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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 03:05 AM
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Poll question: Do you pay more or less for rent/mortgage than the C-Streeters?
Edited on Sun Jul-12-09 03:09 AM by ColbertWatcher
According to information posted in another DU thread, C-Streeters pay a paltry $600/month for living quarters just http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Capitol+Hill,+Washington,+District+of+Columbia&daddr=C+street+SE+washington+DC&geocode=FUlpUQIdmRBp-ynzp5C2L7i3iTGyvJ_WBpAmJg%3B&hl=en&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=41.468285,-98.600955&sspn=31.182559,55.107422&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14">9 minutes away from Capitol Hill.

How much do you pay for your rent/mortgage?
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 03:17 AM
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1. They live ON/IN the Hill;
maybe 9 minutes away from their Offices!
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:52 AM
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10. I'm sorry, I had no idea where the Hill begins/ends. n/t
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:57 AM
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11. That's OK, ColbertW.
Like most hills, it has its ups and downs!!!

:rofl:
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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 03:43 AM
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2. I have not checked out the ads in DC
But I am pretty sure that most places go for more than $600/month in that neighborhood.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 03:51 AM
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4. No way.
Well, regardless, I bet the other people who live in that neighborhood don't get paid half what the Congress C-Streeters do.

Unless, of course, that whole place is upside-down.

(DISCLAIMER: I live in Los Angeles, rent/mortgages here suck.)
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:58 AM
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12. Pretty high here, around DC, too!
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TorchTheWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 03:49 AM
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3. what is a c-streeter?
Suddenly I'm seeing all these threads mentioning C-street... what is it?
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 03:57 AM
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5. I don't know if I would be the best to answer that.
It's the street where "The Family" (or Fellowship) have a "church" where a few of their members who are in Congress live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Christian_political_organization)">Here is a link to Wikip*dia's tube for them.
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TorchTheWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:48 AM
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8. thanks
never heard of this group or cult or whatever it is.
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Island Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 06:42 AM
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18. Read the book
"The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet. It's a good primer on the group.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:43 AM
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7. A xtian cult hell bent on world domination...nt
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:43 AM
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6. What is it, a hostile or a loft flat?
600 in DC is seems really cheap, but I am sure the stipulations are a real bugger.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:49 AM
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9. The Family calls it a "church". n/t
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 05:06 AM
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13. I just was not sure if they all had their own rooms...
shared rooms or it was big rooms with pillows and every one had to sleep naked...

Sanford nude, Ewww, gross :puke:
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 05:11 AM
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15. Considering the fundy's fixation with kink, who knows what that place looks like inside. n/t
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 05:06 AM
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14. Attractive home-like building.
NOT hostel or loft, tho don't know their arrangements. Maybe like apartment/hotel rooms, single/double, etc.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 05:50 AM
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16. Photo here, along with wapo story.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504480.html
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 06:48 AM
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19. Better picture from Google Street View ...


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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 06:52 AM
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21. You're right! Its not one of my 'places!'
May have to familiarize myself!

Have you read the article along with 'my' pic?
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:51 PM
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24. Yes, thank you for posting it. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 06:48 AM
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20. Thank you for the link. n/t
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wellstone dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 06:25 AM
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17. about the same but
hey, I live more than 1000 miles from the capital, and bought my house before the housing bubble.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 07:04 AM
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22. That is about what the taxes are per month on this small house in the boondocks I live in
Edited on Sun Jul-12-09 07:19 AM by NNN0LHI
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 07:10 AM
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23. How About Per Person...
I see this place like a frat house...where the costs are spread around. It's not fair to put the full value of rental without knowing how many other people live in that house.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 09:08 PM
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27. True, but ...
... these are Congressmen, who are paid by the taxpayers. Why are their living arrangements being subsidized by a religious organization?

Oh, and I LOLd with your comparison to a frat house!

LOL!
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 04:54 PM
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25. does that include taxes and insurance?
because that's about half our monthly payment.
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madville Donating Member (743 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 05:10 PM
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26. slightly less for mortgage, taxes and ins.
My mortgage is 438 a month, taxes are 73 and insurance is 48. So that comes out to 559 a month for a 1500 sq ft house built in 1994 on one acre in Florida, not too bad. They have to be splitting or packed in there for their rent to be that cheap or a good "friend" is making them a deal.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 09:10 PM
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28. Apparently everyone in "The Family" is a good "friend" n/t
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inna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 09:14 PM
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29. $1300 for a 1-bedroom apartment in San Francisco (rent) nt
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