Seriously, though, the only thing smarter than walking away from the Yahoo! deal for Microsoft would be never having approached the table in the first place.
I mean, if they want to spend a bunch of money and get nothing out of it except an interjection, I would be happy to sell them "Yowzah!" for only...ten meeellion dollars.
Yeah - while there's the possibility that this is all a ham-handed tactic to make Yahoo's (sorry, Yahoo!'s) stock drop and then swoop back in, the merger never made much sense in the first place, other than as a flailing around of "Look! We're *doing something*!" (Gotta say, the image of MS as a lobotomized King Kong with a shotgun and tequila seems to fit these days, sadly.)
Hell, at this rate, maybe property prices in the Puget Sound area *will* drop enough that it's reasonable for me to move back... ;)
C'mon Redmond implosion! Make the Kingdome take down look like a dot of bubble wrap popping!
What meep said - Westchester is comparable to the Bay Area and most of Puget Sound, and property taxes are... insane. I can't see us ever buying in this county, because neither ginkgo nor I want to spent the equivalent of the price of a new car every year on a taxes for a crackerbox house on a postage stamp of land. Very happy to rent for now.
So no, I don't worry about property prices in Westchester because I'm not that desperate to live 20min closer to NYC. :D
IIRC, our property/school taxes would barely buy us a bare bonesToyota Yari.
While Westchester is pricey, we're fortunate that we don't have a crackerbox house nor a postage stamp yard. In fact there are some nice places up for sale here at the moment. (If that link doesn't work then go to realtor.com and type in 10519 for the zip or 10560.) The listing at #10 Juengstville is down the street from us is really nice and was the one we had our eye on to buy but we were offered our current place before we moved on it. Remember, there are more horses in our town (Pop. 5000) than people nor will you be any closer to NYC. :)
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Date: 2008-05-04 06:34 pm (UTC)I failed.
Seriously, though, the only thing smarter than walking away from the Yahoo! deal for Microsoft would be never having approached the table in the first place.
I mean, if they want to spend a bunch of money and get nothing out of it except an interjection, I would be happy to sell them "Yowzah!" for only...ten meeellion dollars.
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Date: 2008-05-04 06:42 pm (UTC)Hell, at this rate, maybe property prices in the Puget Sound area *will* drop enough that it's reasonable for me to move back... ;)
C'mon Redmond implosion! Make the Kingdome take down look like a dot of bubble wrap popping!
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Date: 2008-05-04 07:04 pm (UTC)(Yeah, yeah, I know there's a slight difference between "Midtown Manhattan" and "the rest of the state".)
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Date: 2008-05-04 09:06 pm (UTC)So no, I don't worry about property prices in Westchester because I'm not that desperate to live 20min closer to NYC. :D
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Date: 2008-05-05 05:57 pm (UTC)While Westchester is pricey, we're fortunate that we don't have a crackerbox house nor a postage stamp yard. In fact there are some nice places up for sale here at the moment. (If that link doesn't work then go to realtor.com and type in 10519 for the zip or 10560.) The listing at #10 Juengstville is down the street from us is really nice and was the one we had our eye on to buy but we were offered our current place before we moved on it. Remember, there are more horses in our town (Pop. 5000) than people nor will you be any closer to NYC. :)