Why the Housing Market is utter Fuckery (2017), in Comparison to the Past; by /u/r4ndpaulsbrilloballs [NSFL]

And I am telling you, again, clearly, that what you wrote is plainly interpreted as "this is why housing prices go up", because that's literally what you said. There is nothing else that qualifies that or attempts to explain prices in any other way.

You're throwing the context of 7 preceding paragraphs and the whole previous post out the window to come to that conclusion.

I'm literally talking about one real estate phenomenon out of many.

Again, my first sentence is:

Something else has been happening these last 10 years that is totally new I've noticed.

"Something else" here means that this is a second phenomena in addition to the phenomenon the post above me was discussing (which was speculation on real estate appreciation generally). And notice it says, "something else" and not, "one more thing." I am clearly not being exclusive here.

And I go on to say in my second sentence:

It used to be circa 2005 and earlier that in vacation areas...

There is no way I can think of to read those two sentences and not come to the conclusion that I am talking about one of many phenomena in a specific geographic location.

Yet you keep insisting I was making a general argument. Worse still? You keep changing what you claim the argument is.

First you said I was making a general argument about the whole real estate market.

Then you said fine, maybe I was only talking about specific geographic areas, but I was arguing that this phenomenon was the primary driver of price increases.

Then you said I was arguing it was the sole driver of price increases.

But I never argued any one of those three things. You're just not reading what I wrote. You are taking one phrase out of context. And you refuse to read it in context.

And I am telling you, again, clearly, that what you wrote is plainly interpreted as "this is why housing prices go up"

Yes, and any reasonable person who read that in context would understand the word "this" in the context of that phrase to mean the "something else" I was talking about at the beginning, which was clearly never an exclusive or solitary answer to real estate inflation, but a supplemental explanation of a larger phenomenon as a reply to a post in a larger discussion.

But since you refuse to read it in context, even after I explain the context to you, and since you insist on refusing to give me the benefit of the doubt, you continue to take the phrase out of context and misinterpret it.

a good number of people agreed with me

Who? I don't see anyone else insisting I said something I didn't here. Just you. Or are we counting internet points now?

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