nxylas
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Fri Feb-01-08 02:40 PM
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How Oil Burst the American Bubble |
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Excellent article courtesy of Common Dreams which touches on smart growth issues: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/01/6773/
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Mon Feb-11-08 03:06 PM
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1. Too many people believed the message that they |
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HAD TO buy a house, and that if they didn't, they were not responsible adults, were wasting money, and were missing out on all those wonderful tax advantages (like property taxes? like paying a dollar to the bank for every 35 cents you get in tax breaks?) and that it HAD TO have certain features.
I resisted the siren call of the "buy now" crowd, and everyone, including my friends and family, thought I was crazy.
Look at the suburban houses built in the 1950s or so, small starter homes about the size of the average apartment. Now it's McMansions or condos or nothing.
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