In other, less meaningful news. . .

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. . . as expected, I didn't get the job at my apartment complex. *shrug*

Now, it's time to fiddle while Rome burns, live on the wild side, and. . . GET MY OIL CHANGED AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

Do I know how to live on the edge, or what?

[Lawrence was here.]

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Y'all have winter up in Charlotte, right?

Winter aka Mr. FrostyThoughts himself? No he lives in DC.

And what Charlotte has is a season where the women put on some more clothes and you might get the occasional freeze overnight barring some freak event like this past year's ice storm.

It's frankly more like a mild western new york late spring in the winter months.

How's the job & housing market?

No jobs. No work for skilled caucasians anyway. Diversity hiring practices are rampant. Lots of layoffs for three years now.

Housing market is fab though! 2000+ sq ft plus two car garage on quarter acre goes for about $145k in a nice neighborhood and is the standard starter point. Houses for rent even cheaper as the marketplace for selling homes is so bad.

I'm waiting for them to start doing "buy one get one free" sales at the new construction neighborhoods.

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No jobs. No work for skilled caucasians anyway. Diversity hiring practices are rampant. Lots of layoffs for three years now.

That's not gonna do me the slightest bit of good - I'm a whitey. I'm semi-skilled. Actually, I dropped a resume off at the Gateway Country store when I was visiting a buddy there two years ago and never got so much as a callback. I could do the construction thing, but I don't speak spanish well enough, is that it?

Housing market is fab though! 2000+ sq ft plus two car garage on quarter acre goes for about $145k in a nice neighborhood and is the standard starter point.

*cough* *splutter*

_Halve_ that price, and we'll be in something K & I can think about affording. Anything upwards of $700 a month for rent/mortgage is too rich for our blood unless one or both of us get a job that pays a hell of a lot more than the pittance we both currently make. That's why the St. Pete Freak Haven Project, with it's $50-65k homes, is much more tenable at this point. *sigh*

Stupid lack of career. . .

[jruske.livejournal.com]

_Halve_ that price, and we'll be in something K & I can think about affording.

Not a problem. With the current number of people unemployed foreclosures have been going up sky high. And they are still building new places too!

.idiots.

Anyway, the problem is getting a job. NC is a sinking morass in that respect, and while I know you both work hard and have some skills, the reality is that it's hard to make ends meet in Charlotte unless you have steady income. The cost of living isn't bad, but there is no mass transport per se and the city sprawls in all directions with lots of poorly designed traffic corridors.

A lot of 1500 sq ft houses for rent (3-4 years old) cost about $700 per month, and many they will try to sell you if you are interested. Lots of 0% down financing too.

Again, not useful unless you have a job. But shoot me a resume and I'll talk to some people about you if you'd like.

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watch for one at lunchtime. however, K had a really stellar interview with a firm down here yesterday, so who knows what's in store.