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Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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"JONATHAN LANSNER January 5, 2024 at 9:10 a.m. California housing costs ran 60% above the US norm in 2022, by this math" .. I sense a pattern

California housing costs are a direct result of major California cities doing absolutely everything in their power to avoid building enough housing.

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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Scotia, CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California It is a “company town”, but it is not incorporated. You can also find a company town near you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_U...

I was surprised from the list to learn that Gary, Indiana was originally owned by U.S. Steel.

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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Trying to imagine the freedom one feels when working in a corporate that owns the town one lives in.

Schools, clinics, police, and other community aspects are all controlled by the same entity.

This is not communism per se, but perhaps even worse in some aspects.

Feels like a ginat kibbutz (1) to me. And all was done in the name of capitalism and the free world.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future

Ah. Let's generously say that did happen and it works out for him at some indeterminate point in the future. Would you then consider the frozen and completely inactive head disconnected from a living body vital for sustaining the living processes of the head of Walt Disney still living in the present? If this thread is to be completely pedantic, we have to go all the way here.

Not living. But liveable. Not alive but not dead. Sort of pre- death, but post- life. How about: statically being

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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post #23

Trying to imagine the freedom one feels when working in a corporate that owns the town one lives in. Schools, clinics, police, and other community aspects are all controlled by the same entity. This is not communism per se , but perhaps even worse in some aspects. Feels like a ginat kibbutz (1) to me. And all was done in the name of capitalism and the free world. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz

It gives you a whole new dimension of pain if you are laid off.

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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There's a lot to be said for building little villages all over the north state to support the amount of forestry that needs doing these days, which is quite a bit. The state says it wants to do preventative cutting and burning on a million acres per year but so far has been doing something between .1% and 1% of that goal. There's no money in it, so the state would just have to pour in the funds. But that's no differe…

If they want to cut parts of the forest now and then as part of lifecycle management why not allow logging for profit?

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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"JONATHAN LANSNER January 5, 2024 at 9:10 a.m. California housing costs ran 60% above the US norm in 2022, by this math" .. I sense a pattern

California housing costs are a direct result of major California cities doing absolutely everything in their power to avoid building enough housing.

And also the fact that California is a very desirable place to live.

Re: Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're going to have to explain that one. My first guess is you mean his legacy but a man's legacy is not the same as his life.

There's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future

There's a poetic justice to the fact that allegedly Disney's head is frozen in a suspended state, while his namesake company is essentially focused at this point only on re-animating intellectual property from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s where many of the original talent involved (not to mention the original cultural context) has moved on.
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