Et in Arcadia Ego

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Contra the YIMBYs San Francisco and Manhattan are both on this list 😜
The worst housing market over the last decade is somewhere people would least expect. Manhattan. Values in New York County dropped by -11.9% from September 2016 to 2026, falling from 1.41M to 1.24M. Which is an astounding -51.2% drop in inflation-adjusted terms. Condo/co-op/townhome values inn Manhattan are now at record lows compared to incomes and rents. Making it one of the most undervalued housing markets in America, despite it's still expensive price tag. Values have actually started turning recently, up 3% YoY. Meaning it could be a good time to buy in NYC. Check the value trends for your county at: reventure.app/map/cMk5iPrSfq
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My Irish ancestors came to America as passengers on American Airlines 🤣
My Irish ancestors were slaves bought and sold by Jewish people. And you expect me to care about antisemitism?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Irish people sent to the Americas were primarily indentured servants under temporary contracts, not chattel slaves. No historical evidence supports claims they were bought and sold by Jewish people; this relies on the debunked Irish slaves myth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_sla… snopes.com/fact-check/iri… apnews.com/article/920e1c…
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Never really sure if I put the harness on the corgi the right way
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Clinic over here advertising an October “boo-tox” sale.
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People who have never been to Indianapolis are quote tweeting about how we DESTROYED this city with CARS, but you can go to street view yourself and see a lot of this stuff is either still there or was replaced with taller commercial development in the early 20th century.
"When I left America at that time, I told a New York reporter that Indianapolis was the most beautiful city in America." - Arthur Conan Doyle, absolutely correct.
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If less than 1 million people is a “rural poophole,” then I’m arguably in an urban poophole.
If you don't have at least 1 million people within a 30km radius of your city, you live in a rural poophole. You should move. Test it for yourself: tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulat…
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Convinced this post was written to trigger me
Most famous book tied to every U.S. state 🇺🇸 Alabama — To Kill a Mockingbird 🇺🇸 Alaska — The Call of the Wild 🇺🇸 Arizona — The Bean Trees 🇺🇸 Arkansas — Where the Red Fern Grows 🇺🇸 California — The Grapes of Wrath 🇺🇸 Colorado — The Shining 🇺🇸 Connecticut — The Ice Storm 🇺🇸 Delaware — no single flagship novel 🇺🇸 Florida — Their Eyes Were Watching God 🇺🇸 Georgia — Gone with the Wind 🇺🇸 Hawaii — Hawaii 🇺🇸 Idaho — Housekeeping 🇺🇸 Illinois — Native Son 🇺🇸 Indiana — The Magnificent Ambersons 🇺🇸 Iowa — The Bridges of Madison County 🇺🇸 Kansas — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 🇺🇸 Kentucky — Beloved 🇺🇸 Louisiana — Interview with the Vampire 🇺🇸 Maine — Carrie 🇺🇸 Maryland — The Accidental Tourist 🇺🇸 Massachusetts — The Scarlet Letter 🇺🇸 Michigan — Middlesex 🇺🇸 Minnesota — Main Street 🇺🇸 Mississippi — The Sound and the Fury 🇺🇸 Missouri — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 🇺🇸 Montana — A River Runs Through It 🇺🇸 Nebraska — My Ántonia 🇺🇸 Nevada — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 🇺🇸 New Hampshire — A Separate Peace 🇺🇸 New Jersey — The Great Gatsby (set on Long Island, linked to NJ) 🇺🇸 New Mexico — Bless Me, Ultima 🇺🇸 New York — The Great Gatsby 🇺🇸 North Carolina — Cold Mountain 🇺🇸 North Dakota — The Round House 🇺🇸 Ohio — Beloved (also linked to KY) / The Bluest Eye 🇺🇸 Oklahoma — The Grapes of Wrath (Dust Bowl) 🇺🇸 Oregon — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — The Lovely Bones 🇺🇸 Rhode Island — The House of the Seven Gables (nearby) 🇺🇸 South Carolina — The Secret Life of Bees 🇺🇸 South Dakota — Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 🇺🇸 Tennessee — The Firm 🇺🇸 Texas — Lonesome Dove 🇺🇸 Utah — The Book of Mormon (religious text) / Riders of the Purple Sage 🇺🇸 Vermont — Ethan Frome 🇺🇸 Virginia — To Kill a Mockingbird (also AL) / Beloved 🇺🇸 Washington — The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 🇺🇸 West Virginia — The Glass Castle 🇺🇸 Wisconsin — Little House in the Big Woods 🇺🇸 Wyoming — The Virginian U.S. overall — The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Grapes of Wrath are the titles that travel farthest Note: One book per state by setting, author birth, or the title people most often attach to the place. Not a sales ranking. Several books are claimed by more than one state (Grapes of Wrath for California and Oklahoma; Beloved for Kentucky and Ohio). Some states have no single dominant novel. Source: Setting and literary association roundups; standard “books set in each state” lists
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I used to wish I were a software developer instead someone in a half-technical job who still has to talk to people. Now I’m glad I don’t have to argue with Claude all day!
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I never gave any thought to this, but apparently before the typewriter “guy who makes copies” was a whole profession!
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Had a peppers and eggs hero for dinner, a classic of American wop slop that always reminds me of my grandmother because she used to insist we order one whenever we got pizza at her house.
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The new zoomerfied Carrie show’s decision to center the drama on an evil Instagram account leads to some of the most natural depictions of our relationships to our phones that I’ve seen in any recent media.
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Otherwise I think the show is just alright 👍
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Interesting that the ancestrally unchurched West Coast eschewed Hellmann’s mayonnaise in favor of the anodyne Best Foods label.
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My experience living in a rent stabilized building full of phantom apartments that were never listed: Pros —Charming prewar features —No other tenants meant no annoying neighbors! Cons —Not so charming old features —That time the roof in the bathroom caved in…
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34 seems like a good age to finally get deep enough into Proust to get to all the weird gay stuff he put in halfway through his 3000 page novel.
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