You never know what you'll find at the library book sale When she went to the Boise Public Library's annual book sale a few weeks ago, Noted Political Pundit Our Girlfriend brought home a terrific little time capsule of the National Conversation on Race: a copy of the April 4, 1959,
Tell me more about having close local shops and craftsmen. My wife and I just got back from vacation in the People's Republic of California, and came home to spraying hot water pipes in the basement. (The temps got down to -18 a few days ago.)
It took a day to find a plumber, who came sixty miles to work on our plumbing. (He's been here two days now and will be back tomorrow.)
Thanks! When I've used it in earnest I have backed it up with my own research, usually in the Property Appraiser's records. Didn't know Redfish; will compare for the areas I've looked at.
I love the picture of the meeting. Everyone is dressed up. It is so quaint. I am always surprised at how formal people were (or seem to be, at least), back then.
I cannot picture people today getting dressed for such a meeting.
My sympathies - well..over the past three years I've been building a house on a 'when I've got cash' basis on a city lot here in this small town. The 'lot' is an undeveloped city block of about 2 and a third acres. Two master craftsmen have been helping - the first is a twenty year construction guy who also taught math at the local school here for about ten years. He charges $25 an hour. The other craftsman is a master plumber who charges $30 an hour. Both of these fellows live within a mile of me.
I don't have to deal with getting permits or inspectors because the town doesn't do that sort of thing.
When I have car trouble, I call up the owner of the auto shop, which is about a mile from my house, and let him know that I've parked my car at his shop. He gets in touch with me the next day around lunch and lets me know what's needed. When it's fixed, he has one of his guys drop the car off at my place.
When I get a nail in my tire, I drive a block down the street where the local tire guy has a converted house he uses as a garage and sets me up with a patch for ten dollars that lasts until I need new tires. If I need new tires, I'm in and out in twenty minutes.
Small town life in the right town can be pretty good.
No really, what infernal thing is that evil-genius kid doing in that Post picture up top? It's sinister, he's about to unleash crazed occult forces. All the books he's using there are Ayn Rand, you can tell he grew up to be a monster of the Peter Thiel sort.
Sure. I've looked on their site. I had to sell my house in Chicago in '03. I *know* that my real estate agent did her due dilligence, and I got what was average for it. Zillow claims is was worth 40% more. Bullshit.
Then I looked up my current house, in the DC area... and it's claiming I have 500? 800? more square footage than I do.
They're there for the "I want to flip houses and make myself rich, screw you folks who want to buy a *home*, and live in it.
Redfish, on the other hand, seems to be pretty close to accurate.
Shouldn't we now have an article on 'When A Poorly Educated Trumpkin Moves Next Door'? Within the meaning of 'poorly educated' I include people who are ostensibly educated but consciously and willfully decided not to use it, cf. entire Trump transition team, family, hangers-on, butt kissers, et al.
> ...very consciously rejects any notion of mixed-income housing, thank you very much — renters, of any race, are portrayed as a greater threat to neighborhood stability...
A lot of people still think this way. There are differences in social standing between people who own land/ their home and those who rent.
I seem to remember reading something about a movement to restrict voting to landowners again -- also noting that if only homeowners could vote, every state would have gone for Trump.
This was from back when the liberal media really was the liberal media because it was broad-minded and inclusive. (Before "Newt," that slimy creature from under a rock, waged a successful war on words.) Unfortunately, most American homeowners didn't want nice Negro neighbors or nice Negro children going to school with their snowflakes. Thus white flight into the suburbs, private school vouchers, decrease in funding for public integrated schools, and eventually, in 2016, the election of a pseudo-populist Fascist asshole for President. So long, America--it's been nice knowing you! Also, fuck you, Trumpanzees, for destroying everything for which the so-called Greatest Generation fought.
Tell me more about having close local shops and craftsmen. My wife and I just got back from vacation in the People's Republic of California, and came home to spraying hot water pipes in the basement. (The temps got down to -18 a few days ago.)
It took a day to find a plumber, who came sixty miles to work on our plumbing. (He's been here two days now and will be back tomorrow.)
Thanks! When I've used it in earnest I have backed it up with my own research, usually in the Property Appraiser's records. Didn't know Redfish; will compare for the areas I've looked at.
Thank you!
I love the picture of the meeting. Everyone is dressed up. It is so quaint. I am always surprised at how formal people were (or seem to be, at least), back then.
I cannot picture people today getting dressed for such a meeting.
My sympathies - well..over the past three years I've been building a house on a 'when I've got cash' basis on a city lot here in this small town. The 'lot' is an undeveloped city block of about 2 and a third acres. Two master craftsmen have been helping - the first is a twenty year construction guy who also taught math at the local school here for about ten years. He charges $25 an hour. The other craftsman is a master plumber who charges $30 an hour. Both of these fellows live within a mile of me.
I don't have to deal with getting permits or inspectors because the town doesn't do that sort of thing.
When I have car trouble, I call up the owner of the auto shop, which is about a mile from my house, and let him know that I've parked my car at his shop. He gets in touch with me the next day around lunch and lets me know what's needed. When it's fixed, he has one of his guys drop the car off at my place.
When I get a nail in my tire, I drive a block down the street where the local tire guy has a converted house he uses as a garage and sets me up with a patch for ten dollars that lasts until I need new tires. If I need new tires, I'm in and out in twenty minutes.
Small town life in the right town can be pretty good.
I use Zillow mostly for entertainment purposes, but please let me know how, and in which direction, they lie?
Link, please? This I want to read.
No really, what infernal thing is that evil-genius kid doing in that Post picture up top? It's sinister, he's about to unleash crazed occult forces. All the books he's using there are Ayn Rand, you can tell he grew up to be a monster of the Peter Thiel sort.
Reminds me of a Miss Manners letter from about 1982:
Dear Miss Manners,What should one say when one is introduced to a homosexual "couple"?
Gentle Reader:
"How do you do?" "How do you do?"
Sure. I've looked on their site. I had to sell my house in Chicago in '03. I *know* that my real estate agent did her due dilligence, and I got what was average for it. Zillow claims is was worth 40% more. Bullshit.
Then I looked up my current house, in the DC area... and it's claiming I have 500? 800? more square footage than I do.
They're there for the "I want to flip houses and make myself rich, screw you folks who want to buy a *home*, and live in it.
Redfish, on the other hand, seems to be pretty close to accurate.
You can see it in his eyes.
Could sound a bit like this. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Shouldn't we now have an article on 'When A Poorly Educated Trumpkin Moves Next Door'? Within the meaning of 'poorly educated' I include people who are ostensibly educated but consciously and willfully decided not to use it, cf. entire Trump transition team, family, hangers-on, butt kissers, et al.
> ...very consciously rejects any notion of mixed-income housing, thank you very much — renters, of any race, are portrayed as a greater threat to neighborhood stability...
A lot of people still think this way. There are differences in social standing between people who own land/ their home and those who rent.
I seem to remember reading something about a movement to restrict voting to landowners again -- also noting that if only homeowners could vote, every state would have gone for Trump.
http://articles.latimes.com...
This was from back when the liberal media really was the liberal media because it was broad-minded and inclusive. (Before "Newt," that slimy creature from under a rock, waged a successful war on words.) Unfortunately, most American homeowners didn't want nice Negro neighbors or nice Negro children going to school with their snowflakes. Thus white flight into the suburbs, private school vouchers, decrease in funding for public integrated schools, and eventually, in 2016, the election of a pseudo-populist Fascist asshole for President. So long, America--it's been nice knowing you! Also, fuck you, Trumpanzees, for destroying everything for which the so-called Greatest Generation fought.