Prove it then. You've said you've read the study so you should be able to paste the relevant section here for us.
San Diego isn't quite that bad downtown, but one can certainly get by without a car if you live and work downtown. I wish I could get outta this $400 a month albatross I have now.
A MINI that I rolled $4000 negative equity in when I worked there because I stupidly bought another MINI at 65k miles that was beginning to break down. It's a lease, so at least I'm not stuck with it forever but given how tight my finances are, I can't say I haven't thought about paying someone to take it into Mexico and calling it lost since gap insurance is included on the price of the car.
Most car salesfolks will do leases since they get better discounts. I'll always lease German cars anyway, cuz rhe turbo and timing chains and all the other shit that the Japanese cars normally lack will cost you down the road. Especially the money pit on wheels called the 750i.
I've had the alternator go out on Black Betty ('00 Accord) but that is only non-routine repairs needed. So far no issues with our '08 Fusion. I had Old Red ('74 Econoline I'm rebuilding) running and driving two weeks ago but then the water pump went out, so since I was gonna have to remove the radiator anyway might as well replace it, well now that I'm in here, why not replace the cam, timing chain, ah fuck, let's just do it all....
I my Buick. $215 a month including the fancy warranty and I would trust that beast to take me anywhere. In style.
Seattle's road system is just particularly badly designed though their downtown is a lot more dense than our downtown which also contributes. In San Diego the 5 goes through downtown in an S shaped pattern so two sides of downtown town have easy freeway access (the north and east sides), then you have both the 163 and the 94 ending in downtown. So with three freeways going through downtown and three others (the 805, the 15, and the 8) just a few miles away from downtown... Well, traffic easily flows in and out of downtown San Diego compared to Seattle.
My daughter will be living there in a few months - her husband is in the navy. The weather there sure beats Seattle - they can actually swim in the ocean in San Diego!
I've got a 12 year old Tundra with over 150k miles, and an 11 year old Camry with 110k, and I'm happy as hell with both of them.
Ehhhhhh....not exactly. Apart from the island countries, the Pacific is fairly cold. But still, the weather can't be beaten, but if she's like every other Southerner I've met, she and the hubs will be pulling their hair out over the cost of living, especially rent.
my 2009 Beetle has about 112,000 miles and is still running great. Many cosmetic issues (dings, scratches, interior tearing up, nice to have but not "need to have" stuff broken off or missing, etc) but I honestly don't care. The radio & CD player are new! I just want dependable transportation from point A to point Z and back. It has a low center of gravity and insane power. If it were an animal it would be the cheetah in my avatar!
Straw man city. I never said it would destroy the economy only that you get fewer low salary jobs so fewer young people, immigrants, and poor people end up getting entry level jobs than they otherwise would. That is exactly what has happened.
The unemployment rate has fallen everywhere in this country. There must be lots of minimum wage raising, according to what you say.
*Seattle does X to improve lot of labor* Faith Based Economics Adherents: IT'LL KILL JOBS!!! *Doesn't kill jobs* Faith Based Economics Adherents: Yeah, well, other places had unemployment go down too.
You are smug and happy with reducing opportunities for low skilled people. No, you are not making life better for them and instead you are making it much harder for them to get basic skills and climb up the skill ladder to better pay. You can deny it all you want but how do you think so much of the EU got their 40% youth unemployment rates? This isn't magic, it is cause and effect. I am sorry facts make you angry but they are still true.
Even the city's own report said it would result in fewer low paid jobs than otherwise would be the case. You can keep lying and pretending that isn't true but you look more foolish when you do. BTW what is the price difference at restaurants in Seattle these days vs before or is that another thing you don't want to talk about and prefer to ignore?
I already six paragraphs breaking it down for you which you dismissed without reading so until you go to the study and pull out your claim then I am done. As to prices, here ya go: But in an analysis of area prices over time, done through a combination of “web scraping” and in-person visits to grocery stores, restaurants and other retail locations, such price increases were not in evidence. “Our preliminary analysis of grocery, retail and rent prices has found little or no evidence of price increases in Seattle relative to the surrounding area,” the team concluded. http://www.washington.edu/news/2016...prices-minimal-one-year-after-implementation/