Compared to a low cost of living region, that's a pretty high cost of living.

Also, property taxes are famously high in Illinois.

That lowers the market price of houses.

It certainly does.

I just want to note that HTTP only existed 5 years without curl or wget.

> If someone said 'pure Linux' and it meant the core without loaded modules I wouldn't be shocked. Not sure how useful it would be, though.

That probably wouldn't be a useful distinction because almost every module can be built in

Assault rifles were banned for 10 years.

They were not legal to buy until the 1980s.

That's not true, on a federal level. Colt was selling a civilian model of the ar15 to the public in the 60s

> Loose dogs can injure or kill random people they come across.

Loose people injure and kill a lot more.

Yes, but society(at least, western society) has generally agreed that the cost/benefit of loose people is reasonable and that of loose dogs are not.

American Football is Canadian.

But they did it. Buying, installing, and updating the game is incredibly easy. That’s exactly why I haven’t downloaded pirated games for at least 15 years.

There are good landlords. Unfortunately many of them aren't and there's not really a good way to know before.

Licenses aren't always required in all areas. But there seem to be fewer of those areas than there used to be.