NY has generally slightly weird school bus laws. They require a driver's side emergency exit door, two swing-out stop signs, seatbelts, and they don't paint the rub rails black. I have no idea why they have yellow rub rails, makes no sense at all.
It should be worth $600K.
Yeah, the location was not one of those places with seriously insane housing appreciation. Small town in Ohio. 14X appreciation is still pretty good.
I saved up for my house and paid cash. It only took ... uh ... 35 years.
Not even an exaggeration. My parents bought their house in the 1960s for $14K. Their 30-year mortgage went almost to the year 2000 and their monthly payment was fucking $85 the entire time. They sold it fifteen years ago for $190K.
My house was built in 1942 as temporary worker housing. I tore down and rebuilt one of the walls and the original studs were just astonishing: perfectly straight and not a single knot in them anywhere. Compare and contrast with modern studs from Home Despot: split, shaped more or less like a pretzel, and 50% knots.
Interestingly, these old studs were 1.75" x 3.75". I never knew there was an intermediate stage between the old-time true 2x4s and the modern 1.5" x 3.5" 2x4s.
How could you leave out the gas leaks? In every single fucking house he inspects.
The Sopranos did this in one early episode. Dude shoots another dude in a car and is immediately like "FUCK!" and holding his ears. Rest of the series is dudes casually blazing away and "I'm all itchy!"
Ridiculous. How could a place named in 1645 be named after a WWII anti-aircraft platform?
"Yeah, we're naming this river after you guys in honor of your stewardship of the environment. No, it's not going to catch on fire or anything like that. How could a river catch on fire?"
"Ink, AR" because when it was time to name the town a questionnaire was circulated to solicit suggestions, and the top of the form said "write in ink". Except not really goddammit.
This one seems kinda crazy. Like, are stop signs traffic-control signals? I have many stops at stop sign intersections and it's not at all unusual for late kids to be sprinting through the intersection to get to the bus. That's exactly the kind of situation you want cars to be stopping for just in case.