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qw          A.1 utt1:  {F Uh, } what kind of house do you live in? /  

sd          B.2 utt1:  {F Uh, } we live in a one story, just like a style home, {D you know, } the standard Texas, {F uh, } Fox and Jacobs. /  
 
b          A.3 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah.  /
qy^d          A.3 utt2: [ With, +   

qo          B.4 utt1:  How about you guys? /  

+          A.5 utt1:  with ] a yard and fence. /  

qr          B.6 utt1:  Are you in a [ ho-, + ] apartment or a home? /  
 
sd          A.7 utt1:  I'm in an apartment in, {F uh, } Plano. /  

sv          B.8 utt1:  {D Well, } they say those are [ easy to fi-, + {E or } difficult to find. ] /  

aa          A.9 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa          A.9 utt2: they are, if, {F uh, } - /
sv          A.9 utt3: kind of depends on what you're looking for.  /
sd          A.9 utt4: Mine's just a one bedroom place,  /
%          A.9 utt5: that's, {F uh, } -/  

qw          B.10 utt1:  How are rents doing?  /
sd          B.10 utt2:  I haven't looked at rents in a long time. /  

sd          A.11 utt1:  {F Uh, } it's hard for me to tell, because I haven't rented in, {F uh, } probably twenty, twenty-five years -- /  

b          B.12 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

%          A.13 utt1:  -- {C and, } {F uh, } just, - /
sd          A.13 utt2: I'm getting back into apartment life,  /
%          A.13 utt3: {C and } it's, -/  

qw          B.14 utt1: [ What's a, + what's a ] one bedroom, - /
qy          B.14 utt2: are you in a, {F um } -- -/  

ny          A.15 utt1:  Yeah, /  

sd          B.16 utt1:  -- {D well, } Plano, - /
sd          B.16 utt2: [ most, + most ] complexes in Plano are pretty nice, /
sd          B.16 utt3: {C so } you're probably in a, {D you know, } -/  

sd         A.17 utt1:  {D Well, } they vary, from place to place,  /
sd          A.17 utt2: it's hard to tell, {D you know, } how well they've been kept up --   
 
b          B.18 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          A.19 utt1:  -- how old they are,  /
sv          A.19 utt2: {C and } these are probably, {F oh, } one of the nicest that I found,  /
sd          A.19 utt3: {C and, } {F uh, } they're almost five hundred a month for --   

ba          B.20 utt1:  {F Ooh } --    

+          A.21 utt1:  -- a one bedroom place. /  

+          B.22 utt1:  -- that does get high,  /
%          B.22 utt2: yeah,  /
%          B.22 utt3: {E I mean, } /  

b          A.23 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          A.23 utt2: it does, considering that, {D you know, } [ you-, + ] {F uh, } house payments are,   
 
b          B.24 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.24 utt2: I was going to say,   

+          A.25 utt1:  not a whole lot more than that, /  

+          B.26 utt1:  our mortgage [ is, + is ] between, depending on, - /
sd          B.26 utt2: {D you know, } it drops, {F um, } - /
sd          B.26 utt3: seems like in the last six months we, {F um, } got lucky  /
sd          B.26 utt4: {C and } we refinanced,  /
%          B.26 utt5: {C and } it, - /
sd          B.26 utt6: {C but } it was like eight hundred and  something, /
sd          B.26 utt7: {C but } it went down to like seven hundred and twenty -- /  

b          A.27 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.28 utt1:  -- {C so } that's really not, - /
sd          B.28 utt2: I have friends that pay about nine hundred dollars for a town house --   
 
ba          A.29 utt1:  {D Wow, } that's a lot for a townhouse. /  

+          B.30 utt1:  -- in, - /
%          B.30 utt2: yeah,  /
%          B.30 utt3: in, - /
sd          B.30 utt4: {D actually } they're near Plano in North Dallas too,  /
sd          B.30 utt5: {C but } I couldn't believe it,  /
%          B.30 utt6: {C but, } {D you know, } -/  

sv          A.31 utt1:  {C But } that's what happens when you get up in this area, {D you know, } you got all these companies are up here, /
%          A.31 utt2: {C and } these -- -/  

b          B.32 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          A.33 utt1:  -- {C and, } I guess they know they're going to get it, /  

sv          B.34 utt1:  {C And then } I think that, {F um, } nobody was really buying houses there for a long time there because of just, - /
sd          B.34 utt2: {E I mean, } we've been in ours for about ten years, /
sd          B.34 utt3: {C but, } {F uh } there's no investment in it,  /
sv          B.34 utt4: {D you know } --   

b          A.35 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.36 utt1:  -- all it allows you to do is itemize,   

aa         A.37 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa          A.37 utt2: that's true,  /
sv          A.37 utt3: you just --   

