The dream came back of being back in school, reaching the end of a semester having never shown up for an english class, & feeling like it didn't matter because the lion kingdom was close enough to retiring.  Lions pondered who still looked at a college transcript after 50 as they walked out of a cafe with some engineering class.

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It's the tri valley in August. Farewell sub 90 deg days until November.

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 What the hell happened?

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Noted Serhant's photo emphasized NY but all his recent listings were elsewhere.  His last NY vijeo was 7 months ago & you have to go back 2 years to find a time when he was focused on NY.  He seems to have done a Rossguy & gotten the hell out.  Prices in NY are still as high as ever, but there must be a lot of blight.


Living in the walkable center of it all becomes a dream for all animals at some point.  Lions also dreamed of living in the better part of San Francisco once.  It might be temporary or it might be a symptom of increased mobility which lions didn't have at a younger age. 

Dating attainable women, seeing animals get obese from being tied to the indoors & cars drove lions away from that lifestyle. 

San Francisco & Manhattan are not really the center of it all though.  There aren't Walmarts, Targets, & cheap food everywhere like there is in the suburban lion kingdom.  They have to go to bodegas which are super expensive.  You're not going to feel like you're getting a deal by running across Manhattan to a bodega.  The financial threshold of what is considered a deal would have to go way up.  Historic figures & places abound anyway. 

The lion kingdom is kind of an anomaly & it might be projecting a rosy picture on places it doesn't apply to.  Voters normally push discount stores to the edges of town instead of the middle.  Somehow they got built in the middle of the lion kingdom.






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