Re: Do bicycles and cars mix?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>"RJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> For my last move, buying a house within bicycling distance from where I
>> work would have cost $200,000 to 300,000 MORE than I paid for the house
>> I bought.
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>And that car cost about $6,000/per year - over the life of a mortgage, you'd
>about break even -- except that the property would probably appreciate at a
>greater rate.

$6000 * 30 years = $180,000.  You wouldn't even break even on the
principal, let alone the additional interest payment and additional
property taxes.

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Matthew T. Russotto                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
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