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April 28, 2004
I STAND CORRECTED
A couple of weeks ago, I told you that one of the big reasons I hate New York is because of the ridiculously inflated cost of living here -- the fact that you are expected to pay for the so-called privilege of living here. In that rant, I cited housing prices from the city, and said that I was sure Westchester's average approached that of Queens (around $385K, I believe) or Brooklyn (around $438K if memory serves).
Well, I was wrong. I'm sorry. As it turns out, the average house price in Westchester County does not approach those figures. It blows them the hell away.
The numbers for Westchester came out today. The average price of a house in the county I live in is $574,900. That's right. For the so-called privilege of living amongst the pretentiously self-important, you must pay well over half a million dollars for an average house -- not huge, just average. And then my bosses wonder why I am so despondent at the idea of staying here for a career... why the very concept makes me want to just take an X-acto knife to my eyelids and eyeballs and then go bobbing for barbed-wire apples in habanero tobasco sauce.
The average condominium, by the way, prices out at $312,450. Ahh... much more affordable... right. Gee, what was I upset about?
