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Sure would be nice if NIMBYs read it so that we could tell them to STFU

That rate is based on the entire building though, which, on average, has many more people living in it than a Columbus building.

If they hadn't started handing out DUIs like candy in the '90s but especially the 2000s there wouldn't be nearly as much tension between the citizens and the police. When that changed all of a sudden it made anyone out at night fearful of every cop they saw even if they hadn't had anything to drink. You probably wouldn't see as many white people out there protesting with BLM without that friction.

What I mean by low-talent is larger lots with single-family dwellings on them. A small lot in Columbus is a large lot by other city standards.

The main part of Cleveland Avenue with good bones could do that, but the vast swaths of low-talent residential-only will still struggle. There's too much of it and it is too low-density. But the city is really gung-ho on Linden whereas Clintonville is considered "doing just fine" (much like Downtown) so it will get little help from the current administration -- just like Downtown, 5xNW, Victorian Village and Old North. Now if a part of Linden is close enough to Clintonville amenities without suffering the wrath of all those Clintonville widows that part can see some action too. But the further you get from businesses the less likely a Linden property can thrive. A big blocker for Linden is the fairgrounds and 71 since they create a huge hole and wall with no services.

It is: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/fun-facts/cities-with-the-highest-tax-rates/L2WEdS802 (I've seen Columbus as high as #2 or #3 on later lists) A lot of these city studies that make L.A. and NY look bad ignore property taxes. With Columbus' sales tax rate of 7.5%, property tax rate of 3.57% (the highest of any city, remember this is 3.57% of your property's value every year -- not your income -- and they keep going up as Columbus-area land continues to appreciate very quickly) earnings rate of 2.5% and state rate of 2.85 to 4.8% And there is no way to get out of high property taxes by making or spending less money. Yet all the money is leaving lower tax areas such as NE and Appalachian Ohio for Columbus. Using a "head tax" that is not levied on people making less that $150K as an instrument in a city with a housing crisis as bad as Seattle's is wise as compared to bluntly raising property taxes when income taxes are not available. Raising property taxes would only make things worse for low-income individuals since they pay property taxes somehow no matter what unless they are homeless.

Like for example a certain poster losing his mind over the mere existence of the Seattle headcount tax despite its microscopic collection amount relative to the size of the company's revenue plus the fact that the earnings floor is $150K/yr.

Zantigo knew how to pick their spots I guess. Kinda like those BPs that have been the site of gas stations for 100 years now and get to charge 10 cents more a gallon for gas because the Rockefellers' location selectors were really good at their jobs.

To put in a gas station they would

I wouldn't be surprised if Columbus' overall tax rate when everything is added together (including property tax) is higher than Seattle's.

While I do enjoy reading the fast food history of Columbus, it takes up a disproportionately large amount of Columbus' recorded history that is easily accessed today. Like it's super easy to find out where the McDonald'ses were in 1970 but figuring out what was on a Downtown surface lot before the seventies can be really tough.

Right, when it comes back to the store itself it can be usable but in a warehouse it's worth much less than it is in a store.

Areas for dogs to take dumps

Amazon Offers New Blank Box Upcharge For Progressive Members To Discreetly Receive Prime Orders https://www.theonion.com/amazon-offers-new-blank-box-upcharge-for-progressive-me-1845359214 Too embarrassed to admit that you bought something on Amazon? Have it sent in a plain box like it's porno or something. ? You wouldn't have seen this kind of "story" ten years ago. Online retailers cannot become uncool when hundreds of competitors are only a click away rather than there being a competitor 15 miles away like with B&M.

Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up Marketplace tracked items such as a backpack, which was tossed in the garbage A Marketplace investigation into Amazon Canada has found that perfectly good items are being liquidated by the truckload — and even destroyed or sent to landfill. Experts say hundreds of thousands of returns don't end up back on the e-commerce giant's website for resale, as customers might think... ...Kevin Lyons, an associate professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey who specializes in supply chain management and environmental policy, says that 30 to 40 per cent of all online purchases are sent back. That number drops to less than ten per cent for merchandise bought at bricks and mortar stores. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-amazon-returns-1.5753714?utm_source=pocket-newtab Outrageous return rates are one reason why Amazon struggles to profit from retail operations while selling things at MSRP. At least the Wolfes closed their shoe stores once they bought the Columbus Dispatch.

Anyone who disagrees with Brutus is a lunatic.

I remember someone was selling sports team gear out of one of those apartments for about two months in 2007.

People can also make that much working for the Census and not have to work at 3AM. The last four censuses have taken place during down economic years.

Look for it on a map; it's on there somewhere. Might take a while. No cheating by using the index either.

Go live in Waldo then.

Nyah, could probably make d*ck Tracy villains out of those nicknames easy, see?

Our zoning code has proven to be crap.

^I've seen pictures of Great Western when it was like that. Hard to believe something that whimsical was where all that bleakness and blah is now.

There was a palm tree in front of the Groveport Dairy Queen when I was a kid. It was in a large planter rather than the ground though.