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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 2378323" data-attributes="member: 14557">I occasionally think about buying a condo or something.Then I realize that a place similar to my ex-GF's 1BR+den would cost $270k, and mortgage payments would eat me alive.One of my friend's place is going condo, and it's fairly inexpensive.  Now, I see this as a sort of harbinger of doom, given that he lives in a craptastic hellhole, where the elevator won't go if you have more than four people in it, and people disable the security system all the time.  Sort of like how Joe Kennedy pulled out of the stock market a week before the Crash because he was getting stock tips from shoeshine boys.Then I look at my $790/month rent for a studio three blocks from the Metro in a nice neighborhood, and think it's okay (seriously, it is, since I've had it for over 5 years now).  And then I go home to visit my parents, and as we're driving through Evansville, IN, I see 2BR apartments going for $400/month, and sigh.Brad</blockquote>