stardustcboy's Diaryland Diary

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$895,000 is a sum that i can only dimly comprehend...

*sigh*

...

*big sigh*

...

*gi-fucking-normous sigh*

...

so, for shits'n'grins i went to this cool lil housing search site to just sort of scope out the going rate of 2 bedroom apartments in LA are goin' for nowadays...then, suddenly, this wild hair grew up my ass and i clicked on the "To Buy" section and selected the "750K - 1.5M" price range...

...

...there are some utterly BEAUTIFUL houses out here. like, mind-fuckin'-blowingly beautiful. it made my heart ache. i want a house. i mean, isn't that supposed to be part of the "american dream" and shit? white pickett fence, wife, 2.5 kids the whole nine?

it's sort of ironic to me that the spawning ground of the american dream, the hot-bed of desire and glamour and shimmer and shine is probably the one place that it is nearly impossible to actually LIVE it.

meanwhile, in other parts of america people are buying gorgeous 4 bedroom houses for about $450K - $500K...people with less glamorous jobs as me...nurses, teachers, policemen, firemen, bank tellers, construction...

and all i can do is hopelessly dream of a day when i have enough money to purchase something like that here.

i'm sort of limited in where i can go. my career, my art, has only a handful of possible places of employment in the US OUTSIDE OF CALIFORNIA. in california there are dozens and dozens and dozens of places to choose from.

sadly the downside of that is facing the grim reality of living the rest of my known life in an apartment - a.k.a. "Human File Cabinet".

aaaah, but a man can dream can't he? in some ways i hope some massive quake hits soon and drives out all the shitty posers who come to LA, as well as weeds through the pussies who can't handle a good 7.5+ shaker every now and again...leaving me, your dear narrator and his lovely bride, the pick of the proverbial litter as far as housing is concerned. people will want to pack up and leave as soon as possible when something like that hits, and unlike Katrina who gave people a day or so to get up and go a big shaker in cali won't be so nice. it'll just happen with no real warning.

anyway, i digress. the point of all this was that i want to live in a house, preferably one with a pool and a jacuzzi. i saw one such house on the market literal blocks from the apartment in live in...$895,000 baby. yep. nearly a million dollars and that sucker would be mine.

i can't even begin to conceive of having that kind of money.

~B-)

3:19 p.m. - 2005-08-31

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