The evolving modern home
Have you ever returned to the old neighborhood, to see the house you grew up in? Are you shocked at how it’s changed, or horrified at how small it is? Can you really have grown up with all those...
View ArticlePricing blue states bluer?
What two states are facing the highest rates of emigration? “Boston!” “New York!” From the Boston Globe: Massachusetts lost more residents than it attracted in recent years, at a greater rate...
View ArticleHousing demography: what, you’re leaving?
Any doubt that Massachusetts‘ population loss is tied to its high housing prices has been eliminated by a recent Boston Globe poll (statistically valid and professional done; full data here), which...
View ArticleNot nice places to live: Part 1, babies to boys
By: David A. Smith I used to think that real estate was a society’s longest-lived asset, and therefore that the most important elements of public policy were those affecting property development –...
View ArticleNot nice places to live: Part 2, boys to men
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] In yesterday’s post, using a good compilation story on the science fiction Web site IO9 (October 3, 2012), we explored the demographic...
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