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Originally Posted by Six Corners
It's not always obvious why homes don't sell as fast as you'd expect. Sometimes the owner is just looking for the right person. Anecdotally, some friends just bought a stately home in the western suburbs of Chicago (LaGrange) that had been sitting on the market for some time. There was nothing wrong with the house; the owners were just set on getting their asking price for it as they felt they had meticulously cared for it. The house turned out to have quite a bit of asbestos upon inspection and so our friends offered a little less than asking with some part of the balance going toward asbestos removal. The previous owners gave in.
All that said, this St. Louis house is a special house in a special neighborhood. You can buy pictures of it and the other painted ladies to hang in your living room. I'd imagine the current owners are being a bit picky and not interested in selling it to just anyone.
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I remember at maybe age 10 tagging along with my house-hunting parents. There was a tremendous deal on a humungous house within a short drive of the Hamptons. It had been on the market for a long time, though, and we found out why when we met the owner. He looked directly at me and asked "Boy, do you want to be a farmer?" I looked at my parents and they said to go ahead and give an honest answer. Needless to say, our offer was rejected. They only wanted to sell the house to a family that was dedicated to farming the land behind the house.
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Originally Posted by ColDayMan
I think SSP mentality when going to places drowns out reality. No rational person going to Cincinnati "feels" it's a religiously Christian city. If anything, the only "church" they go there are converted bars or wedding venues next to some yuppie bistro. Just as I don't pull a SSP — thing and go to Detroit, go to a Chicken Shack in Livonia or something and think "JESUS this place is segregated compared to Indianapolis!" I don't go to Koreatown in Los Angeles and pull a SSP Card Trick and think "This place isn't remotely as dense as the Tenderloin! Shove it, Craig!" Or go to Chicago and think "Jeez, Steely Dan is wrong! This pizza place I went to in Wicker Park — so all of Chicago's pizza is overrated and is inferior to New Haven. Pizza Gods be damned here!"
That's just not reality, folks.
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Correct, that is not reality. I don't think you can put every forumer in a box regarding how we travel.
Here on the forum, we discuss population statistics, transit, urban planning, and other nerdy things. In meatspace, however, the vast majority of people don't discuss those things at all. So traveling is necessarily about something else, everything else. Personally, I have loved visiting every city I've been to, with a single exception that I won't go into. I love seeing the sights, good food, architecture, people-watching, and visiting natural attractions near every city I visit. I love cities--and not just one particular kind of city. Again, only once in my life did I visit a place and fail to find the experience mostly positive.
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