Thanks Cindy! :) I didn't explain myself good. No, not rent-to-own. what i meant to say is that you can buy a pretty fine house here in Ky, and your monthly mortgage payments (including homeowners' insurance and taxes) would be $900-1,000 a month. kemal and i had a house which we sold a few years ago, and it was only 26 years old and in a verrrrry nice neighborhood here in Louisville. and we had about 1/2 acre too. Our mortgage payments every month was between $600-700 a month (included taxes & insurance). Not bad!!! Cost of living and housing is not that expensive here. Go right across the river to Indiana and the same house would be even cheaper. Pascale, that's awful that housing is so expensive there. It is here in the states too...just depends where ya go. Mike, Kentucky Fried Chicken (not RAT) is fast food like i'm SURE you have wherever YOU come from!!!! And hey...the bucket is for TAKE OUT. If you go in to dine, you at LEAST get paper plates and plastic silverware!!!! LOL!!!! :) hey, KFC, in case you didn't know is "finger-lickin' good!" Yummmmmmmmmmy! we RARELY eat out though. we don't like fast food. and restaurant food...nah...we're MUCH better cooks!!!! Our food at home does NOT compare to even the best restaurants here in town!!!!