Comments | jennythe_reader: Home Sweet Home

jennythe_reader

Home Sweet Home

Mar 17, 2008 16:26

You can buy houses in the nicest parts of East Lansing for about the same as you'd pay in middling to bad neighborhoods in Albany.

Edit: We have no current plans to leave the Albany area.

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purpura March 17 2008, 20:36:20 UTC

You make me weep. A lot.

jennythe_reader March 17 2008, 20:38:39 UTC

Why?

purpura March 17 2008, 20:42:06 UTC

How much we paid for our home... compared to those houses!

Le sigh.

Price one pays to live where we live, I guess.

jennythe_reader March 17 2008, 20:50:24 UTC

Yeah... I think you guys get some good stuff in exchange for the cost.

As for EL, the very first house listed (when I first looked at least) is in Whitehills - the most well-to-do part of town. Houses in Tom's & my current neighborhood are around that price, or even more if they're on a side street instead of on Washington.

Sad.

uncacreamy March 17 2008, 22:20:38 UTC

Those are the upper middle prices in Buffalo.

jennythe_reader March 17 2008, 22:24:04 UTC

Hee. It's the halfway point both geographically and economically.

(I'm somewhat easily amused.)

uncacreamy March 17 2008, 22:29:12 UTC

Though these houses are very nice. I'm sad. I want a house. My sister lives in ALbany! In a gorgeous house!

dwarven_brewer March 17 2008, 23:22:07 UTC

It's always good to know I can always sell my home and buy something cheaper in East Lansing, MI.

jennythe_reader March 17 2008, 23:59:12 UTC

In general the cost of living in the mid-west is less than it is here in New York, but you need to keep in mind that part of the reason for that is that the economy in Michigan and the other industrial states is pretty rocky. With the state's economy so heavily dependent on the car industry, the Big Three's troubles become the state's troubles.

dwarven_brewer March 18 2008, 13:36:21 UTC

Which is one reason I'm staying where I am. :)

EL and the Economy anonymous March 20 2008, 01:47:41 UTC

Yup, some parts of MI are in tuff shape. EL tho is remarkably good. Housing prices are stagnant, not dropping. We are getting investment in the downtown. And we have a number of small, hi-tec business in the region that are poised to do well. Don't forget,we have a Big Ten university here, the premier landgrant institution in the country, top education college, top vet school, top Labor & HR program, etc. The Wharton Center for the Performing Arts is the largest venue for Broadway musicals outside NYC. And, just down the road in Lansing is the state capital. We are never more than 100 miles from a great lake. The only thing we lack is a mountain.

Here is a site that touts some of the good things happening in the area: http://www.capitalgainsmedia.com/

Enjoy!!!
Dad

Re: EL and the Economy jennythe_reader March 20 2008, 03:12:13 UTC

I knew all of that. :-) Although, I thought it was "never more than 80 miles from a Great Lake," not 100.

I've said it before, East Lansing is the most cosmopolitan small town in the country. Who needs mountains? I've been out here almost 9 years now, and real mountains still feel vaguely unnatural to me.