{"id":979,"date":"2013-02-07T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/location-location-location-2\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:26:10","slug":"location-location-location-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/location-location-location-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Location… Location… Location…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2005 during the height of the real estate boom here in the states, my wife and I found ourselves looking for a home.\u00a0 With seminary coming to an end and two ministry job offers hanging in the air a move was inevitable.\u00a0 Our first option was taking a Sr. Pastor role at a church in Columbia South Carolina.\u00a0 With this position came a nice salary and an affordable way of life.\u00a0 In fact, while house hunting, we found a nice 2000 square foot four bedroom colonial on one acre, in the ground swimming pool for $110,000 dollars.\u00a0 Great location and a great price.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two weeks later Naomi and I found ourselves on a fact finding mission for the second potential position.\u00a0 This option found us taking on a Professorship at a Bible college in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 With this position came a poor salary and an even more unaffordable way of life. While looking at homes near the Bible college, our real estate agent took us into a home he felt we could afford.\u00a0 As we entered the three bedroom ranch home sitting on 1\/10 of an acre of land, butted up against a noisy highway, he exclaimed, “Isn’t it a great deal! Only $330,000 dollars. Before the words finished leaving his mouth, I said, “Your smoking crack, this house is worth $70,000”. After a few minutes of squabbling we finally agreed to disagree.\u00a0 Bad location and a bad price.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How could a market go so unchecked?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This past week while reading the Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi a was struck by his concept of market and nature.\u00a0 Most critical is how the element of land is most interwoven with the organizations and institutions of man’s production.\u00a0 As Polanyi stated, “To isolate land and form a market for it was perhaps the weirdest of all the undertakings of our ancestors”.\u00a0 While reading these concepts the following three keys emerged from this “One Big Market”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location provides stability…<\/strong> Land is of great significance.\u00a0 For those who own, it may provide safety, stability, habitation or even the means of growing food.\u00a0 Location and land ownership provides stability and structure.\u00a0 This location also provides a way for an individual to be identified with a land, tribe or people group.\u00a0 Within this structure a person can provide for their physical well being, as well as the very formation of their soul.\u00a0 It is within this concept where the worker becomes connected to nature.\u00a0 All becomes worship and formation.<\/p>\n

Location dictates prices…<\/strong> You have all heard it said, “Location, Location, Location.” Within this concept their are two controlling elements.\u00a0 First, supply and demand.\u00a0 When supply is low, and demand is high, the price goes up.\u00a0 Not because it has to, but rather those selling often want to capitalize on the amount they can gain from another. Example, beachfront property.\u00a0 Second, the economic culture of the area in which you are looking for a home. In our 2005 search for a home, we realized very quick that South Carolina has great poverty issues. For the most part, South Carolina has two classes, upper and lower. Pennsylvania on the other hand has almost all middle and upper class people groups.\u00a0 That combined with being 1 hour from Philadelphia and 2 1\/2 hours away from New York city has driven pricing through the roof.\u00a0 Location dictates prices, for the good or the bad.<\/p>\n

Location unregulated leads to consumption…\u00a0<\/strong> A few years ago Naomi and I traveled to Napa Valley California for our tenth anniversary. We had an amazing week visiting key sites throughout Napa and Sonoma wine country.\u00a0 During one of our excursions in Sonoma, we noticed an open house for a small bungalow which was being sold.\u00a0 After entering the small 900 square ft. bungalow located on 1\/8 th of an acre of land.\u00a0 The host shouted, great one day price cut to $999,900! What, the place was a dump. No sooner did I laugh, when the host said, “You do know we offer 50 year mortgages?”.\u00a0 Though owning land is good, a market unregulated places individuals in bondage to the very same market. In the end, if unregulated, this concept leads to a consumption of nature and people.<\/p>\n

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A market unchecked or the natural consequences of making land fully market?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Traditionally, land and labor are not separated; labor forms part of life, land remains part of nature, life and nature form an articulate whole.\u00a0 Land is thus tied up with the organizations of kinship, neighborhood, craft, and creed – with tribe and temple, village, guild, and church. Karl Polanyi<\/p>\n

Do you own land?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you see your land as market value or formation given by God?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How does your location further kingdom principles in your life and others?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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