what u get for $700000 POLL

i like this feature of the times, but moreso when it's like $250k

I can help you f the nyt for much less than $700000, e-mail me

more info on that here

yes, and I can assure you all my gray ladies are well treated and provided for

sometimes they just want company and external stimulus ... helps delay the onset of alzheimer's, you know.

im def leaning towards the pueblo but id like to see the rest of the house pls.

im just going off the houses btw. you couldnt pay me to live in any of those places

Eh the loft is my favorite but more and more I just want to live in a small simple cabin somewhere sort of remote.

loft def

i don't like the decor choices in the chicago loft & nm pueblo but they are decent spaces. the colonial doesn't reach mcmansion levels of suck, you could do a lot worse, but mainly it's lol suburbia

anybody who buys in the next year or two (at least) is dumb

I feel the Loft would be a good compromise between my desire to be creative/artistic and my desire to be an indulgent capitalist asshole

im def leaning towards the pueblo but id like to see the rest of the house pls.

im just going off the houses btw. you couldnt pay me to live in any of those places

― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so you wont take money to live in delaware (ocean) new mexico (beauty) or chicago (big city) but you will live in arkansas (?) unremunerated

btw slideshow link above poll

;)

that loft makes me want to poke my eyes out - it has a roof deck tho!

I don't think that Delaware house is actually on the ocean, for one thing in the picture you can see trees and last time I checked trees don't grow in oceans

it is literally inside the ocean - watch the slideshow

delaware's existence continues to baffle me tbh

most people arent that up on delaware tbh

holy shit, you're right! the ocean, my God, it's full of stars high rises

What the fuck do you get for $5500/yr in association dues at the Chicago loft?

the creeping suspicion youve been conned

so you wont take money to live in delaware (ocean) new mexico (beauty) or chicago (big city) but you will live in arkansas (?) unremunerated
sure
delaware - there are better states near better oceans. im not an east coast person. tried it. didnt like it.
nm - hate heat
chicago - just dont like it

Among the residential streets, the Wilmington Police Department started a program known as jump-outs, in which unmarked police vans would cruise crime-prone neighborhoods late at night, "jump-out" at corners where residents were loitering and detain them temporarily. Using loitering as probable cause, the police would then photograph, search, and fingerprint everyone present. This would improve the police's records in case fingerprints or eye-witnesses were available at future crimes, along with catching anyone with drugs or weapons on them. Controversy spread from the theory that such a practice may be a violation of civil rights

the only reason Delaware exists is so that I can drive down there and buy big ticket electronics items without tax...another reason is so that people can pun off its name

I mean, these lofts with 16 foot high walls, they don't just fill themselves up with 60" TVs

oh okay i checked the slideshow. def pueblo. i feel like id kill myself in that loft.

I would maybe take another pueblo, but that one's like a southwestern McMansion. Combine the best attributes of pueblo and Chicago loft and I"m there.

it is surely more comfortable in dry 6000ft high placitas new mexico than humid ass little rock arkansas xp

I would snatch that freakin pueblo up lickity split, but the first item on the redecoration agenda would be to strip it of all religious iconography. Sorry, religious iconography.

I'd just go for tackier Catholic iconography. Part of me dreams of a pool with a mosaic tile Virgin of Guadalupe on the bottom.

lr is only hot a few months of the year but yeah those months suck ass

She didn't really pick Arkansas, you know. Arkansas picked her.

aw

would live in for 700K:
http://www.cohomefinder.com/p/80424/740793.htm

for reference, here's one at half the price
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/21/greathomesanddestinations/0726-wyg-slideshow_index.html

Surprised at all the hate for the Chicago decor - I'd like it a bit more modern, but the color palette is solid, there's nothing horribly tacky (except the glass and metal entertainment center. It's a damn sight better than the DE or NM interiors.

The $370k Portland and KC homes are nice.

its too spiky

Nice chain link on that Chicago patio. Put up some chicken wire and you could build your own coop.

That $700k would go a looooooong way in the current Detroit market.

what is the williamsburg of detroit?

