GCrites

Besides the internet, this country has done all it can to make it nearly impossible for anything but big box stores to make it. Setbacks, sign rules, horse fencing, high speed roads, confusing traffic patterns, too few units per development, big box stores being standalone, locating developments way too far away from residential, not having retail space on both sides of the street, more.

Inflation is now at or below historic average.

So people walking, living closer to work, school and shopping and using transit like they did in the '60s is "going backward"? Forward is even more sitting behind windshields? Awesome, sign me up.

They are "Drive-To Urbanism".

Only quite recently did that return for the product I'm talking about -- speculative SFH specifically (Daffy Duck voice). Other categories vary significantly. For example lending for speculative urban multifamily was still rocking in Columbus even in 2010. And right now office lending is way down.

Indeed it did... until about 2015 and demand returned while banks kept their doors locked. Some markets were already undersupplied at that time while others were still lagging.

Honestly banks could have gotten away with continuing to lend for speculative SFH in the most desirable, growing areas such as LA, NYC tri-state and Seattle while giving sprawl-but-no-growth areas the break that they needed.

Today's housing shortage is largely due to the 2008 financial crisis scaring banks away from any speculative building, thereby forcing developers to build with cash. Without any leverage the multiplication effect of developing with leverage becomes unavailable. In addition, all the layoffs in the building trades that lingered for years afterward drove people away from considering the skilled trades as a profession which of course led to today's shortages in skilled labor. The fantasy of zero regulation turned into zero build.

Republicans try to make every job that isn't working in healthcare, a warehouse or in the skilled trades sound like a "fantasy job".

If you are farming corn and soybeans you only get paid once a year.

I think a lot of people are going to get paid to drive them around in the Boomers' own cars. They are hoarding so much cash that they won't have to do things like go in a home or move to senior condos. Since they have so much more money than everyone else they get to stay in the McMansion and pay their kids well over market rate to quit their warehouse or coffee jobs and put the effort into full time elder care.

Automakers shifted their focus to Boomers and people who make a lot of money right out of school such as engineers, tradespeople and nurses. People in other situations are pointed at used cars. This is in contrast to the '80s and '90s when people of many different occupations were buying new cars in their early 20s or even late teens.

Maybe she wants to do co-op for networking purposes. I don't know which state schools in Michigan have it.

Musk himself just said again today that the car will drive itself by the end of the year. That magical 6-18 months out window. https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-teslas-will-be-self-driving-teslas-by-th-1850610372

I think there's a lot of little, say, sub-100 enrollment schools around but they can be tough to find. I went to one for a while.

The consequences would indeed be dire if problem kids are told to just go home and get a job instead. The old-school solution was military school but it seems there's a lot fewer of those now.

The mark of the beast. Only thing worse is a @.webtv if you remember those

I don't look at "bad schools" so much as disruptive kids making it where the other kids "can't learn" since kids that can learn will actually learn regardless on their own. To me "bad schools" are more like ones where your kid's personal network fills up with people who won't be able to help them be in an environment that leads to the kind of career they actually want. College and even grad school can't "fix" things like they used to. They need to know people. So this definition of "bad schools" is actually far more broad than just ones in "the 'hood" and too far out in the boonies as was the traditional definition. It also includes schools that might put up good numbers but everyone has the same job that your kid may or may not want.

Maybe back in the '50s and '60s the people wanted expansion more.

Da-dunt

When you compare car-for-like-car yes fuel economy has improved. But when you account for how many small to midsized cars have been replaced with SUVs and trucks the picture is far less rosy.

Facebook intentionally wiped out forums. There are some newer hobbies and interests that are only discussed on Facebook with almost no public forum activity whatsoever.

Every automotive "innovation" anymore involves adding weight to the car.

I bet those institutes will be fun places.

What about UC's own shuttle? Always wondered what that ridership was like.