davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

Well, either the crew broke something, or they think they deserve a new toy tool 

The photos sure do make it look like a nice remote location.  Just how the realtors do it -- framed so you don't see the neighbour's house too close.

Prices everywhere seem to have gone insane.  I hear a lot about unaffordability in Canada too, and how so many people will just never be able to afford a house.  Then I look at the BC real estate group with all the ridiculously priced property and there seem to be quite a few interested parties asking for more information.  Are they just all mortgaging to the hilt or are they rolling in money?

Or Janie has an even bigger than usual project in mind for which the current tool arsenal is inadequate.

At least there are no immediately adjacent neighbors, other than the relative who purchased the adjoining lot and who started constructing the large yurt-like building with a metal roof that is now, of course, visible from here. Annoying thing is, he decided to abandon the project after getting the zoning changed to commercial, so now there's a half-finished building that I can see, and the property is now for sale with commercial zoning. The real estate listing waxes poetic about all the opportunity to build! Build! Build!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7510-...6834_zpid/

I really wanna go burn the thing down.

I bought a lottery ticket because that's the only way I'll be able to afford to move.

There seem to be a few people with so much money they can't even spend it all, and then there are the rest of us. Of the houses I can see across the river, most of them showed no signs of life this past summer... which is fine by me. They are mostly part-time residents, and when they are using the houses they have all kinds of bright outdoor lights lit up. Because, y'know, hey, let's move to one of the last "dark sky" areas of the country and LIGHT IT THE EFF UP! Honest to gosh, I wanna buy a long-range rifle and shoot their lights out! This season I didn't have to fret about it, as there were probably only a dozen nights over the course of the summer where there were any signs of life or light.

Anyway, apparently a lot of people are able to buy second or third or more houses as investments or just as "something to do with all that money." And there are enough of those people that they can drive up the prices of anything interesting or decent.

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17 October - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"Wait a minnit! The weather was sunny and seventy degrees* yesterday!"

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* 70˚ F = 21˚ C