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If the surrounding area has enough discretionary income and population loitering doesn't matter. If the income starts going only to basic essentials or the population isn't high enough nearby to reach the required metrics that's when vacancy increases. Or someone opens another mall. Remember most malls are almost all discretionary with very little in basic essentials in 2023 as compared to the '80s when they had Radio Shack, Sears and pharmacies in them that you needed to go to.

Oh I didn't think Fairfield County could jump in but of course they can.

That too. A lot of malls wouldn't do that anymore but Kenwood can.

Perhaps another store wants in their old space really badly and is paying them to move.

I'll miss it somehow. Made me feel like I was in Cincinnati or Pittsburgh or something.

In local news coverage yesterday of the Goody Boy closing down they noted that it opened in 1947 as the Goody Boy so the first McDs wasn't that one.

Yet people are driving 320mph only half a mile away

Where was it, exactly? We're still not 100% sure.

Foot Locker is pretty much done with B&M nationally.

Sports isn't like roulette or slot machines in that society brings up sports constantly. TVs don't go five minutes without mentioning sports.

I thought pretty much all gaming stuff moved out of CES in favor of E3 a long time ago? Could be wrong though-- that wasn't my side of the industry.

Speaking from our Ohio experience with tornadoes there is a ton of stuff that never gets fixed after something like that.

Nobody besides people in Baltimore is ever going to like the Ravens

But then people would take the day off from work!

Even your own business can be horribly empty, ungratifying and meaningless (to you) even if other people love it. By the end I felt like what I was doing had no meaning even though young people were literally jumping with joy when they were in the business. Definitely glad to be involved with agriculture now rather than with game stores. It's far more important to society.

Lack of intellectual curiosity

No Heights though. That's how you tell the difference.

During a housing shortage, yes. Not everyone that buys will work at Intel so anything that loosens the banks' purse strings is welcome (again, during a housing shortage rather than 2006).

I imagine they don't remember the '90s when 800 people lived there.

In the Clinton and Bush II days liberals and other people who knew that at least some regulation is required in many industries didn't just have conservatives against them but also neoconservatives and neoliberals. Liberals, already weakened by the '80s, now had three significant factions insisting that regulation was bad. Clinton, both a neoconservative and a neoliberal that believed regulation was getting in the way of minority homeownership certainly got sucked into thinking he was doing a good thing for minorities and the whole shebang would have been framed that way if it worked as thought. Instead as we progressed on into the Bush years the lack of regulation that extended to all mortgages and the refusal to do anything about it while rich white guys got richer and richer in their perceived fantasyland of little to no regulation or enforcement. Even if the whole thing started as a seemingly noble way to increase minority homeownership, the results quickly became white people buying $500,000 houses when they could only afford $160,000 and nothing was done. In fact it sped up exponentially while rich guys counted their cash (that for many of them would all be lost after their greatest fantasy of no regulation came true) and shouted down any criticism while cursing anyone that cut off the cash early (most notably, the French). Fact is, Black people buying $50K (at the time) houses in Driving Park, Madisonville or the Cleveland East 50s didn't bring the whole thing down since it didn't happen nearly as much as tribal tattoo Chad and Karen overbuying by $350K and overfunded yet underknowleged speculators overpaying for marginal overproduced suburban sprawl properties. But of course something rich white guys did to mess things up globally always has to be turned around and blamed on Black people greedily buying modest primary residences. As far as FHA and VA regulations go, some of them have historically been a bit onerous, requiring some things to be a bit too new or spending too much time worrying about the positions of stairway handrails. While the idea of regulation is good so that someone doesn't buy a house with basically no roof the devil is in the details. The US government tends to make things like this hard to use so that they get used less -- which makes Republicans more likely to OK them.

Range anxiety still exists in hilly, rural areas that get cold and still have little charging infrastructure such as Kentucky.

Honda and Toyota were so big on hydrogen that they got behind on full electric.

Aren't levees supposed to not have trees on them?

Oh I remember the international students at Marshall being like, "Even small American towns like this one have skyscrapers"

Only Trump doing things to stroke off rich old white guys counts as "doing anything" while Biden doing things for anyone else isn't considered an "accomplishment".