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dupattaluella t1_j4mhwq4 wrote

Reply to comment by MonicaPVD in Are Dollar General stores and others only found in areas that are perceived as low income? by pem4423

>These stores are essentially the corporate equivalent of breaking up a pack of cigarettes to sell loosies.

Great analogy.

When prices started going up, I did some price shopping at dollar stores, Costco type stores, and regular grocery stores. For what we use regularly, the regular grocery stores are the cheapest.

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degggendorf t1_j4lr6br wrote

Reply to comment by Beezlegrunk in Share your opinion about Fane Tower by quinntronix

> If you’re so certain that those theories are true, point to the actual U.S. cities that you know they have been proven

Ooo ooo, remember when you said this? "Instead of attempting to deflect attention from your statements by demanding that other people offer theirs, you should be able to respond to critiques of your views. If you’re uncomfortable doing so, that’s probably an indication that your comments were shallow, poorly reasoned, and / or ill-informed."

I am starting to think that I should create a whole GrunkCriticizesGrunk subreddit...

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gzy91 t1_j4lqag7 wrote

Reply to Trash along Bald Hill Rd by lordlordie1992

There was one time a police car changed to my lane in front of me, opened their window, and threw a McDonald cup outta their car, as if they were afraid I didn’t see it lol.

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degggendorf t1_j4lpgdl wrote

Reply to comment by Beezlegrunk in Share your opinion about Fane Tower by quinntronix

Ooops, you forgot to answer the question I asked! That would look an awful lot like deflection to someone reading your comment.

So let's try again...what do you think would happen if a million new apartments opened up in San Francisco tomorrow?

> If you’re so certain that those theories are true, point to the actual U.S. cities that you know they have been proven.

I would like to once again ask you to read my links. I already did what you're requesting. Or are you actively trying to avoid learning, because you value retaining your preconceived notions over anything real?

Let me coax you into learning with this excerpt from here:

> To be clear, this debate is not about whether new housing can reduce housing prices overall. At this point, that idea isn’t really in doubt. There’s good reason to believe that in regions with high housing demand, building more housing can help keep the prices of existing housing down. In their Supply Skepticism paper from 2018, Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Katherine O’Regan offer an excellent introduction to the broader question of how market-rate development affects affordability. Citing numerous individual studies and reviews of dozens more, they conclude that “the preponderance of the evidence shows that restricting supply increases housing prices and that adding supply would help to make housing more affordable.”

which references this study, that has all the real-world data you're looking for.

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Beezlegrunk t1_j4lntzv wrote

Reply to comment by degggendorf in Share your opinion about Fane Tower by quinntronix

>”Classic supply and demand”

You mean, classic THEORY — i.e., “Here’s a story we can make up whereby something might happen, under specific abstract conditions that don’t exist, and / or that deliberately ignores the historical record of has actually happened in the real world, rather than a theoretical one”

Your refuge from any challenge is to cite theory. If you’re so certain that those theories are true, point to the actual U.S. cities that you know they have been proven. If building expensive housing lowers all housing prices, you should be able to point to multiple examples of that immutable effect, yet you never do.

The study you cited was self-contradictory, but you shouldn’t need an academic study to prove your claim — it should be empirical and obvious, not hidden or obscure. Housing should be ever-more affordable, belying the thousands of media stories and Reddit posts chronicling soaring housing costs and an absence of affordability …

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Bulky_Show5219 t1_j4lnb20 wrote

Reply to Are Dollar General stores and others only found in areas that are perceived as low income? by pem4423

It depends on which of the "dollar" stores you're talking about regarding "value," but Dollar Tree has some very good deals. [ Note that due to recent inflation, everything in the store used to be sold for $1, but is now $1.25. ] Examples of very good bang for your "buck" are 100 count bottles of aspirin, off brand "Draino," name brand tooth brushes, multi pack Duracell batteries, Christmas decorations/ nick knacks, pens and paper goods, plastic food containers......to name just a few things. All of these items are priced about 20% of what you'd pay at a CVS or supermarket. The snob factor and the perception of low quality ( vis a vis the general low quality of all the items we buy that are made in China ) of the stores offerings are what keep a lot of people away. Similarly, many "high-end" stores or outlets offer the same goods of similar quality ( often packaged more attractively ) at substantially higher prices because their customers will pay more for what they think is better quality.

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