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I'm having trouble finding the article, but last year Jalopnik reported that a Volkswagen study found that it took over one million companies to produce one of its cars. That's from suppliers of suppliers of suppliers all the way down to the dyes in the inks of the printing on the wraps of the capacitors. Obviously VW would like to see that number be smaller, but where and how to start?

Other auto insurance companies were very profitable during 2020. Now 2021 may be a different story. How are the other auto insurance companies weathering the issues Root cites in the story? I mean, they sound real.

One thing I've heard a lot of seniors say 10-20 years after retirement is the most important thing about work is the people you work with.

That's everyone that owns a property though. Salespeople figured out that the phone number of every property owner is listed on the auditor's website. Anyone in sales loves lists of names, addresses and phone numbers of asset holders so that they can call them. Once something public free and easy popped up like the auditor's site it was a no-brainer for them.

One thing that may have helped Columbus vs. various other cities is its extremely high college graduation rate.

And the Research Triangle has stolen a lot of people from Columbus.

Tons of arcades in Japan closed for good since COVID hit.

^When I was in college (Portsmouth) a lot of us wanted to rent in the towers that were all over town instead of the bent early-1900s trashed SFH that was also all over town but we found out that they were all for low-income seniors and people on disability/Medicaid only.

It's usually the ones who don't need the most it that get it. And without bending over backwards.

Yeah on Doritos and Mountain Dew

He'll be fine. All the old ladies that love him are going to show up and the Harley Guys won't since Trump isn't on the ballot.

Ugh.

I wonder if it had bathrooms in the units or shared bathrooms down the hall -- being such an old hotel before it was apartments. 1995 is really late to be tearing down a building this tall in Columbus.

Hmmm, don't remember that one.

Man it's so hard to get a finger on how well the food halls are going to do in the future right now with COVID still around. When it's under control for a while we'll have a much better idea.

Another issue is that people become so SFH minded that literally all they can think about is SFH. They think it's the best investment (even though it's the worst), can't imagine why anyone would want to live in anything except SFH, if they rent it's SFH, and they "simply can't believe" that land that sold for $multi-millions would wind up with anything but SFH on it. Like they seriously expect someone to put up 3 SFHs at the Livingston site after spending millions of dollars on land and groundwork.

Darn, I had the World's Largest Block of Cheese that I was saving just for the Stubenville Huntington awning too

Might have gotten axed in the 2009-2010 citywide budget cuts that wiped out the streetcar/light rail plan.

Employers definitely deserve a lot of the blame for Columbus splitting up into Cool and Uncool Crescents over the past 30 years. Sure OSU was closer to the North end of town when it started happening but Downtown is much closer to the South, West and East sides. But now that the momentum has shifted so hard to the North (and now NE) and the Uncool Crescent is filling up with warehouses quickly the only thing that seems feasible is more interest in the Downtown and continued momentum in Franklinton, Grandview and UA.

In the past (2000s-2010s) I would say that it's hard to find people under 30-35 making that kind of money outside of healthcare and some specific technical positions, but now that the labor market has been nuked by rapid Boomer retirements, a lack of new young people coming up due to extended low birth rates and COVID that you're going to start seeing a lot fewer college graduates stuck pouring the coffee until 35-40.

I mean, is it just going to be people with high-paying jobs renting these or people with other money?

The Pulte Homes development at this site has been mostly stalled FOREVER. 15+ years.

That bolsters the argument that baseball, basketball, hockey and racing are better at finding who's really the best because their playoff systems (and regular seasons) force far more observations/iterations than football and its emphasis on winners of single games.

Not much longer 'til the old movie theater opens up on Livingston -- then it was really Puttin On the Ritz!

"A used Chevy Equinox is a wise choice."