I think Detroit is more like one big Bed-Stuy

pueblo. i'd keep the iconography too. The 1.3-acre lot has views of the Sandia Mountains. <3

thing is.. i'd really feel like kind of an asshole owning a place that expensive pretty much anywhere. like i dig the pueblo only smaller and not in some separate artsy wealthy bedroom community thing. ugh.

i guess the answer is ferndale

http://www.metromodemedia.com/cities/ferndale/InsidersGuide.aspx

Here's $600K in Our Town:

http://photos2.crye-leike.com/listingphotos/LittleRock/2/8/CARMLS10190728.jpg

http://photos2.crye-leike.com/listingphotos/LittleRock/2/8/CARMLS10190728f.jpg

http://photos2.crye-leike.com/listingphotos/LittleRock/2/8/CARMLS10190728j.jpg

xpost: Haha - one of the people featured in those profiles is one of my friends from lolcollege!

Nah, Ferdale is the Park Slope of the D.

damn, ferndale real estate prices making me weep

POOR

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3773/jfhjfgjvh.th.png

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2009/07/27/0728-wyg-slideshow/29203365.JPG

ugggggghhhhhhhhhhhh fuck Mission style

I'd just go for tackier Catholic iconography. Part of me dreams of a pool with a mosaic tile Virgin of Guadalupe on the bottom.

Milo Z you get to decorate my next house.

Menorah + crucifix = keeping your options open...

Although all of the houses are nice in their own ways, you couldn't pay me to live in any of those locations, so FU NYT.

(xxpost)
http://rhps.teamone.de/pool.jpg

Guys I wld gladly live in any of these places for free, but especially if given some kind of stipend.

yeah if anyone is looking to pay me to live somewhere im willing to talk

Alaska will!

good point - i heard theres no chix there tho

I like the decoration in the New Mexico one the best, I think, but the heat/sunshine combination there would probably kill me in a day or two.

What I really want is a house that looks like an Istanbul bazaar stall.

Eh the loft is my favorite but more and more I just want to live in a small simple cabin somewhere sort of remote.

^OMG, this. I was just telling someone yesterday that I would ideally like to have both a place in the city and cabin/shack/farm in the middle of nowhere.

loft v pueblo for me. i wouldn't even know what to do w/ all the rooms in that wilmington house. plus u'd be in wilmington.

loft has some ugly-ass decor tho. colors are fine but other shit looks really tacky

nm - hate heat

I guarantee you NM heat is a billion times more pleasant than AR heat

I would dig that place in Chicago, btw, except I really wouldn't want to live in that neighborhood -- what are the chances $700k could get me over on that strip of full Victorians on Le Moyne instead? The problem with the NM one is that actually if I were living in NM again I would not want a home arranged in a southwestern style, partly because hey, I'd live in the southwest already, and partly because I always found houses like that to seem sort of weirdly lost between impulses and come off like "why don't you just live in a full-on adobe, then."

an adobe abode

None of these really does anything for me but the place that pleasant plains showed is one of my versions of hell.

Even the bathroom? That's what got me the most

I did pause [' '] when I saw this pic though:

http://photos2.crye-leike.com/listingphotos/LittleRock/2/8/CARMLS10190728k.jpg

Hmmmm, indeed.

Anyway, haterz. Sure is hot today for late July, isn't it?

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/73silkdegrees.png

Adobe blocks cell phone reception. ;_; All two that I have lived in anyway.

I feel the Loft would be a good compromise between my desire to be creative/artistic and my desire to be an indulgent capitalist asshole

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

One of my favorite posts in a long time.

colonial is charming, very charming

The best thing about New Mexico/the southwest is you can paint your house any goddamn colors you want, the brighter the better, and people like it! I also like this abt Hawaii.

little rock is hotter and more humid than placitas yo

The sad thing about it though is that I laughed partly out of fear of becoming that.

