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Well how are you going to get growth without tech?

Because if their kids hear that dinosaurs existed or that babies don't come from storks it is an attack on the parents' identities. Other people aren't as rational as you.

The increased spending in high-poverty areas tries to make up for the fact that the students in those areas' have personal networks not only not working for them but against them. I went to an almost exclusively blue-collar high school and my personal network was actively against my college attedance, shoved their money from working in the skilled trades and automotive jobs in my face during my early 20s, laughed as I moved back to town single after grad school while the whole rest of the town was already in commited relationships and assumed i had 100k plus in student debt (even though I had zero). They absolutely despised my parents for blocking my decision to go to the vocational school back when I was 16.

I suppose I was thinking more along the lines of having to have two apartments more than the parking concern.

There's a precedent of private fire departments in Cincinnati too

I was forbidden from living with females in college and even grad school.

I'd rather co-op in town but I'm old.

This area grew so voraciously and recklessly in the 2000s that it's going to be very tough without cutting off certain businesses.

Haha, I didn't even know we were talking about the Gahanna Sheetz Resistance (GSR) on here!

That happens with so many people these days. Food availability doesn't even figure into the equation when making warehouse decisions.

Such a cool building. I've been watching it for a few years and am starting to get a little impatient.

Oh they were. And they'd throw whatever food they brought with them right in the trash if I relented and drove them up the hill to fast food. The other problem is that the job had 30-minute lunches.

I'm friends with a couple that only buys font food, organics, mostly vegetarian, lots of non-GMO and other health foods and they spend $1,800 a month on food. And they don't really eat out that much -- it's mostly cooking and lunch bag meals.

I drove co-workers insane by doing the baloney thing at one unskilled labor job I had. A lot of them didn't drive but I did so they'd all be begging me to drive them to fast food and here I turned up with baloney or TV dinners every night.

Seems like there is little price sensitivity with brunch. Probably because the tables turn so slowly.

What I think everyone involved thought would happen is that the kind of price increases required to go to $15 plus an hour would make people stop buying fast food almost altogether thereby creating some sort of Renaissance where people started eating at home a lot more and spending a lot more money at independent sit-down restaurants. What happened instead is that fast food doubled in price in 3 years, sit-down food went up only 25 percent in the same time yet people kept lining up for fast food, opening a sit-down restaurant is just as risky as ever and home food got so expensive that nobody wanted to bother with it anymore unless it was really cheap like pasta.

Fast food found out real quick during COVID that elasticity of demand for their product was much less than they thought. People today hate cooking (and home food) more than anyone thought. The "back to health food" thing was all marketing aimed at Active Millennials to get them to pay more for ingredients and kitchen tools.

That's what happened at the other tracks I mentioned. People still kept building.

KFC just tried to get me to pay $3.49 to add a biscuit. That's the kind of stuff that needs to stop. People were just signing off on those kind of increases a year ago but no. Not now.

The funny part about Ashville is that you can tell just by looking that much of the town's economy was centered around the train tracks in the days when trains stopped there. And that it was more important then than it is now. But now it's a Harley District so he's gotta speak to those guys.

If nobody can communicate because they look and sound like they are using a PXL2000 it can cause a lot of problems.

Today's specialty shops like 1200-2000 square feet. I realize it's aspirational to design everything around a microbrewery or a pharmacy but that's not realistic. Luckily flexible floor plans exist.

Companies are so bottom heavy today that working people on SNAP is often a large portion of shoppers at the supermarket/WalMart -- especially the ones with kids. If you go back to the early '80s, the way inflation finally subsided is by people putting their foot down and stopping buying stuff. The money was spread out far more evenly through the economy back then, though. These days, such a large portion of discretionary spending is done by Boomers and they aren't going to stop buying for anything. Since the supermarket/WalMart is driven by Not Boomers by this point I'd say there's a good chance if you cut SNAP benefits to pre-pandemic levels plus inflation that the stores will eat it and bring prices back down. There will be some short-term pain for the public as the stores try to find the price points they can get under lower SNAP benefits but you also have to wait for the effects to push their way all they way back up the supply chain which could take up to a year.

I never mind it but I like racing.

I can't remember if the dirt part was a dirt oval or rallycross.