I'm sure the City must be a scary place for someone from Forrest
Hills
and the sticks. But you really ought to get out and about more to see
for yourself.


Sorry, Joe, I'm in NYC plenty and even though Rudy turned it partially
into a strip mall, there is still tons of garbage, homeless and worse
on the streets. Sirens still wail all night and the traffic density
makes breathing unhealthy. Living spaces are tiny, parks are filthy
and the sidewalk is a steaming mass of humananity in the ot summers.
This is why almost all of my friends moved out. The only ones who
didn't or childless. Beyond that I never cared for the city as a place
to live and I lived on the West side near the Museum of Natural
history for a while. Great apartment, great food, great theatre....but
now we have land, 2000 Sq feet of living space, two outdoor decks (one
partially enclosed, and the one thing that's just better for anyone
and everyone....some peace and quiet.


If I were so crass. I'd tell you how many of your little stick
houses
in the boondocks that "cubicle of an apartment" would buy. But I'm
not, so I won't. Hell, I expect most of our doormen could probably
buy
the house next to you if one of them wanted to.


LOL!!! My house was just under 400K with 2.5 acres. The land we closed
on nearby was 390K. Now that's not even cheap. Suzanne's sister lives
in a landmark house in PA. It's 22 rooms on 3 acres and cost just 200K
and is stunning. A tiny Manhattan cubucile may be expensive, but it's
not good quality of life. Now, we do know someone with a HUGE
apartment on the Eastside. It's a building that was not carved up and
her apartment has 5 bedrooms and I'd gamble that it's got as much room
as our house. Still no land, but it's a great place. Do you live in
one of those? She's paying 8K a month and she also has an Oscar on her
shelf. Of course she also has a lakefront house....and it's 20 minutes
from us!


So you make the two hour trek into the City and back, and you do it
to
watch a MOVIE????


Private screening of Spiderman 3 in a HD theatre (audience of less
than 100 people) with a great dinner served before and probably
meeting with one of the producers and maybe some of the actors. Yup,
we're going. Sounds like fun. We like movies.
Believe me, even living here we do more in the city than you do
because we have the resources. You don't. And don't even try to claim
that you do. As I have said, we have a friend in common and you're not
affording too many B'Way shows!

Sorry, Dave. You're outgunned worse than a shuttlecraft taking on the
Enterprise D!


RB
35s5
NY