Rent is $755 a month for a two-room. They pay for water (which is awesome since we have a dishwasher and washer/dryer.) We pay electricity, and haven't gotten our first bill yet. We didn't pay electricity at our last place so I'm not sure what to expect yet. Obviously we don't pay any property taxes.

We'd rather live in a house. We don't need acres of property, but we'd like to not be able to spit on the neighbor's wall either. However, compared to Heritage Park where we came from we've got a really nice place. My only structural complaint is that the walls are so paper-thin. Either our downstairs neighbor has sex a lot, or he needs a lot more fiber in his diet.

Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!
Philip Nolan, the man without a country

I live in the Hidden Ridge/Cedrona/Madera area off Kaiser Rd. by TESC.  We own a home we moved into 9 years ago and our mortgage payment is $2400.00 a month.  Our utilities vary between summer & winter but an average is water, gas, electric, phone, cable, internet runs about $600 to $700 a month.  My husband does the tax stuff, (I'm just responsible for paying the bills & doing the grocery shopping) so I'm not really sure what our property taxes are currently but it I recall he mentioned them being close to $8,000 a year or 2 ago.

I'm not living where I'd like to be because our homeowners association is a pain in the ass, as are the nazi's who run it, and I can't really say I'm very happy with Capital High School but I'll spare you the gory details.  I'd prefer to be on the water but know that's unrealistic for our income so this is my reasonable living goal.

"Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence." - Unknown

An older neighborhood (built in the early to mid 70's) but our house was built in 2003.  The lot was purchased by an adjacent homeowner and he sat on it for years.  In the process of building himself a new home he inherited 660 acres in Arkansas.  Our sale price was deeply discounted because he needed the money to get to Arkansas.

Our monthly payment is ~$1,200 for 1867 sqft.  With 3 kids it's cozy but I enjoy close living quarters.  I do have a post-constrution office in the garage that I built for work space (I work from home 2-3 days a week).  I could live here forever if we had one more bedroom.

At some point we'll move but I'm not sure where.  Ideally I'd like to live near the ocean (Grayland/Wesport area) with neighbors in sight but far enough away that I can pee off my back porch.  Nothing like peeing outside.  My only real motivation for not having neighbors is not to be hassled over my lifestyle or my choices in life.  And the porch thing...

I'm so Boulevard, when I start a new fantasy baseball/football team, I always name them "The Boulevard Irish."

We've lived in our current home since 2003, I grew up in a house just about a mile away. We have just under 1500 square feet on a .2 acre lot. Around 1980 construction, just about when the bottom fell out of the market back then, so a builder buddy of mine told me they put a lot of extra work into the house to make it sellable.

Our mortgate is ~$1200 with taxes about $2,000 a year or so.

But, we are looking to move at some point. I married a girl from Tumwater, so she's always thinking of ways to get us to move to move down south. I'm Olympia, so I'd rather stay here, but looking at 1900 square feet, it might be kind of hard to find.

Let's see.  We bought our house about 5 years ago.  We live off of Boulevard Rd. as well.  We started out with 1400 square feet and a mortgage of about 1200 a month.  We recently remodeled our kitchen and added a music studio for the piano/plethora of sheet music/computer/my art supplies and also made the family room bigger and put in hardwood floors in the exsisting living and dining rooms.  So now we have 1800 square feet and our mortgage is 1600 per month.  Gas and electric are around 75 per month, water/garbage/recycle is about 140/150  every other  month. 

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.  ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Our community is made up of "haves" and "have nots".  We happen to be lucky enough to afford to be a "have".

.20 acres, 1200 sq ft rambler with full garage and full storage shed, on the golf course.  $1,700 a month, but that represents 100% financing, with seller paying the closing, thus we moved in for $500 (playing the cash flow game and winning so far)

Mrs Larry and I are empty nesters, both work full time at slightly better than average incomes and I have a second income with my music.

Everyday that  I drive by other parts of my community, I'm thankful for what I have today, and remember that there were times in my life that I wasn't quite so "flush".