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GCrites

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  1. Do people really think their property can lose value in this market?
  2. Yeah, Bexley pioneered the teardown and UA kept it alive starting in the '80s (or even earlier).
  3. I'll throw a little nugget out there -- med school should be free. What costs more to run, a med school or one elementary school? Before you say med school, think about the number of students at a med school versus an elementary.
  4. It is not perfectly elastic due to decisions made by OPEC, governments and companies. Plus things like disasters and other necessary shutdowns.
  5. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in General Transportation
    Generally as the size of the vehicle goes up the MPG goes down and the size of the fuel tank increases to give most of them a range of 350-450 miles. Some pickup trucks can hold over 30 gallons.
  6. Oh I mean the little new one that looks like it will hold 100 people or so.
  7. Would it be considered an honor to be the first band to headline both amphitheaters? Maybe not.
  8. The asphalt on the bottom right was staging for load-in/load-out and the parts with trees were still trees.
  9. The switch to summer blend gas raises the price too.
  10. My suburban town will not annex SFH over .3 of an acre because it knows it's a net negative. It's why the borders are so balkanized and it's been the city's policy for a long time. They will annex the crap out of commercial/industrial though. It even refuses to annex the large independent auto repair shop cluster on the NE side of town since the payroll taxes are too low.
  11. They were tearing stuff down even before the zoning got approved.
  12. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    Well, there you go!
  13. GCrites replied to zaceman's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    Then it's not common sense anymore, now is it?
  14. GCrites replied to KJP's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    The Constitution doesn't matter in Ohio. See: School funding has been unconstitutional for over 20 years and nothing happens.
  15. ^That's because only wealthy white guys thrive under complete deregulation while everyone else suffers.
  16. ^but it is politicking!
  17. That's true, EVs wear them out much more quickly.
  18. Most tires' trreadwear ratings are already so high now that most of the time tires age out before they go bald.
  19. People aren't as married to the suburbs as is billed. A lot of people just default to them since that's what their friends do.
  20. GCrites replied to CincyImages's post in a topic in Urbanbar
    So many more birds of prey these days as compared to even 5 years ago.
  21. That's true, Columbus is much better at retaining those folks than Cincinnati. I can think of colossal amounts of Columbus that have these types of highly-educated immigrant families (Polaris/Lewis Center, "Olentangy" as in west of ORR from North Broadway to Bethel, Bethel itself, Dublin, Bexley and then sprinkled in Berwick, the SE side, Worthington, Westerville, New Albany, Gahanna, more. Yet in Cincinnati I can't think of many clusters of this cohort at all. The Dales and Woodlawn maybe? The parts of Cincinnati most like the Columbus Cool Crescent.
  22. Some of those are sneaky little ones I don't notice or forgot about. That is indeed just a few too many still.
  23. The skywalk in Minneapolis is a little more necessary than here since their weather is so cold. Cincinnati built a very extensive skywalk system in the '70s only to slowly dismantle it due to changing building uses, maintenance costs and the detrimental effect on street life. The thing is, so many of these cities were incredibly vibrant in the '60s when these skywalk decisions were made that there was extra foot traffic to go around. Street life even in the '80s was really high at least during the day. Today, in a world of street life scarcity it is undesirable to split what little there is. With that said, one high line is fine. And Columbus is down to minimal skywalks anyway.
  24. ^High lines are still kind of like skywalks in that respect.