!Jayzuz!!! Just look at the INSANE prices for houses in our old neighborhood! Just a few lots down the street from our place: $1.3 MILLION.
We paid 30 grand for our house there — the first home we co-owned with a bank — and thought that was just outrageous. Lookit that, for 1900 square feet! Our house was 3,300 square feet…
These shacks are all within walking distance of our old house:
- 345 West Wilshire
- 1004 South Montezuma (this lot is in a slum!)
- 34 West Vernon (right around the corner from our house but undesirably close to the hectic North Central Avenue)
- 545 West Windsor (like so many shacks in that area: doesn’t even have a garage)
- Four hundred sixty-five grand for a two-bedroom apartment (!!)
- This is an aging office building. My first job was at this address. Can’t imagine living in it!
Good lord!!
Well, I guess I’m damn lucky to have this house up in a North Central district. And to have it paid off. By the time we’re ready to sell it, the thing will be worth enough to purchase the moon.
Actually, I hope I’m able to stay here until I croak over. Then M’jihito will get the house — and presumably the proceeds of its sale — which will allow him either to pay off his own house or to sell it and move into my paid-off shack. Or to move wherever he pleases.
Not sure he even wants to stay in the Phoenix area. He’s talked about moving back to Grand Junction, Colorado, whence his father emanated. It’s a little hickish for my taste…but if he could get this kind of money on the sale of my house and his, he could live like a king there.