Thanks for the kind words CAR and others. To the OP: Perhaps it will become more exciting once real estate is closer to bottoming out… that will certainly give us all plenty to argue about.
But I agree we will probably never re-capture the “excitement” of being a popular bulwark against a huge, once-in-a-lifetime speculative mania. But life goes on, and the site can morph into something that is still valuable, if less controversial.
