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I'm going over the Bay Bridge after work today. Dammit!
So, Bitches, I have yet another financial question. Should I buy a condo? My aunt and uncle think it's a good idea for me to buy a condo, live in it at least five years, and then sell it, as I would come out ahead, as opposed to throwing my money away in rent. The Bay Area housing market is guaranteed to pay off, they say.
"Ellie trapped in her carseat underwater" anxiety thoughts.
One of my worst nightmares. Honest to goodness. I dread the day we have to drive over the Mackinaw Bridge with her. t shudder
That's what my brother did. He bought a two-bedroom condo just out of college, split the cost with a roommate for a few years, then sold it and bought a house, using the equity he had built up. It worked very well for him.
I dread the day we have to drive over the Mackinaw Bridge with her.
We're not going to. I'ma build a submarine-car, we'll get the whole falling-under-the-water thing out of the way first thing and then travel.
The (Bay Area) Bay Bridge never bothered me (even driving on it fairly soon after the Loma Prieta earthquake) in the visceral way driving over the (Chesapeake) Bay Bridge does. It seems more protected. Less like you could just, you know, drive over the edge. Even though, I'm pretty sure, nobody has actually gone over the edge of the MD Bay Bridge. Even in bad accidents. It's irrational!
Hmmm, I think I may have just picked up even more work
Poor, busy NoiseBob
OMG, I have wheels!
?? I missed this? Can someone Nilly for me?
That's what my brother did. He bought a two-bedroom condo just out of college, split the cost with a roommate for a few years, then sold it and bought a house, using the equity he had built up. It worked very well for him.
Where was he, though? The cheapest condos around here that even look worth living in start at $300,000. Probably looking at closer to $400,000. (That's more than our house in Texas.)
I'm going to cling to my irrational conviction that all the quake retrofitting means even the scariest-looking of our local bridges and elevated highways (I'm thinking the 520 floating bridge and the Alaskan Way viaduct) are pretty sturdy unless I have the bad luck to be on one of them if/when we get the once-every-few-centuries earthquake-of-doom.
The (Bay Area) Bay Bridge never bothered me (even driving on it fairly soon after the Loma Prieta earthquake) in the visceral way driving over the (Chesapeake) Bay Bridge does. It seems more protected. Less like you could just, you know, drive over the edge. Even though, I'm pretty sure, nobody has actually gone over the edge of the MD Bay Bridge. Even in bad accidents. It's irrational!
I don't think anyone that hasn't driven west on the CBB bridge can quite understand it. Basically, there are no sides to the bridge in that direction, just two railings. The other direction has Jersey dividers. Since the bridge curves, there are places where, on the curve, it looks so easy to just drive straight off. I drove over that bridge every two weeks for the last two years. I thought about driving off every time. Every time.