+          B.38 utt1: [ on your -- +   

+          A.39 utt1:  -- take off your mortgage interest -- /  

+          B.40 utt1:  -- on your ] taxes --   

sd          A.41 utt1:  -- {C and } that's about it, /  

+          B.42 utt1:  -- yeah,  /
aa^m          B.42 utt2: that's really about it,  /
%          B.42 utt3: it's, {F uh, } - /
qy          B.42 utt4: have you ever owned your own home, /  

ny          A.43 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          A.43 utt2: I've owned, {F uh, } several, built several, /  

qw^d          B.44 utt1:  {C So } you know what it's like,  /
%         B.44 utt2: yeah,  /
sd          B.44 utt3: it's like, when you first, - /
sd          B.44 utt4:  this is our third one,  /
%          B.44 utt5: it's not, {F um, } - /
sd          B.44 utt6: {C and } it's not that exciting after a while <laughter>. /  

sv          A.45 utt1:  {D Well } <laughter> {C and } especially around North Dallas, or at least in Plano area, [ they, + they ] basically all look alike because Fox and Jacobs, -/  

b          B.46 utt1:  Yeah,  /
bf         B.46 utt2: suburban tract,  /
%          B.46 utt3: yeah,  /
sd          B.46 utt4: [ we, + {F uh, } we ] lived out of state for a while and came back  /
sd          B.46 utt5: {C and, } {F uh, } we lived in a smaller city,  /
sv          B.46 utt6: {C and } now we say, {D Gee, } Dallas really is big and polluted <laughter>. /  

aa          A.47 utt1:  Isn't it.  /
sd          A.47 utt2: I can remember, - /
sd          A.47 utt3: I've only been here eight years,  /
sd          A.47 utt4: {C but } I can remember coming to work from, - /
sd          A.47 utt5: I used to live in Wylie -- /  
 
b          B.48 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.49 utt1:  -- {C and } I could see downtown Dallas,  /
sd          A.49 utt2: {C and } now there's this brown haze over it,  /
sd          A.49 utt3: {C and } --   

b          B.50 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sv          B.50 utt2: [ it's really -- +   

+          A.51 utt1:  -- it's moving north. /  

+          B.52 utt1:  -- it's really ] sad because they're not doing anything,  /
sv^t          B.52 utt2: {D well } we're getting off the subject, I guess,/
sv          B.52 utt3: {C but } just like with housing, {E I mean, } they're not doing anything about pollution,  /
sv^r          B.52 utt4: they're not doing anything about, - /
sv          B.52 utt5: it's going to look like, - /
qy          B.52 utt6: have you ever been to Houston? /  

ny          A.53 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah. /  

sv          B.54 utt1:  {D You know, } {F um, } I used to think that Dallas was better than Houston because their zoning --   

b          A.55 utt1:  Yeah, /  
 
+          B.56 utt1:  -- for where you can put a house next to a, - /
sv          B.56 utt2: now it looks just like Houston to me. /  

aa          A.57 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa          A.57 utt2: it does.  /
qw          A.57 utt3:  How long have you been in this house? /  

sd          B.58 utt1:  We've been in here ten years. /  

b^m          A.59 utt1:  Ten years. /  

b          B.60 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.60 utt2: {C so } we've [ got, + {D you know, } got ] some investment in it,  /
sv          B.60 utt3: {C but, } you really don't get anything out of it.  /  

aa          A.61 utt1:  No,  /
aa^m          A.61 utt2: you really don't.  /
qy          A.61 utt3: [  Were, + you said you were ] out of state for a while, was that a smaller town than Dallas area. /  
 
ny          B.62 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e^m          B.62 utt2: smaller,  /
sd          B.62 utt3: we were up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. /  

qw          A.63 utt1:  How was it -- -/  

sd          B.64 utt1:  My home town. /  

qw          A.65 utt1:  -- how were the house prices up there? /  

sd          B.66 utt1:  The prices, {D actually, } a lot better, because Pittsburgh is about the size, {A I've been trying to think, } like a Louisville, or  Minneapolis, that type of size. /  
 
b          A.67 utt1:  Yeah. /  
 
sd          B.68 utt1:  {C And } the prices, what you get here for about a hundred thousand you could get there for about seventy-five, eighty.  /  
 
