I'm not surprised, Aimee. The apt. the GF and I lived in went from $800 to $1450 in the space of 3 years. I'm sure it's renting for more than the $1450 at this point, too.
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I told you guys about apartment searching in London, right? We looked up what we thought was our monthly mortgage payment converted to pounds. Found some VERY SMALL (600 sq. ft) flats that we might have wanted. Then we noticed the rates were WEEKLY. I'm scared to think of what the ones we could have afforded looked like.
4 times our mortgage with roughly a third of the square footage. Needless to say, we stopped considering London as an option.
Wow, that's nice. But would you have the same income in Michigan?
Probably.
Tempting, then.
(eta: aside from the whole Winter issue. Another thing that is beyond my ken)
Sometimes, I really really wonder what the heck I am still doing here.
Yay for Sophia.
Those are some cute houses. I love the Craftsman one.
What we pay for this three-bedroom condo outside of Philly is outrageous. It's a great town, with good schools, and it's very pretty, but the rent is eating us alive, starting with our bottoms.