[ExI] imaginable wealth

[Kelly Anderson]

The last time I was in East Palo Alto was in the 80s. It was a
frightening place at the time. On July 4, there were definitely more
people shooting guns into the air than fireworks. Of course, I still
went there defended by youthful indestructibility combined with the
insane idea that God wouldn't let anything bad happen to us there
because we had white shirts and name tags. Ah the delusions of youth
and religion combine to some stupid assumptions. So I'm actually
pretty happy to hear it is crawling out of that bleak past. Makes
sense since everything around it is bathed in abundance. First time I
felt this good about Ikea, I have to admit.

-Kelly

On Sat, Mar 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Those who owned homes in East Palo Alto were not driven out by property taxes.  Many were bribed out by the stunning increase in value of their own homes when Ikea came in, homes which they might have bought for a song in the 1980s and sold for a dazzling fortune recently.
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