There is an empty lot on my way to work. Actually, it's been sitting there for a while but I didn't notice it because it was hidden among trees and other stuff. Now that I guess they finished contracting and other arrangements for it, they took down all the trees and surroundings, so now I can see really huge empty lot.
On the corner of the empty lot, there was a KFC. That was the only KFC around my area, but it was bought out by Jewish Community Center, or so I assumed. One night after that KFC closed down, my fiance and I had crave for KFC, so we googled up the next nearest KFC, and went to satisfy our crave. There, we chatted with the store manager (or rather, complaining about the other KFC has been shut down), and he told me that JCC paid extra $93,000 on top of what the place worth so that they can get that piece of land. Heck, it's not even that big of lot. But $93,000 for it? It could well be the double of what it's worth. When my fiance and I heard about it, we couldn't blame the other KFC. I would gladly sell it for that price.
Good thing is, that KFC will build another KFC across the street, so hopefully by next year, I'll have a KFC again to go on the way to work/home. Then again, how often do we go KFC? I bet we just wanted KFC because that one closed down :x
But this got me thinking. Jewish Community Center. Built by Jewish. It's a gym that costs $50.00 monthly membership fee. (Pretty expensive I'd say, considering I only need to pay $20.00 a year for my 24 membership.) I was kind of thinking it was just another stupid streo-type that Jewish have money, but maybe that's true after all. Two of my roommates belong to JCC in Foster City, and they've been telling me it is very clean with high-spec gym machines.
Uhm... I lost track of my thought. I guess I wanted to say that if the fascility is so high standard, people won't mind paying a lot of money to use that fascility. A good (?) business model. Maybe. I don't know. Never mind. x_x;
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October 11, 2007
Jewish Community Center
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Hi Passiflora!
Well, I don't know "Jewish Community Center", but is it gym people can do exercise in? Is it "スポーツクラブ" in Japanese? If so that, I think that monthly fee $50.00 is not expensive in my country. Most of the gym in my country, the monthly fee is from 10,000 yen to 30,000 yen. How about you? Yup, it is too expensive. What is the average fee in your country?
Anyway, I like KFC, too! But... I would gladly sell it for that price. Yeah, that seems to make sense. Um... sorry it is difficult to say in English for me. Maybe, I couldn't understand everything on your blog because my English is so poor. I'm depressed...
Aw, please don't feel bad... Sometimes I don't even know what I'm writing anyway... ^^;
Yes, JCC is a gym, sports club in Japanese. Really? 10,000~30,000 yen in Japan?! That's so expensive... >_<; I guess it's good that children have P.E. classes so that they can have their exercise and not to worry about money. I'm cheap... D:
Hrm, I think the most common gym in the States is 24 hour fitness, and... I guess it's about $50/month, too. Though, they have promotion all the time, and that's how I got $20/year deal. I was lucky, but I haven't gone there for a long time...
By the way, you can write in Japanese, too. I'm used to writing in English after living here 10+ years, but I did born and grew up in Japan... ^^;
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