totally agree

Even if they do given that cars have a 10 to 20 year lifespan there will be a gazillion gas cars on the road still. Take a look and see if you can find any 2012 civics driving around right now...

Probably not in 10 years honestly but yeah it's a huge issue in cities

I don't see it really working until we have 10 minute charging or better

I don't think electric car and street parking is a viable recipe for happiness I'm afraid

https://www.nbc12.com/2022/11/03/incident-clears-after-causing-delays-i-95-richmond/

people follow too close. Leave space people. And don't cut each other off

it really is this simple. We have data. Data trumps anxieties.

No one is saying lead is good to eat. But your fears of consumption are almost entirely irrational. I had regular blood lead checks done on my daughter still, with no issues. Unsurprisingly.

I've worked on plenty of non single family homes. Lead is very easy to deal with. It requires dealing, yes, but it's really not a big deal. A few thousand dollars in equipment. It can be done perfectly safely DIY also. Or unsafely of course. But it's really like crossing the street - you can get killed, but it's easy to cross the street safely. Doesn't mean everyone does of course.

You can lift a multi. But you wouldn't. You'd prop it up and fix the issue. no need to lift. Lifting is a pain even for single family houses. Very few old buildings have foundation issues, they are much more common in the newer places for various reasons.

All the data I saw up to the pandemic went the other way. Then the pandemic put up numbers backing your thesis. But if you look at urban rents and sales this year it showed high demand.

I continue to strongly think the drivers remain the same as the last 20 years. But current data is obviously muddled.

Cities remain amenity dense. The big flip is commuting time with wfh. Commutes used to drive a lot of urban moves way back. With traffic not an issue it's going to be interesting.

But think ex commute of why you live where you do and not say brandermill

compared to USG and cloudkey? Not sure. For me I've been running it off an edgerouter lite and a laptop for the last decade or so, so I wanted to upgrade the router as well.

I will say I find the new UI so much of an improvement. Though it makes it a minor pain to force channels, it seems to really want the system to do it, which I'm not sure works in an urban environment yet. I had always previously set my own with wifi scanner

how on earth is it a big deal? It's a minor thing that's going to be forgotten in a decade. The very definition of temporary virtue signalling. The people getting bent out of shape about it are silly, and the people thinking its of lasting importance are also silly.

I think we should have just renamed Lee to "Grant" Stuart to "Sherman" etc. Would have achieved the same thing much more cheaply

oh I completely disagree with you. And the data backs me up except for the covid epidemic, and it's showing a bounceback.

It's too early to tell, but look at pricing and sales. In 5 years it will be very clear which trend drives things.

But I'm sticking with Richard Florida here.

it's just not an issue if you don't let your kids eat the house. I was raised in a lead paint house. As, I expect your were. As is my daughter and most of the kids here. You can google incidence of lead paint poisoning, but it's basically all in the projects you'll find.

Given I've been building and remodeling houses, primarily old houses, for 20 years now, yeah, I'm sure you have worked on them less than I have.

There are no cracks that are impossible to fix btw. It may be that you guys don't want to pay to fix them, which is another thing. Condos are famously cheap and pass the buck on repairs, it's the incentive structure

so the site I googled was wrong, that'll take me to take the first hit. Your data set is obviously better.

That said, by your data, its still really really high, within a percentage point ex the ninja loan debacle

My wife signed up for the monthly at the Tommy's on Boulevard. We've been pretty happy with it, would recommend.

Call the police, I assume you guys have video, and if he'll do this to you he will do it to someone else

I did that for my house, it's a great idea.

Get a Dream Pro if you haven't. So much better than running ubiquiti on a computer. You probably need a switch too I assume, with POE injection. There's something I'm not as pleased with Ubiquiti on, I've got a switch 8 open in another window I'm fighting with. The Netgear 5 port gigabit unmanaged poe switch is very good in my short experience with it, and cheap.

I'm glad to see you are pulling cat6 too. Do a plan/site survey and figure out how many waps you'll need. 1920s plaster etc will usually give you say 15-20 foot radiues per wap depending.

And the ubiquiti stuff generally likes to live on the ceiling fwiw

lead is just not a big deal. Asbestos isn't either in most situations, and is easy to remediate.

Your take on old houses is totally wrong, speaking professionally as someone who has built and rebuilt plenty of houses. It really depends on the house.

Plumbing and electrical are much bigger deals btw. With plumbing usually the biggest pain.

homeowners absolutely.

But US home ownership rate is very good, 65.5% second highest it's been in history.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop encouraging it, but we should be realistic about how well we are doing, and what the real issue is, which is a shortage in the places people want to live because of single family zoning. A de facto cap is what created this situation

a thing yes. Big deal enormously overstates it though

they loved the idea, but they were getting slaughtered. Read up on the zillow mess you might find it amusing. And that was in an up market

huh. I'll ask her

It's basically marketing. RVA goes on the radar as a place to live for people who either hadn't thought about it, or were pondering it but were worried we were just like Alabama. If you were marketing Richmond and buying ads this would cost a fortune

Basically "look! They are still cheap and aren't backward anymore!"

a form of the medium is the message. NYTs take on things gets loaded with authoritative affect.

that's great.

you can do it!

It'll suck, of course, but eventually you'll get past it. Where as if you don't try it'll keep sucking. Cheery thought eh?

thanks!