Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;
Ahh fair Sagaponack NY, now the #1 most expensive American Small Town. Things have gone up a bit here.....You need about $4.4 million to get a median home here last year. (no kidding...read this and weep) but then the recession was in full swing so only those with money could truly afford it. (by the way you can add another $90k in taxes yearly while you are at it - local and county that is...we aren't to your income tax bracket yet).
These little towns (Sagaponack only has about 400 residents year round...it swells like a baloon in the summer and that is the high priced spread who has jacked things up and out of sight. These folks come out for 4-5 months or just weekends so the idea of disposable wealth takes on new meaning when you consider the $4.4 million houses a lot of or mostly for that matter, part time residents.
There must be a group of folks walking around who I have never met and with whom I have no connection. These are the folks that probably line up at the trough for the year end bonus and then have to figure out how to spend it. They descend on communities and go into a bidding frenzy and the year around residences are stuck buy hamburger at $5.00/lb for the rest of the year as a result.
I woke up to a television that was left on and Faux Noise was all in a rant about the democratic party's threat to capitalism. Don't you worry Faux, it is safe and well and living in its old sweet home.