News Flash: Everyone Wants to Live in the City
If you weren’t already convinced that city life is becoming increasingly preferable to suburban life, see this article in The New Republic, which looks at a trend called “demographic inversion”—a reversal of the white flight that helped hollow out the inner city beginning in the 1950s. The author quantifies what many Brooklynites already know: the…
If you weren’t already convinced that city life is becoming increasingly preferable to suburban life, see this article in The New Republic, which looks at a trend called “demographic inversion”—a reversal of the white flight that helped hollow out the inner city beginning in the 1950s. The author quantifies what many Brooklynites already know: the neighborhoods closest to vocational and cultural hubs (like, dare we say, Manhattan) and with shopping and services in walking distance are the most popular, forcing poorer folks to move further and further out. There’s been plenty of talk about the suburbs potentially turning into 21st century slums but what will 21st century cities look like if demographic inversion continues? “In the worst case, demographic inversion would result in the poor living out of sight and largely forgotten in some new kind of high-rise projects beyond the city border, with the wealthy huddled in gated enclaves in the center.”
Trading Places [The New Republic]
Beyond Gentrification [Curbed]
Photo by Daily Phototherapy.
“”I am neither married nor do I have children. Nice try.”
Finally, you tell the truth.
The What”
Excellent debating skills, what.
“Are you Biff and Dave in that Homo Rodeo thing?”
No, but I think you and DOW are.
Wasder, I agree with you that DOW and what are the same person. Different personalities, but the same person.
“If no one loans you money to buy a house then how much is the house worth?”
If no one lends you money, you can’t afford to buy a house and the valuation question is moot. Those of us with jobs and savings can still afford a house. Check the biggest sales of the week on this site for others with jobs and savings. Shame the same cannot be said of you.
wasder, did you notice how the What stopped giving the countdown? He’s either too spineless or incapable of counting backwards. Oh wait…it’s both!
Hmm, yesterday in the same thread, the What said
“You didn’t suck my balls…I’m waiting….”
“All of you can blow me…”
Clearly he’s looking for a front row seat to the “Homo Rodeo thing”!
Regardless, it’s just made my day finding out that the What and DOW8000SP800 are one and the same. I didn’t realize multiple personalities was part of his mental disorder. How pathetic…
Riddle me this–if you go around creating unpleasant alteregos on a real estate board with the express purpose of pissing on everyone’s dreams and aspirations, how much is your credibility worth?
I just want to leave this little diddy, Fucktards!
Fannie Mae, Battling Losses, to End Alt-A Mortgages
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ac.pGKwsRx5k
Fannie won’t accept new Alt-A loans after Dec. 31, according to a statement today. The mortgages, which make up about 11 percent of the $3 trillion financed by the Washington-based company, accounted for almost half of second-quarter credit losses, Chief Financial Officer Stephen Swad said today on a conference call.
Riddle me this? If no one loans you money to buy a house then how much is the house worth?
The What
Someday this war is gonna end….
Nobody here, or at least me, will say that there isn’t some truth to what The Twat says but almost everything he says is some kind of “sweeping pronouncement” so grand as to be indefensible. So it is comical that you might use this as a reason to agree with DOW8000/What.
I agree with DOW800SP800 – the 12:46 “What” post cleverly illustrates the danger of making sweeping pronouncements about market conditions. EVERYTHING is subject to change. I certainly don’t agree with everything The What says, but he makes a valid point here.
Defense from being so lame as to create two personas, one raving, one slightly more sane, both spouting the same hopeless bullshit.
Defense from what, wasder? Am I supposed to care?