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I’m partial to brick/brownstones though, just more timeless than vinyl also more historic details
Me too. I grew up in an 1873, brick row home. I hated to sell it after my parents died but sister was greedy for the money (not much)
I considered, unwisely, to live there (Allentown, PA) but partner, wisely, had none of it.
I knew every nut and bolt in that house and could have afforded to live there for near peanuts.
I particularly missed the wonderful garden with soil so good I could grow ANYTHING.
An advantage of a brick row home is that heat lost by one is gained by another. The City had just put in new sewers, water-lines and sidewalks.
Back a little ways, the Times was touting Plainfield as the next middle class Gay Mecca. We went out to look at some lovely VIctorians, but they were all immense wooden firetraps. So I hightailed my way right back.
When I see wood homes, I see fire, termites and carpenter ants.
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Me too. I grew up in an 1873, brick row home. I hated to sell it after my parents died but sister was greedy for the money (not much)
I considered, unwisely, to live there (Allentown, PA) but partner, wisely, had none of it.
I knew every nut and bolt in that house and could have afforded to live there for near peanuts.
I particularly missed the wonderful garden with soil so good I could grow ANYTHING.
An advantage of a brick row home is that heat lost by one is gained by another. The City had just put in new sewers, water-lines and sidewalks.
Back a little ways, the Times was touting Plainfield as the next middle class Gay Mecca. We went out to look at some lovely VIctorians, but they were all immense wooden firetraps. So I hightailed my way right back.
When I see wood homes, I see fire, termites and carpenter ants.
That's too bad about Allentown. Things are cheap there and the city's actually growing in population while crime rates have been going down. It might even get commuter rail to New York City in your lifetime.
That's too bad about Allentown. Things are cheap there and the city's actually growing in population while crime rates have been going down. It might even get commuter rail to New York City in your lifetime.
Aa far as rents go, it looks like they're around that of Philly. I would rather just move to Philly because of that
Aa far as rents go, it looks like they're around that of Philly.t
No WAY.
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