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   Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 08:30:16 JST Tito Swineflu

   There are two ancestral country estates in my family, and I find the contrast between them amusing.

   My wife has a lake house in Maine. It's got a dock and boats, a pleasant yard cascading down to the lake with a view of the island where we pick blueberries.
   It has nice plumbing, high-speed internet provided by the state of Maine to impoverished lake dwellers and easy access to the touristy spots and lobster rolls, etc.

   My family has a log cabin in NY. It has a well, but not a toilet. (It has a composting toilet that we call the poo scrambler, but no-one ever wants to use it.) It's next to an open pit mine, and my parents bought it for $15,000 in the late 80's and it has only depreciated since then.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 08:30:15 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     @tito_swineflu Our family had a cabin in the woods that was much more like the latter. It was a single-wide that my grandfather added on to and you had to go outside to an outhouse to relieve yourself. Family sold it for $75K, which was more than we paid for it in the 60s, but not the multiple $100s of thousands they thought they'd get for it.

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     Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 08:45:56 JST Tito Swineflu

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     • Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

     @kingrat that's the vibe! Though the log cabin aspect i have is nice in a way. It's as big as three futons laid width-wise.
     My parents had no illusions about it being an investment. They just had $20k to work with and this is what we could get. I distinctly remember the real estate agent hearing our price range and showing us a pile of logs that was once a cabin in between the north and south lanes of interstate 87. This was better, I guess.