You know you’ve been in the suburbs too long when
- Posted by Paul Gowder on August 20th, 2009 filed in gonzo blogging and other redundancies
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… That horrible 50’s bubblegum squeaky song — is it actually called “Downtown?” — the one with the line “forget all our troubles, forget all our cares” — makes you seriously maudlin.
August 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 am
It makes me laugh, although I do not know what mau.. means.
August 24th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1459515
Can you really, or isn’t it insane that you might, have a property interest in the aesthetic qualities of someone else’s house?
August 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Was thinking about reading, posting about, that paper. But then I thought roughly as follows: “the whole system of real property ownership and the political implications thereof (schools and property taxes, mortgages, etc.) is so broken that I don’t even want to think about it.”