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Guys like that go positively bonkers when they convert percentages to their own absolutes. .01% translates to some completely unacceptable number like $50,000. Then they repeat that number over and over to themselves. Fifty thousand dollars... FIFTY THOUSAND dollars... FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They literally cannot put it back into perspective of .01%. This is why they turn into psychopaths. And why they get divorced.

Then the downsized houses go up and the big ones go down. No way to win. My family in California has been there since at least the late 1800s and builds houses in their orchards that they've owned since before the 1950s. That's about the only way to beat the system.

Oh I'm not just talking about stocks or investing. I'm talking about everything. Like people will come into work showing some product like a rare DVD set or a trading card in their other hand listed at $250 on their phone. Then I look it up on a computer and it's $70. We won't even get into the political aspect in this thread.

Is this one of the ones coming down due to our friends on Council's alleged corruption?

Good, glad they saved the Lanman-Ingraham House on 5th in Marble Cliff. Looks like it's getting the Bush Mansion treatment with more residential in front.

And that's not just true in OTR or Cincinnati or Ohio but nationwide. Prices were too low to keep all these directly competing businesses open with the typical $500K-$1M+ buildout.

Yeah for some reason all of our parking garages and highway bridges/overpasses have that same "spec" appearance. Too much "that's just what those things look like" around here.

Always hate to lose buildings fairly close to the street (in this case SFH) for something with a 60+ foot setback.

^You're like me, I want a home Bloomberg Terminal. People make all kinds of bad decisions when using the phone since phone internet leaves out so much detail. I'm starting to sour on phone internet big time since it's so crappy. And I'm starting to notice that there is a cultural divide between people who use the phone for everything paying no mind to its limitations vs. using the real internet on a computer.

A setback is kind of Swenson's thing since they are an eat-in-your-car place.

Play Clash of Markets today. FREE!

I can see why it's unpopular after looking at a picture of it. I remember going to an event there in like 1987 and thinking the building was gross.

^SimCity does have that phenomenon built in though. If your city gets X size then you'd better have amenities such as the amusement park, stadium, the big park, zoo that if you don't build them the residential population will stop growing. It will hurt commercial growth too, but to a smaller degree. Low taxes won't get you out of it.

^Stand out on the street, sip a drink and watch people do legal U-turns all day! Only place in Ohio you can do that!

Yes, I was in the western part of the state. I know what you mean about the Eastern Panhandle, The Greenbrier and the whole D.C. retreat aspect.

I picture some boss standing on the 28th floor of a building looking down at High Street exclaiming "When I got started here in '87 there were restaurants and fast food all up and down the street" while the employees all eat macaroni salad that they brought from home at their desks. Then you look at the walls and they have a bunch of clocks on them that say "30 minute lunch, since Y2K"

I don't think a lot of people understand how much it sucks to be a rich person that lives out in the middle of nowhere. One thing I learned very quickly after moving to West Virginia for a couple years is that even if you are rich there there's no rich people things to do. There is no support for rich people since they are so scarce. You have to go to Columbus to spend money at all. Buy a rich person's car like an exotic or a Rolls? Sorry there's only one place in the entire state that works on it. Or you have take it to Columbus. Want to put it on a racetrack? Back to Ohio you go or 6 hours east in the Eastern Panhandle. Want a nice meal out? You're going to the same place every time! You have to buy everything at Wal-Mart since it's the only store. No good golf courses around; no one to tend to your pool. Everyone you meet is poor and wants money from you. There's NO point in being rich in many places.

Something that these people leave off is the federal tax credit for living in a high tax area that existed until this year and will probably come back soon. If I remember the story right you could claim up to just under $100K for that. $100K goes a long way toward state and local taxes.

I'm not against Short Vine, but you know they'll say that you shouldn't have one that close to a campus.

Hmm, yeah if the Short North gets one, then it's "They already get everything good. Way to double down" but if the Brewery District gets one then it's "There's almost no bars left here. Now everyone will have to open up here and bars in other parts of town suffer." If it's on Gay St. then it's "Why doesn't the Short North have this?"

The 3Cs think they don't need it, IMO.

Oh, Cranley wants private drinking. Another thing that can be covered up

Middletown, Delaware and a few others jumped on the DORA train almost immediately but other cities were slow to adopt it. Lots of smaller towns have them now such as Loveland, Defiance, Hudson and Hamilton.

I'm going to go with "not really". While it is labeled as such, there is too much of a gap including Crossroads plus one block of 1920s residential between it and Oakley Station.

Wow, there's four here now. Still zero in the Uncool Crescent though.