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Quick! Which House Costs More?

Silicon Valley vs. Twin Cities Housing Prices Yeah, Yeah, California has mountains, the ocean, and a (too-nice?**) sunny, mild climate. But, it’s also got a ton of people, earthquakes, sky-high gas prices, and even crazier housing prices — at least in the heart of Silicon Valley (note: I visited my college sophomore son there recently)....
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Definition, Please: What’s a “Trump Triplex?”

Perplexed by “Plex” Here in the Midwest, a “triplex” has a specific, defined meaning:  it’s an apartment building with three, legally separate rental units. Ergo, a duplex consists of two units, a fourplex, four, and so on. The units may either be side-by-side or stacked vertically — same (legal) difference. Number of Floors vs. Units...
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California Closets & Florida Ceilings

“You Say To-may-toe, I Say To-mah-toe” (sort of) If there’s such as thing as “California closets” (there is), why can’t there be “Florida ceilings?” At least, that’s what my now-12 year old daughter used to think. Geographic Adjectives; “Do-I-Haf-Ta?!?” It turns out that what she mistook for “Florida” was actually “floor to, presumably as in “floor-to-ceiling windows,” “floor-to-ceiling...
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“Climate Change Refuges”: Anchorage, Seattle, Portland . . . Twin Cities(??)

Climate Change Migration “There may be other [climate] refuges to the east. Don’t count out the elevated inland cities in the country’s midsection, like Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Milwaukee and Detroit.  “I predict we’re going to have millions of people moving to those areas,” said Matthew E. Kahn, a professor of environmental economics at the...
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“Mideast is Mideast, Midwest is Midwest, and Never the Twain Shall Meet”

What’s the Big Deal About the “West Bank?” “Passengers on low-cost regional carriers, such as Air Asia in the East or JetBlue in the West, are often required to pay extra for things like meals, in-flight entertainment and added baggage allowance.” –“Charging Less, Flying High:  a Mideast Success Story“; The New York Times (11/14/2013) Since...
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Arizona Walkouts

“Walk´- out“:  when a home is built on a slight hill sloping away from the front, making the lower level above grade. Walkout basements are something I associate with the Midwest, not the Southwest; for one thing, homes in the Southwest usually don’t have basements. However, that doesn’t mean Phoenix doesn’t have properties with that design....
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