Diversions: Bath, New York For $90 a Foot
To provide you with one of those “What the Hell am I doing in New York” moments, we thought we’d show you what $490,000 buys you in the middle of nowhere (okay, upstate actually). In Bath, NY, you get 5,600 square feet of Greek Revival goodness set on 21 acres dotted with 150-year-old spruce and…
To provide you with one of those “What the Hell am I doing in New York” moments, we thought we’d show you what $490,000 buys you in the middle of nowhere (okay, upstate actually). In Bath, NY, you get 5,600 square feet of Greek Revival goodness set on 21 acres dotted with 150-year-old spruce and maple trees. Most of us would be hard-pressed to earn a living up there but maybe some of you creative freelancers could take the plunge.
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People actually respect Richard Florida’s opinions? The man seems like he pulls things directly out of his ass. His “creative class” would eat itself in five years. Hell, BINGHAMTON is on one of his lists.
And if there’s ever high-speed train service between Albany and NYC …
No offense taken.
Thanks for the info Anon 6:21
Can we all let that sink in for a moment.
Imagine living in the palace described for a mortgage payment of $1400/month. That’s a pretty grim studio in NYC.
Doesn’t that have a little appeal?
In addition, I understand Albany is a rising real estate market and was like the 2nd most “creative” mid-sized city according to Richard Florida. And, only 2 hours 20 minutes to NYC for $35-$45 on Amtrak. It’s hard not to think about it a little.
Ooops! I think I may have addressed my responses to the wrong individuals by mis-reading the “Posted by” headings. So, apologies to anybody I accidentally insulted and to those I was addressing…you know who you are.
Hmm, I didn’t really think my comment would provoke an insult, but in response to bkborn–Since I suppose I still consider myself more a “New Yorker” than anything else having lived there for 30 years it puts me in an odd position of having to point out how parochial your comment about “trailer parks” is. It’s ironic that “sophisticated” New Yorkers can be as bigoted as any Red Neck given the chance. The fact is there is no trailer park down the hill from me, but when I lived in Brooklyn it was easy enough to look out the window and see somebody pissing against a building–and worse. As I said in my post “It’s a tradeoff”. I loved living in Brooklyn–Williamsburg specifically. However, (and I know people are sick of hearing about this) as Williamsburg became a theme-park I started to question what I was doing there. In response to another poster I sold my place for 25 times what I paid for it. I paid 50K. Maybe that’s not a lot of money in NYC, but as I said, using it wisely I think I can live off it for the rest of my life. I really didn’t mean to say that it’s better down here than in NYC. Of course, it’s a question of what you value. Personally, time is the most important commodity for me and now all of my time belongs to me–and the view is spectacular. In response to Miguel–of course it’s not news that NY real estate is more expensive than other places, but I think a strong case can be made that for reasons that are not entirely logical the balance has gotten way out of whack in recent times.
The thing that kills me is that NYC could be so much nicer if we simply dealt with our automobile/traffic/public space problem. If we started reclaiming lanes of street space devoted exclusively to the storage and movement of automobiles and giving it to bikes, express buses, pedestrians, cafe tables, merchants and maybe even light rail — NYC would top any European city.
No can do the Paris/London bit — I need my sunlight! Nobody ever said to move to Paris for the weather — never too cold, never too hot (with a few recent exceptions thanks to global warming, but we’re suffering too), just cloudy and depressing for weeks at a time. And yeah, it stays light until 10 pm in the summer, but you pay for it in the winter when it’s dark by 3:30.
And I couldn’t stand living on the mainland for the first time in my life.
There is nothing more beautiful than the golden afternoon sun in New York on the amazing buildings around us.
Tucany is nice too, while we’re at it.
Clarification re the Albany listing. It’s a four-story, single family townhouse AND a two story carriage house for $259,000 ….
Oops, it was only $4.2 million … A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.