That same house in Boston would be 300K, is my guess.
More like 4 or 5, but who's counting.
Way out of our mutual price range, anyway. I'm betting you could
tack another 100 thou on the front in San Francisco.
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!
The news channel in expensive but not bizarre San Diego
was running some stories on real estate prices. There
was a town in the county, Campo, 16 acres, which is being
offered for $6M as is, buildings, property and all. And
then there was another feature on a single-family house
in San Fran that is going for $39M, 12000000 more than
the 9700 sf William and Vanessa Getty mansion sold for
earlier this year - tinyurl.com/gettysf tells details.
Granted, for 39 mil you would get great water views,
over 11000 sf, and 6 bedrooms - tinyurl.com/biggersfhouse
- but that's still over $3000/sf.
I think he got killed off, or at least Ian Fleming did. It is
every child's dream, to surf the top of the investment wave
and voluntarily wipe out without being wiped out.
Not every child, but ever business major at least.
After my father's death I was put in charge of some money,
and my brother claimed that he could get a much better rate
than I was getting; I admit my plan was extremely
conservative and also conservational (relatively green) and
also that it did slightly worse than the then expansionary
market, though it ended up pretty average. His plan would
have made the assets go nearly in half.
Well, hitched and relationed are different, plus there
are late bloomers, plus as the population ages, the
pool (traditionally of women but true to some extent
of guys) gets more desperate and less selective.
His late wife (unfortunately) thought she'd won the lottery and he
felt (feels) the same way. Late bloomers in this case.
Interesting, but I won't ask!
I use them for these purposes, even pets too, when I'm in
a household with one or, god forbid, more. Then I toss them.
For aqueous spills, I keep them around, and of course the
improvised snot rags also go into the back pocket, with the
expectable results.
Snot in pocket.
It washes out, and besides, it's better than snot
in soup.
Yeahwell. It's a byproduct, so producing butter requires no
extra
methane production. It also tastes better, so there's that.
It requires keeping the cows barefoot and pregnant and in
good physical condition, so the methane cost is not zero.
True, but they're doing that to produce milk and more cows anyway.
I don't think anything we can do to survive in the short run
is going to be environment neutral, and we have to take active
steps to avoid catastrophe and mass extinction (unless we
actually want that to happen, which in my more despairing
moments I feel like rooting for). I wonder what our own
methane production is - and how much it would increase if we
all turned into vegetarians.
Bird's nest soup
categories: Chinese, dessert, expensive, unsound
servings: 2
2 oz birds' nests
water
7 Tb crushed rock sugar (or to taste)
Chinese Swallow's Nest Soup With Rock Sugar
To prepare the bird's nests, soak in cold water for several
hours or overnight. Rinse well. Go over the nests and pick
out any loose feathers.
Boil the bird's nests twice by bringing a pot of water to a
boil and simmering the bird's nests for 5 min. Drain and
again add to a (fresh) pot of water, bring to a boil and
simmer for 5 min. Drain, rinse well and squeeze dry.
Place the bird's nests in the pot and add 4 c water. Bring
to a boil and simmer until the bird's nests are quite soft
(up to 2 hr). Add the rock sugar, stirring to dissolve.
Serve the soup hot.
Tip
You'll want to save this for a special occasion. Authentic
bird's nests are quite expensive, not surprising given that
the nests come from the hardened saliva of the swiftlet
swallow. It could be a good choice for a romantic evening,
as a bird's nest is rumored to be ​an aphrodisiac.
Rhonda Parkinson, thespruceeats.com
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