You got me thinking I'm not far behind you. I lived in (in order) Michigan, Mississippi (tech school in the AF), Nebraska, Germany, Michigan (again), Virginia, California, Germany, Maryland, Korea, Germany, Korea (2 places), Maryland, California, Korea (2 places), Virginia (for the last ~24 years...3 places). ~20 moves if I'm not miscounting. In all that time, I visited ~50 countries, and all but one state (Montana, I'll get to you yet!). The experience was well worth the cost. And seeing other cultures up close helps us get over some of our bias.
I think a lot of tenants don't realize this. Just my own anecdote here...
I bought my first place, a townhouse in 1985. A week after I closed on the sale, my company asked me to go work overseas. The experience, and money would be good, so I accepted, and put my new place up for rent....reselling would have cost me thousands just in the transactions, and the whole place was only about $95k in value. I had to hire a property management company (Long & Foster) since I didn't have anyone I trusted living anywhere close. Many tenants and seven years later, I returned to move back in, and found that I was going to have to put thousands into it just to fix up all the shit the tenants ruined. The rent was just about up to the level of the mortgage payments...property values and rents had taken a dive in the late 80s. So, I didn't really make any money on the place, even with the tax write offs. And, I ended up selling about a year later (just before going overseas again) for ~$125k, but much of that "profit" when to pay the real estate costs. Mostly what I got out of it all was a learning experience...I never want to be a landlord again.
"When housing was generally affordable and readily available......means that it's too much of a hurdle to pull up roots and move for anybody but the most affluent."
Totally false. You need to look up the meaning of affluent. My kid who was three years out of college and just married to a 24 year old bought a $350k house without any help. Granted they're dual income, but that's the norm these days, and hardly "affluent".
A state by state comparison shows you very little. You're better off comparing major cities/urban areas...or rural/suburban if that's what you're looking for. Most places where you pay more, you also make more. You need to compare the local median incomes. For example, here in VA, I live in Fairfax county where the median income is $115k (https://datausa.io/profile/geo/fairfax-county-va/) and home is $553k. Since you're in TX, I'll pick Houston for comparison (https://datausa.io/profile/geo/fairfax-county-va/?compare=houston-tx) $47k income and 163k housing.
I moved to this area 36 years ago, and lived poor for a few years. But now that I'm nearing retirement I'll be able to move away to a much lower cost of living area and take the equity I have to buy something outright, or just rent and spend it on vacations until I can't walk anymore...why be house rich and cash poor in retirement?
I'd argue that "most" people don't, but a large enough number did to help create the housing crisis. Most people who were adults at the time of that crisis now understand the down side of such decisions. Whereas previously, many thought that the housing market would just keep going and going. Yes, we should have jailed every one of those bankers involved in selling risky mortgages, but I'd also argue that the vast majority of people who accepted them were bad at math and play the lotto every week.
While your point is taken, a much larger percentage of these type of kids never learn to fend for themselves because they had helicopter parents who always took care of their every whim, and kept them bubble wrapped away from all the germs and scary people. Kids and young adults need to learn how to deal with adversity when mommy and daddy aren't there to protect them.
Maybe in some environments, but that's not been my experience. I work with a group of older white males, and one black female. We're all lower level managers. Our "new" boss, a female (probably late 30s in age) joined us and we all felt at ease when she dropped her first f-bomb. We're not on edge about watching our own language around her now.
My daughter, (an MBA candidate and program manager) cusses just about as much an has been quickly moving up the chain. Go figure.
What matters is how you use it. If you're directing the word at people in the conversation, or just using it for emphasis makes a difference.
Yes, I agree that it is. But not necessarily when you're in a work environment. I'm fine with an employer requiring a certain amount of decorum. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be allowed to blurt out the occasional expletive. But, in a professional workplace f-bombs shouldn't be left in your code, certainly not if you're actually passing along any source code to customers.
Wow you are really bad at trolling aren't you. My response is to the OP and the title of the article, which in spite of your lack of literacy is about the individuals. Get a life.
