alt Hacker News> You're wondering why Americans make the housing decisions they do
I wondered what the thoughts about why people make the housing decisions they do were. My country is within America, as it happens, so I suppose if it were to be limited to America that would be all well and good, but it wouldn't have been a detail of any significance.
> You berated me for giving an actual analysis
I engaged in your analysis to see if I can understand if you were confusing opportunity with number of jobs. I don't think we ever gained that understanding, and eventually we just moved on as it was clear that the only thoughts present were about the concept of data itself, which was well outside of the topic at hand and not producing anything of interest to latch onto.
If your thinking sees that as a berating: Fascinating. Can we dive deeper into your thought process there?
I think to most people being called a dog is berating. Saying things like "that's all that your limited thought is able to offer" is berating.
> I engaged in your analysis to see if I can understand if you were confusing opportunity with number of jobs
It sure seems more like you engaged with the analysis to say I'm wrong about objectively factual things and called me a dog when I provided sources.
> I wondered what the thoughts about why people make the housing decisions they do were
You're wondering why people make the housing decisions they do but unwilling to actually engage in looking at the actual data of job opportunities, home values, etc. that might actually give you insights into it, from what I can tell. Because, who gives a rat's ass about the data to answer our questions when assumptions and conjectures will do. Obviously, the answer is because these houses in the exurbs are more likely to be tan and people just love the color tan for their home. We don't need to actually look at any information to see if this is true or not, we'll just discuss as if this is truth. Are the houses more likely to be tan? Do people even prefer tan houses? Who cares.