Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?

[Jolly]

Yeah, but it's bigger than your condo...

[George K]

@Jolly said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

Yeah, but it's bigger than your condo...

Taxes are probably lower, LOL.

ETA: They are!

[Klaus]

@George-K said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

@Jolly said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

Yeah, but it's bigger than your condo...

Taxes are probably lower, LOL.

ETA: They are!

And you would have space for a workshop!

[George K]

@Klaus said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

And you would have space for a workshop!

Yup!

But...

It's Mississippi.

(@klaus probably won't get this)

Q: Why does Alabama exist?

A: To keep Georgia from getting its border dirty.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

@Jolly said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

Yeah, but it's bigger than your condo...

Taxes are probably lower, LOL.

ETA: They are!

You want low taxes? You want character?

https://www.trulia.com/p/la/alexandria/222-florence-ave-alexandria-la-71301--2203390894

[George K]

@Jolly said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

You want low taxes? You want character?

https://www.trulia.com/p/la/alexandria/222-florence-ave-alexandria-la-71301--2203390894

Wow.

Pour another $250K into that and you'd get something really spectacular!

How far away is the nearest grocery store WalMart?

[Jolly]

Which one?

There's three Super Walmarts and two neighborhood markets within a five mile circle.

[Larry]

@Jolly said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

@George-K said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

@Jolly said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

Yeah, but it's bigger than your condo...

Taxes are probably lower, LOL.

ETA: They are!

You want low taxes? You want character?

https://www.trulia.com/p/la/alexandria/222-florence-ave-alexandria-la-71301--2203390894

Why is that house so cheap?

[George K]

@Larry said in Middle Class? How much income needed to live modestly and adequately?:

Why is that house so cheap?

Because it needs a quarter of a million dollars of work?

Maybe the location sucks?

[Jolly]

I don't know about the inside.

But some things I do know...

1. Bad school zones.
2. The outside needs work. That type of house is never cheap to work on.
3. It doesn't have central air or heat.
4. That house has been in the same family since it was built in 1904. I think they've hit the end of the line.
5. Most importantly, that side of town is going downhill...I know that area of town really well. The closest main thoroughfare is Bolton Avenue. Fifty years ago, Bolton was a busy street. Sears, the Trailways bus station, St. James church, Western Auto, the Don movie theater, Joseph Paint, Acme Glass Company, Gunn Electric, barbershops, beautyshops, and a few doctor's offices. Typical small city business stuff. Two of the largest hospitals in the area within a few blocks.

Now...Most of the businesses are gone, except what you see in the hood. The three nicest buildings on Bolton are the police station (in the old Sears building) , the Red Cross (in a nicely renovated two story bus station and St. James, which is a beautiful Episcopalian church. There is also a pretty new surgery center on Bolton not far from that house, doing over 100 cases/day. The hospitals are still there.

Alley bats stroll Bolton and you can find your drug of choice on parts of Monroe Street.

It's kinda sad. Not far from that house is Prompt Succor on Elliot, which is where my granddaughter goes to school. Surrounded by middle class and upper middle class older homes, some redone very well. Still, only a few blocks from Bolton and will soon go downhill. All that butts up on what they call Midcity, which has some nice homes built in the 50's- mid sixties.

Not to sound racist, but the blacks move in and the whites move out. At least, that's the way it was. Now the poor blacks move in and the whites and middle class blacks move out.

[Jolly]

Now, you want to be in the same town, with much better school districts? Small home, but much, much cheaper...

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3519-Horseshoe-Dr_Alexandria_LA_71302_M98019-05216

Interesting road. Has some newer homes, some older homes, some smaller homes on the ends of the road and some ollie-knockers every now and then... Horseshoe contains the front of Landmark and here's the smallest home for sale in that subdivision...

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/6417-Landmark-Dr_Alexandria_LA_71301_M91124-36766