{"id":440,"date":"2006-11-14T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2006-11-14T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T10:14:00","slug":"our-town-a-to-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/our-town-a-to-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town A to Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alki &#8211; What you will become after your home becomes a boat anchor<\/p>\n<p>Belltown &#8211; Experience fine dining while warding off homeless and addicts<\/p>\n<p>Capitol Hill &#8211; Enjoy wearing your fauxhawk while calling 9-11<\/p>\n<p>Denny-ile &#8211; Denial over the negative appreciation in your recent downtown Seattle condo purchase<\/p>\n<p>Eastside &#8211; Close to Microsoft. Location, Location, Location<\/p>\n<p>Fremont &#8211; Hippies have been displaced by hipsters<\/p>\n<p>Goldilocks &#8211; Seattle RE is not too hot or cold &#8211; it&#8217;s just right!<\/p>\n<p>House poor &#8211; A condition many Seattleites may find themselves facing in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Irrational District &#8211; Someone needs to open a pizza joint up in this mug and fast<\/p>\n<p>Jobs &#8211; Becoming increasingly scarce in any field related to real estate and other sectors tied to consumer spending starting in 2007<\/p>\n<p>Klondike Gold Rush Museum &#8211; History of yet another asset bubble<\/p>\n<p>Lake Washington &#8211; It&#8217;s great if you have the $2M entrance fee<\/p>\n<p>Mudslides &#8211; Increasing property values since 1901<\/p>\n<p>Neighborhoods &#8211; If you can afford them, Seattle has some nice ones<\/p>\n<p>Occidental Park &#8211; see Belltown<\/p>\n<p>Pike Place Market &#8211; Much ballyhooed place for bruised fish and pan handling<\/p>\n<p>Queen Anne &#8211; In need of a 40% haircut<\/p>\n<p>Renting &#8211; A wise alternative to buying in this market. Have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrics007.com\/Guns%20N'%20Roses%20Lyrics\/Patience%20Lyrics.html\">little patience<\/a> and buy beautiful Queen Anne view homes for pennies on the dollar by 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Sailboat &#8211; A great place to live after your house capsizes<\/p>\n<p>Tooth &#038; Nail &#8211; How you&#8217;ll be fighting to make the payments on your 1960&#8217;s boxy Ballard money pit<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment &#8211; What goes up when consumer spending goes down as a result of the housing bust<\/p>\n<p>Vulcan &#8211; A company that consistently makes wise investment decisions<\/p>\n<p>Weather &#8211; A major draw for the &#8220;equity locusts&#8221; of California<\/p>\n<p>XXX &#8211; A city so liberal it proposes ridiculous laws (4 foot rule)<\/p>\n<p>Y &#8211; Why not buy a house today?<\/p>\n<p>Zoning &#8211; New zoning laws will finally allow all those Vancouver-like condos to be built downtown, thus cementing our bubble-proof status .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><i>A parody of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/11\/13\/our-town-a-to-z\/\" title=\"Our Town A to Z\">this post<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; padding: 2px; font-size: 12px; width: 150px; text-align: center; border: 1px dashed #4386ce; background-color: #D5E2F1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=paypal%40timandjeni.com&#038;no_note=1&#038;tax=0&#038;currency_code=USD&#038;lc=US&#038;item_name=Seattle%20Bubble%20Donation\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Tip Jar\">Seattle Bubble Tip Jar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alki &#8211; What you will become after your home becomes a boat anchor Belltown &#8211; Experience fine dining while warding off homeless and addicts Capitol Hill &#8211; Enjoy wearing your fauxhawk while calling 9-11 Denny-ile &#8211; Denial over the negative appreciation in your recent downtown Seattle condo purchase Eastside &#8211; Close to Microsoft. Location, Location,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1113],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our Town A to Z \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/our-town-a-to-z\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Our Town A to Z \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Alki &#8211; What you will become after your home becomes a boat anchor Belltown &#8211; Experience fine dining while warding off homeless and addicts Capitol Hill &#8211; Enjoy wearing your fauxhawk while calling 9-11 Denny-ile &#8211; Denial over the negative appreciation in your recent downtown Seattle condo purchase Eastside &#8211; Close to Microsoft. 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