Slog - Comments on Re: The Post Dan Did About Collapsing Housing Prices in the Far Flung DC Suburbs! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou Dear everyone who made fun of the Stranger's hit on Prop 1—in short, sometimes the wrong light rail lines create sprawl rather than density—and dear everyone who made fun of me in particular for using DC's far-flung suburbs as my case study: The NPR report about the failing suburbs that Dan posted zoomed in those very same DC burbs.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:48:46 -0800 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:29:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Clearlyhere It is funny the home price are "collapsing" everywhere else (D.C. Metro area.) While here in the D.C. metro area they are merely not quite as expensive. I still can barely afford to buy a condo in Northern Virginia.

]]> Clearlyhere http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002920 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:28 -0800 Comment by Judge Dredd You sir are a heretic! Bailiff - take him away and lock him up.

Now then, where were we? Ah yes - light rail is good, and light rail is transformative is a green and inexpensive fashion.

Any other comments?

]]> Judge Dredd http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002924 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:24 -0800 Comment by Fnarf What does "zoomed" mean?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002947 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:20:11 -0800 Comment by Andrew That's a very disingenuous apples-to-oranges Josh, New Market as a suburb was create contemporaneously with the red line, not before it.

Federal Way is not far-flung and already has 100,000 people.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002952 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:25:52 -0800 Comment by TheMisanthrope This is a very ECB "See I told you so" non-post. Especially since you didn't say much of anything in the first place, and the facts don't support you now.

]]> TheMisanthrope http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1002996 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:11:00 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Zoomed is like p0wned, Fnarf, only more so. The zoomee doesn't even know they've been zoomed.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003019 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003019 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:26 -0800 Comment by Jeff So, how to get the light rail without the roads then? Wait? What's the solution?

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003051 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003051 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:57:48 -0800 Comment by bellevue & belmont Tacoma and Bellevue aren't suburbs in the way that Reston, VA is a suburb. Your analysis was wrong then, and it's wrong now.

]]> bellevue & belmont http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003062 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:08:49 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @7 - they just rip up the roads and put light rail in its place. Then they use the leftover road material to make gated walls around the ultra-rich and set them afire during the food riots.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003088 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003088 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:29:50 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Is it supposed to say "zoomed in on"? I'm just not getting the grammar here. Will, you're no help, as usual.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003212 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003212 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:05:31 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle What made you think I was helping?

n00b (noun, Haxxor/Gamer)- refers to someone so short of a cluestick they can't even tell when they're being zoomed by somebody ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003294 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:15:45 -0800 Comment by PopTart The suburbs are falling, the suburbs are falling.

@9 Do not underestimate the ability of the ultra-rich to arm themselves, hire their own private army, and defend their 'burbclaves. And they'll hoard all the cereal straws too.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003319 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:54:30 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Not the Cereal Straws!

This means WAR!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003331 Politics Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:45:55 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Oh, yes, PLEASE, Will, tell us moremoremore about your "Haxxor" exploits. This is going to be good.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003449 Politics Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:48:03 -0800 Comment by Greg @11: nub

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_the_post_dan_did_about_collapsing_hou#c1003690 Politics Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:29:59 -0800