# Can you have too many nail salons?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 7, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925 "2009-10-07T12:51:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925/1 "2009-10-07T12:51:31Z")

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[Oakland looks at trimming number of nail salons](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/07/BAK71A1JKI.DTL)

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925/2 "2009-10-07T14:15:37Z")

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Truly don’t care. If the nail salon is a front for something else, then that something else is the problem, not the nail salon. And if it’s just a nail salon, then the free market should work naturally to sort the abundance out. Or it won’t, in which case people in Oakland really really really like nicely groomed hands. So who is the government to say residents shouldn’t partake in their services?

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**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925/3 "2009-10-07T15:22:30Z")

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[Yes](http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon).

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**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925/4 "2009-10-07T17:28:05Z")

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If it’s a nail salon with air quality problems, it should be regulated or closed.

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> The city is also considering a crackdown on health and safety hazards at nail salons, where workers often suffer from respiratory and reproductive problems because of the toxic chemicals in nail polish, polish remover and cleaning supplies.

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**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925/5 "2009-10-07T20:14:20Z")

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[Yes.](http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009910070363)

[Oh, hell, yes.](http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909120345)

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**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-have-too-many-nail-salons/512925/6 "2009-10-07T23:00:08Z")

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I am amused every day when I pass the oriental nail salons with names that must sound different before translation. Like Happy Lucky Golden Nails, and Sharp Hair & Nails. Ouch!