Dave (the other one) took me to this little ice cream place that he was crowing about, mostly because we were bored and his roommate told us to go.
Anyways, it was on Davis Islands, which is this bourgie little neighborhood near downtown. The business district is this cute little (aka one block long) part of town with a bunch of little businesses and outdoor cafes and the like. I'll have to go back; the ice cream was cheap and the atmosphere was very laid back and island-y.
Too bad it was named the
19th worst zip code in the country to buy a home.
Never mind the fact that Forbes is the king of misnomers. Their definition of best and worst is very, how do you say, relative. For this article, they took the top 20 metro areas and picked the neighborhood in each area with the most and least appreciation. So, Davis Islands, which was really the worst place to invest in a home in the Tampa-St. Pete area, enjoyed an average appreciation rate of 16.8%. The San Bernadino neighborhood of Mission Grove/Orangecrest was named the 20th worst zip code to buy a home, with a rate of 42.1%. Compare this to their "20th best zip code to buy a home," Detroit's Harbortown/River Place, which had an average appreciation rate of 18.3%. Funny how their "20th worst" area had an appreciation rate over twice that of their "20th best."
In Forbes' report on the
best and worst selling cars by brand, the writers analyzed sales by pure number. Naturally, by using this number to see how well cars sell, instead of the industry standard of days on lot, you get a wonderfully skewed image of the auto industry. Worst selling has disappointment implicitly built in, but what they studied had nothing to do with expected vs. actual sales. This could be remedied by Forbes simply using the phrase "highest and lowest volume sellers," but that doesn't have quite the bite of "best and worse selling," does it.
Forbes = meh.
Suddenly I have a craving for a Caesar salad with mushrooms.
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