On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: > On Monday 25 November 2002 11:22 am, Net Llama! wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: > <snip> > > > > > > Cool! My wife is from Newark and I like Manhattan a lot. I'm not > > > sure I could handle the winters or rusted cars but if I had the > > > money to live in Manhattan itself, who cares about a couple $K for > > > a new car once in awhile. > > > > Rusted cars?? Let's not get into stereotypes, ok? And living in > > Manhattan is prolly about as expensive as living in San Francisco. > > Jeeze, I don't know about that. We get the New York Times and I read > the real estate section. Seems pretty pricey for a little condo in > Manhattan. However, when you get out of the city and move out to > Conneticut [sp??] it looks a little better.
Connecticut can be a bit of a commute into the city (upwards of an hour by car). At any rate, NY & CA have the highest costs of living in the US. They've flip-flopped between #1 & 2 for quite some time. > > Granted, i like the weather out here alot more. 22 years in NY was > > enough cold winters for my taste. > > I wasn't trying to make a dig about the rusted cars thing, but my > impression is that they salt the roads and this takes a toll on cars. > However, my wife's parents have nice cars that don't exhibit such > problems so perhaps it is just a stereotype. > Now, let's see, what stereotypes can I find about Pittsburg?? ;-) > "I used to have a girlfriend whose parents lived in Pittsburg and . . > blah . . .blah . . . ." Pittsburgh is mostly alot of rednecks trying to be yuppies. And it snows there too. I was never fond of the 'burgh, can't say that i miss it a bit. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
