Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

The Seattle news was discussing the number of tower type construction cranes presently in use here, we're second in the U.S. with 37, LA has 51 - Paltry in comparison to Toronto with 225, what the fudge is going on up there!?

Construction? (beating Mike to it)

 

[TBird1958]

Construction? (beating Mike to it)

Um yeah, like when they build things - like buildings. They use cranes.

 

[GBassNorth]

Thanks! For experimental purposes I tried again from the original browser. Did this work?

Yes, but the flag over the BurgBird now says free room and board with unlimited use of this bass for GBassNorth.

Can you see this one?

Yep - white bird, in a snow storm.

Inverness green.

Wow, that’s an interesting color change over time. To my eyes it looks like a faded gold.

Also says "For Kentucky residents only" in the fine print. You could borrow it any time, but no, you want to live in SC.

Keep it up and I might just move into your house! I hope you have a big basement, I’m gonna need a lot of room for the 70+ guitars and basses I’m bringing.

 

[WillyW]

Keep it up and I might just move into your house! I hope you have a big basement, I’m gonna need a lot of room for the 70+ guitars and basses I’m bringing.

amateur...

 

[TBird1958]

Wow, that’s an interesting color change over time. To my eyes it looks like a faded gold.

Huh?
What color is the dress?

 

[JJR58]

Huh?
What color is the dress?

Sexy AF!!!

Uh, the bass.

 

[PillO]

Thanks! For experimental purposes I tried again from the original browser. Did this work?

And now it doesn't show.

??

 

[PillO]

The Seattle news was discussing the number of tower type construction cranes presently in use here, we're second in the U.S. with 37, LA has 51 - Paltry in comparison to Toronto with 225, what the fudge is going on up there!?

Without going into politics:
Demand for housing far outstripping supply,
Greenbelts limiting viable building sites,
High housing prices increasing demand for high rise condominiums,
Lack of highway infrastructure and mass transit infrastructure limiting the distance people are able/willing to commute,
Decades of poor absolute lack of industrial planning, reducing the areas that employers can locate,
Some elements of NIMBY.

I could sell my modest townhouse right now and have more than enough for a nice house in a Dallas suburb...
I could sell and move into a rather decadent house in St John New Brunswick and have enough change to buy a second one and still have change for a gas guzzling Mercedes.

It is nuts here. But it will not stay that way. House prices take the escalator up and the elevator down. As mortgage rates rise, there will be a cascade of defaults depressing house prices. Some might say we are in a bubble.

 

[PillO]

When I was a kid in Mass I used to pick up Canadian AM stations at night during the winter and hear the weather say it's 20- 30 degrees below zero and used to think "Wow! It's really cold up there!"

An illusion created by the fact that it is really cold... But it is a dry cold...

 

[TBird1958]

Sexy AF!!!

Uh, the bass.

Easy there, Big fella!

 

[TBird1958]

Without going into politics:
Demand for housing far outstripping supply,
Greenbelts limiting viable building sites,
High housing prices increasing demand for high rise condominiums,
Lack of highway infrastructure and mass transit infrastructure limiting the distance people are able/willing to commute,
Decades of poor absolute lack of industrial planning, reducing the areas that employers can locate,
Some elements of NIMBY.

I could sell my modest townhouse right now and have more than enough for a nice house in a Dallas suburb...
I could sell and move into a rather decadent house in St John New Brunswick and have enough change to buy a second one and still have change for a gas guzzling Mercedes.

It is nuts here. But it will not stay that way. House prices take the escalator up and the elevator down. As mortgage rates rise, there will be a cascade of defaults depressing house prices. Some might say we are in a bubble.

We have some of those issues here in Seattle as well, the geography etc don't help. Real estate is thru roof, in the last year my (very) modest house went up more than 200K, utterly insane. Dallas would be too warm/humid for me and there are other (not discussed topics) that make it a non starter for me, St John's on the other hand

 

[5StringBlues]

I could sell my modest townhouse right now and have more than enough for a nice house in a Dallas suburb.

Only issue there is you'd be living close to Dallas.

 

[PillO]

We have some of those issues here in Seattle as well, the geography etc don't help. Real estate is thru roof, in the last year my (very) modest house went up more than 200K, utterly insane. Dallas would be too warm/humid for me and there are other (not discussed topics) that make it a non starter for me, St John's on the other hand

St John, not St. John's. You can be deported for not knowing the difference.

 

[PillO]

Only issue there is you'd be living close to Dallas.

Good airport for going somewhere else.

My watermelons wouldn't stay fresh in Houston.

Maybe Austin...

 

[RedVee]

Why when I'm pantsless, it's "creepy"?


I admit I haven't followed this band much, but they look like they are having fun.

Is that why they call you Willy?

 

[WillyW]

Is that why they call you Willy?

One-eyed

 

[RedVee]

I agree.

can’t see your pics, not even the Firefox one. No clue what’s going on.

 

[RedVee]

Thanks! For experimental purposes I tried again from the original browser. Did this work?

Not for me lol

 

[RedVee]

Inverness green.

Has it faded from UV light? It's much more interesting and yellower than the usual Inverness green.

I really am having picture problems because it looks gold to me.

but I’m notoriously bad with identifying colours.

 

[JJR58]

I really am having picture problems because it looks gold to me.

but I’m notoriously bad with identifying colours.

It's ok Geoff.
Looks gold to me as well.