I lived for a few years in Bettendorf as a child in the 1970's. To the best of my recollection, I never saw mangos, kiwi fruit, apples other than Red Delicious or Granny Smith, fresh herbs, berries except for a brief seasonal window, and Bosc pears

So does that highly localized variability make the airport a bad place to choose for data collection?

The one part of economic life that I do believe has declined is the quality of affordable rental housing. I could afford to rent a decent studio apartment on the edge of a hip neighborhood on a graduate student stipend. My son pays half his income in rent.

Tom, I wish we could send folks back in a time machine to the produce 1980's supermarket in an upper middle class town. They would think, "Where are we, the Soviet Union? I only see two kinds of apples and two kind lettuce. Where are the baby carrots and the arugula?"

Exactly.

Is this real?

Wikipedia ist die Zukunft, die wir uns alle erhofft haben würden.

Yes, but a host need to clean before and after folks shown up for game night at home. Meeting up at a cafe is much easier!

Seeing that gives me a lot of hope.

That is what he has done.

Soooooo can we circle back to this crazy plan? Seems pertinent all of a sudden.

Exactly. The logic of division never ends.

Logos vs ethos. Persuasion in a democracy takes both plus pathos.

I stand corrected!