Ask and ye shall receive

[cornerofmadness]

I've been doing something on twitter 30 day pic thing of an idol and I've been balancing out the Prodigal Son's rabid fangirling of Tom Payne with a little Lou Diamond Phillips. I said if I had planned this better I would have finished on my upcoming birthday next week with an ask for Lou to friend me back as a birthday gift. Well he's been retweeting these posts and....



I swear he is such a sweet guy. Made my birthday right there.

Talked all morning about Mothman with a Pson friend (got me in the mood to write my It Came From the Trailer Park story)


The day went downhill from there. Nothing really bad happened. I got in a ton of writing (and posted that Buffyverse meta) but then I saw our gas went up 30 cents overnight. THis is horrible. What makes me angriest is a) I can't do a damn thing about it b) people THINK the president is responsible for pricing and we're already seeing the effects of this believe at the polls c) the GOP blocked anti price gouging measures (so they can make political hay of the pricing and I am sure if the GOP had suggested the measure the dems would have done the same because we no longer can work together on anything) This just put me in such an emotional tail spin.

I did go see an actual house in my price range. Dad said Dana I looked on GoogleEarth and you can hear the banjos. Yeah Dad that's true of this entire place but neither of us knew how bad this was. I was literally afraid. Ever get that Flight or FIght feeling, every nerve singing, your hind brain going RUN? Yeah that was this. I have seen countless rural poverty areas in my life especially here in Appalachia. This was the worst I've seen and I've seen people living in Amish-made sheds. Rusted out trailers, garbage piles higher than the trailers, dead cars three different sets of men fighting in the yard, the road wasn't as wide as my driveway. I did a three point turn in the middle of the road and gunned it the hell out of there. Yeah that's a nope.

spiffikins mentioned I've been house hunting a long time. Truth. Here's my issue, my student loans mean I can't afford what I really want. Also I can barely find what I really want. I don't want in town because the houses are SO close together (no lie, just looked at one where I could look at the room being shown off AND look straight into the neighbors and check their decor too) However out in the country 90% of what goes on sale (and isn't in a flood plain of which we have many) are doublewides. Here's my issue. Actually a lot of double wides are pretty nice (and with my health issues not a bad choice) BUT they do NOT age like a regular house. The stuff they're made of breaks down in just a few decades. All the ones I'm finding are 20+ years old so they're in the break down part of their life and they STILL want 180K+ for these things.

I don't get the house pricing here. It's WAY outside what people can afford. average salary here is under 30K. There is no one who can afford these places. Most people here can't even afford the rent on my apartment and I've put up with overcrowded neighbors where cops have to get called when it boils over. So what I'm looking for is outside the city but an actual house not a double wide. The search continues.


How about the reading meme?


What I Just Finished Reading:
Murder on the Mountain - a romance by a PoC Author for Popsugar (author is, characters are not the mystery/romance is forgettable)

Queen of Thieves: The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York by J. North Conway FINALLY FINISHED. It's not good, it feels like the first draft of someone's thesis.

What I am Currently Reading:


Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki STILL omg why I am having such issues with this



What I Plan to Read Next:

Either something for popsugar (almost done) or an R or Z book to finish off the alphabet.


declutter day 8 what left :Two painted rocks Why kept: Gift from mom, Went with the Asian themed room Why left: They came from a yard sale and Changing the theme

Comments

[spiffikins]

When I was starting to look at houses, my mom said "no mobile homes" - like you said - they don't have the same longevity as houses/condos. And also, at least in the mobile home "parks" - you may buy the home, but you are paying rent on the pad - and around here, the pad rents have been increasing to ridiculous amounts. The value just doesn't increase the same way, either.

So I can totally see why you would want to avoid those - even though some of the newer ones are really nice - the older ones are a potential money pit.

[under_the_silk_tree]

LDP always seems like such a sweet guy. I'm glad that he followed you that was awesome.

Sorry about the housing situation. We are also starting to look as the place we are in now we are going to have to leave in six months to a year. We have fingers crossed that prices start to get reasonable again because right now they are just about ridiculous.

[spikedluv]

That is so cool about the friending!

Yikes, that does sound scary! I'm glad you turned around and got out of there. Though it sucks you're having such a hard time finding a place that you like in a location you like that you can afford . . . Sheesh, economy.

[cornerofmadness]

It really is. LDP is sweet.

My problem is I don't want to be in the city. My dad says he could never live in one but spent tonight arguing that I should. (mostly because he doesn't get I could hire someone to cut the fucking grass) I did find an absolutely cute house but it's in a sardine can of a street. The out of town ones are all...bad. sigh

[cornerofmadness]

He comes across as a very kind person on Twitter and he's very responsive to fans.

Good luck to you. I don't have to leave. I just want to have a house for a while. But you're not wrong, the prices are ridiculous

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah your mom and my dad saying the same thing. There is just no value for your money in them. I've heard that about parks.