Comments on: 64 Worst: Cost of Rent vs. No NFL Team

By: 64 Worst: Lightning Round, Day 1 of 4 | Los Angeles Metblogs

64 Worst: Lightning Round, Day 1 of 4 | Los Angeles Metblogs — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:49:43 +0000

[...] Cost of rent: The economy is in shambles. Or, as President Bush calls it, in a “slowdown.” The housing crisis has littered the SoCal landscape with signs of foreclosure. Yet, with home prices falling, rents are going up. And half the time, you still have to bring your own refrigerator. -Jason Burns [...]

By: browne

browne — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:12:09 +0000

While I think rent should be cheaper, compared to most urban cosmopolitan cities the rent here is pretty cheap.

It’s cheap for a place you’d want to live.

I can’t think of anywhere that I’d want to live that would be cheaper.

San Francisco costs more, New York is more, London is insane…London is outrageous, but you know, I’ve heard that Berlin is very reasonable and that they like American artsy types. I’ve heard this from several people who actually picked up and moved there.

Everyone just stop moving, stay in the apartment, parent’s guest house, cardboard box, or leaky roof single family dwelling you are currently in and the prices will go down…

Browne

By: 64 Worst: Cost of Buying A House vs. 110 Freeway | Los Angeles Metblogs

64 Worst: Cost of Buying A House vs. 110 Freeway | Los Angeles Metblogs — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:44:13 +0000

[...] up on this morning’s topic of crazy rent pricing, is the outrageous cost of buying a house. IrvineHousingBlog [...]

By: Oren

Oren — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:03:07 +0000

Rent is so low in L.A. compared to other major world cities that it’s kind of a joke.

By: marshall

marshall — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:55:35 +0000

I like to think that we still have the Raiders, we just now keep them at a safe distance.

By: Jason Burns

Jason Burns — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:23:51 +0000

Whoops. Here’s the url:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lynch27mar27,0,738142.story

By: Jason Burns

Jason Burns — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:23:05 +0000

There is an interesting story in the Times about the Coliseum and its failed attempts to lure a team here:

By: David Markland

David Markland — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:34:30 +0000

I’d say rent, hands down, but having an NFL stadium to go to might help justify the high cost of living… not that I’d be able to afford a ticket.

Still, while I’m not a sports fan, I feel LA has a big gaping hole without a football team. We have bigger problems, of course, but having a pro football team to rally around gives everyone common ground, which this city can never have too much of.