Holy Shit

[deathbysherpa]

Just between you and me, I think census data is some of the best stuff on the internet.

Quincy, Massachusetts, from city-data.com:

2005 median house/condo value: $382,300 (it was $185,700 in 2000).Median household income in 2005: $59,526 (it was $47,121 in 2000

Comments

Whoa

[yourpalfootfoot]

When did Quincy become fancy?
2005? Okay.

You got it, mister

[deathbysherpa]

That was the year a truck drove down my street sprinkling gold dust.

[lentileater]

I hear that Albuquerque is good if you are a college graduate who wants to work full time scraping the fat bucket at a Chinese takeout. Lindsey can tell you more on the wonders of the Querque, which include the above employment, having Aster stolen, and sleeping with a crow bar on the nightstand. They don't really seem to have a local enonomy, per se, but you could go the Devon Hall route and work for the TiVO help line.

[deathbysherpa]

I think I've heard all except the bestolen Aster story. But all the non-Lindseys seem to have big gooey crushes on Albuquerque. I've been Turned.

It's also rumored to be the next big housing boom, if you want to buy me a house there.

I think Boston is still the only city where you HAVE to have a BA to scrape the fat bucket.

[blueemilia]

i'm there.

[deathbysherpa]

Cool dude. We'll hang out with Lief all the time, and I'll start calling myself Petal and you can call yourself Stem. And we'll drive around listening to the Roots.

Was it when I was with you and Thea that I was bullshitting facts about the life expectancy in Russia? If so, here's the actual statistic:

male: 59.12 years
female: 73.03 years (2007 est.)

Here's Cuba:

male: 74.85 years
female: 79.43 years (2007 est.)

[lentileater]

Also, if you think census data is good, you need to just go ahead and google the CIA World Factbook.

[deathbysherpa]

The CIA World Factbook is my bitch the way a bitch is a dog. The only thing I hate about it, aside from the occasional oddly biased history blurb, is that awful background they've been using for the last four years. It hurts my eyes just thinking about it.

That said, I'm about to go utilize said factbook to answer Emily's comment above us. Watch this.

[luxury_beast]

I drove thru albaquirky once with kathy en-route to CA. We stayed in a nasty motel 6 that had pubes everywhere.
Santa Fe is way better.

[deathbysherpa]

If that's not an endorsement of Albuqueerky, I don't know what is.

I really need to compile all the "pubes everywhere" stories I've been told in my life.