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

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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

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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.

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.