<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Chas,<br><br>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. <br><br>Anyone with half a brain can take a few minutes to look at the Bureau of Statistic and see:<br><br>http://censtats.census.gov/data/ID/1601654550.pdf<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>You can also compare these rates, and see that Moscow homes are older, smaller, and more crowded than
other cities in Idaho. <br><br>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. <br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/20/09, Chasuk <i><chasuk@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rent Prices Was: Sen Schroeder<br>To: donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com<br>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 9:42 PM<br><br><pre>I am disputing your original statement, Donovan, nothing else. To<br>remind you what your original statement was:<br><br>> And so
they wonder why rent is $1200 a month in Moscow<br><br>You didn't specify whether the rentals were homes or apartments, or<br>the condition of said rentals.<br><br>How many different places have you lived? Of course, I may be wrong,<br>but I'm willing to bet that I've lived in far more apartments than you<br>have, in quite a few more locales, so I can knowledgeably compare.<br>And that knowledge isn't gleaned from Google Earth, but from firsthand<br>experience.<br><br>As an adult, I've rented apartments in Denver and Aurora Colorado, in<br>Sacramento, in Spokane, in Coeur d' Alene twice (two separate<br>apartments), and in three separate apartments in Moscow. I've also<br>stayed in hotels in D.C., Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Colorada,<br>California, and Texas.<br><br>Guess what? The apartments in Moscow are not better, or worse, than<br>apartments in any of those locations. Nor are the hotels.<br><br>If you are going to debate, Donovan,
especially when it is a trivial<br>point, it is bad behavior to change the particulars halfway through,<br>which you have now done two or three times.<br><br>Don't disgrace yourself. Lose honorably.<br><br>Chas<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>