Which is admirable by any measure but to call him quite a success story after self admitted decades of failure is a bit of an exaggeration. I get it he persevered despite all his personal failings but it’s just funny.
Once a crackhead always a crackhead. That’s the gist of a lot of posts on this board in regards to certain other politically prominent former crack heads
Which in no way implies they are bad people once they get clean and turn their lives around. Heck, even still using doesn’t make them bad people, unless they are victimizing others as a result.
“They don’t care about my business,” 7-Sigma Inc.’s president and owner, Kris Wyrobek, toldThe Star Tribune about Minneapolis public officials. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”
The city will lose about 50 jobs when the company skips town, a move that Wyrobek said he had “not in my wildest nightmare” considered before the riots. Now, he is “cautiously optimistic” that he can rebuild his company elsewhere, “but we are certainly not able to do that in Minneapolis.”
Wonder how many more businesses will follow suit? Things are likely going to get much worse before they get better if they even do.
Can’t be, too soon. Real estate values only start going down after houses sell for less, that drives down comps. It can’t happen over night. Comps are generally the average sale price of homes over the past year. So it takes a bit of time to drive that average down. Plus very recent sales were likely under contract before this began.
I’m blessed in not having struggled with addiction, other than nicotine. I drink to get faced once or twice a year (4th of July and Christmas.) I used to party a lot in my 20’s but even then I could take it or leave it.
It’s my recollection that Minneapolis had been on a decline even before this. What is the average price of housing there compared to the rest of the state and the country?
Zillow says up 3.3% over the last year, predicting they fall 1.8% next year. Predicting they fall even more in Chicago next year, 2.3%. No idea how recently they made those predictions though.