Hey there Brain Fart. Did you actually read what I wrote, or are you that fucking stupid that you can't tell I said nothing about them going after the crypto-cons. Sheesh. Get a life and stop trolling peoples posts.
You're welcome. Extremists like this jackass need to be called out. And we all should stop demonizing people on the other side just because we have differences of opinions. The vast majority of us have family members on opposing sides. Do we really hate them?
I'm certain it was all the other celebrities pumping "BUY GOLD" that complained. More seriously, doesn't the SEC have better things to do than go after a tiny $100k endorsement? I'm no fan of either of these guys, but I highly doubt that they were aware they (or their staff) were doing anything wrong. I'm sure someone wants to "set an example", or figures they're going to get promoted for taking down these bad guys.
"Sure, no one likes to do work. But if a copyright holder doesnâ(TM)t care enough to try to protect their own rights, why should anyone else care to protect them? "
That's an asinine position to take. First of all, many copyright holders are individuals, not corporations. Many don't have the time or money to police the internet. Sure, every copyright holder should take reasonable action to protect their copyrights, but your position isn't reasonable.
FWIW, back when I was a kid (60s/70s) we used to actually put on baby oil to try and brown up better. I don't think I ever heard about skin cancer until the 80s.
As 60 yr old, I'm pretty much 100% in agreement with your post. The one thing I think our generation was truly guilty of was creating a generation of kids who got participation awards instead of teaching them to compete. We now have "helicopter parents" who can't let their kids be kids and learn to take care of themselves.
I'm not talking about anyone trying to cheat the system. And I guess if you thing playing it smart is screwing over your heirs then I guess you're right.
Okay well I think you're earlier comment made a lot of assumptions. She did fairly well for herself in real estate, and was able to take extravagant vacations several times a year. So now, the taxpayers (through Medicaid) and primarily me are left holding the bag for her basic needs. I didn't suggest that she should save "all her money". I would have been content if she put anything away.
So, you're idea is to spend everything and become a ward of the state? And not that I need it, but as her sole heir, I'll get nothing. In fact, I have to pay a lot of bills for her.
You're not disagreeing with me. I know full well how SS works, I've been paying into it since the 70s. The GP doesn't seem to...getting to 81 won't make you whole.
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You got me thinking I'm not far behind you. I lived in (in order) Michigan, Mississippi (tech school in the AF), Nebraska, Germany, Michigan (again), Virginia, California, Germany, Maryland, Korea, Germany, Korea (2 places), Maryland, California, Korea (2 places), Virginia (for the last ~24 years...3 places). ~20 moves if I'm not miscounting. In all that time, I visited ~50 countries, and all but one state (Montana, I'll get to you yet!). The experience was well worth the cost. And seeing other cultures up close helps us get over some of our bias.
"tolerated"??? Bullshit, nothing stopping those that want it from moving there.
Clearly, leaving the country is the better option...sheesh.
I think a lot of tenants don't realize this. Just my own anecdote here...
I bought my first place, a townhouse in 1985. A week after I closed on the sale, my company asked me to go work overseas. The experience, and money would be good, so I accepted, and put my new place up for rent....reselling would have cost me thousands just in the transactions, and the whole place was only about $95k in value. I had to hire a property management company (Long & Foster) since I didn't have anyone I trusted living anywhere close. Many tenants and seven years later, I returned to move back in, and found that I was going to have to put thousands into it just to fix up all the shit the tenants ruined. The rent was just about up to the level of the mortgage payments...property values and rents had taken a dive in the late 80s. So, I didn't really make any money on the place, even with the tax write offs. And, I ended up selling about a year later (just before going overseas again) for ~$125k, but much of that "profit" when to pay the real estate costs. Mostly what I got out of it all was a learning experience...I never want to be a landlord again.
That 40% is making incomes much higher on average than the other 60%.
"When housing was generally affordable and readily available......means that it's too much of a hurdle to pull up roots and move for anybody but the most affluent."
Totally false. You need to look up the meaning of affluent. My kid who was three years out of college and just married to a 24 year old bought a $350k house without any help. Granted they're dual income, but that's the norm these days, and hardly "affluent".
