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    Sitri
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    Forget about Alburq. and New York. This is where it is at...LOL





    HOUSING prices are falling on both coasts, and bubble panic is around the corner. The financial magazines are already grabbing their readers by the throat and taunting them with headlines like: “U.S. Housing Crash Continues!” “Where Will Housing Prices Fall the Most?” “Is It Time to Cash Out?”

    What if it is time to cash out? Where do you go? If you sell on either coast, then you need to find real estate somewhere that the housing bubble missed. Guam? American Samoa? Wait, how about eastern Nebraska? Downright frothless when it comes to housing: the median home price here usually chugs along at the annual rate of inflation and never goes down (up 4 percent last year, up 22 percent over the last five years).

    Before you recoil in horror at the thought of living in Omaha, a city of 414,000 souls, consider that this year Money magazine ranked it seventh of the nation’s 10 best big cities to live in, ahead of New York City, which ranked 10th. O.K., now you may recoil in horror.

    These compelling statistics have Nebraskans preparing for the imminent arrival of several million New York refugees (victims of post-traumatic bubble anxiety disorder), who will need emergency real estate and housing triage services. The accompanying chart gives some facts and figures for Manhattan condo owners contemplating the big move to the Big O.

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    They have Warren Buffett, the College World Series, and a world class zoo. That's about it. Take those away and any other mid-size Midwestern city will substitute nicely.

    A little snip from the article I had to laugh at:
    Here are some other pros and cons to consider before cashing out and heading to flyover country.

    Pros:

    • Traffic (cars move around, at or near the speed limit).

    ...or over it, even at rush hour.
    • The local news (high school sports instead of murders).


    ...the author has clearly never been to Omaha. Every time I go home to visit the folks, the first three stories on the local news usually involve a homicide, or at least an attemped one.
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

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    Sitri
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    Hey doc.. are you from O!?

    Don't forget New York can't compare to Omaha restaurants. The Bohemian Cafe, the Alpine Inn, the Surfside Club.

    It is a lie about H.S. Sports. It is all Cornhusker Football.

    It is the only place where (and I kid you not) a couple of months ago Warren Buffett the richest man on earth decides to go out for a Bronco burger, gets rear ended by a young girl, waits for the police, and then proceeds to continue on to get his Bronco burger for dinner.

    Where Warren and Bill Gates will head over to the local duplicate bridge club and play with the little old ladies.

    You can buy a new "really nice" house for $135,000.

    Take comfort for being superior in the fact that you live in Omaha and not in Council Bluffs, Ia.

    And fly to Las Vegas, or Chicago cheap cheap cheap.

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    ^ I frigging loved Omaha! It is so clean there.

    I moved away from a congested, yuppified part of CA & I am so happy. The only excitement in this town comes from errant deer, skunks and bears.

    Warren Buffet really lives there? I'd love to meet him, thank him for his charitable works, and let him know Asia Carrera is one of his biggest fans......(Truth is stranger than fiction.)

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