Athwartship means across the length of a vessel, or a direction perpendicular to any point along the fore-and-aft line. Abeam and abreast designates a direction at right angles to the ship's fore-and-aft line; also, opposite the center of a ship. Close.
The most expensive home in the United States is now for sale for a whopping $350 million. The Bel-Air estate may be familiar to those who watched âThe Beverly Hillbilliesâ television series, where it was featured.
As shown in Figure 2, for example, home prices in Californiaâs most expensive metropolitan area (or âmetroâ), San Francisco, are more than double the state average and about six times higher than Bakersfield, the stateâs least expensive metro.s shown in Figure 1, home prices in California are much higher than they are in other large states. (Among all states, only Hawaii is more expensive, on average, than California.) As of earlyâ2015, the typical California home cost $437,000, more than double the typical U.S. home ($179,000).