People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes?

also, I think she was being literal, lol

fwiw, if this were the only thread where laurel pops in to pile on me, i would understand, but she's done it in several other threads recently.

she's been posting on this thread as long as anyone, about the topic!

like i just said, fair enough, if she was doing it just itt. my issue with her is that she has popped into a couple unrelated threads to do the same thing.

http://www.nataliedee.com/122609/hi-fred-were-all-friends-here.jpg

whoops

OK, maybe not since 2001, but since 2006!

jon and I are relative newcomers from june of 2010

lmao omar

is this the "we analyze ilxors to see why they're antagonizing someone who keeps posting about his antagonists"

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:23 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

mh i tell you what right now i'm going to coin a new term that i think is going to be the talk of ilx in the future anytime one of us combatively picks apart a fellow poster's personality, and you are my inspiration: antagalyzing

looking forward to analgazing other ilxors in the future

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Astronomy_Amateur_3_V2.jpg/250px-Astronomy_Amateur_3_V2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/Shippou-Chan/godse.jpg

we finally found uranus

just as well i never have any personal shit going on

I don't even know how I managed to bookmark this thread but

my god it's full of star

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/the-cheapest-generation/309060/

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/the-cheapest-generation-objects-cheap-and-broke-are-not-the-same-thing/261509/

I almost posted those to the gen limbo thread

good luck selling yr houses boomers etc etc

it's gonna happen with boats first, already starting to. at 38 i am the often the youngest at marinas and yacht clubs. weird old people scene, million dollar yacht and who's gonna buy?

Iatee you do realize that sometimes people buy houses to live in them, right?

Pro tip: unless you are selling/refinancing, house devaluation/a generation of disinterested apartment dwellers is the best shit ever! Plz mr property tax man, don't throw me in the briar patch of my house being worth $0.

^^^^ We just got new assessments from our county, the house is worth about $20,000 less than we paid for it 5 years ago. Heavens! Please, don't lower my property tax!

unless you are selling/refinancing

kind of a big "unless" -- if you can't sell you can't move

nobody ever needs to move because everybody has jobs for life, that's just how the world works in 2012

So I guess the answer to my last question then is no

as long as there are guitars, there will be guitar stores

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577619441778073340.html

whenever my real father visits nyc he is always like why are companies based here when it would be so much cheaper in nj or suburban houston or overland park or whatever . . . and then i call iatee to bitch him out

Well, for one, when they interact with other companies in meetings they can go around town instead of hopping in planes and shit

In Los Angeles, Silicon Beach, a roughly three-mile strip between Santa Monica and Venice, has become a notable start-up hub, because its walkability and urban-like amenities make it the place where young techies prefer to live, work and play, according to L.A.-based venture capitalist Mark Suster.

Most of the programming jobs I'm applying for are either in downtown or in Venice (hoping for one downtown)

there was a period when mookdad types ended up convincing companies to leave, eg ibm, pepsi, mastercard, jc penny, but really the overwhelming number of companies headquartered in manhattan are in industries where network effects really matter ie finance, publishing, media. consumer goods / retail companies are much less likely to be headquartered in ny but thats okay cause they won't exist soon.

what's the worst that could happen?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/honduras-signs-deal-create-private-cities-17154881#.UEeAh42PWgx

Investors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now that the government has signed a memorandum of agreement approving the project.

An international group of investors and government representatives signed the memorandum Tuesday for the project that some say will bring badly needed economic growth to this small Central American country and that at least one detractor describes as "a catastrophe."

...

The "model cities" will have their own judiciary, laws, governments and police forces. They also will be empowered to sign international agreements on trade and investment and set their own immigration policy.

Congress president Juan Hernandez said the investment group MGK will invest $15 million to begin building basic infrastructure for the first model city near Puerto Castilla on the Caribbean coast. That first city would create 5,000 jobs over the next six months and up to 200,000 jobs in the future, Hernandez said. South Korea has given Honduras $4 million to conduct a feasibility study, he said.

sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

aren't there places like that already in florida. on a smaller scale obv

what do you mean, disney world is huge

the places in florida are lame utopian planning and

is this the new Reddit Island

it's not like disney got the power to change the legal system or trade agreements in Florida

like nobody moved to celebration florida to flee corruption and trade barriers

it's not like disney got the power to change the legal system or trade agreements in Florida

― iatee, Thursday, September 6, 2012 12:04 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bet we could find counterexamples

joeks

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/08/16/housings-fortune-depends-on-apartment-living/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-usa-campaign-teaparty-agenda-idUSBRE89E04J20121015

tbf most of these people think they're going to still be living in mcmansions in suburbs and driving their oversized cars at the age of 85, as god intended

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2012/11/what-republicans-are-really-against-population-density/3953/

not that this is new or anything but I like this graph

http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/11/26/density_red_blueWEB.png

Isolated Cabin Dwellers More Likely to Vote Republican (The Atlantic)

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/27/how-people-live-in-the-suburbs/

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/6557287/list/Get-a-Bird-s-Eye-View-of-America-s-Housing-Patterns

The "multifamily island" looks to me like it might actually be an business hotel/extended stay sort of place.