Quote Originally Posted by ghettopalmetto View Post
Which naturally leads to two questions:

1. When was the last time a developer asked you what you wanted? [[I think it's funny how suburbanites across America "want" to shop at the same stores, eat at the same restaurants, and have all their buildings look the same. It must be because Applebee's is just so gosh darn delicious!).

2. Why do people in Southeast Michigan "want" to live near Hall Road, while in other metropolitan areas, housing values are higher closer to the core, thus indicating a "want" to live in the core?

Are you attributing this phenomenon soley to geographic and cultural differences?

I know that you believe what you think is fact, but the empirical evidence shows otherwise. None of that tacky plastic crap on Hall Road would have been constructed without enormous inflows of infrastructure cash from state and local governments.

But hey, "market demand" is an easier sell because you can explain everything by attributing it to some mystical force that runs the universe, and don't have to bother with actual investigation, facts, or nuance.
1. Naturally, you've read miles into things to fill your appetite for sarcasm, snarkiness, and basic disdain for everything here.

2. Your empirical evidence is always you, GP, as is your investigation, facts, and nuance. Pardon me for not blindly leading myself to your wonderful world of urban utopia and hatred of all else.