what her salary was back then, but I recently found out that my dad's was $16,000. We lived in this house, which my father had purchased when we moved out there in 1964 for $13,500 (less than a year's salary of what he would make in five short years). Today, according to the BLS, he'd need to make upwards of $110,000 to have equal buying power. Ironic, given that the most he could make as a teacher in the same district today is just over $108,000 after 29 years and with 2 years of study beyond a Master's degree. Over half a million for a 1200 sq ft house in a working class neighborhood is beyond insane. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #418,826 by CRConrad 7/10/17 11:59:06 AM 7/10/17 11:59:06 AM Reply	So apartments aren't homes? Weird usage. Where do apartment dwellers go, then, after they've decided to call it a night and go home? -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #418,829 by Andrew Grygus 7/10/17 12:31:38 PM 7/10/17 12:31:38 PM Reply	In real estate terminology (around here) . . . . . a home is a free standing house or duplex that you may own or rent. An apartment is a unit of a multi-unit building that you can only rent - unless you own the whole shebang. In between these are condos, which are multi-unit buildings, but sometimes loosely called "homes" because you own the unit you live in, but they are more properly called "condos". I have condos West across the street, South and East. I am amused by all these guys out in the morning walking their wives miniature condo dogs. Yesterday there was a guy walking a fluffy white thing with a brilliant pink leash. Talk about emasculated!
Post #418,831 by drook 7/10/17 2:17:08 PM 7/10/17 2:17:08 PM Reply	About leash color Should leash colors match the gender of the dog or the owner? Why? -- Drew
Post #418,836 by CRConrad 7/10/17 4:57:23 PM 7/10/17 4:57:23 PM Reply	Doesn't matter: Pink is pink, but Gryge is right: Brilliant pink really is emasculated/-ing.
Post #418,837 by pwhysall 7/10/17 5:38:14 PM 7/10/17 5:38:14 PM Reply	Depends how secure you are, innit?

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