ba          A.69 utt1:  Wow. /  

b          B.70 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.70 utt2: it's really, - /
sd          B.70 utt3: {C and } we didn't think it was that clean,  /
sv          B.70 utt4: {C but  then } after you're gone for a while, <laughter> it looks cleaner, {D you know } -- /  

b          A.71 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah -- /  

%          B.72 utt1:  -- {F uh, } /  

sd          A.73 utt1:  -- {D well, } {D you know, } a lot of these people that I've talked to that are coming down from, {F uh, } {D like } what I call, the back East --   

b          B.74 utt1:  Yeah,  /
^2@          B.74 utt2: Saint Louis, whatever,   

+          A.75 utt1:  -- especially from J C Penney, {F uh, } are selling two and three hundred thousand dollar houses up there and buying a hundred and  fifty, hundred and seventy-five thousand dollar houses down here,  /
sv          A.75 utt2: {C and } they've wound up getting better houses here than they had there -- /  
 
+@          B.76 utt1:  Really. /  

sv          A.77 utt1:  -- {C so } in a way, I guess it works both ways. /  

%          B.78 utt1:  I guess it's, - /
%          B.78 utt2: yeah,  /
sv          B.78 utt3: [ {C but, } + {C and } ] here I guess it depends on what you want,  /
sd          B.78 utt4: {D you know, } here,  ((   ))  I got a lot of people that work for J C Penney in marketing -- /  
 
b          A.79 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          B.80 utt1:  -- {C and } a lot of the people that came from that area, probably like what you're talking about, [ they had no, + {F um, } they had ] a lot of property but not a lot of house, /
sv          B.80 utt2: {C and } now they have a lot of house and hardly any yardage around it -- /  
 
aa          A.81 utt1:  That's a fact, /  

sv          B.82 utt1:  -- [ {C but, } + {C but } ] they love it.  /
sv          B.82 utt2:  {E I mean, } [ [ they, + they, ] + they ] think they're getting, - /
sv          B.82 utt3: {D you know, } you say, sun room to them, and you enclose  and you can sell it <laughter>. /  
 
aa          A.83 utt1:  <Laughter> I guess that's true. /  

b          B.84 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          A.85 utt1:  {C And } they don't have to worry about yard upkeep if they don't hardly have any. /  

b          B.86 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.86 utt2: {C and } a lot of them I know, a couple women that work there, - /
sv          B.86 utt3: {C and } they don't miss, in Public Relations, - /
sv          B.86 utt4: {C and } they don't miss having a basement to run up and down to, {D you know, } /  

aa          A.87 utt1:  That's true,  /
sd          A.87 utt2: [ there's + ] not too many basements in Texas. /  

sd       B.88 utt1:  {C And } I said, You haven't heard about tornados <laughter>. /  
 
x          A.89 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

qh          B.90 utt1:  How about those, {D you know, } /  

b          A.91 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          A.91 utt2: {D gosh } I remember when I was little, {F uh, } we didn't have a, - /
sd          A.91 utt3: I [  lived, + grew ] up in southern Oklahoma -- /  

b          B.92 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.93 utt1:  -- {C and, } {F uh, } people across the street had a cellar,  /
sd          A.93 utt2: {C and } we never did,  /
sd          A.93 utt3: {C and } it's just like Dallas area, it was tornado alley up there,  /
sd          A.93 utt4: {C and } every spring mom would drag me up at three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning and pajamas and teddy bear across the street,  /
sd          A.93 utt5: {C and } we'd go into the cellar,  /
sd          A.93 utt6: {C and } I --   

b          B.94 utt1:  Yep. /  
 
+          A.95 utt1:  -- to this day, I don't care if I go or not,  /
sv          A.95 utt2: {D you know, } if it's going to get me, it's get me. /  
 
aa          B.96 utt1:  That's exactly, {F uh, } - /
%          B.96 utt2: growing, - /
sd          B.96 utt3: I grew up in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, /
sd          B.96 utt4: {C and, } {F uh, } we used to call the basements actual cellars,  /
sd          B.96 utt5: {C so } it's funny to hear that word, because I never hear it,  /
sd          B.96 utt6: {D you know, } it's like the back porch used to be a stoop, {D you know } -- /  
 
b          A.97 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          B.98 utt1:  -- {C but, } {F uh, } {F um, } the housing is just, - /
sd          B.98 utt2: we like the older houses,  /
sd          B.98 utt3: {C and } I don't know if we're going to stay here or not, depends,  /
qy          B.98 utt4: {D you know, } {E I mean, } -/  

