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[dday9]

I want to buy some land to build a house on but the price of land has skyrocketed in the last 10 years.

[dday9]

The only land that I can find is too close to the gulf and in outrageously rated flood zones

[Shaggy Hiker]

I would ask "did you have a childhood" but I forget how much older most of the members are to me.

Yeah, everybody I know who saw that movie saw it with their kids.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The only land that I can find is too close to the guff and in outrageously rated raccoon zones

Yeah, he does that to people.

Try buying in a different state.

[szlamany]

Buy a really beat up house and tear it down / renovate it?

[Shaggy Hiker]

By the way, what is land going for down there in $/acre?

I was looking at a parcel of about 20 acres in northern Idaho for around 2K/acre, but now it looks like prices have jumped up to around 5k/acre for undeveloped land. I'm not really thinking of buying any, though, because I wouldn't be able to do anything with it....other than watch it burn, occasionally.

[szlamany]

My boys were just an excuse to go see what computer hardware company Pixar just created with Disney.

Toy Story was a game changer in animation...

[Gruff]

The only land that I can find is too close to the guff and in outrageously rated raccoon zones

Some people have delightfully fuzzy and perfect ears. Others have a huge gulf between them.

[dday9]

By the way, what is land going for down there in $/acre?

I was looking at a parcel of about 20 acres in northern Idaho for around 2K/acre, but now it looks like prices have jumped up to around 5k/acre for undeveloped land. I'm not really thinking of buying any, though, because I wouldn't be able to do anything with it....other than watch it burn, occasionally.

If you're in town its about $20,000 an acre, if you're South of town then its about $5,000 an acre(bad flood zones), and if you're North of town then its about $10,000 an acre.

[dday9]

What's crazy is when my parents bought land north of town in 1998, they bought 3 acres for $5,000. Well 3 and 1/2 but it was an irregular lot that partially sat on wetlands.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That' a fair amount higher than I would have expected down there. However, I went looking again, and that isn't currently unreasonably high per acre in some parts of Idaho...in other parts, it would just be unreasonable to live there.

[homer13j]

If you're in town its about $20,000 an acre, if you're South of town then its about $5,000 an acre(bad flood zones), and if you're North of town then its about $10,000 an acre.

Come to Ohio. Land is pretty cheap here because... well, it's Ohio.

[dday9]

I've never been to Ohio, but the pictures you've posted here and on FB are gorgeous.

[dday9]

My best friend from childhood is from Ohio and I remember almost getting to go with him up there but... we were also very bad as children and I did something that prevented me from going...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Actually, I think that most of Ohio is really nice. I went to grad school at Miami University in Oxford, OH. It was a pretty nice, pastoral, setting with a fair amount of recreational opportunities for someone who likes to cover lots of distance. The hiking wasn't great, but the biking was excellent. There were some large state parks with good hiking/camping not too far distant, either. It's a good state.

[Gruff]

My folks were from the mid west. Iowa and Nebraska. They couldn't wait to move someplace else.

[szlamany]

I traveled all over the Midwest during the 1980's (for work) - I could not imagine moving away from the northeast for this area. Spent summers working in Chi-town - all over Ohio, Michigan - Missouri.

I live in CT and really like going into NYC for many different activities. Being close to ocean-like beaches - really important.

[dday9]

We have a beach on our lake, my wife's mamere calls it a "blake". Ocean-like.... not even close.

[FunkyDexter]

Miami University in Oxford, OH

Did they offer courses in Geography?

[dday9]

Yeah Miami University confused the heck out of me when I played as Akron in the NCAA games. I was expecting "The U"...

[FunkyDexter]

Not just that but, speaking as a Brit, Oxford is NOT in Ohio.

[dday9]

Its not?

[dday9]

Didn't some theoretical physicist go to some college o'er there?

[szlamany]

Just asking that question causes uncertainty...

[FunkyDexter]

Yep, best avoided on principle

[homer13j]

Not just that but, speaking as a Brit, Oxford is NOT in Ohio.

Oxford, Ohio
London, Ohio
Portsmouth, Ohio
Andover, Ohio
Plymouth, Ohio
Bristol, Ohio
Brentwood, Ohio
Winchester, Ohio
Newport, Ohio
Manchester, Ohio
Sheffield, Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio

And probably a whole bunch more...

[Gruff]

Oxford Oregon. Named after the ox that went wading.
Gooseneck Oregon. necking capital of the NorthWest.
Boring Oregon. Well....

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oxford OH is probably about as pretentious as Oxford Ol' England. Nice town, though.

I have a commentary about some towns across the border in Indiana, but it's an auditory story that doesn't work well written. Basically, I realized that I couldn't talk about either Milan or Versailles, because the locals pronounced those words so differently that they didn't even know where I was talking about.

[Gruff]

I never cared for Lima Peru. After all it's where the beans come from right?

[dday9]

I lived in Jeffersonville, IN after Hurricane Rita. I remember going on a boy scout trip with the troop up there and getting hammered right before a hunted house attraction.

[Gruff]

You only find hunted house while house hunting.

[Gruff]

Sweet potato head Popeye says. "I yam what I yam."

[dday9]

Sweet potatoes? Yuk yuk yuk.

[homer13j]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Oxford, Ohio
London, Ohio
Portsmouth, Ohio
Andover, Ohio
Plymouth, Ohio
Bristol, Ohio
Brentwood, Ohio
Winchester, Ohio
Newport, Ohio
Manchester, Ohio
Sheffield, Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio

Wow talk about name theft on a grand scale!, everyone of those places is a place in the UK (although i had to look up Andover as its some tiny place no-one has ever heard of)

At least New Orleans, New York and New Jersey had the decency to put "New" at the beginning of there names

[FunkyDexter]

Andover's just up the road from me. I used to contract for the MOD at the army HQ there. Decent place to work. Socialising... not so much.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

okay okay some tiny place only FD has ever heard of ( happy now )

Decent place to work. Socialising... not so much.

I went to University in Sheffield and i could say the exact opposite, great place to socialise, but no jobs !!

[szlamany]

Wow talk about name theft on a grand scale!, everyone of those places is a place in the UK (although i had to look up Andover as its some tiny place no-one has ever heard of)

At least New Orleans, New York and New Jersey had the decency to put "New" at the beginning of there names

Wasn't it the less then creative British settlers that picked those boring names?

I live in Connecticut - a native American word celebrating Long Island sound...

[edit] I guess the middle of Ohio doesn't have all that much to celebrate - corn is corn is corn... [/edit]

[szlamany]

Jay Leno came from Andover, Mass...

Best roast beef sandwiches can be found in North Andover...

Which like most Mass words have odd pronunciations - it's "Nor-thand'-over".

Worchester is "Woossss-ter"...

How do you Brits pronounce the place name Worchester?

[szlamany]

I was born in Queens, NY - I'm not even sure what Queen was Queen when that was named...