You could buy over 200,000 mosquito nets.

colonial appeals 2 me way way more but the one in nm has a pool so that one

last nights Househunters had a gay couple with a budget of $700K looking for a place in the san fernando valley. let me tell you it wasnt pretty.

i was coming in here to post something similar to what PP posted, but about memphis instead. the difference being that LR has decent public schools (yeah?) and is probably safer

...but you could get this really dope spanish colonial in walking distance from overton park/zoo/lots of other midtown attractions for a paltry $649,000

http://www.trulia.com/property/1066763343-1896-Overton-Park-Ave-Memphis-TN-38112

That home is sweet. I would have my morning coffee on that staircase every morning.

Even if the Spanish Colonial were my style, no way in hell I'm buying anything 113 years old. I like insulation. And modern wiring. Or at least not having to completely redo the house in order to have these things.

We got three-pronged outlets with the new house, and holy hell, I can't believe we lived like savages at the other place for so long.

feeling this 205k house in portland me http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/greathomesanddestinations/05gh-what.html

I'd be feeling it more if it had a yard instead of wtf gravel, but I guess that could make for a good DIY project.

has side and back yard and barn

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2009/08/03/0804-wyg-slideshow/29284270.JPG

would live in barn

would eat lobstah eryday

http://pix1.homevisit.com/hvimageHoldingArea/29672/www_lg/1407_W_Street_NW_29672_1.jpg

http://pix1.homevisit.com/hvimageHoldingArea/29672/www_lg/1407_W_Street_NW_29672_2.jpg

Tom, I hate to tell you but someone replaced all of your furniture. And stole your books and your cats.

Nice light, though

PARTY @ 1407 W ST NW!

ceilings in portland house kinda low. little bit claustrophobic feeling to it, but nice price. 2nd house in GA nice too. DNW dallas condo tho

i like this feature of the times, but moreso when it's like $250k

― velko, Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:29 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/greathomesanddestinations/05gh-what.html?_r=1

425000

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/11/realestate/29434318.JPG

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/greathomesanddestinations/12GH-what.html

OK. I would redecorate that place asap but I love that cabin a lot!!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2009/08/11/0812-wyg-slideshow/29434435.JPGhttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/11/realestate/29423590.JPG

Wish it was somewhere other than Idaho tho. ;_;

It's so cute. <3

yeah the cabin is super dope - seems kinda pricey tho - doesnt say how much land it has

i guess its in ski country but still

425k for a 1br cabin in utah sounds pretty steep to me

the decor in the Minn. house is completely insane

er, idaho

425k would be steep for a 1br cabin in utah too yeah :P

Oh cabin is in Utah? Why did I read Idaho . . . weird. Still seems pricey. LOOOOL OK, Idaho it is.

I was thinking the same. Seriously though I often think something like that, as long as it was within reasonable driving distance from a major city, would be my dream home one day.

Yeah the Minn house might be one of the chintziest things I've ever seen. wau.

minn house it truly terrifying

I feel like the ppl that live there are, almost without question, completely insane.

chicago loft is gonna sweep this imo, with a few noise board vets voting for pueblo

looking at this hideous wallpaper prob a good way to lose weight i'm thinking

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2009/08/11/0812-wyg-slideshow/29462296.JPG

Ketchum is basically Sun Valley so that price really wouldn't be so bad compared to other fancy ski resort towns, I imagine. Minnesota house would haunt me.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2009/08/11/0812-wyg-slideshow/29462149.JPG

the house is literally staring at me! the house has eyes

I feel like living in the Minn. house wouldn't be so bad until the giant's daughter whose dollhouse it actually is removes the roof and starts rearranging your furniture, and possible you, to suit her whimsies...you might be able to get a Malibu Stacy convertible out of the deal, though

Living in the MN house would suck, mainly because it is located in Golden Valley.

$200,000 !!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/greathomesanddestinations/19gh-what.html?hpw

like the jackson house, chicago condo is ok except for kitchen, nice fruit trees in the iowa property at least

Kitchen's tiny, but otherwise that Chicago condo is great.

