Thursday, December 18, 2008

This amused me for a minute

So, Ash and i are looking for a house for sale in this area. Something cheap but endearing and in a good neighborhood, just like Toby's mom. What i have discovered, or maybe what i knew all along but would not recognize, is that jacksonville is still suffering from the price inflation of the housing bubble and even in areas that are not so severely affected, the prices there were too high for us before the bubble or are too far away from where she and i want to live. in short, these past few days have been demoralizing and frustrating. It sucks having Watson Realty's Listingbook web service tell us that all that student loan debt still matters for dick, and that we are still just poor enough to live in the ghetto. and then i found this link. If you can't see a house with an overgrown lawn, google 3926 Ruby Dr W 32246 and go to street view. What cheered me up a bit was that not only did the house look far worse under the harsh light of Google street than it did on Watson's site, but that this photo also shows three people gathered around an abandoned car off to the side in the front yard. Nothing says modern Florida like a gang of yokels clustered around the rusting and rotting wreck of a Chevy Nova, bullshitting about Nascar and Beechnut chewing tobacco. I had my doubts about the area, but now i want to buy the house there just to see what the neighborhood is like on the night of the Firecracker 400, this famous July 4th Nascar race, which i think was recently renamed the Summers Eve "Smells Like the Beach" Douche Championship.

I hate this town, and i want to infect most of the people here with the viral equivalent of a comma splice.

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