Charleston, WV Among the Fastest Dying Cities in the US? (South Charleston: condo, crime)

[tbailey1138]

Because the government shouldn't create wealth for the people, but it shouldn't impede oportunity either. This is where the government of WV is often guilty. If a group is looking to expand or grow and this somehow threatens a group with most of the power, they step in and stop this new growth which in turn holds the state and it's people back. How many times have you heard, "Well WV can only support one big....(fill in the blank)." You tell the people this enough and some of them will start to believe it. Those in power are somewhat afraid of the type of growth that WV could see because then it would water down their power.

[r601020]

Originally Posted by r601020

They didn't get the real estate bubble here, so home prices are appreciating in Charleston at 1.5% per year. It's not sexy, but compared to a 22% depreciation on the horizon of real estate for most of the country, I'll take it.

I read the news today, oh boy . . 1 in 464 homes in America got notices of foreclosure in July, a 55% increase since last July. It was a lengthy article.

Not in that lengthy article, it's actually 1 in 171 homes for 2nd quarter 2008 in America that received notices of foreclosure, a 121% increase since last July.

There was another article in the news today too, it was only a single paragraph. Charleston in West Virginia is among the 4 cities in America that real estate went up 2nd quarter 2008.

Cheers!

[ArizonaBear]

Originally Posted by r601020

I read the news today, oh boy . . 1 in 464 homes in America got notices of foreclosure in July, a 55% increase since last July. It was a lengthy article.

Not in that lengthy article, it's actually 1 in 171 homes for 2nd quarter 2008 in America that received notices of foreclosure, a 121% increase since last July.

There was another article in the news today too, it was only a single paragraph. Charleston in West Virginia is among the 4 cities in America that real estate went up 2nd quarter 2008.

Cheers!

Remember though that Charleston...............I am referring to W Charleston (west of the Elk River/north of Kanawha Blvd/River) where one can pick up an acceptable single family house for under $100K. Read that the RE market can only go up there IMHO.

[r601020]

Originally Posted by ArizonaBear

RE market can only go up there IMHO.

Random search = 578 homes for sale in Charleston, WV

205 35% $ . . 0 to $100k
160 28% $100k to $200k
147 25% $200k to $550k
66 11% > $550k
578

Of those homes between $100k to $200k
93 58% $100k - 150k
67 42% $150k - 200k
160

[harborlady]

Originally Posted by Two-Rivers

According to Forbes, it is. According to some in Charleston, it isn't.

But there's no denying the population decrease, my son and his family haven't been counted, yet.

In Pictures: America's Fastest-Dying Cities - Forbes.com

America's Fastest-Dying Cities - Forbes.com

I'm eating a plate of stuffed peppers delivered to my front door by a neighbor who broke her ankle weeks back. She was just trying to say thank you for those sippy straws I picked up for the kids for their school lunch bags (she's got 5 foster kids).

Of course I had to yell at her for walking on it even if these peppers are to die for. We were all pretty worried about her and have minded her kids during the week while they were outside harvesting the apples from the neighborhood trees. We shucked a box of corn for helen's pickled corn, peaches in barbara's backyard are next, and who knows what will be baked? I've instigated a country girl cook off :::innocent look::: since I can boldly say I can't boil water quite right.

We had a blast at our unofficial block party that I also instigated a few weeks back. Looks like what was soon to be her ex husband finally is flying right and standing up for her after a few neighbors got to talking to him at our party. He has cancer and I guess he didn't see the point of wife/family anymore. Self pity was bound to kill him before cancer ever could and glad he got past it. I'm convinced there is some advice only another man can deliver to a man.

Forbes wasn't & never would be invited. They just haven't got what it takes to be on charleston's west side in my little nook of the hills. Gotta have a heart here, gotta stick together, and gotta toe the line.

Two rivers I dreaded opening this thread and reading whatever nightmares people wanted to paint. I read it alright, and predictably as rain, it's still 'someone else's' fault. Of course leadership is a problem, but then again, so is the constituency that is faithless to follow anything not in line with personal agendas, and the constituency that will not pick up a shovel and do something themselves when it's time instead of whine. If it would help I'll complain at god some more for making people's eyes face outward at others instead of inwards for personal accountability. I've had that argument going on for 20+yrs and I think it tickles god blaming god for what people do to themselves. AH!!! Contradiction! Back to the drawing board grasshopper!

I had to chuckle about your communist comment, though, because I've been accused of the same when it comes to something as bare bones as maintaining reverence for life (for ALL, not just a select few). And the other newcomers comment about the rain here- jimminy- it's like having a weeks worth of weather in a single day. Heck I should report the weather; it will start out beautifully mild and clear, then get cloudy, hail a few, rain in torrents with a magnificent fireworks display from nature, then calm down & right herself just in time for sunset & the skeeters. Stick with that script, just scramble the order of things, who needs a degree in meteorology? I've predicted the next 20 july's barring global warming or massive shift of magnetic north.

I've adapted well I think, and could almost predict when the air was too still that we'd be getting a storm shortly to blow the steam away. The wind up changes, I run to my porch with a pitcher of sweet jasmine tea and wave the silly kids over trying to beat the rain to their houses. I've got quite a view from my little hill, and what a spectacular show mother nature puts on from my front porch.

It took christie breaking her ankle to let her husband know how much he was needed. Silver lining to what many would judge as a cursed life. My foot still isn't better, a spider bite proved out an underlying problem going on that was far more serious and would have gone unchecked with irrevocable damage. Thanks spider for giving me a chance to catch it small. And thanks Forbes for deterring the next fly by night charlatan from wanting to turn Charleston into the next lifestyles of the rich and famous nightmare. It's apple season and we don't have time for riff raff.

[NOVAmtneer82]

Harborlady, I'm glad you like the West Side. Two of my aunts have have lived on the hill for nearly 40 years and they wouldn't move anywhere else.

[ArizonaBear]

Originally Posted by mtneeratheart

Harborlady, I'm glad you like the West Side. Two of my aunts have have lived on the hill for nearly 40 years and they wouldn't move anywhere else.

Me too!

All joking aside: my memories of 30 W Kanawha Blvd (gone now courtesy of I 64 ) one block W of the Elk River are quite pleasant

[corgis]

Harborlady - I'm so glad you love the West Side Hill - I have two sisters-in-law who live on the hill - one is on Summit and the other one is on Adele St. They love being up there.

[r601020]

I don't have a compass, so I budget a little time each day to be confused about where I'm at. I thought I lived on the north side. Didn't know it was called "West Side Hill" until a few days ago.

[NOVAmtneer82]

yeah don't worry about it, I spent 22 years of my life in Charleston and some of the neighborhood locations never made sense, at least from a directional standpoint. South Charleston is west of the city. North Charleston is adjacent (and on the same side of the river) as the West Side. The East End is in a much more southerly direction from downtown than easterly. Someone must have gotten a little confused...