I'm buying a house tomorrow!

[Big Kahuna]

I'm 37 years old, and have been renting and living a hand-to-mouth, slavish-existance all my adult life in Massachusetts. We moved to Oklahoma three months ago. And now I'm going to own a home for the first time in my life! Fucken aye I'm glad I moved out of that damn state! :)

on edit: And it's not a double-wide you smartasses.. It's a real house :)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Congrats!!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[Big Kahuna]

2. Thanks, but put away the popcorn

If I tell anyone from Mass how much I am paying for the house, they will cry. :)

[salin]

5. I fully get it.

loved living in the Cali Bay Area... but could barely afford a small apartment.

Several years after moving back to my home state of Indiana - I own a house, bought a new car ... and am debt free.

In many ways I still miss living in the Bay Area, but in others (like finally getting ahead, rather than barely keeping my head above water) I am much more content.

Per the difference in costs... moved into a 'transitional neighborhood' (going under 'economic development)... bought a house for about 5% - 10% of the cost that a similar sized house would go for in some of the areas I lived and worked in the Bay Area. Yes, even for this area I got an amazing deal - but even if I hadn't gotten the deal I still would have paid a small fraction of what friends back out west have paid.

Of course one of the costs is living in a state that hasn't voted for a dem presidential candidate since 1964... a state that is just recently turning against Bush... but frankly I don't work or live around bushbots - so there is a real disconnect between me, and the "typcial Indiana" political perspective.

Enjoy your new home! :thumbsup:

[yellowdogintexas]

6. honey they probably pay more in taxes than your house payment

I work for a mortgage company and I see this stuff from all over.

Welcome to home ownership!

and Oklahoma needs more good Democrats, too.

[Big Kahuna]

9. I don't know if I'm a good Democrat,

but I definately feel my opinion and my vote makes a bigger dent in things here :)

[lizziegrace]

3. Congratulations!

I have a sister in OK. Her son's a storm chaser. Appropriate right?

Enjoy your new home! :)

[Big Kahuna]

4. The storms are awesome!

You can see these 60,000 foot walls of monster clouds coming at you from 100 miles away, with silent lightning arcing between them. The beauty is undescribable. I've never seen anything like that before. The minute risk posed by tornados isn't even worth thinking about. I'd have a much higher chance of dying commuting on a Massachusetts highway.

[salin]

7. Here in Indiana we get the twisters...

just saw what you described (silent/horizontal lightening between a set of storms) a few weeks ago for the first time. It was mesmorizing. Watched it for more than an hour - and it appeared to barely move. A free and magnificent light show - awe invoking. Most of the time we are more prone to touchdowns of the lightening, heavy thunderstorms and frequent "tornadic" activity (only heard that term lately). Of course Indiana is more in "Tornado Alley" than Oklahoma. At least I know longer live on/around the San Andreas fault.

[Big Kahuna]

10. I was driving back to OK from New Hampshire

the Sunday before last, and drove through that storm in downtown Indianapolis (it was around 9pm-10pm, April 2nd) I had to creep behind a trucker's taillights at 5mph all the way out of the city, the rain was so heavy. The wind almost tipped my van over at one point. It was cool.

[salin]

12. Incredible weekend

the storm I described was a Friday night - on Sunday night there was another massive set of storms... just in time for all the NCAA visitors (and those moving with a trailer form NH to OK). I was an hour south, watching the weather news - watching the tracking of the heaviest of the storms - and hoping that my home (close to downtown Indy - and in the path of several of the storms) would weather it okay. (It did.) Glad you made it through okay - and belatedly - "welcome to/through Indiana"!

Since I was a kid, I loved the thunderstorms out here - very awe striking (as long as they don't hit the house, or where you are...)

Again - congrats on the new house. Enjoy!

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Wow! Storm chaser?? My dream!!

Does he work for the group out of Norman? Or does he chase on his own?

[lizziegrace]

15. He chases with some local chasers from Tulsa

His footage of the Kansas tornado in November was shown on the Weather Channel and CNN.

Check your PM

[Whoa_Nelly]

16. Got it! Thanks!

:loveya: :hi:

[Pithlet]

8. Congratulations!

Your first home purchase is a wonderful moment in life. I'm still in my first house that my husband and I bought over three years ago, and I still sometimes marvel that this place is ours.

[Big Kahuna]

11. Thank you guys for all the kind words

This really is a great online community... warts and all :)

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. Congrats! Very cool!

Am moving to OK within 2-4 months BECAUSE I can afford to buy a house there. 'Course, I grew up in OKC and still have friends there, so it's more of a coming back home thing, too.

Most awesome on the house, Big Kahuna! :thumbsup:

[arwalden]

17. Hooray!! Congratulations!!!

The entire staff of Home Depot and Lowes are about to know you by name... you'll be there so often, you'll get a special parking spot with your name on it.

Have fun! :hi:

[pitohui]

18. whoo hoo

congratulations

there's nothing like it

[crispini]

19. Awesome! Your next mission, should you choose to accept it:

Become the Democratic precinct chair for your precinct. Because there is no better way to meet your neighbors than to annoy them for a good cause! :rofl:

[0007]

20. Congratulations!