Once you download it does anything actually work beyond viewing? Can you search? Can you ask for directions? I do download maps, and pay for roaming data, but I still would never completely rely on it in a new place because I'm bound to be out of network coverage at some point.
Yes, which means downsizing. Need to downsize will put people off selling. People being put off selling reduces supply. Small supply keeps prices high.
In the SF bay area people are throwing $4, 5, 6 million at houses in cash all over the place. No contingencies, 7 day closing. The high end of the market has slowed a lot, though, and houses are having to repeatedly lower prices to get bids. The market up to about $4M has not slowed noticeably, possibly because supply has slowed more quickly than demand; people are still bidding hundreds of thousands over asking.
The problem with that argument is that in places that are setup for it, it clearly works because people do it. So we have to ask whether there is something unusual about the people in those places, or the infrastructure. It apparently isn't something wrong with being young or old, within obvious limits.
The taxes are skewed towards the rich, but also towards people who want to move for work. It's a wealth transfer towards the asset rich and immobile from the workers and the mobile. It's the economic distortion that's the problem as much as the lower taxation, but certainly part of it is shifting the taxes even more heavily onto the high income earners.
It is bizarre. Here in California you didn't used you buy a car with plates at all. Then they started to require paper temporary ones.
Why they don't just have plates fitted on the lot I don't know. I can't see how it saves any time, the dealer would just have to have the plate ready for each car like in most of the world. It seems that the simplest solution was too hard to implement.
in CA, new cars are issued permanent plates when they are registered. once they're registered, they're considered used cars, so dealers don't register them while they sit on the lot (they also don't own them before they're sold, usually a bank or the OEM does). the temp plate system that was just introduced worked fine in states with lower car sales but probably took a while to roll out here.
it's a combination of outdated laws, outdated technology, and massive amount of car sales. it's finally catching up.
In many states you get a temporary plate from the dealer that is good for 30 days or so, and receive your permanent (or annual) plate from the state in the mail.
If you buy a used car from a private seller you have to go to the motor vehicle bureau and transfer the title and register the car yourself. If you buy from a dealer they handle that for you (and charge you a few hundred dollars as a "document processing fee").
In some cases you can transfer the plate from your old car to your new car, but that's not always possible. There doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to it.
Does Singapore make more sense? Papua New Guinea? Alaska, for that matter? All borders seem pretty arbitrary when you get down to it, but it's hardly alone in being a weird bit at the end of a bigger bit where one or other is part of a detached bit.
I don't know about Singapore or Papua New Guinea. We could get philosophical about Alaska, but the geo/demo-graphic situations are completely different from Ireland.
This is an island smaller than Ohio with five million people on it - people with a shared history going back many hundreds of years and seeming to not want to be separated.
Brexit threw a wrench in the idea of a seamless border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK. You either have a customs border between the islands of Ireland and GB, or you have a customs border between the Republic and the North. I don't see how it feasibly goes any other way, and neither of those make all parties happy.
> people with a shared history going back many hundreds of years and seeming to not want to be separated
Many people in Northern Ireland—a narrow majority at the moment—consider themselves to be British and do not want to be separated from the UK. That's why it's such a tricky problem.
This almost sounds like a parody of American meddling and ignorance, complete with the US state population comparison.
Not saying you don't have a point (I have no skin in the game) but I read thousands of similar western comments about various countries "smaller than $state!" and they're never helpful.
If it makes it any better, I wasn't trying to be helpful, I was trying to understand Ireland and someone else started whatabouting with other countries and states.
You see, people sometimes use familiar locations or factual references to draw comparisons to other items or places.
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