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Going down into the rabbit hole, here is a JSON file [1] containing the county level data from the Economist. I think that this is the source of the data used by the author. [1] http://infographics.economist.com/2015/ASBTest/Land/js/count...
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Broomfield and Boulder are night and day
Curious to know in what ways you think so? Not that I disagree. I was at the intersection of Broomfield/Erie/Lafayette and we spend much more of our non-being home time in and around Boulder, Lafayette and Louisville than Broomfield. So, while Broomfield was our residence, Boulder was still the draw.
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That's not even close to what it's saying. It's saying people in places like SF don't want others coming in/and or want to maximize their home value, so they stop new housing being built, which keeps supply of housing down and thus less people can live in areas where there are lots of work opportunities.
You're thinking too narrowly. Your point is correct, but the broader point is that there should be those same work opportunities spread out around the country so that you don't have to move to SF or wherever to get a good job. That is what hurts the economy on a broader scale. Employment is "sticky" in that personal mobility can't move as fast as capital mobility and that seems to have led to concentrations of wealth…
EDIT: Heck, industrial network effects of the sort you saw in Pittsburgh and Detroit and now see in Shenzhen can't be spread around either.
It is also a consequence of the lack of a quality passenger rail system.
Isn't this just the same as population density? I think there's an XKCD about this ... https://xkcd.com/1138/
Isn't this just the same as population density? I think there's an XKCD about this ... https://xkcd.com/1138/
Going down into the rabbit hole, here is a JSON file [1] containing the county level data from the Economist. I think that this is the source of the data used by the author. [1] http://infographics.economist.com/2015/ASBTest/Land/js/count...
Going down into the rabbit hole, here is a JSON file [1] containing the county level data from the Economist. I think that this is the source of the data used by the author. [1] http://infographics.economist.com/2015/ASBTest/Land/js/count...
The original post from Metrocosm is here: http://metrocosm.com/the-housing-value-of-every-county-in-th... . It provides a link to the source data from the Economist for the county-level data.
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Broomfield and Boulder are night and day
Curious to know in what ways you think so? Not that I disagree. I was at the intersection of Broomfield/Erie/Lafayette and we spend much more of our non-being home time in and around Boulder, Lafayette and Louisville than Broomfield. So, while Broomfield was our residence, Boulder was still the draw.
I moved out to Oregon and live in the Salem area for a similar reason- the housing is much more affordable here than in Portland. I'm about an hour from Portland and an hour from the coast, so we split our time up between the two.
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Curious to know in what ways you think so? Not that I disagree. I was at the intersection of Broomfield/Erie/Lafayette and we spend much more of our non-being home time in and around Boulder, Lafayette and Louisville than Broomfield. So, while Broomfield was our residence, Boulder was still the draw.
Broomfield is suburban white area where not much goes on. Boulder is a lively college town that's extremely liberal.
Boulder is hippies with breast implants. Beautiful, wealthy, educated people who want to isolate themselves off from the rest of society. People here are very bland. There is next to no nightlife. Bleck, what a disappointment.