Is this your sign off column? Because it seems like you are about as disconnected from the area you are writing about as one can get. Disconnected as fuck.
@ pollo: the name of the column is: EVERYTHING as fuck. i do believe "disconnected" falls under the "everything" umbrella? IDK: i make comments on the internet, so i am clearly not a very smart or learned person.
No... that wasn't Marilyn vos Savant. It was Dotson Rader! Or Lyric Wallwork Winik! Or some other fictionally-named person who writes for Parade magazine!
Maybe you could have gone home again, if you silly, silly people HADN'T FORGOT TO PUT IN RENT CONTROL. This isn't about California or mandolin Disneyland, it's about YOU FORGOT TO PUT IN RENT CONTROL. It is all-consuming, having a psychotically passionate nine-year conversation about fluoridated water, I know. But you all drank your own non-fluoridated Kool-Aid, and thought the magic of Portland was due to your own personal magic of coolness, rather than the result of a lot of good planning and a few happy accidents. And if you hadn't done that, and PUT IN RENT CONTROL, all this growth would be good for you instead of being a disaster.
So, how well has rent control worked in LA and SF as it relates to people currently looking to rent or move? Do a little online search for apartments there, and get back to us. Yes, there are several people who are at below market rates, but many of them are stuck in the same old, shitty situation of "landlord refuses to upgrade my dilapidated unit until I move, and I can't afford to move to a nicer, more market priced place". Rents have risen in those places over the long term as much or more than Portland, it has just been at the mandated 3% per year over many years (the law allows them to do this and landlords knew that if they didn't do the annual increases every year, they would never be able to recapture that increase), vs. Portland landlords bringing things up to market levels more sharply.
Forgot to mention that any time an apartment is vacated and put on the market, the landlord can increase the rent as much as they want. We all know how nomadic many renters are, so this fact alone effectively negates many of the supposed rent control benefits.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed .
iankarmel - why are you still writing 'here'?
Donald Trump?
http://www.biblestudytools.com/kjv/1-corinthians/15-52.html
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed .