The "Shit I just bought" thread

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Joeboo

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Ever time I've thought about moving from KC, housing costs elsewhere always discourage me. You can get a nice 2000sq ft house with a 3 car garage and updates everywhere in the burbs for $175k. I watch those damn house hunter shows and that same house on the East Coast or California is a million damn dollars. I'm pretty certain I can't find a job in a new city making 5x what I do now to offset that housing cost increase
 
Soygen

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My 1300sq ft 3/2 townhouse is ~160k. It just gets worse as you get closer to the beach(at least in the non-ghetto areas). I love living in south Florida for the beaches and weather, but I really want to get a bigger house without taking a 350k mortgage.
 
Gravy

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One good thing about living in the country. 1600sq upstairs, 1600sqft finished downstairs. 5 bed, 2 bath, 3 1/2 acres to pee upon. Creek through the back yard. $128k.
 
Soygen

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That alone makes me feel slightly better about good ol' city-livin'.

Though Comcast have been fuckfaces the last couple weeks on my internet.
 
Soygen

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Yeah, that's nuts. I wouldn't even want to live there with country pricing.
 
Szeth

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Gravy_sl said:
One good thing about living in the country. 1600sq upstairs, 1600sqft finished downstairs. 5 bed, 2 bath, 3 1/2 acres to pee upon. Creek through the back yard. $128k.
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in CT, 3800 sq ft not including half finished basement. 3 1/2 acres... ~1 mil. Trade property taxes?
 
Soygen

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I imagine the tears from your property tax would take a long time to fill a 3800 sq ft house. My sympathy level is pretty low.
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Szeth

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Hah - probably should have noted that's the family homestead. I live in a condo a few miles away. Not sure of sq footage as I am the roommate but it was something like $228k
 
Borzak

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Soygen_sl said:
That alone makes me feel slightly better about good ol' city-livin'.

Though Comcast have been fuckfaces the last couple weeks on my internet.
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I just moved from the sticks. Before that I lived in Texas in the sticks and I had 4.5 acres and a 1800 square foot house that cost me $165k. The last plae I just moved from I was only there temporarily in MS and I had 3.5 acres on the country club, 3000 square feet and it was right at 200k.

The place I just moved from in MS had a population of 10k and they are currently rolling out fiber as some sort of special deal. It went live January 1st. The nearest "town" of any size was Baton Rouge, LA 1-1/2 hours away and New Orleans also 1-1/2 hours away.

You can get fast internet in the sticks if you look hard I guess. I've never had a property tax bill greater than $1,200 or so. I also own timber land and I pay between $3-$4/acre property tax on it.

The problem I'm having here in a real quick search of housing in TX is it's hard to find a house that isn't 2500 to 3000 square feet and that's really too much for a single person.
 
BrutulTM

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I bought house plans. I'm going to modify it a little bit. The dud area above the entrance will become a real room...thou small. Kind of a loft in that bedroom. GF's kid is wanting to transfer to a college near the land that I'm looking at so, kind of a win there. It's about a year away though. I can't wait till I move in.

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How much are you figuring to build that house minus the land costs? Just talking about materials and labor. My brother is planning to build a house here on the ranch and do all the work himself and I'm hoping that we can get it done for under 100K but we're not talking about anything that fancy, just a basic 3 bedroom 2 bath 2000 square foot type house.
 
Jysin

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Comparing house prices across the US is kind of pointless in my opinion. Sure you can move out to bum fuck nowhere and buy a lot of land and build a mansion on it, but you also have fuck all income. Jobs (especially tech sector) are hard to come by and when the do, they aren't paying very well. Compare this to city living, salaries and property are proportionately higher. To me, its all about finding that balance.

I've lived overseas for the last ~15+ years and I am seriously contemplating a move back stateside this year. All of this is weighing heavily on my mind.
 
BrutulTM

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From personal experience, at least in the bay area, the difference in wages does not make up for the difference in housing costs. It is hard to find a tech job away from the coasts, but if you can, it will definitely be easier to buy a house there than it would be in California. We used to go out to Kansas City for work pretty often and my counterparts there, who probably made 20% less than me all had nice houses with huge yards and I was living in a 1 bedroom apartment.
 
Joeboo

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I haven't played Tera, but for League of Legends, it is so old(graphically) that you were probably getting an average of 100+ FPS with your 680, and now you're getting 200+ with the 980. You'll see no difference there. I would assume Tera is the same way, since it's a 4+ year old game.
 
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