Furthermore, we learned that the average sale price for a residence in New York was $1.6 million. When I ask what you could get for that, I was told a studio apartment.
In speaking with people, I thought that a consul general could live in a studio, since he doesn't have young children going to school, for example, or use the offices on Lexington Avenue for receptions.
Would that be feasible? Would that suitable over the long term, over a 60‑year period? You wouldn't be consul for 60 years. Usually appointments last four or five years. So, do you think, over the next 60 years, a studio would have been a suitable place to do business in New York?