This was one of those rare weekends when neither of our families or sets of friends had any weekend plans, so we were free to drive around LA aimlessly looking for food.
We started with a hearty breakfast at home. Porridge, vegetables stir fried with sesame oil and soy sauce, part of a BBQ duck we got yesterday, and fresh-squeezed orange juice because we bought a huge sack of oranges for $6.
After a morning of lazing about the apartment, I convinced J to take me to
MILK. I wanted him to try the banana ice cream bar with butterscotch shell. As I predicted, he loved the crispy nutty shell. I got the coffee toffee ice cream sandwich. It was good. The cookie was more like a French macaroon, with a crispy outer layer and very chewy bottom. Next time we plan to bring help to tackle the ice cream sundaes.
We then decided to go to the fashion district and wander around, but got distracted by the
Mercury high-rise development in Koreatown. We've been following its construction for awhile so we stopped in. Gorgeous, of course, but my god. A 400 square foot "one bedroom" starts at $387,000. That has quotation marks because it's really a studio. Imagine a largish studio apartment with the bed area a raised few steps above the rest of the apartment and separated by an eye-level wall. Yup, an eye-level wall. What the heck? The two bedroom 1400 square foot beauties were all in the low $800,000s (with six floor to ceiling corner windows overlooking all of downtown--gorgeous). HOA fees were between $500-800. My lord. In its defense, The Mercury is centrally located, is right upstairs from a subway stop, has a pool, jacuzzi, gym, and rooftop terrace. That already makes it so much better a deal than the condos around Century City. But still, we're not made of money.
We decided the only treat we were going to be able to afford was another trip to Taco Baja Ensenada. I got another fish taco, this time with better photograph.
But the prettiest photos are of the cocktails. J got a large clam cocktail and I got a medium mixed seafood. Delicious! And no one had to go broke paying for them.
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Interestingly, the NYTimes was saying you shouldn't buy if you don't plan to be in a place for several years. I worry about rising housing prices too, and whether I will be doomed to a lifetime of renting if I'm not in a position to buy tomorrow, but apparently it's not the worst financial decision in the world.
It's really not. J and I have decided that the "must own a home or you have failed at life" attitude might (or might not) be a relice of past generations.
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