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08-01-2007, 09:34 PM
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#4696
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Walk Score
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My place gets a 91, but I notice that they don't seem to know about the closest school or bookstore, so that should be higher.
eta: Toto, I don't think I'm in California anymore.
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I get an 86. And the two bars around the corner aren't listed. Nor is the new coffee house. Or the nail salon.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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08-01-2007, 09:35 PM
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#4697
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
Posts: 14,276
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Walk Score
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Originally posted by tmdiva
69/100, but it would probably be lower if they were using a topo map and could see how hilly it is around here (there's no way to get from my house to anywhere without going both up and down very steep hills).
tm
ETA that, Portland being Portland, I still know of several neighbors who walk to all of those places, and I've been known to do it myself when a) I'm not hugely pregnant, b) I'm not in a huge hurry, and c) it's not pouring rain.
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How much more time for being hugely pregnant?
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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08-01-2007, 09:37 PM
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#4698
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Minnesotans
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Originally posted by Fugee
Fortunately that bridge is not on my route home -- I don't think Flower or ABBA goes home that way either but look forward to hearing from them.
This is bad.
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Damn. I'm glad ya'll are alright. I hope it turns out to be a lot better than it looks.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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08-01-2007, 09:41 PM
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#4699
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Quality not quantity
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Stumptown, USA
Posts: 1,344
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Walk Score
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
How much more time for being hugely pregnant?
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How much longer does it take me? Or how much longer will I be hugely pregnant? I don't know the answer to the first, and the answer to the second is approximately 11 more weeks.
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08-01-2007, 09:46 PM
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#4700
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Flower
Posts: 8,434
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Minnesotans
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Hey Flower, Muffin, Fugee, anyone I forgot....
Please check in and let us know you are okay...
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Yeah. Good. As is everyone I have checked in with so far. Keeping fingers crossed. That is just fucked up.
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
I am not sorry.
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08-01-2007, 09:50 PM
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#4701
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Patch Diva
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Winter Wonderland
Posts: 4,607
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Minnesotans
Quote:
Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Damn. I'm glad ya'll are alright. I hope it turns out to be a lot better than it looks.
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It collapsed during rush hour and according to eyewitness reports, it was bumper to bumper traffic. This is a major north-south freeway and this bridge was just north of downtown.
I don't think they even have a handle yet on fatalities. |
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08-01-2007, 11:57 PM
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#4702
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Monty Capuletti's gazebo
Posts: 26,202
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for Sebby
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Still not an accurate pitcure for a home buyer/seller. Too macro for the issue at hand. How can you ever work a truly accurate national assumption on a such a locally subjective market?
1. Your home is worth whatever you can get someone to pay for it. Comps are, well, comps. Stats are, well, stats.
2. What are those 10/20 cities? And are they broken down to adjust for the stark differences from neighborhood to neighborhood? In the Philly area, Main Line and Chestnut Hill housing prices stay high, while many city neighborhoods have stagnated lately.
3. 10 cities. 20 cities. So what? Are we going through a housing crisis that should keep a person looking to buy in a good area from buying? No. The price of a home in a traditionally good area is not going up or down wildly. The exceptionally volatile markets drive these statistics.
Yes, those stats are real. And no, they have no practical value for most consumers.
Should I be worried about losing on my home? My neighbor just sold a home at an astounding profit. A few houses down some other guy can't get his house to sell. So many variables. So much bullshit in how it's all presented by the media.
Yes, it's a correction, and yes, that impacts markets and no, that's not how the media is primarily playing the story. They are playing the "everyone's going to get killed on their investment and have to live in their property for 20 years before they can make up the loss through an increase in value" angle.
Nonsense. Utter bullshit. They can't make more real estate. You buy right, you're fine.
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Last edited by sebastian_dangerfield; 08-02-2007 at 12:09 AM..
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08-02-2007, 12:02 AM
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#4703
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Flyover land
Posts: 19,042
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Minnesotans
Quote:
Originally posted by Fugee
It collapsed during rush hour and according to eyewitness reports, it was bumper to bumper traffic. This is a major north-south freeway and this bridge was just north of downtown.
I don't think they even have a handle yet on fatalities.
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Glad at least you and Flower are definitely OK.
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I'm using lipstick again.
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08-02-2007, 12:11 AM
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#4704
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 389
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Walk Score
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This site rates your neighborhood for walkability: http://www.walkscore.com/
My apartment gets a 94 out of 100. Maybe that's why I walk in LA.
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Current home - 69 (heh!).
Place recently purchased, but not yet moved to - 35. |
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08-02-2007, 12:16 AM
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#4705
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For the People
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: on the coast
Posts: 1,009
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ACL
Who will be going to the Austin City Limits Festival next month?
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08-02-2007, 12:20 AM
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#4706
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
Posts: 14,276
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ACL
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Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Who will be going to the Austin City Limits Festival next month?
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As usual, I'll be there.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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08-02-2007, 12:42 AM
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#4707
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,117
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Album cover art in my iTunes, sorted by sexiness
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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Lisa Loeb, Firecracker, is, well . . . sorry, Atticus. The pose and the album title are promising, but I look into those eyes and all I see is, "Let's stay up all night and drink more coffee than we should and laugh too much and cry maybe just enough and look for shooting stars and wonder about it all!"
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Some of the best choad-gobbling I've gotten in my life was prefaced by that eye-speech. You just went to the wrong college, is all. |
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08-02-2007, 01:00 AM
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#4708
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Flower
Posts: 8,434
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Album cover art in my iTunes, sorted by sexiness
Quote:
Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Some of the best choad-gobbling I've gotten in my life was prefaced by that eye-speech. You just went to the wrong college, is all.
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Weird. All I ever got is a coffee-induced stomach ache, sleep deprivation, lots of faked laughter and crying, and a vigorous sunrise masturbation session when she finally fucking dozes off.
I am already burned out on bridge collapse coverage. I honestly cannot believe how a huge fucking section of a major fucking highway in the downtown of a not-so-big fucking city just falls into the motherfucking Mississippi River during rush hour.
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
I am not sorry.
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08-02-2007, 01:03 AM
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#4709
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,117
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Album cover art in my iTunes, sorted by sexiness
Quote:
Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
she needs to put food in her mouth.
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Agreed. She could do with some eclairs. Fortunately, the culmination of B permits multi-tasking, and mostly involves positions in which your partner is relatively less stabby. See, win-win. |
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08-02-2007, 01:05 AM
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#4710
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,117
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Album cover art in my iTunes, sorted by sexiness
Quote:
Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Weird. All I ever got is a coffee-induced stomach ache, sleep deprivation, lots of faked laughter and crying, and a vigorous sunrise masturbation session when she finally fucking dozes off.
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Perhaps you should have tried it without the crying? College is for learning. |
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