I read the Greater Fool last Fall. Your book was an eye opener for my husband and I. We recently owned a larger home and a rental property. I can honestly say that your indirect advise assisted in our move to down size our personal home. We were able to collect our equity out of our home in the nick of time. We moved into our rental property. We shifted our lifestyle from a 3200 sq ft house to a 1000 sq ft home and payed off the rental unit we now live in. We were heckled by our friends. I can say who’s laughing now. Our town has lost a large number of manufacturing jobs and prices have drop. I think that the trend will be small is better for many reason. Just my thoughts.

#130 Industrial Guy, Maybe you’ve been drinking way too much fluoride. I don’t know how harmful fluoride is, but after reading the Journal of the American Dental Association, I don’t see any point in using it.

“It is now revealed that fluoride as a supplement or as a health providing ingredient of a toothpaste was never tested by the Food and Drug Administration or FDA for its supposed dental health benefits or even for its safety. According to the FDA, this was so because the fluoride substance has been in the market for as early as 1938, an era when the FDA testing laws were not yet enforced.”

You can find the rest of the above article from a dental insurance company here: http://www.dentalinsurancecare.com/dangers-of-fluoride.html

Why has 98% of Europe outlawed the fluoridation of municipal water supplies?
http://www.liquidzeoliteplus.com/flouride_dangers.html

American Dental Association concedes: Excessive fluoride a risk to children
http://www.enviroblog.org/2006/11/american-dental-association-concedes-excessive-fluoride-a-risk-to-children.html

Remember that the dangers of trans fat have been revealed in the last few years. Those dangers were well known to some scientists for many, many years. This knowledge was nearly completely suppressed until only recently. When the status quo turns out to be very bad, it’s still usually very difficult to change it.