Here's some
entertaining tidbits from the High Country News e-newsletter -- (e-mailed
with permission from Betsy Marton of High Country News)
Heard Around the
West By Betsy Marton
...
UTAH Booming St. George
in southern Utah has an odd disconnect going when it comes to the price of new
homes. The Spectrum noted recently that while median household income was a
reasonable $40,000, the median price of homes featured in a 25-home public tour
was a hefty $1 million, with a $955,000 home considered "affordable" and
"normal." The most expensive house on the popular $10 tour cost $5.3 million and
enclosed 10,723 square-feet. Its footprint on the land was unusual: Part of an
ancient lava-rock field had to be blasted flat by 3,400 sticks of dynamite. The
place dumbfounded one visitor, who exclaimed: "This is indescribable. It
bankrupts the English language." The homeowners say they will live in their new
house six months of the year, spending the rest of the time in
Montana.
...
Happy trails, everyone. That's how it is in today's west - too bad for
the ordinary working man, he's priced out and taxed out of living here.
Enjoy our open space while we still have it. Anyone interested in
subscribing to the High Country News (and no, I am NOT affiliated in any
way with this publication) can go to www.hcn.org
