It being a dull day, I decide to respond to what Gunner
foisted Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:42:29 GMT on
rec.crafts.metalworking , viz:
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:45:23 GMT, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
Short term bonds? Dave...any idea of how many people simply cannot
come up with $825 a month, period? If its a toss up between rent and
food, or $825 in insurance.

Fark, $825 is more than I pay in Rent, and I live in King Co
Washington, recently declared by Forbes magazine to be overpriced central
for the Western US.

In southern California, $850 month will not get you a single bedroom
apartment. in an area heavily populated by minority members whos
parents were patriotic..

$850 is two months mortage payments for me but I live in a dying town
in the middle of **** all nowhere.

I've a friend who has a nice two bedroom place, for $350. But it is a
four to five hour drive from Seattle. "Hell of a commute.." (I have read
of an executive of Amazon who commutes, by air, from Corvallis, but he
flies himself.)
I'm not too concerned with the number ($850, 650, 350, 135) so much as
I'm concerned with the ratio. Spending half my income on rent/mortgage is
not a good situation. Doesn't matter if you're living in a one room shack,
or 10,000 square feet of McMansion - it is not a good situation.

.most will not take the well insured while living in a refrigerator
box route.
Not an option. Insurance is a gamble (_Life_ is a gamble!), so t\you
pays your money and you takes your chances. Or not.
Indeed. And I cant aford to gamble either.

I can't afford it, but I do.

I can't afford the high cost of living, but somehow I still keep doing
it.

tschus
pyotr

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."