Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ...

2012-05-15 Thread Mitch Haley
Scott Ritchey wrote: I met a New Yorker at an airport once who paid more for his parking space than for his apartment. Or so he said. Probably more square feet in the parking space. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to

Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ...

2012-05-15 Thread Gerry Archer
Scott Ritchey wrote: I met a New Yorker at an airport once who paid more for his parking space than for his apartment. Or so he said. Probably more square feet in the parking space. Mitch. One of my grandsons just out of college is working in New York and living in half a bedroom. It

Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ...

2012-05-15 Thread Brian Toscano
One of the nice things about the Northeast, referred to earlier as diversity is that there are ethnic neighborhoods. Some date back to the early 20th century, where Italians, Germans, or Polish residents first settled. Some more suburban communities that were once mixed are now mostly populated

Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ...

2012-05-15 Thread Dan Penoff
Milwaukee has a plethora of ethnic neighborhoods that are still very much intact. We actually made a little wheel that you could spin with the various ethnicities to decide where we might go out to eat in the evenings. Dan former Cheesehead On May 15, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Brian Toscano wrote:

Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ...

2012-05-15 Thread Rich Thomas
Boston is the most ethnicist (which includes racist) place I have ever been, even compared to here in the deep South. Even the black Haitian neighbors in Dawchesta (that would Dorchester to you uninitiated) disliked the longer-term AAs up the street (and referred to them by the nword, which

Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ...

2012-05-14 Thread Scott Ritchey
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Yet another question about what it's like to live invarious parts of the country ... Why would you pay 5x to live in Manhattan and commute to NJ? Thats the opposite of sense. Unless they had somehow picked up a rent controlled apartment with parking but those are so rare