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6 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
So there's this weird thing that happens when housing prices go up in cheap places and down in expensive ones bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Yes, rents are still a lot lower in Florida than California. But when compared to local wages, they stop looking so cheap bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… Image
Go through all metro areas for which @ApartmentList has rent estimates and @BLS_gov has median wage data, and the least-affordable list is admittedly still quite California-heavy bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… Image
Here are the most-affordable metros for which data are available. The one that stands for me is Akron, which is a really nice place bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… Image
Finally, the most affordable large (1+ million population metros). A lot of really great places here! (I highlighted the cities mentioned in the column but they're not the only great ones) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… Image

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As always, I offer answers to your most pressing questions, such as "where do those flowers come from?" bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… Image
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Yes, the story is a *lot* different if you go back farther than 2010, but for the past 1/5/10 years the part of the U.S. wealth distribution with the fastest-growing net worth is the bottom half bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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I finally read the article this is based on and … it says that it's not at all clear yet how many of the excess deaths not attributed to Covid-19 are Covid deaths that were misattributed or really the result of other causes
"Deaths from circulatory diseases, Alzheimer disease and dementia, and respiratory diseases have increased in 2020 relative to past years, and it is unclear to what extent these represent misclassified COVID-19 deaths or deaths indirectly related to the pandemic"
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Re today's Supreme Court decision to let the Census Bureau stop counting: the only states where it hasn't yet enumerated 99.9% or more of housing units are Louisiana (98.3%), Mississippi (99.4%) and South Dakota (99.8%) 2020census.gov/en/response-ra…
Also big shout-out to Minnesota for having the highest self-response rate Image
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I have inspired a pro-iceberg rant from @davidchang. My work for the year is complete
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Wrote a column on what may turn out to be the biggest news of 2020, the possible eclipse of head lettuce (iceberg, mainly) by leaf lettuce. With appearances by @hels, Nora Ephron, @AliceWaters, John Waters, @amandamull and (uncredited) @JamesSurowiecki bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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