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FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL:
They won't!

e wrote:big enough to allow me the confidence to not start a what do you drive/what do you make/how big is your house/i have serious self-image issues thread.

big enough for you?

trev wrote:You know, the place your reside. Your house, home, habitat, abode, place, apartment, room, pad, etc.

Our place is 1600 square feet with an attached 2 car garage, 2 full baths. I find that this is plenty big enough for us, our 2 kids and 60 pound dog. The boys have their own (small) rooms, but we don't have a guest room. If company comes, the boys have to give up their rooms and sleep in the living room. They don't seem to mind. The dog normally sleeps on the couch these days. I was thinking about getting a sun room and putting in a bar/pool table/game room. That is really the only thing we are lacking in this space. We our about done with the kitchen remodel, pics coming soon. (It's beautiful.)

Toddowen wrote: I just got a free coal stove

Jsc810 wrote:My home was built shortly after 1900 by my great-great-grandfather; my daughters are the 6th generation in my family to live there. The wood was cut from our family's main home and property about 40 miles north of here. It is an easy drive today, but in 1900 a trip to Baton Rouge was difficult, so if you made the trip then you'd want to stay for a bit.

It is a wonderful old house, in the Garden District, close enough to LSU that you can hear the stadium yell after a touchdown. It is a bit over 5,000 square feet, generally with 5 of everything, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 5 kitchens, 5 living rooms, plus a few others. I just live downstairs, 2 friends live upstairs, and we also have storage up there, trying to turn it into a guest bedroom. It is on the Register and in some books, and every so often I'll get a visit from some architech or history buff and they go nuts. Downstairs has 12 - 14 foot ceilings, french sliding doors, some antique furniture, as I've said many times before, I'm an exceptionally lucky guy.

A wonderful old house, but it needs a lot of work, and I simply don't have the cash to do it. I've gotten estimates around $30K just to paint the outside of it. I'm the wrong kind of lawyer to have big cash, but I probably sleep better at night than they do.

Jsc810 wrote:I hired the black male. He recognized the name of the plantation from his family history, turns out that his ancestors were owned by my ancestors. He had heard they were treated relatively well, and he knew about the Rev. teaching them to read the Bible. He remains a friend of mine to this day.

Jsc810 wrote:Yes, I'm for real. I'll tell you another story about that era.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

This is what I'm staying in until my boy wraps up a deal with the Royal Household to buy the Buckingham Palace.

-Zyclone

Terry in Crapchester wrote:1800 sq. ft. (approx.), two stories, two-car detached garage (unfortunately, old doors that don't open overhead, so it'd be a chore to actually get the cars in there.)

jiminphilly wrote:Still only an hour outside Philly.

Y2K wrote:just off MLK Blvd......

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote:

jiminphilly wrote:Still only an hour outside Philly.

I'd say you're anywhere from 5-12 miles from downtown. :-)

Terry in Crapchester wrote: Mine:

1800 sq. ft. (approx.), two stories, two-car detached garage (unfortunately, old doors that don't open overhead, so it'd be a chore to actually get the cars in there.) Four bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths. House built in 1915.

Lot is approximately 1/5 acre, most of which is taken up by the driveway and an outdoor deck.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:bbq sauce bought all that?

Toddowen wrote:A lot of that yard is shaded by a massive oak that must be as old as the house. I'm guessing that it's around 80 feet tall and the trunk diameter is prolly six feet.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:bbq sauce bought all that?

Toddowen wrote:

PL wrote:

Terry in Crapchester wrote: Mine:

1800 sq. ft. (approx.), two stories, two-car detached garage (unfortunately, old doors that don't open overhead, so it'd be a chore to actually get the cars in there.) Four bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths. House built in 1915.

Lot is approximately 1/5 acre, most of which is taken up by the driveway and an outdoor deck.

woah!
almost identical.

Same here. I need to replace my garage doors too.

I've got more yard, though. 2/3rd of an acre. A lot of that yard is shaded by a massive oak that must be as old as the house. I'm guessing that it's around 80 feet tall and the trunk diameter is prolly six feet. Also gots a black walnut that borders my neighbors property that's pretty good size.

Another nice thing is there's nothing across the street except a brook and the entire stretch won't ever be zoned for development.

IndyFrisco wrote:Brook? We call those ditches.

How big is your dwelling?

Trampis wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:Brook? We call those ditches.

We call them "salmon bearing tributaries" in the northwest