200k for a 2br seems great by LA standards

kinda weak,even at 250k

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/01/greathomesanddestinations/0901-wyg-slideshow_index.html

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'd take the Chicago condo, even though it seems way overpriced.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol fu nytimes.com 29

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/25/greathomesanddestinations/1125-WYG-slideshow_index.html

these places are ok even lol miami

i like the cincinnati one

u <3 ohio

i like bricks, 19th century buildings, ohio :(

baltimore has a lot of the first 2 tho, right?

yes : )

baltimore should move to ohio imo

i mean "maryland" wtf is that

*shrug*
did nyt ever have any houses in baltimroe

the middle one here, 225k not bad tbh
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/28/greathomesanddestinations/0429-wyg-slideshow_index.html

rooms seem really small, but lots of brick 4u

decor could be less boring

exposed brick dnw (ok on outside of house)

btw might move to iowa buy a 7br victorian

i wanna live in new mexico

i would live in a trailer

my apartment has exposed brick and i am *so insulted*

How do you hang artwork on the walls? (serious question)

Masonry drill + rawl plug + fixture/screw.

i don't have any artwork lol. but it's only around the fireplace (not sure if that works or not) and there are a handful of nails sticking out of it so someone obv hung something before.

gbx you cld be doing that for $400 a month here and have the trailer all to yourself.

my apartment has exposed brick and i am *so insulted*

― harbl, Friday, November 27, 2009 2:27 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yr just gonna have to deal tbh

abbott i know!

two of my friends just bought houses in santa fe. they are the first of my friends to be home owners and i am kind of floored by how low their mortgage payments are (even in SF)

yr a doctor now stop thinking like a peasant

When you make a doctors salary you cld probably just buy a whole town here. I recommend Pie Town.

From Pie Town's website: "The main activities are cowboying, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, pie baking/eating and enjoying a life well lived."

i am not a doctor :-/

but pie town sounds pretty nice :)

I went through there recently and a lady from Pie Town seriously listed all the pies they have. "They have the apple pie, the cherry pie, the lemon meringue pie, all the cream pies..." It was like talking to Harlan Pepper.

π town

i am not a doctor :-/

― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Friday, November 27, 2009 3:36 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

think doctor, be doctor

My friends just bought a townhome in loltimore and I'm betting that it looks like something on that NYT link.

noticing a lot of exposed brick in these photos, 80s revival?
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/06/greathomesanddestinations/0106-WYG-slideshow_index.html

the converted church is kinda awkward, like they really should have made some alterations to the space
ft lauderdale is awesome if a little low-ceilinged
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/21/greathomesanddestinations/20100223-wyg.html#1

Holy shit that Seattle penhouse is only $880k?! In Melbourne a place like that'd set you back 1.2 mil or more, eaaasily. Saw a modern penthouse apt today in the paper that was 2.4mil. Melbourne's becoming so prohibitively expensive :/ the house I live in - a tiny, 2brm miner's cottage with a small back extension of galley kitchen, cramped bathroom and one living are space (no dining) - would sell for at least 600-700k I reckon.

the seattle building looks cool but the interior of the apt is blah, probably removed a lot of orig. detail somewhere along the line. the kitchen blows with those cabinets. guess your paying for the view mostly. seattle economy pretty depressed at the moment, wonder what it could have fetched about 4 years ago.

the converted church and the key west home are stunning. i didn't see any mention of the lot size. they could be magnificent houses on a 5K square-foot lot. there are some homes a few blocks from where i live like that -- elegant homes designed to look like 18th century french-homes (coral gables' designer set up 6 villages, of which "18th century french" is one) -- but they're all on very small lots, built out to the edges of the property and pushed tight against each other.

totally obsessed with that ft lauderdale house

you mean the key west house, or is there another one listed in ft. lauderdale?

that loft is disgusting.
i'd want the house in santa fe. because santa fe is amazing. NEW MEXICO IS AMAZING.

Yeah the beachside house is cool - so much greenery! So cosy! Very dark tho.

the dark is what i like about it

A few of these:

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2009/05/09/1225710/499750-old-wine.jpg

Fort Lauderdale house would cost about a quarter that much in many far more awesome cities.

philly place looks dope, esp. at that price
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/07/greathomesanddestinations/20100302_wyg.html#1

Lauderdale place is super cool and stoney

I am not a country girl, and the place would have to be GUTTED of every furnishing and fleck of hair of dead animal, but the Yellowstone house has the only interior that seems interesting enough to bother moving.

