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FILENAME:	2547_1093_1101
TOPIC#:		343
DATE:		910410
TRANSCRIBER:	KSH
UTT_CODER:      MMAB
DIFFICULTY:	3
TOPICALITY:	1
NATURALNESS:	2
ECHO_FROM_B:	3
ECHO_FROM_A:	2
STATIC_ON_A:	1
STATIC_ON_B:	2
BACKGROUND_A:	1
BACKGROUND_B:	3
REMARKS:        Speaker B had the television on in the background, which 
was loud enough that I could almost transcribe the voices on it.  The 
television was on throughout the conversation, and was very noticeable 
during pauses in the conversation.

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o          A.1 utt1:  Okay.  /
ad          A.1 utt2:  What, {F uh, } go ahead and tell me about your home <laughter>. /  

sd          B.2 utt1:  <Breathing> {D Well, } my home at the moment is an apartment. /  

bh          A.3 utt1:  {F Oh, } is that right?  <Laughter>. /  

ny          B.4 utt1:  Yeah <laughter>.  /
sd^e          B.4 utt2: I work here in Germantown,  /
sd          B.4 utt3: {C  but } I live in Pensacola, Florida. /  

ba          A.5 utt1:  {F Oh, } that's interesting. /  

sd          B.6 utt1:  {D So, }  I own a home in Pensacola,  /
^h          B.6 utt2: {C and, }  {F uh, } let's see,  /
qy^g          B.6 utt3: we are to compare homes. Correct? /  

b          A.7 utt1:  Okay.  /
ny          A.7 utt2: Yeah. /  

sd          B.8 utt1:  {F Uh, } <breathing> my home [ is, + <breathing> {D well, } is ] typical for the area.  /
sd          B.8 utt2: I live in a development, <breathing> {F uh,  /
sd          B.8 utt3: } it's a relatively, I would say, {D well, } - /
sv          B.8 utt4:  God, it [ sounds like, + <laughter> sounds like ] I'm bragging # <laughter>. # /  

ar          A.9 utt1:  # <Laughter> #  No,  /
bd          A.9 utt2: that's okay <laughter>. /  

sd          B.10 utt1:  {C But } it's upper middle class,    

b          A.11 utt1:  Okay. /  

+          B.12 utt1:  {F uh, } kind of an environment.  /
sd          B.12 utt2:  It's a <breathing> two story colonial, which my wife and I designed. /  

ba          A.13 utt1:  {F Oh, } that's neat. /  

sd          B.14 utt1:  {F Uh, } it has around thirty-two hundred square feet.    

ba          A.15 utt1:  Wow,  that's large <laughter>. /  

+          B.16 utt1:  <Laughter> {F Uh, } five bedrooms and so forth and so on, <breathing>  /
sd          B.16 utt2: {C and } [ it is, + I would imagine in terms [ of, + of ] size and so forth,  it's  ] relatively typical for the area.  /
%          B.16 utt3:  It might be, <breathing> - /
sd          B.16 utt4: I would say it's probably midsized for the area.  /
sd          B.16 utt5:  There are some smaller,  /
sd          B.16 utt6: {C and } there are, [ s-, + {D you know, } several ] larger. /  

b          A.17 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.18 utt1: [ {C And, } +  {F uh, }    

x          A.19 utt1:  <Lipsmack> <noise>.   

+          B.20 utt1:  {C but } ] based, {D you know, } in terms of, {D you know, } [ [ in, + in ] Pensacola, + in that area of Florida ] <lipsmack> [ it, + {F uh, } <breathing> it's ] what now, - /
sd          B.20 utt2: it is, {F uh, } <breathing> probably <breathing> ten years old. -/  

ba          A.21 utt1:  {F Oh, } {D well, } that's not too bad, /  

b          B.22 utt1:  Yeah. /  

ba          A.23 utt1:  that's still fairly new. /  

%          B.24 utt1:  {C And so } it's, <breathing> - /
sd          B.24 utt2: in terms of cost [ [ and, + and, ] + and ] size and so forth, it, {F uh, } <breathing> - /
sd          B.24 utt3: the [ hou-, + {D you know, } housing ] there is extremely affordable,  [ and, + ] {F uh, } compared to other parts of the country, {D you know, }  /
sd          B.24 utt4: let's say compared to Maryland <breathing>,   

