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    mdktHamilton Nolan
    10/10/13 3:24pm

    Phoenix is not THAT bad. The weather is gorgeous 9 months a year, it is a fantastic place if you enjoy the outdoors, sports, or just generally being active, and the state as a whole is filled with amazing natural, Native American, and prospector history. No, it is a not a cultural center, and yes, I prefer New England, but I have lived there and it has a lot going for it.

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      Hamilton Nolanmdkt
      10/10/13 3:31pm

      The Cheesecake Factory.

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      TVs_Frankmdkt
      10/10/13 3:42pm

      How's that whole lack of water thing in a few years going for ya?

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    Thunder-LipsHamilton Nolan
    10/10/13 2:56pm

    Am I insane to think the bubble was almost intentionally popped so that the wealthy could get rock bottom prices on the conspicuous consumption of real estate?!

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      neopatriotThunder-Lips
      10/10/13 3:02pm

      They mention the Texas market. It's funny in Texas. MANY available house closer to the city that are about 40-50 years old and no one wants them. They sit empty while McMansions are thrown up in the "master planned communities". Sometimes Texas really comes of as massive wasteful and ignorant to me as I see eight lanes of stop-and-go traffic packed with 4-door pickups and SUV guzzling gas on their way out to their craptastic little piece of heaven 20 miles from their job. It's like they don't even care/realise there is a better way to spend their life.

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      LarsThunder-Lips
      10/10/13 3:04pm

      It was not intentionally popped for this purpose. However, the upside of the popping has been engineered to benefit the wealthy.

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    mtdriftHamilton Nolan
    10/10/13 3:13pm

    To be fair, most of those "shithole" towns in Montana were actually not all that bad until the petroleum industry came along, dug giant holes, and shoveled shit into them.

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      BingleyJoeHamilton Nolan
      10/10/13 3:03pm

      I think I need a 1983 Casio DG-20 electric guitar set to electric mandolin

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        IrishishHamilton Nolan
        10/10/13 3:17pm

        From a purely mercenary perspective, I can't wait until real estate crashes again so I can buy a building on the cheap and become a fatcat landlord.

        From a doomsayer-with-nowhere-near-enough-capital-to-do-that perspective, OH GOD OH GOD IT'S ALL GONNA FALL

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          La.M.Hamilton Nolan
          10/10/13 2:54pm

          One day you are going to retire to Las Vegas. I know this. I can feel it in my bones. It is bound to happen.

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            APersonaHamilton Nolan
            10/10/13 9:41pm

            catastrofortune! my new favorite word... I haz it.

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