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Sep. 30th, 2005 02:25 pma couple of highlights from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dglenn's latest link sausage:
and snopes.com says this is a real photo: http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/disaster.asp
[1] they fucking well are, too. San Mateo County, CA: 61.4% home ownership rate; median home value (in 2000!) $469,200 (this is actually over $600k now), and per capita income $70,819. home ownership rate in Carbon County, WY: 71%; median home value $76,500, per capita income, $36,060. so yeah... we could buy one of their houses with one year's salary, but they could buy it with two -- and it'd take us six and a half years' salary to buy one of ours. and that's going by the Y2K value. i guarantee you the per capita income hasn't risen much since then. and sure, we have better weather, but i've driven through Carbon County at night, and they have phosphorescent streams. i mean, how cool is that?
dglenn's latest link sausage:
- Looking for the few places to live in the US that aren't as at high a risk of disaster as those places that "people are stupid to live in"? Perhaps this map of presidential disaster declarations by county, 1965-01-01 to 2003-06-01 will provide useful clues. (Carbon County, Wyoming, anyone? 17.2% of the residents have college degrees, so you know they're smart! - m [1])
- "Find The Brownie" lists places where Bush is trying to hire unqualified people for important government roles.
and snopes.com says this is a real photo: http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/disaster.asp
[1] they fucking well are, too. San Mateo County, CA: 61.4% home ownership rate; median home value (in 2000!) $469,200 (this is actually over $600k now), and per capita income $70,819. home ownership rate in Carbon County, WY: 71%; median home value $76,500, per capita income, $36,060. so yeah... we could buy one of their houses with one year's salary, but they could buy it with two -- and it'd take us six and a half years' salary to buy one of ours. and that's going by the Y2K value. i guarantee you the per capita income hasn't risen much since then. and sure, we have better weather, but i've driven through Carbon County at night, and they have phosphorescent streams. i mean, how cool is that?
