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Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kat - Oct 14, 2017 5:15:53 pm PDT #17747 of 30002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Jesse, I'm sorry about your dad. It's so hard.

I've also found almost 9 acres of land in Austin that we could easily build 30+ houses on. The land cost would be less than $50K per person and then we'd have to build the houses.

And they could be 3D printed Minka houses.


Atropa - Oct 14, 2017 5:19:16 pm PDT #17748 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Jesse, I'm so sorry.

Cat toys are an excellent distraction.


msbelle - Oct 14, 2017 5:24:41 pm PDT #17749 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

sara, I added a link to a house. Wasbash on the Eastern border, Callaway on the Western.


msbelle - Oct 14, 2017 5:30:16 pm PDT #17750 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Those Minka houses are cool, but $500K+ for 900 sqft? nah.


Atropa - Oct 14, 2017 5:33:42 pm PDT #17751 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

What are people's favorite sites for grabbing audio from a YouTube video? All of the ones I used to use no longer exist, and the artist doesn't have the song available on their site or Bandcamp.


msbelle - Oct 14, 2017 5:38:42 pm PDT #17752 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I think this is what I have done Jilli

[link]


sarameg - Oct 14, 2017 5:50:21 pm PDT #17753 of 30002

Oh, I think that's Ashburton [link]

Don't know it well, just know nice big houses and that it's a place a lotta the rising upper and middle classes of black folk put down roots in 50s and 60s , leveraging what they could of blockbusting & white flight. Used to share a USPS, ran into former mayor a lot. Some pretty little neighborhoods tucked next to sadly abandoned former grand ones.

Baltimore is tough and merciless and demanding.


sarameg - Oct 14, 2017 6:06:31 pm PDT #17754 of 30002

Also (and I've just heard this said, so take with a grain of salt) is that the primary issue facing it is the aging population and not a lot of replacing generations to keep it up. Lakeside, my sister community, compares itself a lot to Ashburton (the AfAm middle class community established itself there because proximity to Morgan) and one of the big tensions is between older homeowners and crappy landlords who come in as older established residents move out/die. Being Morgan is so close, turns into college housing and a whole other ball of fusses.


msbelle - Oct 14, 2017 6:07:32 pm PDT #17755 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Well I love the house I linked to and then this semi-detached has the whole basement thing I want as a studio apt. [link]

Oh hahaha I was thinking of the houses around FEDERAL HILL park, not DRUID HILL park. So not AT ALL the same.


sarameg - Oct 14, 2017 6:47:20 pm PDT #17756 of 30002

Oh yeah, no. Federal Hill is late gentrification yuppie/wypipl central.

Honestly, wish I'd gotten to know Ashburton better when I lived near, but it's all residential and off my routes. Ten Hills is another place that was near me I'd never heard of.

Until the schools get unfucked up, not sure how some of these inburbs will flourish. They're built for families, but even at those prices, schools are such a crapshoot, if you have barely the money, people take the county over the private tuition and uncertainty of the city.