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Re: Dot Com For Locals

banane — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:41:12 -0000

Rocco- Yeah, the whole slightly more footage and a postage stamp backyard: ugh!

Nancy- my rent in PDX: 100$, no heating, an alcove but about 20 feet across. Note: was SE, but near a good wine/cheese shop and few blocks from campus! Washer drier! many common rooms...

Re: Dot Com For Locals

Adam Smith — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:05:43 -0000

You may wish to google for:
"pecuniary externality"

Re: Dot Com For Locals

Nancy M — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:13:17 -0000

My 3-BR, 2-story 1920's bungalow with a separate carriage-house garage with a vegetable garden in a fabulous inner-NE neighborhood in 1994 Portland? $1100 mortgage.

My first (teeeensy) studio apartment in SF, with no parking, in 2002? $1600 rental.

And I didn't (and still don't) have the benefit of a dot-com salary. It stings.
I totally understand (and occasionally identify with) the bitterness and jadedness of those who were (and still are) trampled by the new-found wealth that hit the area.

Re: Dot Com For Locals

Rocco — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:57:42 -0000

Nice post.

Mostly, though, they wanted a backyard and more square footage for their money.

Why is this such a goal? I will never understand how that became so engrained in our society. Well, I study it, so I do understand it- there is a pretty logical history- but to become the mantra of a society. It is too much. Anyway, great post.