Covid Housing Chew Delirium
Explaining the Frenzy in the Housing Market
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/upshot/home-prices-explaining-frenzy.html
Quite a few Manhattan multi-family rowhouses, condos and co-ops have become storage attics and basements for those who have escaped to single homes outside the Covid hotspot.
A fair number of solo huts have been purchased by escapees as refuges, driving up prices, scaring local neighbors, thrilling real estate brokers peddling rickety shacks as outdoors jewel-boxes, and happily increasing the tax base for hard-up municipalities.
Dress-up, fix-up, repair workers are giddy with the new buyers who don't even haggle over the jump in bids, instead gaze in barely controlled terror that they have managed to flee the virus seeming to target the haute bourgeoisie's household help and couture handmaidens.
So what if fleeing big city opportunists of disasters capitalize on the unexpected good times by opening branch offices for mortgages, sales, lawsuits, architecture and reporting crimes of competitors, this is the heritage Americans crow about, following golden leadership of Mr. Trump and supporters who know in their cold, cold hearts, evidenced in their stashes of bullion, no time is better for raking in windfalls than when panic buying and low road selling is rife.
Termites, dearly beloveds of countrified roaches, are delirious at the feasts of chew advertised by sawdust blowing in the wind, drifting down the creeks, spread by carpenter's laundromats, wafted by smoke from inept wiring, excluded from quick hit insurance policies.