Or we could do a happy hour chat about it, neighbour!

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

This actually doesn’t surprise me because this is ‘Murica and some of the best urbanism happens in smaller cities

I get there are people out there who are like “oooh, banks love interest so of course they’d want this” but this is actually a huge actuarial risk problem

50 year loans are basically unheard of for residential ownership except as a last line of credit to prevent outright bankruptcy and loss for financiers. Barring a rapid increase in life expectancy, I really don’t see why bank would actually want to make this a thing even with Fed backing

But without building any equity for like 20 years. It’s just a rent payment. But with no one wanting to back your rent payment because they could be on the hook if you leave this world long before paying even a small proportion of it

There are real and numerous operational hurdles to consider in doing this, but I agree that such a service should exist at least on winter weekends. King County could help cross-subsidise fares with imposition of a commercial parking tax specific to the ski resort under existing statute