NB: I am currently sharing a studio apt w/ bf so basically I'd be happy with a lot less than any of these, but hypothetically speaking, the above still stands.

Also I mean the woodburning on the kitchen cabinets, that is 100% jr high woodshop and I miss those days.

I once transferred a picture of a skater (god only knows who) from Thrasher magazine and woodburned it onto a plank and put clock hands in the middle. A+++!

would die of wood poisoning in yellowstone place, cool location tho

Wood poisoning is a manly way to go.

rowhouses are dope, and that philly one is in a pretty good part of the town (east falls or thereabouts)

yeah i love small rowhouses like that. the yellowstone one looks too yellow. cool deer heads though

the yellowstone house i feel like is v poorly conceptualized, living in an old church is the ultimate nightmare tho

I grew up in a philly rowhouse - hope you have good neighbors though, as the reason we moved was cause our neighbors liked to sing karaoke at 2 AM in the morning. that one is on the end of the block so it might not be too bad.

yeah i was wondering about the philly neighborhood, thought the price was semi-reasonable because maybe it was in a "bad" area but i guess i'm too warped by nyc/la prices

The Philly row house is perfectly adequate (and I know nothing about the location) but it's just blah inside. I like the furniture in the pics more than the house itself. The stair rail and the spiraly thing it makes at the bottom are for some reason esp bothering me.

Maybe it's b/c of the Victorian beauty right before it (which I cd never ever live in, but it's impressive). It makes that dumb newel post spiral look lame, and the rest of the interior does nothing to rescue it.

they definitely blanded out the philly place with the renovation but i tend to look at things strictly from a $ point of view and the philly rowhouse seems like a good price

the texas victorian is cool except for the wallpaper

decent, almost affordable houses in places you'll never live - c or d?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/14/greathomesanddestinations/20100414-wyg.html

AKA my search for a house in Oakland.

that antebellum (?) house in iowa is fantastic. very cheap too

does it come with us flag yn

Yes it's like 945890980x more house for your money than the other two, but it's in IOWA.

usa flag

not crazy about some of the renovation choices in pittsburgh but that's a lot of house for 275k
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/greathomesanddestinations/27whatyouget.html

i am going to have a house like that

the baton rouge house reminds me of rudyard kipling or something

love the nm house

oh & fyi for $19mm u can buy stings place on central park w

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/29/realestate/29sting/29sting-custom5.jpg

baaaaahahahaha

damn. that's awfully expensive for such a modestly-sized house in baton rouge.

jesus @ stang

Santa Fe house would be bitchin' with some different interior paint.

Pittsburgh house is cool but some of the renovation looks low-rent (like the kitchen island)

i like the kitchen island, and the steel beam, and the ceiling in that one bedroom

cochiti = hope u like spiders

Maybe it's the picture, but the island looks like my brother's back-yard tiki bar.

why do i like brick on the outside of a house but not on the inside?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/greathomesanddestinations/20100512-wyg.html#1

it's ok but i really hate condos. i like the asheville house a lot

yeah the brick makes it look like you let some artist go crazy in your dining room. maybe he'll paint a tunnel w/ a train coming out of it next

the asheville house, i'm such a sucker for a good color trim, makes it imo

like all these more or less, and affordable kinda! some weird ott aristo touches in shaker heights and the basement apt. in athens is unfortunate, but nothing a few tasteful modifications couldn't change
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/07/13/greathomesanddestinations/20100713wyg_ss.html?ref=greathomesanddestinations

seattle apartment looks like no pussyfooting cover!
pittsburgh is dope except for bedroom->bathroom conversion
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/10/greathomesanddestinations/20100810wyg_ss.html?ref=greathomesanddestinations

Pittsburgh house is killer, except for the ugly-ass tub.

Phoenix house is okay, but really? $500k for that? In a real city, sure, but in dry-heat Dallas, no thanks.

Seattle apartment could be great but boy is that interior ugly now.