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Renters having tough time. - 9/14/2007 7:54:11 PM

popeye1250

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/ap_on_bi_ge/renters_plight

An interesting article in Yahoo news.
It seems that if you live on the East or West coasts things are a lot tougher.
What's the situation like where you live?

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RE: Renters having tough time. - 9/14/2007 8:42:54 PM

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I am a recent transplant to PA from NYC-metro,
but seems as though the same dynamic
(employment available insufficient to permit living on one's own aka without roommates)
has been applied.

For Example:
In my area of PA, apparently, "FULL TIME" employment means
(not the 40 hours per week I was accustomed to, and fixed hours/days to boot)
sommat between 25 and 35 hours, spangled all over the days and times-of-day.

PART-TIME is ... 10 to 15 hours per week.

And, por su puesto,
if one can command so much as 8 freaking USA buckaroos an hour,
then one has done extraordinarilay well
(in some pointy-haired jerk-offs perspective)
...for oneself.

NOW as to the Other part of the equation....

...caint live on that

Figure 450 a month (this is 'optimistic') plus (share of) utilities, for a ROOM

Ya. I am a grown-up, and I wanta live with... 'roomies'

NOT!

Gah. [ya, life could be better]

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RE: Renters having tough time. - 9/15/2007 10:30:08 AM

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i know 3 guys being evicted that cant make rent.

im so glad i bought. my mortgage is lower then rent!!

*takes bow* i just planted two more rose bushes. no one promised me a rose garden - so i grew my own.

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RE: Renters having tough time. - 9/15/2007 10:56:51 AM

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

i know 3 guys being evicted that cant make rent.

im so glad i bought. my mortgage is lower then rent!!

*takes bow* i just planted two more rose bushes. no one promised me a rose garden - so i grew my own.

Kudos to you!

Do you know much about rose bushes?

As in: careful with trimming, as they are all graftees upon wild stock?

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RE: Renters having tough time. - 9/15/2007 11:24:06 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: kiyari

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

i know 3 guys being evicted that cant make rent.

im so glad i bought. my mortgage is lower then rent!!

*takes bow* i just planted two more rose bushes. no one promised me a rose garden - so i grew my own.

Kudos to you!

Do you know much about rose bushes?

As in: careful with trimming, as they are all graftees upon wild stock?

Welcome to Pennsylvania! I moved here after 25 years in Chicago. 9-14-88. best choice i ever made!!

as to roses, i find they either thrive or they dont. mostly due to the soil. once a rose bush thrives it doesnt need alot of maintenece. i know there are shows where folks compete to grow the perfect rose. [Philadelphia has them] while a buddy of mine was into that sceen and won prizes years ago- I never took it that far.

I only became a home owner April 2007. it is so much diffwerent planting things on my soil- or painting fixing up a place i own. even as apoosed to renting from a relative. as i decide what can stay or go.

my 1st choice is conifers here. blue spruce, norway pine, white pines, etc. [but] since i am in a nieghborhood in town- the folks well- it goes over better to have color mixed in- so as it looks like a botanical garden rather then a forest. BTW- all the neighbors have complimented me on what ive done here! one is even copying my ideas!!!

anyhow i only grow easy to grow plants. if i experiment with hard to grow plants i factor in that it wont live.

i have simple plant food- that i will feed the plants- but dont over feeed as it will kill them.

i wore out 2 hoses this year by watering.

i forget im on a city lot- and not on acreage. i could easily fill 10 acres- as gardening comes natural to me. ohhhhhhhhhh canna bulbs are in my mix. they get as tall as a person or house- a big red tropical flower. the bulbs are dug up in the fall- and then replanted in the spring,.

i was asked if i cover my roses in the winter. being that i bought the cheap ones- i doubt i will bother. one can put thousands of $ into any home improvement project...literally.

anyhow the garden is to diffuse the noise and grime of the busy street. it also is meant to compliment the 2nd floor views of the Susquehanna River. --my place has the potential to be a bed and breakfast- especially if i aquired the property next door.

welcome to Pennsylvania! any regrets on leaving NYC? why did you leave? what do you miss?

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