%          A.25 utt1:  {D Well, } -/  

+          B.26 utt1:  that same house here would probably cost three-quarters of a million dollars <laughter>  /
%          B.26 utt2: {C but, } -/  

bh          A.27 utt1:  {F Oh, } you're kidding <laughter>. /  

x          B.28 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

qy          A.29 utt1:  <Breathing> {D Well, } do you mind if I ask what it's worth down there,  /
%          A.29 utt2: {E I mean, } what it's, -/  

%          B.30 utt1: [ I really haven't, + I really haven't, ] {F uh, } <breathing> - /
sd          B.30 utt2: when we built it ten years ago, [ it was, + it ran ] around a hundred and forty thousand dollars. /  

bk          A.31 utt1:  Okay. /  

sd          B.32 utt1:  <Breathing>  {C So, } [ [ I, + I ] would have really, + I haven't really ] priced, {D you know, } in the market, /  

x          A.33 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

%          B.34 utt1:  {C so } I, -/  

%          A.35 utt1: [  It, + it ] sounds like, - /
sd          A.35 utt2: {E I mean, } from the way you described it a home like that  here would be at least two hundred and fifty thousand <laughter>. /  

b          B.36 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.37 utt1:  {E I mean, } Dallas is a very marked up <breathing> area,  /
sd          A.37 utt2: although right now it's a lot lower <laughter>,    

b          B.38 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          A.39 utt1:  {F um, } because of all the layoffs and everything <laughter>  /
sd          A.39 utt2: the economy around here is real poor <laughter>. /  

qy^d          B.40 utt1:  I thought that was on the upswing again now. /  

nn          A.41 utt1:  {D Well, } no,  /
sd^e          A.41 utt2: not really <laughter>. /  

bk          B.42 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.43 utt1:  <Breathing> {F Um, } the area itself, {F uh, } the Fort Worth Dallas area, {F um, } has become kind of depressed because there's been so many layoffs with big companies, including Texas Instruments <laughter>. /  

b          B.44 utt1:  Yes. /  

sd          A.45 utt1:  {F Um, } there's been tremendous amounts [ of, + of, ] {F uh, } layoffs <breathing>  /
sd          A.45 utt2: {C so, } really housing is real bad.  /
sd          A.45 utt3: The economy itself around here is not too terribly bad,  /
sd          A.45 utt4: {C but } housing is still real bad <breathing>. /  

b          B.46 utt1:  Uh-huh <breathing>. /  

b          A.47 utt1:  # Yeah. # /  

sd          B.48 utt1:  # {D Well, } # Pensacola has <breathing> - /
sd          B.48 utt2: it's really is a buyer's market there now <breathing>. /  

b          A.49 utt1:  Yeah.  /
%          A.49 utt2: This is, -/  

sd          B.50 utt1:  {C And } it isn't because of the, {D well, } - /
sd          B.50 utt2: there has been a lot of speculative building.    

b          A.51 utt1:  Oh. /  

+          B.52 utt1:  {F Uh, } {A I don't know, } perhaps not in Dallas,  /
sd          B.52 utt2: {C but, }  {F uh, } I'm sure people [ in, + {F uh, } {D you know, } in, ] {F uh, } Galveston and so forth would be knowledgeable about it, {F uh, }  /
sd          B.52 utt3: Pensacola is a Navy town. /  

b          A.53 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.54 utt1:  {C And } home porting was a possibility a few years ago. /  

b          A.55 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd          B.56 utt1:  They were expecting an influx of something on the order of fifty thousand people or more from the Navy, /  

