Chekhov's Mistress
Todays Irony Brought to You By…
…The New York City Real Estate Market.
My wife and I sold our apartment for a price that we could not afford to buy.
That stinks and is one reason why we are searching fairly far north for our next home. Now, the person who supposedly bought our place is lying to us and may be trying to back out of the deal. There’s another reason for heading north; it seems we always get on the losing end of someone else’s selfishness around here. I’m reminded of a Gaddis quote from The Recognitions…
“But money, I mean, damn it, a man does feel castrated in New York without money.”
Truth is, we were lucky to have bought this place and to sell it for enough of a windfall to buy a place up north, but I find it sad how ruthlessly inhuman the real estate market makes everyone involved. Some thrive on it, the rest of us take what we can get.
That’s all, I’m angry and depressed and exhausted from all of this and thought the best medicine would be to get it off the proverbial chest.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: December 06, 2004
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Song of Myself: Diary
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