Chelsea Clinton Buys A $10.5 Million Apartment On Madison Square Park

[DreamGypsy]

119. I pity this poor couple...

...paying $2,100 per square foot for their 5000 sq ft apartment, with only 6.5 'bathrooms'.

In 1991 we moved to a 2.6136 million square ft 'apartment' (that's 60 acres) for only $300,000 - that's 11 cents per square foot.

And we paid off the mortgage in just 17 years.

I understand that people have different backgrounds, upbringings, self-perceptions, and life goals that affect their choices in housing ... I respect those differences.

It's true we only have 4.0 indoor 'bathrooms' - 2 in the house, 1 in the barn, 1 in the cottage. But if you count the number of incidental 'arboreal urinary facilities', we have about 200. Many more if you accept the dog accounting.

Yes, the roof leaks over most of the 2.6M sq ft on a rainy night. But on a clear, cloudless summer evening, the unimpeded view of the Milky Way is more than sufficient compensation. On cold, damp winter nights we enjoy the intimate heat of the wood stove, fed by logs and limbs harvested from the property.

Best wishes to Chelsea and Marc in their new home. May you find peace and happiness there -

I step outside to take a leak
Underneath the stars
That's Orion and the Pleiades
And I guess that must be Mars
All as clear as we long to be.

-Greg Brown, The Poet Game