Oh yum. But how is salami cheaper than pickle??
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2005 4:29:25 pm PDT #2779 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
P.M. Marc - Jul 25, 2005 4:44:24 pm PDT #2780 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Is having a summer place some east coast thing? I swear, no one I knew around here had a summer place, but it seems like a lot of people in the online world have access to them, and I'm confused.
sumi - Jul 25, 2005 4:45:48 pm PDT #2781 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
In Illinois people have cabins in Minnesota or Wisconsin.
Amy - Jul 25, 2005 4:49:09 pm PDT #2782 of 10002
Because books.
In New Jersey, a lot of people (well, wealthy people) had houses down the shore. And some families had places in the Poconos.
They were the exception, rather than the rule, though, at least among my friends.
brenda m - Jul 25, 2005 4:50:20 pm PDT #2783 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In southern Ontario they have them in less-southern Ontario.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 4:50:30 pm PDT #2784 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In Quebec, people had places up north. I'm not quite sure I'm the sort of person who'd have a second home anywhere other than Jamaica without having CRAPLOADS of money.
Huh. Now that I've typed that ... I wonder how much modest not-on-the-beach property costs in Ja?
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 4:54:52 pm PDT #2785 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
brenda m - Jul 25, 2005 4:56:28 pm PDT #2786 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The thing with the cabins, though, and I'm guessing many of the places in Maine and even on the shore, is that they're not locations where many people would want to live year round. Many of them (for the Wisconsin/Ontario/etc. ones, anyway) don't have services year round like snow removal. So cost-wise, it's a lot more plausible for people without bags of money than it would be in more temperate climes.
DXMachina - Jul 25, 2005 4:56:51 pm PDT #2787 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
In New Jersey, a lot of people (well, wealthy people) had houses down the shore. And some families had places in the Poconos.
Yup, my parents bought land in the Poconos when I was a kid with an eye to doing just that. Never followed through, though.
Rhode Island does the shore thing, too. And Mass. has the Cape.
Amy - Jul 25, 2005 5:00:14 pm PDT #2788 of 10002
Because books.
And for a long time, in New Jersey, no one wanted to be at the shore. So some forward-looking beach-lovers bought shore places long before the prices skyrocketed. It's hard to even find a place to rent reasonably now, much less buy.
My favorite was a house right. on. the. beach. in Bayhead that friends of my parents bought when he retired from teaching math. It was a ramshackle basic Victorian, and it *was* before shore houses were fashionable, so they bought it cheap. It had at least five bedrooms, all with slatted *breeze* door and transoms, and the back ones had balconies overlooking the ocean. I loved that place. Oh, and they named it the Aftermath. They'd probably get close to a million for it now.