ba          A.57 utt1:  <Breathing> Wow. /  

sd          B.58 utt1:   ((   ))  a new carrier was coming in and, {F uh, } the, {F uh, } attendant, {F uh, } support vessels.  /
sd          B.58 utt2: {D Well, } that's no longer,   

qy          A.59 utt1:  {C So, }  do you think, /  

+          B.60 utt1:  <Breathing> the case. /  

qy          A.61 utt1:  it was overdeveloped then? /  

na          B.62 utt1:  {F Oh, } [ it's, + it is. ]  /
sd          B.62 utt2: {E I mean, } [ the, + the ] number of single family units on sale is phenomenal compared to the population. /  

ba          A.63 utt1:  Wow. /  

%          B.64 utt1:  {C And so } i-, - /
sd          B.64 utt2: overbuilding [ is, i-, + has ] been a real problem there. /  

b          A.65 utt1:  {F Um. } /  

sd          B.66 utt1:  {C So } you can still [ get a, + get [ a, +  a ] ] good house for a very, very reasonable price.  /
%          B.66 utt2: {C And } {E I mean } <breathing> good,  I would, - /
sd          B.66 utt3: let's say typical, <lipsmack> say three bedroom, {F uh, } two and a half baths, <breathing> on a half acre or so  of land <breathing>, {F uh, } <<pause>>  reasonable construction would probably run you, {F uh, } right now [ anywhere between, + somewhere between ] a hundred and a hundred and forty thousand dollars.    

b          A.67 utt1:  {F Um } <lipsmack>, /  

+          B.68 utt1:  And probably, perhaps,    

b          A.69 utt1:  yeah. /  

+          B.70 utt1:  cheaper, depending upon the neighborhood. /  

b          A.71 utt1:  Yeah. /  

qo          B.72 utt1:  What about your home? /  

sd          A.73 utt1:  <Breathing> {D Well, } <breathing> right now we're just renting,  /
sd          A.73 utt2: {C but } <laughter> it is a home.  {F Um, } /  

bk          B.74 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.75 utt1:  <Lipsmack> it's a four bedroom home <breathing>.  /
sd          A.75 utt2:  It has about, I guess, eighteen hundred square feet <breathing>.  /
sd          A.75 utt3: It's on one floor <breathing>. /  

bk          B.76 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.77 utt1:  {F Uh, } we have no basement <laughter>.  /
h          A.77 utt2:  I don't know, /  

sd          B.78 utt1:  Nor do we,  /
%          B.78 utt2: {C but, } -/  

b          A.79 utt1:  Okay <laughter>. /  

x          B.80 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

sd          A.81 utt1:  I wasn't sure.  /
sd          A.81 utt2: Most of the ones,   

x          B.82 utt1:  <Throat_clearing>.   

+          A.83 utt1:  {F you know, } up north and everything do, <laughter>  /
sd          A.83 utt2: {C but, }  {F um, } anyway, <lipsmack> [ it's, + {F uh, } it's ] [ pretty, + also pretty ] typical for the area.  /
sd          A.83 utt3: Most of this area was developed, - /
sd          A.83 utt4: this house was built in seventy-four. /  

bk          B.84 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

%          A.85 utt1:  <Breathing> {C So } most of the, - /
sd          A.85 utt2: it's almost twenty years old,  /
sd          A.85 utt3: {C and } most of the houses around here were built pretty much the same style <breathing>.  /
sd          A.85 utt4: {F Uh, }  we have a friend that lives two blocks over, <breathing>  /
sd          A.85 utt5: {C and } his house is almost identical to us, except his is three bedrooms and ours is four -- /  

bk          B.86 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.87 utt1:  -- {C but } otherwise the layout is pretty much the same.  /
sd          A.87 utt2: {C So } [ I, + I ] think most of them are <breathing> - /
%          A.87 utt3: there was, - /
%          A.87 utt4: it, - /
sd          A.87 utt5: {D like } most areas that are built, <breathing> {F um, } - /
sd          A.87 utt6:  there were probably, {D like } two or three styles you could choose from <laughter>. /  

