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Ex security official is virtually every Israeli in a country with forced conscription at age 18. Also as an unrelated nit: Ramat Hasharon isn't a "plush suburb

by inglor 8y ago

Ex security official is virtually every Israeli in a country with forced conscription at age 18. Also as an unrelated nit: Ramat Hasharon isn't a "plush suburb", it's where people without enough money to buy an apartment in Tel Aviv go live (Tel Aviv being "valley" expensive)

macleginn 8y ago
Ramat Hasharon is less expensive than TA, but kind of marginally so: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Israel&country2=Israel&city1=Tel+Aviv-Yafo&city2=Ramat+HaSharon&tracking=getDispatchComparison https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.js... (Cf. with Ramat Gan, for instance: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Israel&country2=Israel&city1=Tel+Aviv-Yafo&city2=Ramat+Gan&tracking=getDispatchComparison https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.js...) Also people who live there identify it as a “plush suburb” themselves.
- inglor 8y ago
  I appreciated the data and response. Those prices are entirely off though. Here is a local and more accurate source it's common for Israelis to check (other ones are yad2.co.il , homeless.co.il, newspaper sites and surprisingly a facebook group called "Apartments between friends"): https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F/FOR_SALE?source=source_search https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D... https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%AA%D7%9C%20%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91%20%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95/FOR_SALE?page=1 https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%AA%D7%9C%20%D7%90%D7%91%D...
  - macleginn 8y ago
    It’s hard to compare apples to apples here: there is, for instance, a 5-bedroom apt in North TA for 4850k and a slightly bigger on on RSh is 4500k, 7% difference. Other pairs with higher percentage difference can be found, but it’s hard to extract the median or average. But even if your estimate is correct and the difference in prices is “categorical”, the author of the piece could simply have had in mind the streets with private houses, which mostly cost north of 1.5-2 million USD. This is rather plush, I guess.
gowld 8y ago
"Defense"/"Military" is not the same as "Security", and "Conscript" is not the same as "Official".

by inglor 8y ago

macleginn 8y ago

Ramat Hasharon is less expensive than TA, but kind of marginally so: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Israel&country2=Israel&city1=Tel+Aviv-Yafo&city2=Ramat+HaSharon&tracking=getDispatchComparison https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.js... (Cf. with Ramat Gan, for instance: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Israel&country2=Israel&city1=Tel+Aviv-Yafo&city2=Ramat+Gan&tracking=getDispatchComparison https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.js...) Also people who live there identify it as a “plush suburb” themselves.

inglor 8y ago
I appreciated the data and response. Those prices are entirely off though. Here is a local and more accurate source it's common for Israelis to check (other ones are yad2.co.il , homeless.co.il, newspaper sites and surprisingly a facebook group called "Apartments between friends"): https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F/FOR_SALE?source=source_search https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D... https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%AA%D7%9C%20%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91%20%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95/FOR_SALE?page=1 https://www.madlan.co.il/local/%D7%AA%D7%9C%20%D7%90%D7%91%D...
- macleginn 8y ago
  It’s hard to compare apples to apples here: there is, for instance, a 5-bedroom apt in North TA for 4850k and a slightly bigger on on RSh is 4500k, 7% difference. Other pairs with higher percentage difference can be found, but it’s hard to extract the median or average. But even if your estimate is correct and the difference in prices is “categorical”, the author of the piece could simply have had in mind the streets with private houses, which mostly cost north of 1.5-2 million USD. This is rather plush, I guess.

gowld 8y ago

"Defense"/"Military" is not the same as "Security", and "Conscript" is not the same as "Official".