I keep having to go to the pound/dollar converter. According to that, 1600 pounds is $2,000 and some odd -- that can't be right? Julie Krueger ignorant ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so? Date: 7/1/06 2:03:28 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: Rents hereabouts are say £1600/1700 per month for a small "4" (i.e. 3) bedroomed house in a side street; that's partly because of the student market in Cardiff, Roath borders on the university quarter. But the mortgage payment for a house like that could be a lot less ----- Original Message ----- From: _JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxxx (mailto:JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:22 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so? Egads -- I have a three-bedroom, 1 and a half bath, kitchen, laundry room, dining room, family room and "front" room (we use it as a music room) and my mortgage pmt. is roughly $700/mo (of course that will be increasing sharply w/ the coming interest rates!). Julie Krueger