London luxury property prices plummet after Brexit vote

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About the 0.4 bedrooms? Yes- we were a family of seven, and had three bedrooms.

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This will be fun for McKinsey et al - a whole country to play with!

https://twitter.com/drhamedkhan/status/749880228781166592/photo/1

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About lodging for children being relevant to the discussion.

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These and many other reasons are why I went to B’more instead.

Hope abounds that such a worthy movement will spread far and wide.

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My error–I should’ve clarified. “Capitol Hill” I’m referring to:

Beautiful area but redonkulously pricey.

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But the “suburbs” are seeing plenty of this as there’s little in the way of housing to purchase in Seattle proper anyway.

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More importantly, anecdotes tend to be heavily biased.

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Seattle is in the top 5 in the United States for the worst traffic. If you live in the 'burbs, I hope you never have to hit the road. Hell, try driving from Ballard to Capitol Hill.

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How do you propose enforcing this? Will the police go door to door daily to see if someone is home?

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I can’t imagine how though, must be all the people who bought homes in Sammammish or right off the 405. Anything up and down I5 isn’t so terrible.

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Unsure how exactly, but there should certainly be ways to disincentivize capital flight speculators.

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Are you crazy?

I’ve been back to Seattle recently. Try driving between Northgate and Capitol Hill at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon and ask youself “Why am I in stop and go traffic right now?”

Seattle traffic is so bad it makes California traffic nice. I noticed this right away when I moved down here. 405 is horrible but I-5 is a nightmare. Getting across Seattle can take an hour, easily. I can drive four cities over in that time here.

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Yep, I don’t disagree. I disagree with the poster’s scheme of somehow validating whether someone is resident in a building or not and how much of the time. They’ve tried schemes like that in other places (like “Does someone live in this SF apartment or is it being rented out illegally?”) and they don’t work.

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Try driving from Ballard to anywhere

*lives in Ballard

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Everything you just described about Seattle is actually the same in Southern California, so I’m not sure why you describe California traffic as “nice.”

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Unless you’re in LA, I’ve never seen California traffic as bad as Seattle. Certainly it isn’t as bad in the Bay Area.

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Bingo.

FYI: three California cities rank in the top five nationally. L.A. took the honors for the second year in a row. San Francisco is #2, New York #3, then Seattle at #4, and San Jose rounds out at #5.

I hate driving in L.A., and weekends are often worse that week days. Stop and start traffic runs non-stop from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in most areas. :rage:

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Going across any bridge. Man all my job nibbles are over in Eastgate. I hate that commute. If I leave before 7am in the morning it isn’t bad but coming home for sure twice the time at the least.

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I started working from home 100% of the time (instead of 3/5 of the time) after I badly injured my back three years ago. So my solution is “don’t go anywhere you can’t walk to…”

In fact, I just walked a mile to get spicy chicken for dinner and then walked back. Got my 18,000 steps for the day.

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