- 2014: 685 -- 2,778 (rounds to 2800)
- 2013: 619 -- 2,539 (rounds to 2500)
- 2012: 520 -- 2,132 (rounds to 2100)
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A Note to the Granddaughters
The LaCrosse Tribune is reporting:
TUNNEL CITY— Perry Schmitt describes himself as pro-mining but blames the frac sand mine across the highway from his home for driving down the asking price by more than $25,000, to $189,000.
His neighbors made out better. Kari Curran and her husband sold 130 acres for $1.5 million to a company affiliated with Unimin Mining Corp., operator of the mine. The property was previously valued at about $225,000.
“It was kind of bittersweet,” Curran said. “That was the house we raised our kids in.”Two comments.
I doubt this is "news" to most folks. I know that newly constructed government subsidized housing going up in a neighborhood can lower the value of neighboring homes. Life is tough all over. Be thankful one has a $200,000 home +/- $20,000.
A lot of military folks have never owned a home, moving every two to three years. Soldiers have it bad; US Marines have it the worse. Some "military children" have never lived in one place more than two or three years. I think my wife said she went to seven or eight different schools by the time she graduated from high school. Our older daughter went to seven different schools by the time she graduated from high school (and some of them were pretty marginal) if you include pre-school. I don't think I remember "a house that we raised our kids in." For $1.5 million I could probably get used to that particular loss pretty quickly.
Yes, I'm being catty. Sarcastic. Mean. Whatever. It's a nice human interest story but that's about all.