qy          A.99 utt1:  You ever thought about building a house? /  

br         B.100 utt1:  Pardon me? /  

qy^r          A.101 utt1:  Have you ever thought about building a house? /  

ny          B.102 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          B.102 utt2: {D actually } when we were up north, {F um, } - /
sd          B.102 utt3: {C but } some family things changed  /
sd          B.102 utt4: {C so } we ended up come back down here, and all that, because it helped my husband's work,  /
sd          B.102 utt5: {C but, } {F um, } we really would like to,  /
sd          B.102 utt6: {C but } we don't know if we're going to do it unless we stay here, {D you know. } /  
 
aa          A.103 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa          A.103 utt2: that's true,  /
sv          A.103 utt3: especially when, - /
sv          A.103 utt4: with T I it's like  anybody else, you never know how long you're going to [ be here, + be ] in one place, {D you know, } /  

b          B.104 utt1:  Yeah,  /
ba          B.104 utt2: it's real tough,  /
sd          B.104 utt3: {E I mean, } the economy any more, - /
sv          B.104 utt4:  {E I mean, } I think everybody just lives under an umbrella, the uncertainty with housing --   

b          A.105 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.106 utt1:  -- and everything,  /
sd          B.106 utt2: {D you know, } it's, -/  

qy          A.107 utt1:  Do you work? /  

br          B.108 utt1:  Pardon me? /  

qy^r          A.109 utt1:  Do you work? /  

ny          B.110 utt1:  Yes,  /
sd^e          B.110 utt2: I do. /  

qw          A.111 utt1:  {D Well, } how do you handle, - /
qy          A.111 utt2: do you have kids? /  

nn          B.112 utt1:  No,  /
sd^e          B.112 utt2: we don't. /  

sd          A.113 utt1:  {C So } you got, - /
sd          A.113 utt2: he's working and working to get this big house to take care of, - /
qw          A.113 utt3: how do you manage both of those? /  

^h          B.114 utt1:  {F Uh, } how do we take care of the house.  /
sd          B.114 utt2:  {D Well, } I don't have a Mexi-, - /
t1          B.114 utt3: I [ don't, + ] shouldn't say that,  /
sd          B.114 utt4: I don't have an ethnic maid <laughter>. /  

b          A.115 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.116 utt1:  I don't have, - /
sd          B.116 utt2: we have some friends that live near North Dallas  off of Campbell Road,  /
sd          B.116 utt3: {C and } they have like a four thousand square foot home,  /
sd          B.116 utt4: {C and } she's got [ a, + {F uh, } a ] live out nanny.  {F Um, }  /
sd          B.116 utt5: {C but } any rate, I don't have any of that, {F um, }  /
h          B.116 utt6: I don't know,  /
sd          B.116 utt7: it's really not too  difficult with no children and just two people, {D you know. } /  
 
qy^d          A.117 utt1:  You basically --   

sd         B.118 utt1:  We have a, -/  

+          A.119 utt1:  -- can take care of everything yourself, /  

ny          B.120 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          B.120 utt2: we have a dog,  /
sd          B.120 utt3: {C and } we're pretty, - /
sd          B.120 utt4: {E I mean, } we're not fanatically neat,  /
sd          B.120 utt5: {C but, } {F um, } we keep things up, {D you know } --   

b          A.121 utt1:  Yeah, /  

+          B.122 utt1:  -- not like where there is three feet of weeds or anything in the yard --   
 
b          A.123 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.124 utt1:  -- by the time you need to, {F um, } get around to fertilizing and  cutting in the spring. /  
 
qw          A.125 utt1:  What about home repairs and stuff,  /
qy          A.125 utt2: do you have to do all that yourself,  /
%          A.125 utt3: {C or, } -/  

nn          B.126 utt1:  {F Um, } no,  /
sd^e          B.126 utt2: we're pretty much, {F um, } - /
sd          B.126 utt3: [ we, + we've ] been around long enough as a couple that we learned a long time ago not to wall paper together <laughter> --   

aa          A.127 utt1:  {F Oh, } you too. /  

+          B.128 utt1:  -- and things like that.  /
sd          B.128 utt2: {F Uh, } we pretty much hire, - /
sd          B.128 utt3: we subcontract mostly everything --   
 
b          A.129 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.130 utt1:  -- {E I mean } other than anything that's not a, {F um, } - /
sd          B.130 utt2: {E I mean, } I know how to fix a running toilet -- /  
 
