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To be fair, I don't think a CEO making $6.6 mill for a company 50,000ish employees is too out of line. But my god are they understaffed with much of existing staff... underqualified. My sister, an internist there, has been telling me horror stories for several years.

I still can't figure out why Beachwood Place's restuarants keep folding. The last place North High always seemed empty when I came by, and it didn't help I was allergic to some of their beer, but Mccormick and Schmick's and Maggiano's always seemed to have good crowds.

Those are some interesting assumptions. I agree with your first and last three sentences somewhat, though prices rapidly rebounded in '09 after bottoming out that summer.

There are so many factors that have led to housing shortages. Regardless of eliminating red tape (whatever that entails) and NIMBY obstruction, the price and availbility of materials and labor are not contracting anytime soon.

It's rough everywhere, but in places with rapidly growing populations like Columbus, finding a quality home must be particulary agonizing. Cities/regions in which significant population disappeared are packed with low income or working class neigborhoods full of starter and reasonably priced homes (of varying quality). Those options just aren't available in places with serious population growth. Add in the mind-boggling costs of building a new home these days, and developers don't have any incentive to build anything other than "luxury", aka mid-6 figures for fake marble counters and fake brick facades.

I can't imagine anyone outside the top five or ten percent are actually thriving these days. Between what feels like the early stages of World War 3 in Ukraine/Russia and now Israel/the world, a potential civil war brewing internally, cost-of-living at unlivable levels (regardless of inflation's bulls**t metrics), wages dogs**t for most of the country, crime at unacceptable and costly levels, city budgets and essental infrastructure collapsing due to migrant crisises and legacy debts, endless layoffs in every field, and the upcoming commercial markets doomsday, yeah, it's been a pretty rough year. A rough 22 years really. That 3.7 percent unemployment and 300k+ jobs last month just doesn't balance all those other burdens.

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You guys are braver than I. No way I'd be comfortable driving an EV 300 miles. Just feels like there are too many costly challenges.

Halloween Havoc '98 all over again.

Is the spread 9.5 points or touchdowns?

Is it though? Weren't there some shenanigans 15ish years ago where the players weren't trusting the team medical opinions? I feel it was a staph infection issue.

Beware RTA cards and their bulls**t expiration dates. I had a card from last month I hadn't used, so last night I tried to use it at Tower City coming from the airport. Its expiration date was early next year so it shouldn't be an issue, right? Invalid Invalid Invalid And since there are no card machines on that side of the station, I couldn't even buy a new one to exit. The clerk had to unlock the gate so I could honor code walk past her to a working machine, then turn around and hand her the card. What is this third world s**t??? And that red line trip had already been chaos with three loudmouths screaming at each other from Puritas to 25th, with one lady screeching about having 6 kids and shooting some bitch at work. Absolutely unhinged, attention-seeking animals. Welcome to Cleveland.

I know Teams has its critics, but for meetings it's a godsend compared to Zoom and better than WebEx. As a shared drive repository, however, it feels like a clunky SharePoint, which is already kind of clunky.

Been awaiting residential a longggggg time there.

The Turbo Kid soundtrack is so good it hurts.

To be fair there is a ton of flooding throughout NYC today. City is in a state of emergency.

Ten Fortune 500 companies, the desirability of Carnegie Mellon and Pitts (and perhaps some other colleges/universities of which I'm unfamliar), the landlocked nature of the city, wealthy neigborhoods like Shady Side and Squirrel Hill, demographics (about 70% white), poverty (20%)... it all adds up to Pittsburgh being an affordable Boston where things get done.

People find it easier to blame public schools and teachers instead of bad parents and worse students. It's the way it's been for decades and will remain until/if ever demographics shift.

Isn't a stagnated population effectively the same as a shrinking one, since the country is growing? That aside, the jury is still out about the city's net gain/loss from keeping the Browns. Cleveland's "Comeback City" years occurred when the Browns were gone, and it was a wonderful sea of optimism and fun we haven't seen since. People would just spend their money elsewhere. Also, I don't know if the idiots tailgaiting in parking lots contribute much to the city's economic engine. Are hotels at capacity those weekends? Do restaurants and the anemic retail see any real boost? Maybe, maybe not, but I can't believe it's to the tune of 100s of millions of dollars. I'd love a new stadium/complex akin to SoFi Stadium or even BallPark Village. Just get Jimmy to cough up billions or work with the NFL to give a consortium representing Cleveland equity in the team. But for god's sake, no more free money to these criminals and their sexual predator quarterbacks.

That may actually be a benefit to some employers. Part of the RTO campaign is, after all, to once again re-enforce the (often) antagonistic manager/direct report and useless middle management dynamics. It is harder for the sadistic ones to harass their direct reports remotely, after all. Also, there just aren't that many fully remote jobs any more, and the writing is on the wall for hybrid in many places. Managers 2, employees 0.

Goodbye Burger King's Whopper Jr, small fry, and small shake for $2.97, no tax. Many a pre-movie bite there.

Took me a second to understand that Inception shot.

What if the people are really tall?

He and a few other Cavs players lived there in '03.

Nothing wrong with factoring the cost of parking, though these days I imagine eating out/entertainment is so expensive that parking is the least of it. SpotHero helps mitigate parking prices a great deal, especially if you're willing to walk a few extra blocks. For instance, if you plan on heading downtown tonight from 8-11pm, there is a ton of $3 parking (total, not per hour) by E.13th. $8 at the Westin on 6th. $8-$10 on 17th. $20 around 9th. $30 around the Theater District. Nevermind all the free parking along Lakeside. Maybe Ontario. So downtown has a range of $1-$10 per hour more or less. That seems fairly reasonable, especially if you're going to drop $50-$100-higher for a downtown outting anyway.