http://www.gothamist.com/2005/12/29/_elmira_here_we.php All comments for Elmira Here We Come! en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/12/29/_elmira_here_we.php#comment-91431 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/12/29/_elmira_here_we.php#comment-91431 Comments Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:18:04 -0500 <p>Elliot Spitzer should be putting his sites on Price Fixing in the housing market in New York area. Who cares that I have to pay 99 cents for a song instead of 25 cents. I want to buy a home for $250,000 instead of $750,000 what a scam!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/12/29/_elmira_here_we.php#comment-91367 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/12/29/_elmira_here_we.php#comment-91367 Comments Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:26:10 -0500 <p>One city planner once theorized that the inverse of this number is a good measure of "quality of life," ie. a better measure than the subjective "quality of life" indexes. That is, if you are paying a higher share of your income for housing, your personal standard of living is lower. Therefore, to attract people to a place with a lower standard of living, that place must have a superior collective quality of life. Boulder Colorado (low standard of living, high quality of life) and Detroit (high standard of living, low quality of life) were given as examples. That said, I think the income-adjusted price of NYC is too high relative to Buffalo.</p>