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Article isn't about cities vs. burbs, it's about renting vs. buying.

It's plenty to easy to rent a perfectly nice apartment in the suburb of your choosing. Likely cheaper than downtown housing too across most US metros.

Whether or not you can swing a down payment has nothing to do with with whether or not you choose to live in the burbs or the core. Many hundreds of thousands of nice rentals in the burbs with more being built all the time. Certainly in the midwest if you ARE buying, you will get significantly "more for your money" in the burbs than in most 'hoods the average millennial would consider in the core. Very likely to be cheaper to live there.

Not sure how anyone is trapped unless we're talking renting vs. buying in NYC or San Fran, etc. Even there, can still rent in the burbs.

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pash wrote:

It's easy to assume that Millennials love cities simply because so many of them live there, but ...

But! But! But the National Association of Homebuilders says they really want to move to the suburbs!

That article is dumbest thing I've seen on the Internet all week.

I was going to say that the Atlantic must have done away with their editorial staff.

Then I did a search on the author of this article and found that he is an assistant editor for the A.

Where is his managing editor?

I put more cogent thought into daily sock selection.

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pash wrote:Everybody at the Atlantic is an editor. That's how publishing works these days. They don't have any money to pay you with, so they call you an editor, which at least helps you get laid.

Oh.

I need to update my business card.

http://gothamist.com/2015/01/28/millennials_buffalo.php

New Yorkers inch their way westward.

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How can this happen here though if Kansas is unwilling to cooperate?

Since it was Minnesota that forced the municipalities to cooperate, the analogy would have the feds in that role, an unlikely but needed scenario.

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I imagine all hell would break loose if the Feds tried to interfere in state tax policy and state matters over what cities and towns can and cannot do. States' rights and all.

FangKC wrote:I imagine all hell would break loose if the Feds tried to interfere in state tax policy and state matters over what cities and towns can and cannot do. States' rights and all.

Agree, it would have to be a negotiations between the three parties. Probably have to start with something smaller. We just need some sort of regional cooperation on anything - parks, transit, etc. before we even touch tax incentives.

http://www.urban-three.com/blog/2014/10 ... g-for-bars

Figured this site would like this.

FangKC wrote:I imagine all hell would break loose if the Feds tried to interfere in state tax policy and state matters over what cities and towns can and cannot do. States' rights and all.

I could see a very tough standard to get this far, but I can see one path where the federal government intervenes.

school districts file a lawsuit in federal court charging the state legislature with ignoring the actions of the state courts over constitutional requirements for school funding.

remember that the federal government approved the original Kansas constitution so there's a basis for the federal court to require the legislature to follow it.

Just amend the federal tax code that make benefits received directly by companies from governments taxable.

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aknowledgeableperson wrote:Just amend the federal tax code that make benefits received directly by companies from governments taxable.

I still want to think this through, but on the surface, that's not a bad idea.

pash wrote:Just for you, AKP:

NYT: Micro-Apartments, Tiny Homes Pre-Fabricated in Brooklyn

And: http://www.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/ ... n-five.php

pash wrote:Just for you, AKP:

NYT: Micro-Apartments, Tiny Homes Pre-Fabricated in Brooklyn

On another note, I contacted City officials and EDC staff asking them to approach a Chinese company, Winsun Global, looking to locate a factory in the USA that builds modular prefab buildings from 3D printing. I got a response back from the EDC that they would pursue it.

FangKC wrote:

pash wrote:Just for you, AKP:

NYT: Micro-Apartments, Tiny Homes Pre-Fabricated in Brooklyn

On another note, I contacted City officials and EDC staff asking them to approach an Chinese company, Winsun Global, looking to locate a factory in the USA that builds modular prefab buildings from 3D printing. I got a response back from the EDC that they would pursue it.

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