Waltham is the place to be

[dancerjodi]

According to this, the market is as hot as it can be in Waltham:
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/x1275807740/Waltham-tops-Forbes-magazines-home-sale-lists

My Gram's house is still up for sale, with a price drop ($359):
http://www.erakirsch.com/detail.asp?listingID=70822656&agentid=104103&searchtype=ByOffice&

Its been on the market for less than 60 days. My parents are frustrated about it, but it seems that according to Forbes, its following the average trend for the area.

Come on, you know you want to be my neighbor!

Comments

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

We would love to be your neighbor! But we can't afford a house. :(

Random, bizarre question for the day:
Is it WALthum, or walth-HAM?

[dancer.livejournal.com]

its wall-tHAM (as in what you'd put a picture on, th, and the popular easter dinner meat)

[fudjo.livejournal.com]

Hard to say which syllable is really stressed...it's kinda like WalMart, only it's Waltham.

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

Huh. And here I thought I'd always heard it pronounced with the dropped/slurred/whatever last syllable. Thanks for setting me straight. Some friends of ours who used to be townies tried to tell us that YOU couldn't possibly be a townie if you didn't say HAM. Stuck between two townies, I figured I must be mistaken!

Crazy New Englanders... Can't even be consistent in the way they pronounce their crazy cities. Been here 5 years and still making mistakes, I tell ya... :)

[dancer.livejournal.com]

The emphasis is definitely on the "Wall", but the second part is "ham" and not "hum", if that makes any sense . . .

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

Yep! I got it now!

[fudjo.livejournal.com]

WALL-tham.

CHAT-um
WREN-thum
STONE-um

WALL-tham

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. As I was saying about those crazy, inconsistent New Englanders...

How's a poor midwestern raised girl supposed to survive when there's no rhyme or reason behind pronunciations??? Long vowel? Short vowel? No vowel? ARG!!


Glosster. Wouster. Dorchester. *sigh*

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Glosster. Wouster. Dorchester"

nope, is Glawstah, Wusstah and Doahchestah ;)

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

DOH!!

Doesn't matter how long I live out here - my alphabet will always have 26 letters in it! :)

[tk7602.livejournal.com]

even worse, if you are from some parts of the state it's wisstah. and people in dorchester seem to just call it "dot"

[dancer.livejournal.com]

I was just trying to emphasize that the second part was "tham" and not "thum" :)