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September 11th, 2003

There’s nothing like spending a couple hundred thousand dollars on a condo in Capitol Hill (about six blocks east of the Capitol, four blocks north of Eastern Market) to make me learn how to use the Microsoft Money application that came with my Dell Laptop.
Now I have a pretty graph that shows exactly how poor I’m gonna be for the next year.
But I’ll own a home. :-)
(Okay, okay, Wachovia will hold the title, but you know what I mean.)

Greg Personal

  1. anthony
    September 11th, 2003 at 16:34 | #1
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    Woo! Party at Greg’s house!
    I need to make sense of my finances, although the housing market here is even more ridiculous than D.C.

  2. Darren
    September 12th, 2003 at 12:32 | #2
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    Post some photos! Nosy people want to know what a bucket-load of cash will get you in D.C.

  3. Evan
    September 13th, 2003 at 08:51 | #3
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    Photos! Photos!

  4. Greg
    September 14th, 2003 at 06:26 | #4
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    Photos will have to wait until I actually close on the place in mid-October. :)
    For the record, though, a bucketload of cash doesn’t get you much in Capitol Hill, but it does get you:

    • slightly more than in Dupont Circle or Adams Morgan, where you trade off space for hipness
    • way more than New York or San Francisco (see above comment re: hipness)
    • slightly less than in DC’s edge neighborhoods where you wear an orange hat and walk around the neighborhood with a cop to let the crack dealers know the gentry are coming
    • significantly less than in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs where you pay for the difference in hours spent commuting into the district
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