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   >   >> Horton's in Kingston, and you want to buy that place. How would you ever   
   > af   
   >   >> it? And that is the cheapest home in the whole city.   
      
   > Our minimum wage here is now $17.20 an hour.. does that help?   B)   
      
   Probably means that the cost of living has also gone up, right?  ;)   
      
   > MP>I hate to tell you this, but if you work at Tim Horton's in a US city (or   
   >   >IHOP or McDonald's or wherever), you probably are not going to be able to   
   >   >afford the cheapest home in your own city, either.  Certainly not one that   
   >   >is not in a run-down, likely crime-ridden part of town.   
      
   > There's no question housing is out of control at the moment but we have   
   > an election coming up and they are all planning (?) to do something   
   > about housing prices. Have to wait and see..   
      
   If it is like here, they will waste a bunch of time renaming stuff and   
   pissing off their neighbors, which will make the rabidly loyal happy enough   
   that they won't notice that Rome is still burning.   
      
   > Those of us who were already owners can sit back and reap the rewards   
   > I suppose, as long as you're not planning on moving to a bigger place   
   > or to a bigger city.   
      
   True. Neither of those is currently on my bingo card.   
      
   > Now, another 18 years later, a recent estimate of value I got last   
   > summer from a property manager in the area said our property here   
   > is now worth roughly $1.2 million, even though the buildings on it,   
   > being small and old, are virtually worthless.   
      
   > Isn't real estate fun?    B)   
      
   Yes, it is!  The house I am in now originally sold (IIRC, in 1968) for   
   $16,000.  Needless to say, I paid a whole lot more for it in the 2000s.  ;)   
      
   Mike   
      
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