I Feel Like I Jumped Out Of A Falling Elevator

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Jul 5, 2011 10:19:31 GMT -5 brdsl said:

Jul 5, 2011 9:40:19 GMT -5 @davebo said:

Other towns. Did you think it was an island or something?

I didn't know the area, when I think land-locked, I think geographic features...not school districts. School districts can change on the whim of a politician...mountains and swamp land isn't done as easily.

Even in rapidly growing areas (suburbs with abundant land), it's usually WWIII when boundaries get changed. But in land-locked areas, there isn't much of a reason to switch borders. It's far more likely that a grade school would close and consolidate into another school. But that's unlikely as well. Closing a school isn't an easy feat.

Besides, I wouldn't say that districts could change at the whim of a politician. It typically takes massive overcrowding, new schools being built, a compliant school board, and then the town to approve via referendum.

[brdsl]

Jul 5, 2011 13:22:27 GMT -5 @davebo said:

Jul 5, 2011 10:19:31 GMT -5 brdsl said:

I didn't know the area, when I think land-locked, I think geographic features...not school districts. School districts can change on the whim of a politician...mountains and swamp land isn't done as easily.

Even in rapidly growing areas (suburbs with abundant land), it's usually WWIII when boundaries get changed. But in land-locked areas, there isn't much of a reason to switch borders. It's far more likely that a grade school would close and consolidate into another school. But that's unlikely as well. Closing a school isn't an easy feat.

Besides, I wouldn't say that districts could change at the whim of a politician. It typically takes massive overcrowding, new schools being built, a compliant school board, and then the town to approve via referendum.

The governor proposed doing this year....it isn't new. We have seen it down south for many years.

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Jul 5, 2011 16:21:04 GMT -5 brdsl said:

Jul 5, 2011 13:22:27 GMT -5 @davebo said:

Even in rapidly growing areas (suburbs with abundant land), it's usually WWIII when boundaries get changed. But in land-locked areas, there isn't much of a reason to switch borders. It's far more likely that a grade school would close and consolidate into another school. But that's unlikely as well. Closing a school isn't an easy feat.

Besides, I wouldn't say that districts could change at the whim of a politician. It typically takes massive overcrowding, new schools being built, a compliant school board, and then the town to approve via referendum.

The governor proposed doing this year....it isn't new. We have seen it down south for many years.

Proposed doing what? Changing boundaries?

[brdsl]

Consolidating school districts. 800 total down to 300.

[alabamagal]

Woo-hoo, the Zestimate on my house jumped $50k (up 50%) in the last 2 months!!!! But the high value is about what I realistically think our house in worth. There was definitely no housing bubble here. Over the last 25 years that we have lived here housing prices have never skyrocketed like in other places, so they have never fallen when the bubble burst either. We have owned our house for 25 years. The price of our house is now valued at double what we bought it for which would be an average rate of return of just under 3%. But we did do a master bedroom addition that added several hundred square feet. If I take out what I think the value of the addition is, you would get a rate of return of just under 2%