Funny enough I spent the first 1/4 of my life (and that fraction is rapidly shrinking, eeks!) in a 150 mile radius of you. 🙂 and another 8 years of my life in St. Louis. Now, I certainly didn't have to help shovel 150' driveway, for two obvious reasons.
Part of me would like to head back that way, the other part knows there's not as many high-tech jobs, much less biotech. I'll have far better chances to relocate near Scott or Mark Johnson. Not to say that places like StL, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburg aren't producing some good work, just their startups almost invariably move to Boston or the Bay Area.
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The house we bought in CLE has a 5-burner Thermador gas range and it is great, must be over 30 years old. (The house is over 90 years old.)
The Habitat for Humanity store in CLE (there are two of them) occasionally have these things show up. I guess their value is about as much as a dead flashlight battery.
The Habitat for Humanity store in CLE (there are two of them) occasionally have these things show up. I guess their value is about as much as a dead flashlight battery.
Yeah, I've trolled the likes of zillow/etc in the major US biotech hubs, and it's pretty expensive vs. some fantastic homes throughout the Midwest. My great uncle has a beautiful historic brick home near downtown and Forest park in St Louis. Looked in his neighborhood and its dumbfounding what <300k can get you. Admittedly, these places need major structural improvements to deal with the revised earthquake threat along the New Madras fault line, so there's an easy 50k to update.
Portland's prices are catching up with the rest of the west coast, and you can hardly get a ramshackle 20 miles east of downtown for 300k. I really wish I had gone in with my parents and bought a place in 2009 when I started graduate school. I was too conservative with how much the market would appreciate. C'est la vie!
I guess this is the result of my generation (and the one preceding it) basically fleeing the midwest downtowns.
There's a reason quite a few restaurants trying to establish their reputation when they start have a kitchen wide open to the dining room...
This documentary is a bit depressing (French only sorry): YouTube
I use the walk around method to buy property. My house was missing two windows and lots more issues when I bought it for $40,000. Put $20,000 of materials into it. Got a nice senior citizen "homestead" tax discount. So $28,000 taxable.
Most of the new construction houses in town are $700,000 plus. They aren't solid brick with concrete foundations, but are equally insulated.
I have my eye on another house nearby, offered 30 they are holding out for 35. Will take 30 to fix it up.
There are lots of tech jobs here and more than enough local graduates. But some do come in from elsewhere. You would be surprised how many list headquarters elsewhere but have sizable if not majority of the workers here.
Nice touch is that industrial types of products are easily available. Stuff you can't get on the west coast. Most recent weird bit was getting a knife tempered. Semi-local folks are one of two places that really do the work and still do oncies.
Most of the new construction houses in town are $700,000 plus. They aren't solid brick with concrete foundations, but are equally insulated.
I have my eye on another house nearby, offered 30 they are holding out for 35. Will take 30 to fix it up.
There are lots of tech jobs here and more than enough local graduates. But some do come in from elsewhere. You would be surprised how many list headquarters elsewhere but have sizable if not majority of the workers here.
Nice touch is that industrial types of products are easily available. Stuff you can't get on the west coast. Most recent weird bit was getting a knife tempered. Semi-local folks are one of two places that really do the work and still do oncies.
Sadly, most of the R&D positions I've seen are not in the midwest, even if some of the manufacturing facilities are. The reasons you enumerate, Ed, are very much a big part of the appeal. (And I'm still more "midwest" in personality, if that's a thing)
Sure, I get that, but she's drooling over the 3 ovens, not the amount of pots you can have on it. Having the large one in the centre is fine, 'cause that's where she'd have the big one simmering with broth. And wok is out of the picture, when it's wok time I fire up my cast iron thingy over firewood or white hot coal.
In Aus we call junk/garbage etc smeg, it seems funny to us that this is a brand name.
Names Which Have Hilarious Meanings In Other Languages
Dan.
Same in NEOH -- my son needed a part of an aircraft engine rebuilt and found a shop in Cleveland which specializes in that type of work.
Wassup with that busted coke oven in PGH?
So between meetings I went to the Habitat "Restore" yesterday afternoon -- they had a complete set of high end kitchen cabinets (already sold) and Bosch or Wirth (?) cooktops from a recent kitchen do-over. The Bosch cooktops were offered for $75, there were also a pair of ovens! Looked like they were never used.
^ I'll hopefully be needing things like this in my (relatively near) future. 😉
Tonight's pickup is rescuing the solid maple cabinet doors/trim (and hardware) from someone's remodel. Will be making an entryway/liquor cabinet with a piece of granite for the top for all my nonexistent liquor supply and/or fine china. Building stuff like this keeps me out of trouble.
Tonight's pickup is rescuing the solid maple cabinet doors/trim (and hardware) from someone's remodel. Will be making an entryway/liquor cabinet with a piece of granite for the top for all my nonexistent liquor supply and/or fine china. Building stuff like this keeps me out of trouble.
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Must be the Chateau 150 model.
I know one who has 2 Chateau 165 in back-to-back setup with a work area extension on either side. (classic bordeaux red version)
But he gives cooking classes (how that pays the write-off of a $200k+ stove plus silly expensive matching custom hood is beyond me)
At my place in Florida people actually bring buckets of KFC to pot luck suppers.
Since Cal is on break or more exactly dislocation...
I did one of my favorite breakfasts this morning.
Pancake batter rested overnight, with diced apple bits added before frying up at 320F in a cast iron pan with olive oil. Served with Canadian maple syrup.
Crisp oven baked home made macon strips. (Bacon but made from lamb.)
Twinings Darjeeling tea, air filtered with 5 passes. And a small glass of Concord grape juice.
Almost healthy at 500ish calories!
(One secret to making tea is if using a tea ball is to make sure it is clean. I use a pinch of lye in a cup of water to soak a stainless steel tea ball overnight.)
I did one of my favorite breakfasts this morning.
Pancake batter rested overnight, with diced apple bits added before frying up at 320F in a cast iron pan with olive oil. Served with Canadian maple syrup.
Crisp oven baked home made macon strips. (Bacon but made from lamb.)
Twinings Darjeeling tea, air filtered with 5 passes. And a small glass of Concord grape juice.
Almost healthy at 500ish calories!
(One secret to making tea is if using a tea ball is to make sure it is clean. I use a pinch of lye in a cup of water to soak a stainless steel tea ball overnight.)
