$1M for a 725 square foot condo in a brown, ugly, sprawling, congested shithole. When can we start beheading the rich?

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Wow, that many? That's hardly what I would call an "exclusive" club. Fuck, that money would have been better spent in the RFV: better skiing, biking, and history of property value appreciation.

Vail is an incorporated town though, so not like BS.

Rideit, stamping his feet, red-faced and shouting as flecks of spittle fly across the room: "JACKSON IS SPECIAL! IT IS ENTIRELY UNIQUE IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, AND CANNOT BE CHANGED!

18 months to save a down payment for a house? You and your partner must both be 7-figure earners. Fuck right off with that bullshit.

Saving $80k in 18 months. Only on TGR.

Holy fuck that’s a deal and I’m not being facetious. A place like that for less than $3-4k a month is a screaming deal anywhere that family trees aren’t straight lines.

I paid that for an 800 sq...

I'm not attempting to shirk any responsibility, just trying to shed light on the number of different agencies that review a permit application for a new house. It's a fact that the actual Building...

It's unlikely the Building Department is holding things up because of the driveway width. That's almost certainly P&Z or Engineering, without an outside possibility that the local Fire Department...

Yup, the entire RFV is so fucking crazy price wise I ended up living closer to CB than Aspen. To be fair though, I like my house a lot and would much rather live where I do than anywhere in the RFV.

The drive from Bellinham to Baker is a lot further than you think. That drive always felt like an eternity to me. If I were in your position, Bellingham would be on my list of places to consider...

Meh, I was an integral part of the "Rape of King County" and in my short time there saw hundreds of new single family homes and condos be built in one tiny corner of the place. Single family homes...

It's ok to call it a Guido house, Benny.

I was in two houses yesterday, both recent remodels, both had bathtubs in the living rooms. Is that a new thing? One of the places also had two bedrooms with tubs in the bedrooms, and yes, they...

Best Day Ever and Silverpeak are both within 150' of privately owned condos. Goodpeople in Basalt has units awfully close to it, as does High Q on Main Street in Carbondale. Green Joint in Glenwood...

I can think of 4 pot shops in the RFV alone that are within 150 feet of private residences.

Yeah, 419 Willoughby. It's nice inside, but not that nice. I can think of several homes in the area that are nicer off the top of my head.

That math still probably works nicely if you're getting 4-6 homes per acre and they're selling for $600-800k per home.

Glad I'm locked in at 2.75% on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage.

Yeah, and what was the death rate/100,000 for UX/UI designers before the actuaries realized that the USA is an obscenely violent country where the possibility of a disgruntled coworker rolling into...

Mrs. Glademaster?! Does my posting history make it look like I'm fucking married? The metaphorical toilet seat is up, man. I have no need or desire for a succubus in my life, thank you very much.

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In America, those tasks get farmed out to the business owner's wife/gf, who does them without compensation. I've seen it firsthand several times.

And the end result of that attitude toward art...

Exactly. Those guys making $200K aren't journeymen, so they've been pulling wire full time for 10+ years to be making that kind of money. And they probably spent a number of years making less than...

Nah, we've been seeing triple digit prices for sheets of plywood around here for months.

FWIW, that's the trade I would point people toward above any other. Clean work (for the trades), pays well, and tends to attract folks with a little more going on upstairs. Wiring a commercial...

It's never too cold to pour concrete, it just depends on how much you're willing to spend to do it.

There are certainly ways to make a career out of it, there are just as many ways to end up middle-aged, broken and broke though.

I attribute my anecdotal experience w/r/t accidents to there...

I take it you mean the lack of context is sad, right?

Most people want to get into careers that don't destroy their bodies by the time they're in their mid 40's. Can't say I blame them.

In the PNW I saw a surprisingly large number of white guys of...

Bahahahahaha. By 2100 Aspen is going to get about as much snow as Grand Junction does now. I bet those places on Red Mountain won't be worth quite as much when the only skiing in the RFV is above...

I know you're trolling, but boy, that's an impressive whiff nonetheless.

If housing were affordable for most people, then the people who control most of the housing stock wouldn't be able to profit rapaciously from it. Get with the program.

I support the existence of affordable housing options (both rentals and deed-restricted), and think they can be an enormous asset to communities. It just isn't a situation I want to live in...

Property taxes in Colorado are astoundingly low. I believe they're among the lowest in the nation. If anything, we should be paying more in property taxes here, and there are a whole lot of...

Now THAT'S a justifiable criticism. We're all tangled webs of hypocrisy in our own ways though.

I did hunt around and wait to find a place with an ADU so that I can at least make some small...

Oh well. Same is true of a lot of people here. I'm not embarrassed in the slightest. Of all of the things you could (justifiably) pillory me for, that's a pretty weak one to choose.

If I...

60 mile one way commutes suck, but they suck less than "owning" a deed restricted home, or having the roof over your head be tied directly to your employment status.

Imagine losing your...

I'll stand by those statements until the day I die. Better to be a cunt with a true-bearing ethical compass than whatever it is that the detestable "people" (and I use that term loosely, most of you...

I believe that's a sign that we don't tax the rich nearly enough in this country. It's also a sign that we need to figure out a way to sterilize them all. The only thing worse than people in...

I'll be more than happy to leave and make room for someone. I want out of this shithole country.





Meh, she's looking in Jackson. A rental in Aspen proper will set you back 3x that per...

If only that had happened 2 generations previously, the planet wouldn't be irreparably fucked. Too late now, so enjoy the ride before the wheels really fall off.

If "A LOT" of people were sitting tight, materials wouldn't cost what they do right now. At the moment, there are more people out there like Adiron's neighbor than you.

Prices here are high, and homes are moving briskly (many spend less than 2 weeks on the market before they're under contract), but beyond that, none of the other craziness you mentioned is happening...

You mean $595 sq/ft is crazy cheap, right?

Not mention short-sighted. Those workforce housing programs/units are a critical component in making the ultra-wealthy charlatans that inhabit the Aspen area still feel like they own slaves (in the...

Garbage compared to what they grow in the PNW or Michigan. Kill the water rights to those bullshit farmers in the desert and we can start getting fruit that's actually good instead of being...

Warren would have disliked The Dude immensely. Just sayin'.

Not to be petty, but the Wasatch and the Tetons are going to fare far better than anywhere else in the western US in a warming climate, and that map shows exactly that.

Yeah, I would think that for plenty of average Americans a monthly water bill in the $150-200 range would be enough to make them consider moving.