Re: We are number 4!
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Conspiracy?
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Date: October 28, 2012 05:02AM
They're gaming the system!! Wrote:
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> SiriusB Wrote:
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> > I suspect that those doing these surveys are
> > overlooking the realities of life in the metro
> DC
> > areas. When you have large percentages of
> > overpriced expensive homes, condos and
> apartments
> > that individually can harbor concurrently
> living
> > populations of 3-20 or more (roommates,
> renters,
> > friends living together, "extended families,"
> > working adults sharing houses, illegal aliens
> > living with friends under the radar, all
> sharing
> > in expenses-- even if they are each making only
> a
> > minimum level wage, the pooled household income
> > could show up collectively for this residence
> as
> > being 6 figures. All they have to do is pass
> > themselves off as an extended family to qualify
> as
> > presenting a "household income level" in any
> > survey, and in most government surveys, there
> is
> > no category to subdivide the homes into "single
> > family occupied residences" vs. "a single
> > residence building or condo or apartment
> harboring
> > many individuals with some or all related or
> not
> > related by blood."
>
> I'm not sure what agenda you think is being
> pursued and if you actually believe there are
> people who are actually calculating enough to
> "pass themselves off" in a survey.
>
> This sounds like the sort of conspiracy theory
> espoused on Fox News anytime they are not
> satisfied with something. Except at least on Fox
> they'll qualify their crazy ramblings with "I have
> no evidence of this" or "I'm only throwing out
> ideas" or disguise their statement in the form of
> a question.
>
>
>
> > Also, some cultures live together as
> families
> > that do not require a marriage certificate to
> > co-habitate legally and produce families.
>
> Which cultures, specifically?
>
> Because if you meant mexicans, don't forget that
> some cultures are very devout catholics and some
> cultures take their catholic dogmas very
> seriously.
>
>
>
> > Large
> > McMansion-type houses with many rooms could be
> > turned into veritable hotels and hostels.
> Loudoun
> > County in the eastern half is full of
> multi-room
> > house shares and rentals--just check out
> Craig's
> > list to see the extent of this! Taken on a per
> > person basis, the "richest county in the US" is
> an
> > anomaly--it is really only the "most densly
> > populated per residence suburban enclave" in
> the
> > US!
>
> Rest assured, these factors are taken into
> consideration when doing the surveys.
>
> Group homes are not considered the same as
> multi-generational family homes or homes where
> both parents and many adult children have incomes.
> Those are all factored.
>
> For example, when qualifying participants in the
> survey, they probably exclude people who are
> renting a basement but would include the head of
> household and their spouse.
>
>
> > Of course everyone in the residence thus can
> > afford a nice car and food from Whole Paycheck
> > when your shared rent expenses are only
> 100-200$
> > per month and you are working more than one
> job,
> > even at a low wage!
>
>
> Not exactly. It just seems like the mexicans and
> the chronically poor have all the advantages.
> Bitter resentments aside, it's not actually true.
One might ask, where are all the Mexican's living or coming from? The answer is Herndon!