bk          B.88 utt1:  Right. /  

sd          A.89 utt1: [ {C And, } +  {C and, } ]  {F uh, } that's pretty much all the houses in the area, <laughter> for probably a square mile,  I'd say, at least, <breathing> maybe even a little bit more than that. /  

sd          B.90 utt1:  <Breathing>  {D Well, } the housing here in Maryland is just atrocious.  And  [ in, + in ] the entire D C area.  /
sd          B.90 utt2: [ I'm,   <breathing> I'm ] only about, {F uh, } twelve miles or so from the, {F uh, } border of Washington D C, <breathing> and Montgomery County,  /
sv          B.90 utt3: Maryland is probably one of the most expensive,   

qw          A.91 utt1:  <Breathing> Where are you in relation to Sevren? /  

+          B.92 utt1:  places to, -/  

qy          A.93 utt1:  are you close to Sevren? /  

nn          B.94 utt1:  <Breathing>  No,  /
sd^e          B.94 utt2: we are west. /  

bk          A.95 utt1:  Okay. /  

sd          B.96 utt1:  Sevren is east, near the eastern shore, /  

%          A.97 utt1:  {D Well, } I just, -/  

%          B.98 utt1:  if I had, -/  

sd          A.99 utt1:  I have a sister that used to live in Sevren. /  

b          B.100 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.101 utt1:  {C And } they bought their home <breathing> in <breathing> [ I, + I ] want to say like  around nineteen seventy-five or something like that,  /
sd          A.101 utt2: {C and } they paid like, - /
sd          A.101 utt3: [ they, +  they ] had it built from, {D you know, } - /
sd          A.101 utt4: [ they, + they ] designed it and everything,  /
sd          A.101 utt5: <breathing> {C and } to have it built they only paid forty thousand for it,  /
sd          A.101 utt6: {C and } when they left the area they sold it for a hundred and twenty thousand <laughter>. /  

ba          B.102 utt1:  {F Oh, } that's not unusual, yeah. /  

b          A.103 utt1:  Yeah,  /
qy^d          A.103 utt2: {C so } I just wondered, {D you know, } if the whole area was like that # <laughter> or, # -/  

nd          B.104 utt1:  # <Cough>. #  {D Well, } [ that's, + that ] area over there is not as expensive as in [ the, + the ] immediate, {D you know, } Washington area. /  

b          A.105 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.106 utt1:  {C And so, } [ we, + {F uh, } I ] was just looking, - /
sd          B.106 utt2: for example there is a, {F uh, } condominium complex next to the apartment complex where I live,  /
sd          B.106 utt3: {C and } I was over there recently looking at the possibility of buying a two bedroom condominium.  /
sd          B.106 utt4: {C And }  <breathing> ninety-two thousand dollars for a two bedroom, which is essentially a two bedroom apartment. -/  

b          A.107 utt1:  {F Um. } /  

sd          B.108 utt1:  {D Now, } it was very nicely done. /  

b          A.109 utt1:  Yeah. /  

%          B.110 utt1:   (( I would have thought )) , -/  

qy^d          A.111 utt1:  Sounds like a lot of money though <laughter>, /  

ny          B.112 utt1:  Yes.  /
sd^e          B.112 utt2: [ [  I, +   

b          A.113 utt1:  sure. /  

+          B.114 utt1:  I ]  can't, + I can't ] envision spending that much money, [ and + ] <breathing>  [ on, + on  ] something along those lines. /  

b          A.115 utt1:  Yeah. /  

%          B.116 utt1:  {C So, } {D you know, }  it's, - /
sv          B.116 utt2: [ y-, + I guess you pay  ] the piper  /
sd          B.116 utt3: [ {C but, } +   

b          A.117 utt1:  Right. /  

+          B.118 utt1:  {C Plus } ] [ [ the, + the, ] + the ] taxes around here are phenomenally,   

b          A.119 utt1:  {F Oh, } yeah. /  

+          B.120 utt1:  high.  /
%          B.120 utt2: {F Uh, } for the, - /
%          B.120 utt3: {C and so, } you, on that <breathing>, - /
sd          B.120 utt4: it's not unusual, for example, for somewhere around here [ [ on a, + on a, ] + on a, ] - /
sd          B.120 utt5: [ what we would, + {D you know, } what you ] described as your house and what I would describe as my house  /
sd          B.120 utt6:  <breathing> say, for example, in Pensacola, Florida, on that house <breathing> with the homestead exemption and so forth and so on, might pay three or four hundred dollars a year taxes.    

