By The Tim on November 15, 2009
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Posted in Polls | Tagged Polls, world_class_cities
By The Tim on September 4, 2008
I received the following in an email from a reader:
About the condo—comment article… the real issue is not the really cheap/ugly/tasteless and likely unlivable condos (apartments). Nor is it the equally horrible “townhouses.” It is about greed and lack of public (government) oversight and control.
The developers wanted the money, the government wanted the taxes [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged condos, feedback, reader_question, townhomes, world_class_cities
By deejayoh on November 14, 2007
Picked this up from Aubrey Cohen’s blog. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the NAR and well-known real estate seer has confirmed what our local press and real estate folks have know for years: Seattle really is special! It’s about jobs and Microsoft millionaires. Why didn’t we think about that?!?!
Seattle a “superstar” market
Seattle is becoming a [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Cohen, Rhodes, Seattle_is_special, Seattle_Times, world_class_cities
By The Tim on April 17, 2007
If I were the egocentric type, I’d probably think that none other than the P-I’s Bill Virgin is a Seattle Bubble reader. A mere five days after I dispelled the notion that Seattle is “world class,” Bill delivers the exact same message to a broader audience in today’s column: So what makes a world-class [...]
| Tagged psychology, Seattle_is_special, Seattle_PI, Virgin, world_class_cities
By The Tim on April 12, 2007
My car is so great. It has a built-in CD player, a driver’s seat with four independent adjustments, a tasteful spoiler, a spacious trunk, climate control, a powered sunroof, and gets over 30 miles to the gallon. It’s comfortable, good-looking, and fun to drive. My car is comparable to a BMW or [...]
| Tagged psychology, Seattle_is_special, world_class_cities
By The Tim on February 13, 2007
In the last few days I’ve run into a few comments in various discussions about Seattle real estate that have caught my attention:
Dean Jones, Condo Marketer:
“You might cringe at condos that sell for $2,000 a square foot. But it would be twice that in New York. We’re still, relatively speaking, a bargain.”
Bob, Urbnlivn commenter:
“When [...]
| Tagged population, Statistics, world_class_cities
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