Kooky question coming:

I'm not a NY housing expert so I gotta ask, is the Huxtable's house really considered a great one? I know it's a Brownstone, so "ooh ahh," but prices are different here, and I don't know what a Brownstone in Brooklyn will run an owner. Do any of you know the price? Speaking strictly about size, it seemed like too small a small house for 5 kids and parents racking in a doctor's and lawyer's salary. But since size isn't the only thing that determines the cost of a house, maybe I am outer limits, and their place is expensive. I'm just curious to know how expensive. (This is many years ago. So saleries change and housing costs change, but I'm cool knowing the estimate.)

If it isn't very expensive, then it just supports my theory that Cliff and Clair are cheap-skates. They won't even HELP buy their kids cars. All the hard workers here will blast me, but surely they are rolling in money and could give a little to the kids whenever they can. lol. PLUS, throw out the car issue if you would like. But wasn't Clair stingy when Rudy wanted... what was it... $2.50 for a shirt? And let Theo have ONE Gordon Gartrel to impess the ladies. Work the kicks of being richies.

~Okay, I was just joking about that whole paragraph. Clair and Cliff could be charitable--they even offered to fund Sondra's law school and Elvin's med school.
And, don't blast. I support kids working for their own cars. :thumbsup:

You have to remember that they lived in New York, one of the most populated cities in the U.S. So cost of living is definitely higher.

As far as them being cheap, that's isn't an issue. They just didn't want their children thinking that everything will be given to them on a silver platter.

I applaud them for that, because that's what's wrong with some of these kids today, they depend on their parent's finances too much.

(Once again, my theory that sometimes people will just read what they want to read in a post and disregard some parts. I guess that's what I get for writing a great deal--it can make it hard to absorb it all. ;) )

I said I was joking about that "last" paragraph, the paragraph where I called them cheap. Yet, most of your post is devoted to saying cheap is not even the issue. I know that, and I said I support kids who work for their cars. :) (I personally wouldn't want parent's like Clair and Cliff, but that's just me.) Anyways, on to the important part of my post:

Originally posted by lil_weezy
You have to remember that they lived in New York, one of the most populated cities in the U.S. So cost of living is definitely higher.
Yup, and like I said in my last post, prices are different here and I don't know what costs are in NY. I didn't put it in my post (I should have), but I realize that NY has got prices hiked up beyond belief. I just want to know the ball figure price of a Brownstone in Brooklyn. Do ya have an idea?

well, i can figure that in brooklyn now a brownstone would cost between 150,000 to 250,000 dollars, and that's only because they live in Brooklyn Heights, which is a good area in Brooklyn.You figure that the prices would be a little lower back in the 1980's when they bought it, and that would set the price back to probably between 90,000 and 120,000 dollars approximately.(this is only an estimate, it could be a little higher or lower).
JUST A LITTLE INFO IF YOU DON"T KNOW: The outside of the Brooklyn Brownstone house they lived in is actually in Manhattan.

Originally posted by call-alluejah
well, i can figure that in brooklyn now a brownstone would cost between 150,000 to 250,000 dollars, and that's only because they live in Brooklyn Heights, which is a good area in Brooklyn.You figure that the prices would be a little lower back in the 1980's when they bought it, and that would set the price back to probably between 90,000 and 120,000 dollars approximately.(this is only an estimate, it could be a little higher or lower).
JUST A LITTLE INFO IF YOU DON"T KNOW: The outside of the Brooklyn Brownstone house they lived in is actually in Manhattan.

Thanks, call-alluejah! I didn't know the house was actually in Manhattan. Did the show originally have them living in Manhattan? I do know that the first episode where Cliff is talking to Theo, Cliff tells him an apartment in Manhattan costs X amount of dollars a month, making it sound like that's where they lived. I can't remember if early on it was ever exactly mentioned that they lived in Manhattan though.

150,000-250,000 dollars now, huh? Well, I had no idea. I figured even more (even though I didn't think they house was that super). But then, I don't know if that would be considered a huge price in NY, considering other costs of living and maybe varying saleries. Here, a typical lawyer and doctor could afford a considerably larger price than that. Of course they wouldn't if they were very frugal, I guess. And the Huxtable's sound pretty frugal to me.

Wasn't Cliff suppose to originally be a plumber and Clair a homemaker? I wonder what the show would have been like if it stayed as planned.

Yeah, they were on the show living in Brooklyn, a part of it call Brooklyn Heights which is a very good part of Brooklyn. More doctors & lawyers probably do live there.
And it is said that Claire and Cliff were supposed to be a homemake and plumber. But supposedly they figured that in order for them to purchase such an expensive house like a Brownstone in Brooklyn heights, the annual income they would earn added onto the amount of kids they had, they would never be able to afford it. so they made them a lawyer and doctor.