Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of my friends moved to Zionsville just outside Indianapolis about 10 years ago. My son's house and garden would comfortably fit in his kitchen.... He sold a pretty cottage near Cambridge and his mansion in Zionsville was cheaper. FD On 29 Mar, 2012, at 09:03, Chris Crawford wrote: > You live in a city the size of Fort Wayne. We have 250,000 in the city and > 300,000 if you count the suburbs. The $30,000 houses are the part of town > where we have murders, shootings, drug gangs, etc...not a good area to > live in. A house in a middle class neighborhood is $90,000-$100,000. > $360,000 houses are in the very wealthy areas...that gets you a 6,000 > square foot house with 5 bedrooms here! > > Indiana is a good place to live if you have a decent job, because cost of > living is very low, but unfortunately, there are NO jobs for educated > people and the good paying blue-collar jobs have become very rare because > all our factories are in China now. > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > On 3/29/12 3:15 AM, "Gerry Walden" <gwpics at me.com> wrote: > >> With house prices that low it looks as though we should move to Indiana, >> but the trouble is that we would have to spend the money we make on the >> change of houses to pay for our medical needs. The thought of ANY house >> for $30,000 here is just unthinkable. I live in a city of a quarter of a >> million people, and I live in a pretty modest 3 bedroomed semi-detached >> house which is probably worth around the 360 to 400,000 dollar mark. >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> www.gwpics.com >> >> On 29 Mar 2012, at 07:22, Chris Crawford wrote: >> >>> It depends on where you are in the USA. In Florida, a lot of retirees >>> live >>> in them, and in places where housing is outrageously expensive, a lot of >>> middle class people live in them. I saw that a lot in New Mexico, >>> because >>> houses in the Santa Fe area started at $300,000 for a dump in the barrio >>> (the bad section of town) and averaged $600,000 for houses that middle >>> class people in Indiana buy less than $100,000. >>> >>> Here in Indiana, where housing is really cheap (you can buy a VERY nice >>> house for $90,000 here in Fort Wayne, and housing is cheaper in >>> Indiana's >>> small towns than it is here in the city!), only really trashy people >>> live >>> in trailers. People here refer to trailer parks as "The white man's >>> ghetto". The people who live in them are not necessarily poor, many are >>> not, but they are culturally low-class, if that makes sense. A lot of >>> rednecks who have good factory jobs or jobs as skilled tradesmen >>> (plumbers, electricians, etc) will live in a trailer and spend their >>> middle class wages on beer, cigarettes, and a bigass expensive pickup >>> truck. Most people in trailer parks are poor though, and generally >>> always >>> white. Poor blacks here live in houses in the inner city, which can >>> often >>> be bought for less than $30,000. >>> >>> -- >>> Chris Crawford >>> Fine Art Photography >>> Fort Wayne, Indiana >>> 260-437-8990 >>> >>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >>> >>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >>> Become a fan on Facebook >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/29/12 1:45 AM, "Gerry Walden" <gwpics at me.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting shot Chris, and it is always interesting to look at your >>>> locale. >>>> >>>> I get the impression that 'trailer parks' are considered the lowest of >>>> the low in the US when it comes to housing, whereas here in the UK they >>>> are quite often retirement settlements. In fact my wife and I have >>>> considered moving into a double trailer (i.e. about 20ft x 20ft) and >>>> selling our house as it would release a lot of capital to enable us to >>>> enjoy our retirement more. We still haven't totally ruled it out. >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> >>>> Gerry >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden >>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >>>> www.gwpics.com >>>> >>>> On 29 Mar 2012, at 05:31, Chris Crawford wrote: >>>> >>>>> Mayberry of Trailer Parks! Haha Thanks Ken! Actually the whole >>>>> Waynedale >>>>> area has kind of a Mayberry quality, but with more rednecks. Waynedale >>>>> used to be a small town, before it was absorbed by the growing city of >>>>> Fort Wayne in the late 1950s. Even though Waynedale has been part of >>>>> thecity now for more than 50 years (which is longer than the town was >>>>> independent!), it still looks and feels like a small rural town. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Chris Crawford >>>>> Fine Art Photography >>>>> Fort Wayne, Indiana >>>>> 260-437-8990 >>>>> >>>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >>>>> >>>>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! >>>>> >>>>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >>>>> Become a fan on Facebook >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 3/28/12 7:33 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 3/28/2012 5:53 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=987&category=1 >>>>>>> 3 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I shot this one yesterday evening. I find it amusing how many >>>>>>> trailer >>>>>>> parks >>>>>>> have the word "Estates" in their names! >>>>>>> >>>>>> That is excellent. It looks sort of like the Mayberry of trailer >>>>>> parks. You are getting your money's worth from the 5D MkII. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ken >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden >>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >>>> www.gwpics.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information