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In NJ, that's a $500,000 - $700,000 house. Easily.

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fun fun.

I have no idea what that house would go for around here. The town I live in is a little higher than the rest of the area, but I'd say around $300k-$400k
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Oxford is about as expensive as London. Our house is 5m wide (about 13'6") and about twice as deep. It's in a block of 4 side by side (touching) and has 4 bed rooms over three floors. The one next door to us sold last year for £535,000 (at the time that would be $1,070,000).
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IanKennedy wrote:Oxford is about as expensive as London. Our house is 5m wide (about 13'6") and about twice as deep. It's in a block of 4 side by side (touching) and has 4 bed rooms over three floors. The one next door to us sold last year for £535,000 (at the time that would be $1,070,000).
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My house is the largest in the street, due to a small extension to the whole of the bottom floor front, and a large extension to an area of the bottom floor rear. Its a two bedroom house, end of terrace, 1960's build with good sized garden and good sized rooms in general.

£136,500 we payed. so bout $199,879. So to 200K in american dollars for a house thats probably 2 three times smaller than that.
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My house is about 1600 sq. ft. living area, plus a 2-1/2 car garage, two-story, four BR, jacuzzi in master bath, on a 100' x 150' corner lot. Central air, gas forced heat. At 11 years old (in 2000) I bought it for $170,000. It would list at about $350,000 today - and I'm not directly on the water.
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Funny I dont know the size of our house, its 3 bedrooms. But the property is 676 square meters.
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Well gang, I've started training for the new job today, and I sure as hell hope that the money is worth it. I can see getting REALLY bored, REALLY fast sitting in a cubical all day booking appointments all day. First thing they did was cut my scheduled overtime, and cut my hourly a buck an hour, so I'll be working mostly for the end of the month incentives, I guess.
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Mark wrote:Well gang, I've started training for the new job today, and I sure as hell hope that the money is worth it. I can see getting REALLY bored, REALLY fast sitting in a cubical all day booking appointments all day. First thing they did was cut my scheduled overtime, and cut my hourly a buck an hour, so I'll be working mostly for the end of the month incentives, I guess.
That's only until you're done training, right? :?

The house looked even better in person, BTW. :wink:
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Teaos wrote:Funny I dont know the size of our house, its 3 bedrooms. But the property is 676 square meters.
Square footage is not a common measurement here, in fact I've never seen one quoted. However, I'd say that ours must be about 5m x say 15m x 3 floors = 225m2, It's got four bedrooms, two with en-suite shower rooms, a family bathroom, and a toilet on the ground floor. A large kitchen diner, conservatory and built in garage. The living room is about 13.5 foot (5m) x 13.5 foot (5m) L shaped.
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IanKennedy wrote:
Teaos wrote:Funny I dont know the size of our house, its 3 bedrooms. But the property is 676 square meters.
Square footage is not a common measurement here, in fact I've never seen one quoted. However, I'd say that ours must be about 5m x say 15m x 3 floors = 225m2, It's got four bedrooms, two with en-suite shower rooms, a family bathroom, and a toilet on the ground floor. A large kitchen diner, conservatory and built in garage. The living room is about 13.5 foot (5m) x 13.5 foot (5m) L shaped.
Well, I imagine space is at somewhat of a premium over there, it being an island and all. This is Texas; we're bigger than most countries. :lol:
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:lol:

Ian, didn't you multiply volume?
Ian wrote:Square footage is not a common measurement here, in fact I've never seen one quoted. However, I'd say that ours must be about 5m x say 15m x 3 floors = 225m2
shouldn't 5x15x3=225m3
Mark wrote:Well gang, I've started training for the new job today, and I sure as hell hope that the money is worth it. I can see getting REALLY bored, REALLY fast sitting in a cubical all day booking appointments all day. First thing they did was cut my scheduled overtime, and cut my hourly a buck an hour, so I'll be working mostly for the end of the month incentives, I guess.
I thought you said that you got a MORE money doint this job?
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Wow. Surprise twist. My dad (who I haven't heard from in four years or so) called my uncle today and left a number. I called back, and left my number with a friend of his.

I really don't need this crap right now, but honestly, I'm interested to see what he has to say. :?
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The cynic in me says he may have heard about your recent good fortune. But I dont know anything to judge.

I would have thought if he wanted to gt back in touch he would have done so before Christmas.
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Teaos wrote:The cynic in me says he may have heard about your recent good fortune. But I dont know anything to judge.

I would have thought if he wanted to gt back in touch he would have done so before Christmas.
No chance he could've heard about this; pure coincidence. Unless he's a member... :worried:

As for the other part, the guy can't remember the order of months of the year; he probably thinks my birthday is coming up. :roll:
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