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Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule
as well as like a Vespa/Ruckus. Motorcycle permits are far cheaper and easier to obtain at UT, and they're much more convenient for driving a half-mile than a car. .
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I lived off Riverside while at UT, quickly tired of the buses, and bought a Vespa....one of the best purchases I've ever made. Parked it right next to class with the bicycles (never got a ticket). Sold it after 5 years for more money than I paid for it. This was 1987, btw.
Also, I had friends who paid $2k/mo rent for their Orangetree condo (which wasn't even new or that nice) in 1990!. It was a 2 bedroom!. That is how expensive it was to live close to campus. We paid $465/mo for a brand new 2 bedroom apartment on Wickersham. Total (not each!), in fact, one year, they LOWERED our rent to keep us from moving...imagine that. Oversupply can have an effect after all.
It was insane that the city zoning made us students live all over the city and ride into town to attend class. That was the beginning of my loathing of NIMBY's. Why do you live in a city, when you hate cities so much?