Living at the edge
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rolanni...of the ocean, that is.
I've wanted to live at the ocean for only as long as I can remember, and periodically thoughout my life have explored ways and means of doing that, only to find that it's way too expensive for people who don't already have trust funds, and regretfully putting the dream away.
Yesterday, though....
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kinzel and I took a drive. We were, we told each other, Just Going to Belfast, and would be home in plenty of time to, oh, write.
Instead, we took most of the day, mooching through Belfast and over to Searsport, where most of the right-hand-tending roads dead-end at the ocean, and in an eventual sort of way wound up on Cape Jellison, which is a sort of ...sub-division of Stockton Springs, where there are --
Oceanside condos for sale.
Maine being what it is, the condos are on a ridge overlooking a protected harbor, Sears Island and the petroleum plant at Searsport. There are walking paths down the hill to the Water Itself, and the condos....
Three stories -- the main story being as big as our present house. Then an upstairs and a basement level. Deck/patio on the main and basement levels. Windows. Lots and lots of windows, all looking out over the bay. Cute little propane fireplace. Garage. Atrium. Fully applianced kitchen. first floor master suite with its own full bathroom. All this and more for a mere $300,000. Plus condo fees. Property taxes, too -- which are likely going to be somewhat in excess of $1798. And the lad in the sales office wanted to know if we were considering buying one for a summer home.
Yeah, right.
Looking for that movie contract in a big way, here...
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No physical writing done on Crystal Dragon. A lot of Consideration going on. Discovered/fabricated a better identifier for the Lords of Matter, did a meager amount of editing/rewrite in and around laundry, dishes, vacuuming, &c.
Heard from a reader who had downloaded and read Crystal Soldier -- lots of positive strokes. Relief. This one's kind of a stretch for us and Ghod She Knows if it worked or not. But! It's intelligible to one other human being. Our work is done.
I've wanted to live at the ocean for only as long as I can remember, and periodically thoughout my life have explored ways and means of doing that, only to find that it's way too expensive for people who don't already have trust funds, and regretfully putting the dream away.
Yesterday, though....
Yesterday,
kinzel and I took a drive. We were, we told each other, Just Going to Belfast, and would be home in plenty of time to, oh, write. Instead, we took most of the day, mooching through Belfast and over to Searsport, where most of the right-hand-tending roads dead-end at the ocean, and in an eventual sort of way wound up on Cape Jellison, which is a sort of ...sub-division of Stockton Springs, where there are --
Oceanside condos for sale.
Maine being what it is, the condos are on a ridge overlooking a protected harbor, Sears Island and the petroleum plant at Searsport. There are walking paths down the hill to the Water Itself, and the condos....
Three stories -- the main story being as big as our present house. Then an upstairs and a basement level. Deck/patio on the main and basement levels. Windows. Lots and lots of windows, all looking out over the bay. Cute little propane fireplace. Garage. Atrium. Fully applianced kitchen. first floor master suite with its own full bathroom. All this and more for a mere $300,000. Plus condo fees. Property taxes, too -- which are likely going to be somewhat in excess of $1798. And the lad in the sales office wanted to know if we were considering buying one for a summer home.
Yeah, right.
Looking for that movie contract in a big way, here...
******
No physical writing done on Crystal Dragon. A lot of Consideration going on. Discovered/fabricated a better identifier for the Lords of Matter, did a meager amount of editing/rewrite in and around laundry, dishes, vacuuming, &c.
Heard from a reader who had downloaded and read Crystal Soldier -- lots of positive strokes. Relief. This one's kind of a stretch for us and Ghod She Knows if it worked or not. But! It's intelligible to one other human being. Our work is done.
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Date: 2004-10-03 11:20 pm (UTC)We suffer from the same issues here (completely aside from the hurricane). The ocean-side/Gulf-side properties are extravagant. When people hear you live in Florida, they imagine you live on this beautiful stretch of beach with the gulls and the soothing sussurus of the ocean as your only backdrop... when you're not schlepping along charming little beach-side towns with quirky shops and people in sandals and straw hats.
Alas, most of us live in the ugly, hot interior. Where it's cheaper. :,
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Date: 2004-10-04 04:47 pm (UTC)Much of Maine is economically depressed, which only makes the $300,000 "summer homes" more grotesque...
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Date: 2004-10-04 12:07 am (UTC)I may get lucky and finish it tonight - if I just stop doing computer stuff...
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Date: 2004-10-04 04:48 pm (UTC)Oh, no! I hope life gets boring, immediately!
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Date: 2004-10-04 04:57 pm (UTC)IIRC, you and
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Date: 2004-10-04 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 12:54 pm (UTC)GD&R
(I think I mentioned something about the prices on property within smelling range of salt water?)
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Date: 2004-10-04 05:03 pm (UTC)Wise guy.
But it's not just the 300K -- it's $300K condos on Cape Jellison being sold (I'm assuming) largely to People From Away as summer and/or retirement homes. It's a gorgeous, gorgeous location, but there ain't nothin' there but the sun, the sky, the ocean -- and 64 luxury condominiums.
Our lad at the sales office was very easy in his reeling off of distances to grocery stores, hospitals and what not. To hear him tell it, it was fifteen minutes to everything of importance.
Now it might well be only ten minutes to Tozier's store, down to Searsport, but if you want something a little more ...exotic... than what's likely to be found in a small-town IGA, you've got to go to the Hannaford in Belfast, which, being on the other side of the bridge, and the far side of town, is something more than a fifteen minute drive on a clear, sunny, off-season day. Add in snow, ice or tourists and it's half-an-hour to cross the bridge.
I'm thinking that a good number of those condos are going to go up for sale again in a year or two.
...not that they're likely to depreciate any...
Yeah, I noticed that
Date: 2004-10-04 05:07 pm (UTC)