Who buys soda at the regular price? This is just from this week's ad of a major national grocery chain in my area, and I routinely see 3/$12 or 4/$12 deals for soda. Same for ice cream: consider substitution or waiting for a sale.Not saying it is 80% but a 12 pack of soda used be $6 and it is $10 now... same with a 1/2 gallon of blue bell ice cream, was $6 and is now $10 (reg prices not sale prices at my local big chain grocery store). These are 2 normal every day items that have gone up this much is past 2-3 years.
Who buys soda at the regular price? This is just from this week's ad of a major national grocery chain in my area, and I routinely see 3/$12 or 4/$12 deals for soda. Same for ice cream: consider substitution or waiting for a sale.
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I'm not saying prices haven't gone up, but if you're paying $10 for a 12-pack of soda, that's a skills issue.
We don't measure inflation by the cost of single goods, and "regular prices" in a typical grocery store are kind of fake. The more meaningful comparison would be what you could typically and routinely find in sales as an out-the-door price.I didn't say I bought them at that price...I am simply comparing the reg prices from a few years ago. It was an apples to apples comparison.
We don't measure inflation by the cost of single goods, and "regular prices" in a typical grocery store are kind of fake. The more meaningful comparison would be what you could typically and routinely find in sales as an out-the-door price.
Not saying it is 80% but a 12 pack of soda used be $6 and it is $10 now... same with a 1/2 gallon of blue bell ice cream, was $6 and is now $10 (reg prices not sale prices at my local big chain grocery store). These are 2 normal every day items that have gone up this much is past 2-3 years.
I think we are talking more about incentives and zoning restrictions to spur private development, not government run projects.The problem ultimately is that any kind of cost efficient housing (little boxes stacked close together or on top of each other) tends to be treated as an eyesore, and nobody wants it built anywhere near them.
Also, when we built “the projects” in the ‘60s, it didn’t work out great for a number of reasons. What those reasons are is probably a P&N thread, but the fact that it didn’t work out reinforces the desire on the part of the people with money, to not have low income housing anywhere near them.
Finally living somewhere like this has been great for me. Just through casually playing in town I've now got a drummer and bass player for my punk project, and I'm already putting the wheels in motion for a space banjo project later on this year--just talked to a wild bass clarinet player last night to recruit him for that one, it's potentially growing into more of a generalized psychedelic experimental thing. If I pick the right venues, I could maybe even have an aerial dance routine going on during the set. In other cities I'd probably have to be putting out ads looking for people to do all this stuff instead of just bumping into these people.
How is this any different than a landlord opening Zillow and looking at what their competition is charging?
THIS is the problem, indirect landlord collusion, via their "RealPage" application (allegedly).
Edit: So, I guess I'm wrong. It doesn't make sense to build more houses, till AGs can "kill the beast", and stop landlord collusion.
Sure. But local government makes those incentives and zoning rules, and the folks who don't want that stuff around them go to city planning meetings and make their opposition known. Usually loudly.I think we are talking more about incentives and zoning restrictions to spur private development, not government run projects.
You mentioned the projects. So I was replying to that as in that's not what we're trying to do here.Sure. But local government makes those incentives and zoning rules, and the folks who don't want that stuff around them go to city planning meetings and make their opposition known. Usually loudly.
I grew up in a town at the intersection of three counties, where all three counties had approved construction of trailer parks, because it kept "those people" in one place as far from more affluent areas as possible. But yeah, it was all "private development."
Compared to the rural town I was living in, absolutely. Compared to the nearest proper city to there, well, harder to gauge because Omaha was much larger and more sprawling, and allegedly at one point had the most restaurants per capita in the US. Nightlife for me mostly consists of going to concerts, not staying out all night drinking, dancing, and partying, but this city seems pretty much ready for bed by 1AM.That's awesome. With tech and the interwebs, we can discover so much art and music online or via apps, but still nothing beats the three dimensional world for a lot of collaboration. I would guess you are also now around a much better food and nightlife scene?
You seem very well informed on the NYC real estate market. Can you teach us more? Are there real people buying nice new condos in Brooklyn by any chance?For S&G, I looked at the available New Construction in the New York area. There's a couple of condos in Broo.... lolz, nobody's actually buying this crap. It's all for Hedge Funds to park their cash.