b          A.131 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah. /  

sd          B.132 utt1:  -- he does what he needs to,  /
sd          B.132 utt2: {C but } mostly if it's something major, {F um, } {D you know, } cleaning out the air conditioning ducts or something like that, we just hire out to do that, /  
 
sv          A.133 utt1:  Sounds like you've already got the makings for being a general contractor, /  
 
aa          B.134 utt1:  <Laughter> Yeah,  /
bd          B.134 utt2: no thanks,  /
%          B.134 utt3: I, -/  

sv          A.135 utt1:  If you don't wall paper it well together, you should probably not build a house together. /  
 
qy          B.136 utt1:  Have you ever done that,  /
sv@          B.136 utt2: {E I mean, } you sound like you may have been a couple one time. / *[[built = been]]

aa          A.137 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          A.137 utt2: I built three houses in my life  /
o@          A.137 utt3: {C and, }   

qo          B.138 utt1:  {C And } how'd that go? /  

+@          A.139 utt1:  {F Oh, } they, - /
sd          A.139 utt2: the building process was a lot of fun -- /  

b          B.140 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.141 utt1:  -- {C but } puts a lot of strain on things. /  

sd          B.142 utt1:  Getting to agree to things, I'm sure, - /
sv         B.142 utt2: {C and } I also think that once you get to be, {F um, } {D you know, } certain, - /
sv          B.142 utt3: when you get to be thirty something and thirty something gets to be a little bit older <laughter> --   
 
b          A.143 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.144 utt1:  -- you start, {F um, } - /
sv         B.144 utt2: the dollar value on things --   

aa          A.145 utt1:  You bet. /  

+          B.146 utt1:  -- I, - /
sv          B.146 utt2: {D you know, } I think people that own homes a lot in North Dallas are very materialistic. /  
 
aa          A.147 utt1:  {F Oh, } you bet. /  

sd^t          B.148 utt1:  I know I'm supposed to talk about homes,  /
sv          B.148 utt2: {C but } [ people that, + the people that ] own them are the [ hom-, + homes ] themselves,  /
sv          B.148 utt3: {C and } {D you know, } {F um, } spending sixteen dollars a yard for custom draperies, for custom drapes just doesn't <laughter>, -/  
 
b          A.149 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah.  /
sv          A.149 utt2:  {D Well, } to some of them I guess it doesn't matter, {D you know, } that maybe --   
 
b          B.150 utt1:  Yeah,  /
%          B.150 utt2: that's, -/  

+          A.151 utt1:  -- they've got enough coming in to take care of it, /  
sd          B.152 utt1:  {E I mean, } [ {C and, } + {C and } ] {D you know, } you see a lot of these people that came [ east  from,  + {F uh, } west, [ from, +  {F uh, } from ] ] New York with Exxon or J C Penney,  /
sv          B.152 utt2: {C and } it's just a hoot to watch them. /  

qy          A.153 utt1:  Are [ they, + they, ] - /
sv          A.153 utt2: as far as they're concerned, they've come to the promised land,  /
sv          A.153 utt3: {D you know, } they've got it made, /  

aa          B.154 utt1:  Right,  /
aa^r          B.154 utt2: right,  /
aa          B.154 utt3: exactly,  /
qy          B.154 utt4: {C so, } {D well } was it hard to adjust living in an apartment after being in a house. /  
 
ny          A.155 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah,  /
sd^e          A.155 utt2: {C because } you're [ combine-, + ] {F uh, } confined by space,  /
sd          A.155 utt3: {D you know, } I had a, - /
sd          A.155 utt4: I came out of a thirty-one hundred square foot two story --   
 
ba          B.156 utt1:  {F Oh, } my goodness -- /  

+          A.157 utt1:  -- house. /  

b          B.158 utt1:  -- yeah. /  

sd          A.159 utt1:  {C And } I had room for everything,  /
sd          A.159 utt2: in fact I had more room than knew what to do with.  /
h          A.159 utt3:  I don't know -- /  

b          B.160 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sv          A.161 utt1:  -- just seems like [ room, + stuff ] always expands to fill available space,  /
o@          A.161 utt2: {C but } --   

b          B.162 utt1:  Yeah. /  
 
+         A.163 utt1:  -- {F uh. }

sv          B.164 utt1:  {D Well, } in a way you can travel light. /  

+@          A.165 utt1:  Yeah,  /
%          A.165 utt2: you can, - /
sv          A.165 utt3: {D you know, } you lear-, you adjust, you figure out, /  
 
