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09/11/2025 11:21 am
A few years back [15 +] A new High School was built, and they had an atrium on the main entrance [what justifies that cost] and they had a large clock put on the front, a nice round analog with large roman numerals; often wonder how many of the students can actually tell time with it [what justifies the cost].
The only thing I can figure is the OLDER school board members preferred the
Tony Perrone reacted
09/11/2025 12:01 pm
In my NJ town you couldn't buy a garage for $250,000. A teardown house starts at around $700,000, a mc-mansion starts at $1.3 million. Property taxes...some of my neighbors with newer homes pay over $35,000 per year. It's totally impossible for a young family to ever buy a house.For me, since I became aware of prices and salaries back in my teens, I've always had one question. Where is the ceiling? I rationalize it this way (and these are just rough examples).
People work in jobs, and eventually they want a raise. So they get their raise (as does everyone else) and employers (businesses) have to raise their prices. And this keeps happening over and over and over and over! So where is the ceiling?
In the early 1970's when I was starting out, a new home cost around $30,000 and I was making about $6,000 a year. Today, kids starting out have to pay (on the low end) $250,000 for a new home and they might be making $50,000 (or so) a year. They are no better off than I was in the 70's starting out. But they will work, get raises, prices will continue to go up and eventually 50 years from now, people will be making $2,000,000 a year and new homes will be a billion dollars.
Without a ceiling, it is a no-win situation. Ever! And I know it's far more complicated than this, but in its simplest form, I think this explains it.
John Bono
North Jersey
10/11/2025 10:33 am
@sizedoesmatter This fact will probably dictate that some sort of a housing revolution will occur; possibly where our larger homes will be come less in vogue and be replaced with more affordable and practical homes of smaller dimensions. Remember when we were kids; the smaller house built post-war was by far the norm; even to have more than one bathroom was unusual. That was about 60 years ago.......things eventually change from generation to generation.
10/11/2025 10:52 am
@jack-dodds 3 and 4 story apartment houses are sprouting up all over NJ. I suspect this is going to replace home ownership.
John Bono
North Jersey
11/11/2025 12:49 am
@sizedoesmatter Once again I have yet another reason for being thankful I was born in 1952.
11/11/2025 9:48 am
"The Times They Are A-Changin'"@sizedoesmatter Once again I have yet another reason for being thankful I was born in 1952.
John Bono
North Jersey
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