Ah, I see my error. That was a purchase price in thousands of Euros vs
a monthly rental price in units of Euros. So, relative to here, not so
cheap for a 2 bedroom house.
Chuck Norcutt
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Thanks for looking, Chuck. Your order of preference is pretty close to
> mine.
>
> As for the billboard, yes, two bedroom apartment near the beach (but
> not in the first line) for € 195K, allegedly reduced from € 243K. Lots
> of new, empty apartments like that around here. 2-3 years ago most of
> the buyers would have been Brits, Germans and Dutch (with a sprinkling
> of other Northern Europeans thrown in) looking either for a pleasant
> place to retire, or if younger, just a vacation home. Now with the
> deep recession all over the place, home price falling in the source
> countries, and in the case of the UK, a sharp fall in the value of the
> pound vs. the Euro during the past year, those buyers are staying away.
>
> Mainly because of that, Spain is now in a fairly severe recession. It
> was not directly affected by the financial crisis--no big Spanish bank
> has failed or needed government support, but the spillover effects on
> the real economy have hit as hard here as anywhere else.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
> On Dec 6, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> The clear winner is Alt 11 for the dramatic sky accented with the
>> plane
>> but Alt 2 wins in the "human interest" category. I can't help but
>> wonder how that little guy gets where he is.
>>
>> And do I interpret that billboard correctly? Two bedroom apartment
>> with
>> garage and storage room for 195 Euros/month... or is it per week? If
>> per month maybe I'll be coming over. Even per week isn't bad. ;-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>> This week was really quite slow, photographically speaking. When I
>>> downloaded the CF card to the computer this morning, there were only
>>> 70 pictures on the card, which had been in my camera since Sunday--
>>> that's only 2 rolls of film, considerably less than I normally shoot
>>> during a week. But hopefully there is something here that will please
>>> the audience. There is some glorious light, some mountains and a
>>> small
>>> town. Sadly, no señoritas this week.
>>>
>>> http://www.fotocycle.dk:80/paws/?page_id=170
>>>
>>> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>>
>>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>>
>>>
>>>
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