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griffin said:
Chalk me up as not being for the grunt as well. What the hell? It's ping pong on a bigger table.....there is no grunting in ping pong!!

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Now, both my husband and I are getting congratulatory messages on her championship, from neighbors down there who know that we go.

NBA Championship - check
US Open Championship - check

We'd trade them both for the Stanley Cup though.

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If you really want to know who bets too heavily on this, the golf tournament, the music festivals, and a multitude of other happenings down there, it is far too many of our neighbors. They buy these houses down there, and mortgage them to the hilt, hire a property manager, just so they can lease them out to strangers. They stake a house they can't afford on these things, and their already mortgaged house in their home town.

We have friends who rent their's out during tennis, to people from Switzerland who are Federer fans. When Federer retires, those renters won't be back. When the economy goes sour, there will be no renters, and everyone will sell these houses first.

It's as though they forgot what happened only 10 years ago.....that, right there is crazy!

My husband and I are neither. We first went there when it was booming, at the very worst time it was empty, and now it's up to full capacity again....

We have a lot of people, who we consider friends, that have set themselves up for a long fall, at a time in their lives when they can't afford to lose.

Live simply,,,,,

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