I concede...BULLS were right!

look, as it turned out, the fire didn't burn everything.

Moving to Altoona PA requires a lobatomy.
Willamsport PA, home of the little league world series, also requires a lobatomy.

You really don't need the labotomy if you don't wantto fit in or enjoy the joys of an ever increasing Re value. Why not just stay in Manhattan, have the lobotomy, and become an unrealistic seller...same experience or even maybe a little better.

how do i just enjoy the joys...like, generally??

buy now or be price out (of Altoona) forever!

I LOVE this:

"But they knew that land was fixed in quantity and would last forever, and many believed that as the economy grew and more people were born, there would be ever-increasing demand."

Sound like Manhattan bubbleites, recently?

NAH! It was Nebraska, circa 1835.

“Who ever heard of a man buying and selling a farm at the same or a lessened price? It is so well understood that the seller is to have more than he gave, that it has almost become a settled principle in the purchase of real estate.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/business/06view.html?ref=realestate

Thank you, Robert Shiller, for another piece of economic, Krugmanite brilliance.

Note, Riversider and LICCdope, the comment about what happened after "the loss of fiscal restraint that had been imposed by the short-lived Second Bank of the United States."

You know, the predecessor to the Fed.

Pre-Bernake-Greenspan-Friedman.

Downtown Altoona! YAY!

http://www.pennsylvania-mountains-of-attractions.com/downtown-altoona.html

Well one thing's for sure: it's cleaner than Long Island City.

What a town, BTW: it's heyday was when Woolworth's was still open! Most likely with no coloreds sitting at the lunch counter.

Or Jews!

So true. Gays and gypsies need not apply, either.

But Altoona is clean (in a sense).

little known fact about Altoona,PA...it was named after this Jets first round pick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Toon

Toon retired at the age of 29 in 1992 as a result of suffering at least nine concussions

Toon, who suffered from post-concussion syndrome, has improved to the point that he was able to compete in a triathlon in 2004

Toon is on the Board of Directors of the National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL).

What exact type of brain power does it take to sit on the board of directors? Is NGL a public company? I wonder how those cooperate executives got such huge salaries with a board of directors carefully scrutinizing their behavior?
And their you have it.
The problem with publicly traded companies is the board. Here we have a University of Wisconsin–Madison grad who specialized in football, bashed in the head repeatedly until it ended his career, who found a job managing the complex actions of an insurance company. Who else is on the board, Moe, Larry and Curly? Perhaps Larry and Curly, who have had many on air head concussions might fit the bill but at least Moe might be able to get a handle on it.
What a joke cooperate America has become.

It cant be Moe, Larry and Curly....................they're Jewish.

Not to mention the Marx Brothers.

Houses worth $100 before are $110 now. Impressive.