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It's not going to get the move-in ready premium which is steep these days.

That could definitely happen if the market stays like this. Looks like it's going to need windows.

You do get more square footage and a larger lot on average in Columbus, but the necessity of those things is often overblown even for people with kids. Like with newer houses and their barren 12x16 bathrooms with only one pedestal sink. What good does that do?

Hmmm, so something like the roof is 20 years old or the furnace is from 1972 will get the boot from an FHA inspection but an individual buying it with cash or a conventional bank loan would be like "meh" then?

Get thee to the Uncool Crescent, which is brimming with listings such as this one: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1743-Alcoy-Dr_Columbus_OH_43227_M40141-29656?view=qv Nonetheless, things have really gotten out of hand in the past few years. These 90K properties would have been only $65K four years ago. A house on my street that sold in 2014 for $79K is listed at $130K. Yeah the inside has been "updated" (gray paint and trim painted white) but nothing like an all new kitchen or bathroom: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/336-West-St_Groveport_OH_43125_M36052-50883?view=qv

Here's a recent account of how things are in Columbus right now for rideshare drivers: I am a ride-share driver. It’s an easy job. I started doing it in college while holding down a couple of part-time jobs, and other side hustles. It paid more than on-campus jobs, or doing retail. I could work “when I wanted”, although demand kind of ends up dictating a schedule anyway. I came here poor, with no assets. I needed something that would give me money, without interfering with my studies too much. For a time, it worked. Ride-sharing’s moving target, shift-on-the-fly changes with their pay structure has turned a once OK paying job into a scam that feels on par with Arbonne or LuLaRoe. When I started, the commissions were split 75/25 (Uber was 72/28) with myself getting the lion’s share, and the ride-sharing company getting a small take. This is no longer true. I get paid per mile, per minute. In Columbus, it’s $0.87 per mile, and about $0.14 per minute. What the passenger is charged has no bearing on what I am paid. In other Ohio cities, it’s even lower; Dayton’s per-mile cost is about $0.60 per mile. In other parts of the USA, it’s as low as $0.24 per mile. https://medium.com/@kevinwilliams_76732/i-dont-love-columbus-because-i-can-t-participate-in-it-4e2f62f9699d

This article seems to be getting a lot of attention around town. It goes into several issues including the lack of affordable housing around town and how cheaper rentals often have way more "personal" rules in the lease than expensive ones: I Don’t Love Columbus Because I Can’t Participate In It Kevin Williams Columbus is full of new construction, but it’s never for the people who actually need it. It’s always one or two-bedroom apartments, rarely ever three or more bedrooms, and almost always “luxury”. It seems obvious that the developers and the powers that be don’t want families or working-class people living in there. Although there are fair housing laws that are supposed to curb discrimination, in practice that doesn’t always happen. There are ways that you can craft policy and design your units to create a defacto sort of discrimination. https://medium.com/@kevinwilliams_76732/i-dont-love-columbus-because-i-can-t-participate-in-it-4e2f62f9699d

^"You're from English Woods? I don't know where that is!" -- East Siders

When I go to Easton I don't drive inside the shopping area, no. Instinct tells me that's not what it's for.

It appears this hasn't been as well-studied as I expected, as far as publicly-available materials go. I feel that internal studies made by marketing people and used at companies would back me up on my assertions though. Maybe not to the 1% level, but in the spirit of them.

Oh and of course, the price of the services at the salon. Price is variable by location with services but you don't get to charge that much more for hard goods such as video games, Magic cards etc. in once place vs. the other.

Then you would also want to know if the salons in NYC averaged more chairs and/or had longer hours to compensate for the higher rent and higher population per location.

johnoh81 has tons of numbers to back up everything he says, and a fantastic website chock full of Columbus data and people still jump on him all the time (usually unfairly). while we're being pedantic... it's spelled "Cincinnati"

Absolutely. But I'm controlling for time frames. More stores were around in 2000s Columbus for sure than today.

Also, the NYC only having four game stores thing has been true for at least 10 years if not 15. Back then Columbus had even more of these stores, at least 25. You still had Yo Games at Kenny and Henderson, a 3rd one in Grove City, the little computer store next to Micro Center, Games Underground in Grandview, various ones that came and went on campus, plus Magnolia still doing games at the time, two more on the west side, one in Circleville, the one on Sawmill that closed and a couple others that I'm forgetting.

Do you think that it might mean something that a city like Lancaster with 40K people has the almost the same number of independent game stores as one with 8.5 million even when controlling for rent costs and extraneous square footage?

Oh and that business where you asserted that I didn't know what I was talking about regard doors closing themselves in Cincinnati is code. Doors that lead to external hallways or to attached garages are fire doors and must be equipped with closers. http://nchharchive.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=svjOav1S3aQ%3D&tabid=598 Crtl-F for "fire doors".

That may partially explain the Columbus example, but it does nothing for the NYC example considering NYC is a shopping mecca. And there are some cities that are popular with nerds such as Seattle and San Francisco (also Austin to some degree) -- of course the employers in those cities are very tech-centric.

I like how the marijuana line shoots way up in the mid '90s. When I was in elementary pot was only for burnouts/metalheads then all of a sudden Snoop Dogg comes along in '93 and pot took off like a rocket among the high schoolers.

Why does suburban Columbus have 18 independent video game stores while interior Columbus only 4? Why does NYC only have 4 of them to Lancaster's 3?

^Well, it sure is expensive.

At the high-end schools it's probably due to a change in philosophical approach rather than a lack of applicants.

You would have to take the test before the transfer rather than taking in high school which should be an advantage.

The information was from a link I can't recall now, but basically the gist of it was "The things that people normally associate with bedbugs, like people 'living dirty' aren't the causes of them at all but rather things like putting backpacks and luggage on your bed and making it every day gives them an opportunity to breed and move around" It's also why hotels have bedbug problems.

I imagine this is at a desirable, popular school such as UC, OSU or Case that gets to be really picky now. A lot of rural Ohio schools have actually dropped their ACT/SAT requirements completely. People are scared they won't get jobs if they don't go to school in the city. https://blog.prepscholar.com/test-optional-colleges-listhttps://blog.prepscholar.com/test-optional-colleges-list Scroll down to Ohio. I know that several of these schools used to have minimum ACT/SAT scores 15-20 years ago and now they don't.