1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Albuquerque, New Mexico, the place where Bugs bunny always takes a wrong turn... seems like lots of things take a wrong turn there actually judging by the general crime rate

 

Florida is getting it bad

 

Seriously, first Helene and now this merely days later...two record setting Hurricanes back to back. Crazy. Any regulars in here from FL?

 

I don't think anyone is actually... my family is mostly down there though. Everyone is hunkered down for the next twoish days at least

 

ah, I see.

idk last move I tried to make the now wife shut down.

she is right in that I really need to rush and finish a few projects and then seriously look to move with finished toys not wip

 

You could move to another equally exciting state, I hear property in Gary, Indiana hits a new all time low everyday!

 

I would say Chicagoland doesn't suck lol

 

Speaking of moving, we are going to be buying a house by the end of the year. The house we've been renting since 2018, our landlord decided he needs to sell by the first of the year. So it begins....well, it's already begun as we found this out a couple weeks ago.

We have pre-approval on a home loan through USAA but are working with a broker to get a second more detailed approval. Going back and forth on whether or not we want to just buy this house, though it's too small (2 bedroom, we need 3). But it would give us the guest house in the back that he currently rents out separately.

Issue there though is that guest house is a garage conversion done 40 years ago without any city permits/approval and could be a big headache later on. Not to mention it's not exactly an ideal setup to have the 3rd bedroom we'd need being outside the main house.

Anyway we're looking all over the area and have our sights on some options. Gonna be a crazy next couple months though especially with the holidays and this going down

 

Sometimes a kick in the pants to get started is good, but I don't envy buying in Southern CA market. I wish you all the luck

 

I've seen some info on that project, they've being doing it for like 50 years now, the more domesticated the foxes become the more colorful the fur coats become. Foxes are freaking cool.

I had a racoon in my driveway again around 5am this morning. When we first moved we had a fox pause right in the middle of the driveway, looked up at the security camera and took a shit it was hilarious.

 

that entire west coast market terrifies me

 

Thanks, yeah it is spicy. Especially in our area. We don't want to have to make Sofia switch schools if we can help it so looking to stay somewhat in the same vicinity, but I'll likely be giving myself more of a commute to broaden our search in less crazy priced areas. Considering I live about 10 min from work now I've been very spoiled there

 

Yeah it is definitely harder to buy where people actually want to live

 

we have had a massive influx in Lex actually, home values nearly doubled during covid and after to the point where I would question if I could afford to buy my own home now!

 

Well there's always Iowa... or West Virginia.... could live like a king. As long as you can work remote

 

well west virginia was the place I wanted to move lol.

as I look at the market, my house would be a few million in socal or seattle area, meanwhile a million dollar house near me is pretty nice lol

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/122-5-Summeridge-Rd-Georgetown-KY-40324/439877221_zpid/

 

I wouldn't have been able to buy the house Im in now if I waited another 9 months even without the hike in interest rates that followed.

 

christ that would be a $3+ million dollar house easily out here lol. damn.

 

Damn I should have opened that Zillow link on an incognito browser, now Zillow is going to keep suggesting I look at listings in Kentucky

 

Zane is secretly jealous, its actually pretty nice.