qw          B.166 utt1: [ How is, + how is ] apartment dwelling living in terms of general privacy and noise and things like that? /  

sd          A.167 utt1:  It's not as bad as I thought it was -- /  

b          B.168 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.169 utt1:  -- it's not as bad as I remembered, especially going to college and living in apartments there, you know how noisy that can be. /  

aa          B.170 utt1:  Yes,  /
aa          B.170 utt2: I do. /  

sd          A.171 utt1:  {F Uh, } there seems to be more a mature crowd in, {F uh, } apartments, at least where I am, {F uh, } even though, {D you know, } there's kids all around  /
sd          A.171 utt2: {C and } [ there's, + there's ] traffic  /
sd          A.171 utt3: {C and } there's people running up and down the sidewalks and stuff like that,  /
sd          A.171 utt4: {C but } still, {F uh, } -/  

qy^d          B.172 utt1:  Everybody pretty much [ [ kee-, + keeps-, ] + keeps ] to their own turf, so to speak. /  
 
ny          A.173 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e^m          A.173 utt2: pretty much,  /
sd          A.173 utt3: {C and, } {F uh, } there's never really any, - /
sd          A.173 utt4: {F oh } I remember in school, - /
%          A.173 utt5: there's just, - /
sd          A.173 utt6: seem like there was a fight or  a party or something going on every night -- /  
 
b          B.174 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          A.175 utt1:  -- You don't run into that up here, [ I think, + I think ] because there's so many, {F uh, } professional people, if you want to call them that --   
 
b          B.176 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          A.177 utt1:  -- that go spend all day at work  /
sv          A.177 utt2: {C and } they want to come home  /
sv          A.177 utt3: {C and } they want some quiet, /  

bf          B.178 utt1:  Relax and try to go to sleep,  /
b          B.178 utt2: really,  /
%          B.178 utt3: yeah. /  

sd          A.179 utt1:  You see a lot of activity outside, people riding bikes, playing ball, or jogging  /
sd          A.179 utt2: {C or } they're doing this and that,  /
sd          A.179 utt3: {C and } [ they, + they're ] trying [ to, + to ] unwind. /  

sv          B.180 utt1:  I think Plano in general is getting a little more, - /
sv          B.180 utt2: {D well } it's gotten so big it's almost a town in it's own right. /  
 
b          A.181 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah,  /
sd          A.181 utt2: it's a hundred and what, eighty thousand, something like that. /  
 
b^m          B.182 utt1:  {C Or } something,  /
%          B.182 utt2: yeah,  /
%          B.182 utt3: the price of home, - /
sd          B.182 utt4: {D now } [ we paid, + {F oh, } we paid, ] {F um } about seventy-eight nine for our house like I said, about a decade ago, not even, about nine years ago,  /
sd          B.182 utt5: {C and, } I'd say they appraised it, - /
sd          B.182 utt6: [ it's + ] gone up, [ you now, + ] maybe like five percent -- /  
 
b          A.183 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah. /  

sv          B.184 utt1:  -- {C so } it's an investment,  /
sd          B.184 utt2: {C but } it's something that, - /
sd          B.184 utt3: {D you know, } when you're first married or starting out, you think if you really have something,  /
sd          B.184 utt4: {C but } you really, - /
sd          B.184 utt5: it's just real, - /
sv          B.184 utt6: nowadays, with the way the income tax, I think housing is strictly to itemize. /  
 
aa          A.185 utt1:  {F Oh, } you bet,  /
sv          A.185 utt2: {C and } the thing [ that, + that ] gets me is, {F uh, } you never really catch up, you never really finish doing things, /
sv          A.185 utt3: {C and, } {F uh } --   

aa          B.186 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa          B.186 utt2: exactly,  /
%          B.186 utt3: we, -/  

+          A.187 utt1:  -- you're always paying for something. /  

b          B.188 utt1:  Yeah,  /
%          B.188 utt2: {C and } even, - /
sd          B.188 utt3: {D you know, } {E I mean, } {D like } we had, I called them prefabs, just a tract home,  /
sd          B.188 utt4: {D you know, } {E I mean, } [ we, + we ] had one of their homes that was nicer in Pennsylvania,  /
sd          B.188 utt5: {C but, } {F um, } it was an older home,  /
sv          B.188 utt6: {C but then, } you buy an older home and you're always fixing things up, /  

aa          A.189 utt1:  {F Oh, } you are, constantly,  /
sv          A.189 utt2: there's always something going wrong, /  

%          B.190 utt1:  {C So, } {D you know, } -/ 
