Random Early Lunch Post

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1. I'm pleased to see that after the Atheist Apocalypse there are still pigeons. It wouldn't have killed the cartoonist to change it to an American robin, but hey, I haven't given up the room in my heart for pigeons.

2. On account of the exciting mortgage crisis (Low income people out on the street! Bailouts for Wall Street Usury firms!) our options for where to move have temporarily expanded. Here's a question I asked on thequestionclub with predictably binary results (considering the binary nature of the question): You have two choices about where to buy a house. You have a 300k budget. Do you a) Buy a tiny house with no yard in Oakland California or b) buy a nice house with a gigantic yard 30 miles outside of Austin Texas?

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And there you get the other advantage to life in Texas: a lot of the available property in North and Central Texas is already zoned for agricultural use. As much as I might recommend the Bay area (and I love the Bay area), just try to raise goats in Berkeley or Santa Cruz without blowing a few million on the land and the zoning changes. (That's why I'm staying out here: you really can't get too much cheaper when starting a nursery than in Texas.)