i didn't think there were ANY 30 mil houses in Tennesee at all.
SHIT, the stuff we dunno about,.....amazing the MONEY here in JAX, little old spread out largest city in the USA...area wise, and the surrounding counties.....the estates are just HUGE, and houses big as that too....
along the river, and inland....horse farms, breeders, racers,....
Colgate, Penny, DuPont, just to name 3 really quick.....shit, right down the road about 3 miles is that old Colgate mansion on the river, phreaking HUGE, takes up about 2 acres under roof.... joint been divided up into some sort of club and condos now a daze....even has a restaurant attached to it....super private for very rich folks......little secluded houses along the river about 10,000 foot each....and there are literally HUNDREDS of them maybe thousands....
We drive off back through the countryside where we think nothing is....miles and miles of forests then we see an iron gate and a drive.....
which reminds me of a little story....go figger....this dates back 30 years and I living in Bethesda Md...Wash DC area....
I was a TV repair man, shop manager for a smaller outfit, bunch of us guys who knew each other hung out typically on Thursday night at a stereo repair shop...one of the guys branched out with the new upstart phone company as a installer/repair guy, they got lucky and got a contract with the Montgomery Co. Maryland school system for phones in ALL the schools....
SO, on the job, instlling phones in all the classrooms, etc, Bob meets this teacher...they start dating.....woopie doo, she a really sweet kid, and is from PENNSYLVANIA as I recall, Westchester.....meaning nothing at the time to HIM....so after a few months she meets Bob's family, and they having a great time together:friends::bounce:....
they find a olde tyme farm house that needs all the TLC in the world they finance the thing together and move in to start renovations, doing it themselves........
So eventually she invites Bob up to Pa to meet the family....so they pick some holiday and start the drive....off the freeway on to this nice street, out this street to another street the houses are nice, then getting nicer/larger/more land/large yet/more land even YET..... he start noticing the trees are no longer random, they are all planted nice and neat, he says they turned onto this street with trees not only lined on the sides, but on the divider in the center, one lane on each side....this ain't NO public road.....
One thing about our general backgrounds...we all were basically middle class kids, living middle class lives...in a town FULL of very wealthy/influencial people most of whom are movers and shakers for a goodly section of the world, but we are all basically 'service class' workers...we have a few bux of our own, but nothing major, and so we have houses with mortgages and all the attendant BS going with it....woopie doo.....
So Bob's obvious discomfort level rises as they keep driving, then when he sees the house and out comes her father from the front door to greet them....he about passes out....he dunno how to handle it.....as in that pix above type house.....with several hundred acres.....
It damn nearly cost the relationship, took Bob about 6 months to become acclimated to the FACT that they did not EVER worry about MONEY ever again.....that 'finance' they did on their farmhouse.....pocket change.....
SO, after the marriage which included a take off in a helicopter with the field rose petals blown up in the air as a final sendoff....this being early 70's and so it was an affair costing about 2-3 of our houses......
Last I heard they had kids and still lived in that house they bought and spent years rebuilding the joint, kept their jobs, and had fun....
I lost touch with him years ago, doubtful he would remember me.....
:zzz:
OH, the last name of the family he married into....PEW, as in Sunoco, as in last man standing NOT owned by the Rockefellers when T.Roosevelt broke up the Standard Oil Trust into the 7 sisters.....
