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Gee I wonder if so many of our F1000 companies happen to be auto suppliers is why we barely have trains.

^Another way to peg Strickland as The 2008 Guy (which includes 2007 and 2009+).

Well, that's the complaint in Appalachia too. There's all these towers and high-rises that would be cool to live in but they're reserved for seniors and people on disability only.

People associated with the storage unit company living at the entrance of large storage unit complexes is quite common. It gets the insurance cost down, for one. Someone is always around to respond to the alarm.

^It's pretty cool, I saw it around New Year's in Columbus. A little expensive though. We went on a Sunday.

Too many controls buried in the touchscreen for one.

But the boots the women wear in SUV commercials are more stylish than in the minivan commercials

Rail is what keeps the Appalachian towns from becoming completely unimportant. The infrastructure is right in your face in them and the vast majority of the housing was built from 1890 to 1925.

The new CAFE regulations that indexed MPG regulations to footprint so that big cars could get worse MPG was a part of the late 2000s re-ruling took it easy on the Big 3 due to their bankruptcies (not Ford). Since the automakers had an enormous amount of input that time around that provision made it in.

That's another problem with SUVs -- they are mostly "long hood" cars so they have to pull way up to see what's coming. "Great visibility" if you like blind spots everywhere.

Traditional body-on-frame SUVs actually sell like crap compared to crossovers now since they are too big. And the traditional SUV demo has seen too many beat-up ones by now. In the '80s and '90s beat-up station wagons were everywhere sort of like how beat-up minivans have been all over the place for the past 20 years. Most people haven't even seen a beat-up, rusted out, noisy crossover driven by some druggie with no teeth yet since the popularity of crossovers hasn't been for very long. Once that happens crossovers are doomed on the primary market too. I did see a trashed late 2000s Jeep Compass driving around and was actually surprised. Though the amount of time crossovers and SUVs spend driving around trashed may be reduced since once they get under $2500 they get killed in Tuff Truck races at county fairgrounds all across the land.

^CAFE happened way after Americans made the switch on their own to much smaller cars in the early '80s. Station wagons became uncool in the '80s (20+ years before CAFE) because they represented an America that we no longer lived in where you could bang out a bunch of kids in your 20s without serious negative financial consequences. Many crossover SUVs fail at the alleged cargo superiority over the hatchback due to their piglet-like rooflines that place the tops of the pillars too close to the center of the vehicle and oversize wheels and tires causing the wheelwells to invade the interior too much.

^people are so arrogant in their driving abilities that they think they won't be in a single-vehicle crash, especially not one THEY cause. They only think about being T-boned or rear-ended out of nowhere. They have no idea that an SUV's worse handling and braking and ease of turning over makes them more likely to be in a crash. And going upside down in a crash is very, very bad according to insurance companies.

If you start doing really well you go off of percentage rent and back to regular. This can be in your favor since if you do well enough percentage rent is higher than regular.

Mink St. isn't much better Call them all Innovation Way and get it over with

^The house is not next. Phase 1 can be built without demoing the house.

Why do they insist on that? Maybe it's for dogs to take dumps but that can be handled differently.

You can tell it was still quite an important city through the '60s.

It really depends on how much of the city's SFH is well-maintained. If it is all nice then it will be expensive. But in Ohio cities there's a lot of parts of towns with SFH that have seen a lack of investment or disinvestment.

I'm pretty sure flipping through Calliou in our late teens and early 20s on our way to Comedy Central and VH1 Classic is why my generation has such a low birthrate 20 years later

Houses with yards are cheaper than living in the city now.

The much-derided-on-UO fence has come down at 325 Main and some yard trees have been removed. I imagine the house is next.

They all want drive-thrus so badly anymore. reason for edit: wrong city thread

He learned how to get what he wants from the Trump electorate. Basically the same way Vince McMahon taught Trump how to talk to rural voters except Vance is self-taught.

The Market is going to respond badly to any interest rate hike because it is competition. It wants to be the only game in town besides real estate.