Median home value v. median household income. If house prices are expensive relative to income it becomes darker blue, if house prices are cheaper relative to median income it becomes darker red.
Being a constant Chicago booster, yay for not being raped in my wallet. Good luck affording somewhere on Manhattan or with a Bay view, but living in the Loop is actually affordable and normal places even more so.
I've only been to Chi once, for a few days
I liked it
one of the cleanest big cities I've been in
and legit public transportation
it was real hot in the summer when I was there, though
also, my current mortgage is less than half that, for three bedrooms.
But where are those 3 bedrooms located? Ultimately its what you want and what you get for the money. I'd much rather pay double for a downtown condo with no commute than half for a place in the 'burbs where I'm stuck in a car wasting gas for 2 hours a day.
I am ten minutes from downtown. I agree on the location business. I didn't spend 8 months looking for a house driving my wife insane to not get the best possible deal. Also I put a lot down. Also, I'm in Cincinnati.
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Median home value v. median household income. If house prices are expensive relative to income it becomes darker blue, if house prices are cheaper relative to median income it becomes darker red.
Being a constant Chicago booster, yay for not being raped in my wallet. Good luck affording somewhere on Manhattan or with a Bay view, but living in the Loop is actually affordable and normal places even more so.
I've only been to Chi once, for a few days
I liked it
one of the cleanest big cities I've been in
and legit public transportation
it was real hot in the summer when I was there, though
It balances out, though, by being very cold in the winter.
also, my current mortgage is less than half that, for three bedrooms.
But where are those 3 bedrooms located? Ultimately its what you want and what you get for the money. I'd much rather pay double for a downtown condo with no commute than half for a place in the 'burbs where I'm stuck in a car wasting gas for 2 hours a day.
we may have spoken of this before, but
I read a really great article, I think in the Atlantic (?), about how people are happiest when their triangles (distance between work, home and play/shop) are small.
so if you have an hour commute to work because that's where you can afford to have the big house, you have to make 60% more (or something) to report as much happiness as someone with a shorter commute
also, my current mortgage is less than half that, for three bedrooms.
But where are those 3 bedrooms located? Ultimately its what you want and what you get for the money. I'd much rather pay double for a downtown condo with no commute than half for a place in the 'burbs where I'm stuck in a car wasting gas for 2 hours a day.
we may have spoken of this before, but
I read a really great article, I think in the Atlantic (?), about how people are happiest when their triangles (distance between work, home and play/shop) are small.
so if you have an hour commute to work because that's where you can afford to have the big house, you have to make 60% more (or something) to report as much happiness as someone with a shorter commute
I'll see if I can look it up
Only if you're using the Royal We. That sounds like it would be a good read. I have to head home (it takes me twice as long to walk to my parking spot downtown, as it does to get home...) If you find it, would you mind PMing it to me?
Does anyone have the link to the video where the lady calls in and asks Obama whether government workers are really going to go door to door and ask old people how they want to die under the proposed healthcare bill?
Does anyone have the link to the video where the lady calls in and asks Obama whether government workers are really going to go door to door and ask old people how they want to die under the proposed healthcare bill?
Tell me you are making that shit up.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Three years ago, two economists at the University of Zurich, Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, released a study called “Stress That Doesn’t Pay: The Commuting Paradox.” They found that, if your trip is an hour each way, you’d have to make forty per cent more in salary to be as “satisfied” with life as a noncommuter is.
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“People with long journeys to and from work are systematically worse off and report significantly lower subjective well-being,” Stutzer told me.
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Commute time should be offset by higher pay or lower living costs, or a better standard of living. It is this last category that people apparently have trouble measuring. They tend to overvalue the material fruits of their commute—money, house, prestige—and to undervalue what they’re giving up: sleep, exercise, fun.
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I've only been to Chi once, for a few days
I liked it
one of the cleanest big cities I've been in
and
it was real hot in the summer when I was there, though
I prefer [Chat] Alone Two.
Also, the creepy MS midget crossdresser is, well, creepy. As always.
You have 7 days
that's a good deal, skippy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vjbuodBEU&feature=player_embedded
I am ten minutes from downtown. I agree on the location business. I didn't spend 8 months looking for a house driving my wife insane to not get the best possible deal. Also I put a lot down. Also, I'm in Cincinnati.
See thats why I could never have a tape like that, it wouldn't even be a problem for me to show it to other people.
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It balances out, though, by being very cold in the winter.
Boy meets [Chat] (i feel like this must have been done)
Everybody love [Chat]
Because he totally did.
Ha! Calgary.
we may have spoken of this before, but
I read a really great article, I think in the Atlantic (?), about how people are happiest when their triangles (distance between work, home and play/shop) are small.
so if you have an hour commute to work because that's where you can afford to have the big house, you have to make 60% more (or something) to report as much happiness as someone with a shorter commute
I'll see if I can look it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b35O8O_5ZM
I'm tellin' ya!
The funny part for me is Tommy Lee Jones. I mean Ford says that all dramatic jones "I don't care."
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Only if you're using the Royal We. That sounds like it would be a good read. I have to head home (it takes me twice as long to walk to my parking spot downtown, as it does to get home...) If you find it, would you mind PMing it to me?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all
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up and down like a tweaker with $15
Kudos.
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Tell me you are making that shit up.
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All these major and minor ground transitions, it's intimidating.