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Not only that, but also the vast majority of foot traffic and transaction counts.

UC has had the Catskeller since 2006.

Housing ends up following wages. This is why simply raising the minimum wage doesn't actually help the poor: housing and healthcare take all the money leaving none for the individual or consumer spending. The way to make things actually better is to remove healthcare costs and focus on ways to keep monthly mandatory bills down.

I'm wondering if the education cuts end up not hurting that badly since the utility, sports, hourly worker, food, diesel, school trip and supply bills have dropped.

Probably boarded up so that it doesn't get broken into. There have been an elevated number of non-essential business break-ins in Columbus these days since burglars assume nobody's around.

Maybe if the Republicans hadn't trashed Strickland so hard for using the rainy day fund because of the 2008 crash during the 2010 election they wouldn't be so scared to touch it now.

Generally at my business it takes a few months for a negative event such as a poor sales month or unpopular card set to catch up with us.

This is just something we have to deal with in Ohio. If something has hills they are covered in trees. If it's flat and gets sun it's tilled for farming, is a flood plain or gets developed. The kind of moonscapes that are perfect for riding seen out west don't exist here. There is a large old strip mine north of Zanesville like that.

There's reasons Wexner has avoided large transactions with private equity partnerships and the shenanigans seen above are one of them.

Hey, that's how Columbus landed the Sbarro HQ.

Traffic in the Uncool Crescent is way up today. Are that many people going to the dentist, having outpatient procedures and taking Fido to the vet?

Probably justifying keeping the most expensive office open

Gonna make me go get cracked out on Shorpy again

A business climate far more focused on gross revenue rather than margin and profitability leads to that.

Really, the huge bedrooms seen in so much single-family and even quite a bit of multi-family today are completely pointless for the vast majority of people. That's one thing that can easily go.

This is really important for the rest of the country if it catches on. There's no sense in having to pay Silicon Valley wages for work that can be done elsewhere. The internet was supposed to even out where the money was in this country but instead sucked it all into Seattle, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Austin and a couple other hot spots. That pushed up the cost of living and doing business in those cities so high that you have to pay someone $250,000 for $100,000 worth of work.

Mandatory WFH also has the opportunity to show people that they don't like WFH. Back when I was in grad school (1-year accelerated program) my day was typically 3 hours WFH, 3 hours in-person group work and 3 hours in class. I definitely liked the WFH part the least. Almost 15 years later I've had to go back to WFH and I dislike it even more. Now people with kids are a whole different story. They get to save an enormous amount of money not having to outsource child care and not having to rely exclusively on expensive outsourced meals. Plus, way less driving.

Open floor plans were dumb anyway. Study after study shows that they hinder workflow due to too much noise and distraction and lack of privacy. Harvard Business Review articles tear them to pieces. All they were was a way to look "cool" and 'hip" like Apple since people that graduated college between 1999 and 2011 thought that would be the best place to work in the world. I don't even know if Apple even had open floor plans then, but it was perceived that they did so every other company wanted to do what they were doing to be "cool".

^Yeah, people forget that stuff like this went on all the time until the 1930s. In some parts of the world it never stopped.

Well, atchualy, that's a Buffalo Wings and Rings

I voted for this. It is important to support our urban community colleges especially as the big city major universities get flooded with applicants and become more selective due to increased disinterest in rural schools.

Without rent control, only quants, the already rich and actors would live in NYC. That means nobody is willing to operate the trains, clean the toilets, tend bar or feed people. That breaks the city and everyone leaves.

Stop flipping out about your own industry and think about the greater good of society. My industry is constantly under attack way worse than yours and I don't bitch about it all the time.

While it certainly is fun to make fun of middle-class and up overspenders and their SUVs, unnecessary bigass trucks, McMansions (or the mini version), driving from Columbus to Cambridge all the time over an 8-year-old's soccer game and Jet Skis, I do want to focus more on all the outsize bills that low- to middle income individuals and families receive due to no fault of their own.

I'm just as much of an advocate for keeping people's mandatory bills down as I am for increasing income. It shouldn't take $3500 a month just to keep a person alive, sheltered and clothed when it only cost $250 to do so in 1972.