ba          A.121 utt1:  Wow. /  

+          B.122 utt1: [ [ May-, +   

b          A.123 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.124 utt1:  maybe, ] + {D you know, } maybe ] a little bit higher than that now, <breathing>  /
sd          B.124 utt2: {C but } that same house here, you'd pay almost six thousand dollars a year,   

x          A.125 utt1:  <Breathing>.   

+          B.126 utt1:  taxes on it. /  

ba          A.127 utt1:  Wow <laughter>. /  

x          B.128 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

ba          A.129 utt1:  Wow, that's, -/  

sd          B.130 utt1:  {C So, } it's, {F uh, }    

x          A.131 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

+          B.132 utt1:  {C so, } the question of whether to buy here or move to another county, say, drive <breathing> twenty more miles north, buy a condominium for approximately, {F uh, } the same price, maybe a little lower,  /
sd          B.132 utt2: {C but } the taxes would be, {D you know, } <breathing> perhaps, maybe one-third --   

bh          A.133 utt1:  Really? /  

+          B.134 utt1:  -- {F uh, } of, -/  

qy          A.135 utt1:  That much of a difference? /  

na          B.136 utt1:  {F Oh, } absolutely.   

ba          A.137 utt1:  Wow. /  

+          B.138 utt1:  Yeah,  /
%          B.138 utt2: {C so, } -/  

x          A.139 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

sd          B.140 utt1:  [ it's, + it's ] really sad <laughter>. /  

b          A.141 utt1:  Yeah <laughter>. /  

sd          B.142 utt1: [ This is one, + this is one ] of the most highly taxed areas in the country. /  

ba          A.143 utt1:  Wow.  /
qw          A.143 utt2:  Why is that?  /
qy          A.143 utt3:  Do you know?  /
%          A.143 utt4: {E I mean } <lipsmack>, -/  

sd          B.144 utt1:  <Breathing> {D Well, } [ [ [ [ they + <breathing>, it, ] + <<pause>> the, ] + their, ] + they ] do have an extremely good, such things as extremely good school systems, for example.  /
sd          B.144 utt2:  It has one of the best school systems in the country. /  

b          A.145 utt1:  Uh-huh <noise>. /  

sd          B.146 utt1:  {F Uh, } [ {C and } + {C because } ] the cost of living around here is so high, /  

bk          A.147 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd          B.148 utt1:  public employees make great salaries around here <laughter>. /  

bk          A.149 utt1:  Oh <laughter>. /  

sd          B.150 utt1:  I was reading just recently where the typical administrator in the,   

x          A.151 utt1:  <Breathing> <noise>.   

+          B.152 utt1:  Montgomery County Public Schools makes, - /
%          B.152 utt2: [ [ {C a-, } + {C an-, } ] + {C and } ] I'm not, - /
sd          B.152 utt3: this is, {F uh, } the figure,  /
sd          B.152 utt4: he makes eighty thousand dollars a year. /  

ba          A.153 utt1:  <Breathing> My goodness <laughter>. /  

%          B.154 utt1:  That's, -/  

ba          A.155 utt1:  Wow <laughter>. /  

%          B.156 utt1:  {C and } I, - /
sd          B.156 utt2: by administrator  [ I, +  I ] think I mean, - /
sd          B.156 utt3: [ [ I, + they ] didn't, + they did not ] define it,  /
sd          B.156 utt4: {C but } <breathing> for example, a curriculum supervisor or principal or <breathing> someone, {D you know, } [ in that, + {F uh, } in that ] range. -/ 
