> > > You're living in another century, and that guess is off by 
> > > an order of magnitude - the average house in San Francisco
> > > goes for $1299000!
> > Can't say I've checked real estate prices out there recently. 
> 
> Yeah, I had to look it up myself after Lilli told me about
> how much her son's place is worth (can you say instant
> millionaire? I thought you could). Your information would
> have been current in the last century.
> 
I look at house listings out of market ... pretty much never.  In market, 
I only look if there's a tag or estate sale most of the time.  I'm 
checking for how long the current owners have lived there. (The longer 
the residence is in the same hands, the better the stuff tends to be.) 

> > Yeep.  That makes Boston look cheap.
> 
> It makes New York City seem cheap.

That takes some doing.  
 
> > > market, though it ended up pretty average. His plan would
> > > have made the assets go nearly in half.
> > Maybe for once he had it right?   
> 
> I don't know, unless there's a good reason for it, losing
> that percentage would be problematic.

There is that.  
 
> > > > Snot in pocket.  
> > > It washes out, and besides, it's better than snot
> > > in soup.
> > Or snot in someone else's soup.  Or someone else's in yours.
> 
> Did you see the recipe that accompanied?

I forget. Okra? My internet's down again at home; I'm using the church 
wifi.
 
> > If we all started eating cruciferous veggies in quantity we could 
> > probably power the entire country on methane.
> 
> We could probably already power a lot of the country on
> methane, if collecting it were easier.

Hmmm - some bright young millenial ought to get to work on that. 
 
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