During all the time Chavez remained in office Venezuela's economy remained market-based and private-sector dominated.

With the Canadians, TD bank is the biggest player.  

And yes I will be sure I provide 30 days written notice that I wish to not renew (or to speak individually with them and give them the flexibility to move out earlier or align our dates based both their ability to find a place and my ability to move back in)@Dominic Jones - hopefully these responses were as helpful to you as me. 

Anish Tolia I think its a much longer conversation on some of those markets except London but compared to other US markets North Californa dominates the list of expensive list of cities in basically every list I have seen and that Median home price is equal or more than NYC (depending if you want to compare only to certain areas in NYC).You are also correct and like you I have looked at NYC RE for years and thought the same thing and for many of the same reasons as you stated the prices have kept going up.  

Will we be the lone dominant superpower we have been, no, but have we reached the apocalypse, no (Unless you believe the Mayans).

Figure out the odds, with 7 players at a table, one has KK and one has AA.

Jon Holdman Interesting that it actually tilts in favor of the players.

It's great for web browsing and email, and of course the tons of apps, which are somewhat useful, but web & email dominate my usage.

With large crews with reliable paychecks building cookie-cutter plans that are optimized and replicable the volume would drive much of the dominant material costs south along with the corresponding labor costs from the higher-tier subs.

The top player in the industry is on your list and is currently labeled as "Tier 3" for some strange reason.