I don’t live in St. Louis proper. I live just outside it in University City. Did you know that St. Louis has a city tax such that were I to move into the city I would have to pay one percent of my income in a tax. That’s a tough call. Your car insurance and taxes double to live in an area with less services and higher crime. I like the lofts downtown, but many of the new ones aren’t technically lofts and downtown is not pet friendly.
I’d actually like to buy a house, but not in this market. Anything I could afford would be a disaster area. With the current condition of my credit I’d get the shaft on rates anyway. Ah well, that’s enough idle speculation for one morning, time to hit the books.