tommie;I think Daiquirii  still lives with her parents or parent whichever it is /So she doesn't have the life experence yet to compare it to somewhere else.Not like us old fossils.

wow, thats nice. you can usually find stuff like that around here for about double the price. Plus, Hartford has like the 7'th highest average price for gas in the nation. I probably would be correct in assuming that food is also cheaper where you live (its like 3.00 for a gallon of milk here in normal grocery stores.) You could probably find houses in my area with about the same square footage for that price, but you wouldnt have the land to go with it, plus not that many of the lower end of the price range houses have covered decks and 2 car garages.

We could probably get 250 or up for our house. 2 family, 2 bedrooms, a kithchen, a livingroom and a full bath each. Basement (dont know the size, pretty big though, big enough for another apartment)   Deck, land (probably like 1 acre), 4 car garage, 2 porches, and an above ground pool. I price it so low because it was built in the early 20'th century. Wiring is old, entire house is on a slant, and the walls are pretty thin. I am technically the second family, I live on the second floor, and I can hear the TV on at night in the livingroom below me. If my mom wants to get me downstairs for dinner or something she just bangs on the wall ^_^


He must have been looking in the more upscale areas, like Farmington, or just the plain suburbs. In the "urban" areas its cheaper.

Nah, milk is about $3 here also. But one thing I remember about living out east in Penn., is beef tastes much better grown in the midwest. But fish tastes much fresher out east.
The neighbor had his house (twin of mine) appraised last year for $180K, but I think you could pick up one in town on a lot about the same for about $140 K.

Yeah, gas was back down a dime to $2.84 today also. I preferred the acreage to a larger house when I shopped this house. And I always wanted a ranch where you can pull in the garage and walk right into the kitchen. It just seems so much nicer that way. I hated the old house where you had to climb up 13 stairs just to get in the main house. 
Especially right after work. Seemed like 30. 

Yeah that would bite "10 miles to the gallon". But fuel should go down with a new Pres. (hopefully a non party (Rep. or Dem.) Sorry, I forgot the word for it. 

My gut says it will be a Dem.
But the only reason it would be losers, would be mainly the other parties would not play nice. And he would have to have some real brass to himself. He would not be held to
I guess I should be glad it will not be a woman. (sorry ladies) 

And hopefully no one affiliated with oil. *says long prayer*

I whole-heartedly agree with all of the above. Maybe Bush will fall victim to the 0 curse (I don't remember what its actually called.) Every president who has been elected in 0 year (1960 for example) has died in office, even if it was just technically- I think it was Regan that was dead for like 11 minutes before being resuscitated. Heres hoping...