[Vision2020] Rent Prices Was: Sen Schroeder

[Donovan Arnold]

Chas,

I believe you are intellectually dishonest. I don't believe that you are so dumb as to believe that when I said $1200 a month, I was referring to apartments, and not houses. 

Anyone with half a brain can take a few minutes to look at the Bureau of Statistic and see:

http://censtats.census.gov/data/ID/1601654550.pdf

That in 1999, ten years ago, the average home mortgage in Moscow was over $1000 a month. If you want to believe that in that ten years, the average mortgage has not reached or obtained $1200 you are very bad at math or in a deep state of denial. 

You can also see that many Moscow resident are paying far more than 35% of their income on housing costs, which by definition makes housing unaffordable. 

You can also compare these rates, and see that Moscow homes are older, smaller, and more crowded than other cities in Idaho. 

If you want to declare you win, because I didn't specify that the $1200 was meant for not an apartment, but a house, then fine, you win. But I don't think you honestly thought I was saying that. If you did, I don't know you should read anything I have to say because you don't catch implied meanings very well, which is something I do frequently when I write. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rent Prices Was:  Sen Schroeder
To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 9:42 PM

I am disputing your original statement, Donovan, nothing else.  To
remind you what your original statement was:

> And so they wonder why rent is $1200 a month in Moscow

You didn't specify whether the rentals were homes or apartments, or
the condition of said rentals.

How many different places have you lived?  Of course, I may be wrong,
but I'm willing to bet that I've lived in far more apartments than you
have, in quite a few more locales, so I can knowledgeably compare.
And that knowledge isn't gleaned from Google Earth, but from firsthand
experience.

As an adult, I've rented apartments in Denver and Aurora Colorado, in
Sacramento, in Spokane, in Coeur d' Alene twice (two separate
apartments), and in three separate apartments in Moscow.  I've also
stayed in hotels in D.C., Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Colorada,
California, and Texas.

Guess what?  The apartments in Moscow are not better, or worse, than
apartments in any of those locations.  Nor are the hotels.

If you are going to debate, Donovan, especially when it is a trivial
point, it is bad behavior to change the particulars halfway through,
which you have now done two or three times.

Don't disgrace yourself.  Lose honorably.

Chas

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