I'm the new <del>@ben_lubar</del><ins>housing discussion</ins>?
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[img]http://www.speedtest.pl/test/109125244[/img]
At least my ping isn't half bad.
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Are they using RFC 2549?
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I wish I did!
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That's pretty bad. My piss stream has more bandwidth than that.
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Link is broken for me
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But how much jitter does your line have?!
@izzion
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No, that's more high-latency than low-bandwidth.
Don't underestimate the throughput of a station car full of tapes going down the highway
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No, that's more high-latency than low-bandwidth.
Don't underestimate the throughput of a station car full of tapes going down the highway
Depends. If they're running into RPL then it's also low bandwidth :p
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Saint Elisabeth of Revelation seems to make a lousy internet provider.
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Yep. Too bad my parents signed 2 year contract.
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Probably time to move out of your parents' basement.
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It's more expensive to have two houses than it is to have one.
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Very true. I am painfully reminded of that every time I make an alimony payment.
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Your image is broken. I assume that's also part of the @ben_lubar experience?
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Not work. On mobile. Stupid O2. I'm blaming the Spanish.
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It's more expensive to have two houses than it is to have one.
Wouldn't that depend on the relative size of the houses?
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Very true. I am painfully reminded of that every time I make an alimony payment.
We got married in Sonoma, CA. I told her the only way I would agree to it is if that wouldn't make me liable for alimony. ;-)
An old guy that worked with me back in the day once told me, "I have been married 30 years. If I had killed her instead of marrying her, I would be a free man by now."
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That's pretty bad. My piss stream has more bandwidth than that.
But how much jitter does your line have?!
This would have been a much better way for the conversation to have went...
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This would have been a much better way for the conversation to have
wentgone...
;)
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You've probably already seen them, but they bear the repetition.
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I guess they have to invent a new rank lower than F- for @Gaska.
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G for @Gaska!
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Why is your avatar Flo?
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Wouldn't that depend on the relative size of the houses?
Smaller house usually means greater cost per m2. Also, two fridges cost more to fill up than one fridge, you use up more electricity and water, and you have to pay for internet twice. So all in all, one big house is cheaper than two that are together as big as the first one.
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Smaller house usually means greater cost per m2.
Only if everything else is equal, which it never is.
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What do you mean by "everything else" exactly?
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It's real estate, so:
Location, location, location.
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Of course location can make tenfold difference. I was speaking of houses in the same location, because any other comparison doesn't make sense.
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http://www.explosm.net/comics/2195/
That third one makes so much more sense with the others as context...
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Smaller house usually means greater cost per m2.
Well, yes. But I bet you one 6,000 sq ft house is likely to be more expensive than 2 1,500 sq ft houses, assuming the same land cost, type of construction materials, and so on. (As in, we're talking probably half a million dollars vs maybe half that, where I live).
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But I bet you one 6,000 sq ft house is likely to be more expensive than 2 1,500 sq ft houses
Where does a 3k sq ft house come in? (Apart from being half a 6k and twice a 1k5.)
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Where does a 3k sq ft house come in? (Apart from being half a 6k and twice a 1k5.)
Got me. It would depend on a bunch of things.
I happen to know someone who was going to build a 6K sq ft house a few years ago, and that it was going to cost about $650K, and I happen to know that in Dallas, your average 1500 sq ft house (i.e., not super fancy or in an overly-expensive part of town) is probably going to cost about $100-150K.
There's a set of townhomes close to where I work that IIRC are in the 2000-2500 sq ft range and are selling for about $250K. Actually I just looked that place up, and there's an optimist: A house that two years ago was assessed at $240K, last year for $280K, and the owner's trying to sell it for $350K. Good luck.
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6,000 sq ft
Mother of fuck, you could build a city in there.
My last apartment was like 200sqft, and it was good enough for two people.
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A house that two years ago was assessed at $240K, last year for $280K, and the owner's trying to sell it for $350K.
At that rate of growth, he might get it in 6–12 months.
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I would love 6,000 square feet. I'm a bit claustrophobic though and love wide open spaces.
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Mother of fuck, you could build a city in there.
I thought it was crazy myself, since he only had 4 people planning to live there. But he also had a dozen parrots (actually macaws and cockatoos) and he had a couple of large rooms dedicated to the birds. He runs a bird rescue.
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At that rate of growth, he might get it in 6–12 months.
Maybe. I think he's being optimistic, though. That development took several years to build out, and I went by it every day, and I watched the pre-sale prices go from "from the $260s (or maybe 280s, I can't remember)" to "from the 240s".
While Dallas prices are going up because so many people are moving to Texas (2br apartments have gone up a couple of hundred dollars in the last 3 years or so) I'm pretty sure the market hasn't gone that high.
A couple of blocks away there's a 1-story row house, 3400 sq ft, listed for $275K.
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Well, yes. But I bet you one 6,000 sq ft house is likely to be more expensive than 2 1,500 sq ft houses, assuming the same land cost, type of construction materials, and so on.
Oh, yeah, another obviousity I forgot to mention - less living space costs less!I happen to know someone who was going to build a 6K sq ft house a few years ago, and that it was going to cost about $650K, and I happen to know that in Dallas, your average 1500 sq ft house (i.e., not super fancy or in an overly-expensive part of town) is probably going to cost about $100-150K.
First, localization. You didn't say where the first house is, so I'm assuming not Dallas. This makes your comparison bullshit.Second, if that 150m2 shed isn't fancy, that makes for doubly bullshit comparison, because that 600m2 palace is surely fancy as hell.
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First, localization. You didn't say where the first house is, so I'm assuming not Dallas. This makes your comparison bullshit.
Small house: Wylie, TX. Large one: Prosper, TX. Neither are particularly cheap places, but they are fairly similar in pricing, since both are on the northern edge of the metro area and lots of people want to live there.
But just for you I went to Zillow and looked up multiple houses in Wylie. Right off I found a ~1500 sq ft for $160K and a couple of ~3900 sq fts for ~$420K. 2*160 < 420. QED.
I never said "two smaller houses with a total footage equivalent to the big one".
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Second, if that 150m2 shed isn't fancy, that makes for doubly bullshit comparison, because that 600m2 palace is surely fancy as hell.
To the extent that the bigger one was fancier, it was due to relatively cheap upgrades: crown molding on the ceiling, textured painting on the walls, more wood highlights.
the example I just gave in my previous post, I forgot to say the houses I picked were within a mile or so of each other, in neighboring subdivisions, and are, broadly speaking, of similar quality: that is to say, construction costs fairly close to $100/sq ft. I didn't cherry-pick the nicest in town to compare to a meth den.
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OK, so it's farly fair comparison. It's not always true that bigger house is cheaper than more small houses. But it often is, and living itself is always cheaper when everyone is in one place.
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I guess they have to invent a new rank lower than F-
We have G grades in our country. And that's still technically a pass.
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It's not always true that bigger house is cheaper than more small houses.
No, that's true. I was
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Well, I stole your face!
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It's not always true that bigger house is cheaper than more small houses.
The nature of the differential will vary quite a bit from place to place; real estate is very sensitive to location. What's more, it's worth what people can get for it, and many sellers are not a huge hurry to sell right now as interest rates on secured loans are still very low.
Cyanide & Happiness (Explosm.net)
