tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15223784.post3745133492161336432..comments2023-10-08T06:24:07.089-07:00Comments on Seattle Bubble: Forbes: Seattle Job Market MiddlingThe Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832570891451659976noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15223784.post-82633532746855419782007-02-28T06:52:00.000-08:002007-02-28T06:52:00.000-08:00With all due respect to Forbes, I call bull**** on...With all due respect to Forbes, I call bull**** on that ranking. Any metric that puts Norfolk/Virginia Beach (awful pit of a town with little resident industry) above Austin Texas (lively town with resident industry as well as government and research jobs around) has something very, very wrong.<BR/><BR/>I would like to know how those are calculated, and what is "good" or "bad." For instance, Honolulu is listed as #1 for unemployment. Does that mean Hono has the highest unemployment in the nation, or the lowest? <BR/><BR/>Also I had to laugh at some of the "cost of living" metrics. Buffalo and Syracuse, NY both are at the #1 end of cost of living. Well, duh! They're both also well known for being rust belt cities where the jobs left long ago. No work, no money, no money, nobody to buy stuff, nobody to buy stuff, prices fall, etc.Slinkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00219326179865124676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15223784.post-56285556039134383372007-02-26T21:58:00.000-08:002007-02-26T21:58:00.000-08:00I'm giving Seattle five years. If I cannot afford ...I'm giving Seattle five years. If I cannot afford a home by then then I am going back to Raleigh.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05660201775008638301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15223784.post-74424225450782086942007-02-26T21:12:00.000-08:002007-02-26T21:12:00.000-08:00OT, but Ben published my pix of downtown office bu...OT, but Ben published my pix of downtown office buildings in Chicago going condo:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/3e352d<BR/><BR/>This was in response to the Smith Tower thread. It's While these buildings are on or close to Michigan Avenue, you can see the effect elsewhere in the Loop. The 2nd photo is 55 E Monroe St, about the last place anyone would imagine going condo.<BR/><BR/>Some friends of mine were part of the initial push to convert industrial space into "lofts" in Printers Row, Chicago, in the late 1970s. At that time, you had an old dying industry being supplanted for residences. Now, as you stroll down Washington St, you see huge amounts of office space, and the service economy itself, giving way.christiangustafsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07216348353801614419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15223784.post-17259257282736512372007-02-26T20:49:00.000-08:002007-02-26T20:49:00.000-08:00I find it absolutely delicious that Seattle was sa...I find it absolutely delicious that Seattle was sandwiched in between Tulsa and McAllen.<BR/><BR/>Those "creative class" types are going to have a difficult time with this.Eleuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248482892459370601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15223784.post-54430919714199155772007-02-26T10:55:00.000-08:002007-02-26T10:55:00.000-08:00But Tiiimmmmm,The "creative class" only go to the ...But Tiiimmmmm,<BR/><BR/>The "creative class" only go to the uber-sexy coastal metro areas, and have a single-handed responsibility for the sky high price of real estate.<BR/><BR/>Mouth breathing losers go to places like Oklahoma. They don't count. In fact, there is a trendy charity called "Laces for Losers."<BR/><BR/>It consists of hip-n-trendy coastal types going to flyover country on their way for a ski weekend. They stop in the suburban cities of the Rockies and Midwest and help all the uncreative dolts tie their shoes.<BR/><BR/>"An ego is a terrible thing to waste."<BR/><BR/>Geography goes like this.<BR/><BR/>You start in the Upper East Side (big money), and go to the fashionably chic and hip Upper West Side. After you cross the Hudson, you come to Aspen and then Lake Tahoe, and then the coastal California areas.<BR/><BR/>There is nothing in between.Eleuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248482892459370601noreply@blogger.com