Wednesday, September 07, 2005

[Economics]

Buy My House

So just thought I'd mention here that our house is supposed to be listed today. I'm here in Portland, where housing has been strong but not actually as crazy and other major West Coast cities. With Katrina, the oil spike, the (ever) ballooning deficits, and emerging bad news for lower- and middle-class Americans, it feels vaguely apocalyptic right now. So if you're looking for a nice 2 bedroom 1 bath in NE Portland just before the crash hits, let me know.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, Jeff, what do you think, hypothetically, will happen once New Orleans has been (forceably) evacuated in regards to that Supreme Court decision relating to property rights?

eRobin said...

absent: I wondered the same thing. And I supported the SCOTUS decision.

Elayne said...

Hey, find me a job there and then maybe we'll talk. :)

Jeff Alworth said...

Fred, not going anywhere--well, probably Rose City area, unless we can score something in Concordia. I actually thought about the cash we'd get in equity from the house and wondered if we should start a business or something, since it seems kind of like funny money. But then, in a more paranoid moment, I thought--oh no!, the economy will crash, the dollar will bottom out, and you'll have no house!

This is what Bush has reduced me to.

Elayne, we've been leading the nation in unemployment for years, so that could be a tall order. But my oh my, what livability--

Jeff Alworth said...

Woodlawn's good, too! And far closer in. But half the people I know now live in the Johns.

(Cool people don't call it "St. Johns.")