Or this one with the cool basement bar near 3 of my fave restaurants, my grocery store, and the local fabric place. [link]

or this one down the street from Sarameg [link]

JenP what is the final happy ending to your long medical Odyssey?

JZ sends me about eight real estate listings a day, but in fairness I just sent her this place which is a perfect storm of price, location and vintage-detail: [link]

Real estate prices away from my Florida area are amazing to me. My (now NY) son is looking to buy a house here in central NY probably next year because you can easily find a 3/2 for about $85,000. He has to survive a winter here first. Anything near me less than $500,000 is either a tear down or in a terrible neighborhood. My son in FL moved about 90 minutes north of me to find a townhouse they could afford.

I'm watching the confirmation hearings in a 100% partisan method whereby I utilize my large time buffer to FF through all the GOP and listen to the Dems. I do not apologize. This is where I am at.

That is gorgeous, David.

So msbelle shows a 4/2.5 for $285K and David has a 3/1.25 for 1.2M. (1/4 bath??)

Where son lives a 5/2 with big garage for $79K [link]

The cheapest I can find within a few blocks of my house is an older 50s 3/2 for $765K [link]

I'm watching the confirmation hearings in a 100% partisan method whereby I utilize my large time buffer to FF through all the GOP and listen to the Dems. I do not apologize. This is where I am at.

Same.

This house is one block away from me. I can see it from my front window. 5/4.5 new house for 3.4M, sorry it is pending. [link]

Jen, does DP stand for "Dear Person" or something similar?

Dear Partner. I tried it out a few posts back and it stuck. Well, for me, anyway...

I'm glad everyone esle is into house porn, too! Which reminds me, I was just listening to a radio show where a kid called in a used the word "everypeople," which I like and want to start using. Very cute.

JenP what is the final happy ending to your long medical Odyssey?

The short version is: I have short gut syndrome now, but I can eat like a normal person (though gluten free now, as it turns out) with no IV or enteral nutrition necessary. Which is HUGE, because those things require picc lines and/or stomach tubes, and those were not fun in the least, though they are life saving.

Background: I had an incarcerated hernia, which they surgeried, but it turned out that there were issues with necrotic small intestines beyond that, requiring a week of surgeries for which I was, basically, drugged under and don't remember, resulting in a bunch of complications that led to a year of nine months out of twelve in the hospital with all kinds of tubes and shit (there's a lot involved in the "and shit" portion of that sentence, but "is too much; let me sum up").

Did I mention that everything turned out the unbelievably best that I could have hoped, and that my friends, family, and DP are awesome? The surgeon they finally referred me to was a miracle worker (or, incredibly skilled, perhaps?), fixed me right up and released me back into the wilds of people who can eat with their mouths March of 2020.

the wilds of people who can eat with their mouths

That's a good place to be! I'm glad it all turned out so well for you.