You will need a car to go buy just about anything you need which reduces the desirability of living in a high rise in my opinion. 

This might not make any sense, but the desire for that neighborhood to come around is far greater than the amount of money actually flowing into the neighborhood. 

What affects an area to be more desirable to be rented or not?

This area is desirable.

Apparently, IE is fussing big time...I have no problems on any other sites that I am aware of.As far as my possible desire to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails, I want to be able to program anything that I dream up, and I used to be able to do this with FoxPro, though I have no interest in using this program any longer.I'm hoping to avoid making a serious mistake (learning to program in Java might turn out to have been a mistake, look at yesterday's news, heheheh!)

"I suppose some people could play 36 holes; I know I cannot or have the desire to do so.

, a beautiful house in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Philadelphia, PA.

Everyone can be your teacher, but not everyone may be a good example for what you desire to attract.Learn the basic laws of the universe.

Ann Arbor is probably one of the worst areas in Michigan as far as rent to purchase price ratio go because it is such a desirable area to live, but vacancy would be low because there is great tenant demand.

Everyone keeps a tiny desire in heart to initiate this special day in unique and best possible ways.