Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
8 Marks Road, February contract, sold for $1.255 million, on a final asking price of $1.299 (started at $1.395 in September). The owner paid $1.475 in 2006.
Not a house to get excited about, and practically no yard, but neat and clean, and not a bad price to pay for basic shelter in a nice part of town.
266 Round Hill Road’s price was chopped another $600,000 today and is now available at $5.9 million. The owner paid $6 million for it in 2007 and after “an exquisite and complete remodel, restoration and renovation” put it back up for sale at $10.5 million in 2014. It’s been downhill ever since.
It’s a really nice house and in a different market it probably would have sold for more than this, but we’re not in that hypothetical better market. As a full-service blogger, I will offer, gratis, both a decorator tip and my brilliant idea for a buyer’s incentive:
The Decorator combo
And …
If contracts are signed by June 1st
Someone should make a movie about this — oh, wait ….
New York will be using 16¢-an-hour prison labor to produce hand sanitizer for the greater good. Few of the loudest dvocates of a $15 hour minimum wage are opposing this, doubtless because they recognize that it’s just socialism brought to its natural conclusion, a few years early.
Kids taking advantage of dirt-cheap airfares and heading out for adventure.”If I die, I die”, says one intrepid traveler, and she’s right. I’m no kid, and I could give a fig about global warmist’s claptrap, but I’m giving serious thought to visiting a friend in the Philippines on the same principle: do I care if I reach 88? I do care, I don’t want to. I see that nursing homes are now barring visitors to their warehoused patients: if I were in a nursing home right now, I’d be ordering Chinese take-in, every night.*
On a possibly related note, China has shut down the last two of the 16 temporary hospitals in Wuhan which it opened at the height of the crisis. I don’t believe much of anything that the Chinese government has to say about this flu, but this does suggest that buying a pennies-on-the-dollar flight now for a trip this summer might be a smart move.
Or not; no one lives forever.
*whoaa, turns out OCA’s with me on this: Not buying Chinese food is waacist!
AFTERNOON UPDATE; They’re still at it
Geeze, the headline writers had a busy, but productive day
CNN calls Mississippi for Bernie. Sadly, the mistake was rectified too soon to have given the Bernie Bros a fatal case of dashed hopes.
Tyrannus Donaldis
Trump cancels 2020 elections over Corovirus concerns
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In real news that totally actually happened, President Trump has announced that in the interest of public safety, the 2020 presidential election has been canceled.
“It’s just too risky,” President Trump told the press while standing behind a sneeze guard. “We’ll get all these people gathered together at rallies or lined up to vote, and they’re all going to get sick. And Bernie and Biden -- they’re just so old. Sending them around crowds campaiging is basically trying to murder them. Anyway, it just seems pointless for a bunch of people to die when everyone knows I was going to win anyway.”
Trump has been a divisive figure in the past, but so far everyone has agreed with this move. The New York Times, which usually opposes absolutely everything Trump does, wrote an editorial in support of canceling the election. “It’s a smart, science-driven move,” the editorial said. “As important as democracy is, it’s just not worth dying over.”
It’s been suggested that sharing this on FaceBook would be fun; “see how many of your liberal friends believe it and go insane”. That does sound amusing, but (a) I’m not on FaceBook and (b) I no longer have any liberal friends.
(And, searching Google Images for “Trump dictator”, I discovered that the Daily Kos was on the story as long ago as June 16, 2019: “Aspiring Tyrant Trump Ponders Not Leaving the White House”. And Kos readers like, totally believed it.)
Quickly, stash the old turnip away until after the election!
The House Majority Whip is already preparing the great disappearing act:
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