A state by state comparison shows you very little. You're better off comparing major cities/urban areas...or rural/suburban if that's what you're looking for. Most places where you pay more, you also make more. You need to compare the local median incomes. For example, here in VA, I live in Fairfax county where the median income is $115k (https://datausa.io/profile/geo/fairfax-county-va/) and home is $553k. Since you're in TX, I'll pick Houston for comparison (https://datausa.io/profile/geo/fairfax-county-va/?compare=houston-tx) $47k income and 163k housing.
I moved to this area 36 years ago, and lived poor for a few years. But now that I'm nearing retirement I'll be able to move away to a much lower cost of living area and take the equity I have to buy something outright, or just rent and spend it on vacations until I can't walk anymore...why be house rich and cash poor in retirement?
I'd argue that "most" people don't, but a large enough number did to help create the housing crisis. Most people who were adults at the time of that crisis now understand the down side of such decisions. Whereas previously, many thought that the housing market would just keep going and going. Yes, we should have jailed every one of those bankers involved in selling risky mortgages, but I'd also argue that the vast majority of people who accepted them were bad at math and play the lotto every week.
While your point is taken, a much larger percentage of these type of kids never learn to fend for themselves because they had helicopter parents who always took care of their every whim, and kept them bubble wrapped away from all the germs and scary people. Kids and young adults need to learn how to deal with adversity when mommy and daddy aren't there to protect them.
Apparently, it also means "Flamebait" because some fuckwit w/o out a sense of humor decided to mark yours that way. Wish I had mod points for you.
Maybe in some environments, but that's not been my experience. I work with a group of older white males, and one black female. We're all lower level managers. Our "new" boss, a female (probably late 30s in age) joined us and we all felt at ease when she dropped her first f-bomb. We're not on edge about watching our own language around her now.
My daughter, (an MBA candidate and program manager) cusses just about as much an has been quickly moving up the chain. Go figure.
What matters is how you use it. If you're directing the word at people in the conversation, or just using it for emphasis makes a difference.
It's supposed to be an "h bomb" now.
Yes, I agree that it is. But not necessarily when you're in a work environment. I'm fine with an employer requiring a certain amount of decorum. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be allowed to blurt out the occasional expletive. But, in a professional workplace f-bombs shouldn't be left in your code, certainly not if you're actually passing along any source code to customers.
Wow you are really bad at trolling aren't you. My response is to the OP and the title of the article, which in spite of your lack of literacy is about the individuals. Get a life.
Hey there Brain Fart. Did you actually read what I wrote, or are you that fucking stupid that you can't tell I said nothing about them going after the crypto-cons. Sheesh. Get a life and stop trolling peoples posts.
You're welcome. Extremists like this jackass need to be called out. And we all should stop demonizing people on the other side just because we have differences of opinions. The vast majority of us have family members on opposing sides. Do we really hate them?
I'm certain it was all the other celebrities pumping "BUY GOLD" that complained. More seriously, doesn't the SEC have better things to do than go after a tiny $100k endorsement? I'm no fan of either of these guys, but I highly doubt that they were aware they (or their staff) were doing anything wrong. I'm sure someone wants to "set an example", or figures they're going to get promoted for taking down these bad guys.
Can't wait for Trump to put all those libtards in federal prison San Quentin
As a conservative, let me just say what an asshole you are.
"Sure, no one likes to do work. But if a copyright holder doesnâ(TM)t care enough to try to protect their own rights, why should anyone else care to protect them? "
That's an asinine position to take. First of all, many copyright holders are individuals, not corporations. Many don't have the time or money to police the internet. Sure, every copyright holder should take reasonable action to protect their copyrights, but your position isn't reasonable.
FWIW, back when I was a kid (60s/70s) we used to actually put on baby oil to try and brown up better. I don't think I ever heard about skin cancer until the 80s.
As 60 yr old, I'm pretty much 100% in agreement with your post. The one thing I think our generation was truly guilty of was creating a generation of kids who got participation awards instead of teaching them to compete. We now have "helicopter parents" who can't let their kids be kids and learn to take care of themselves.
I'm not talking about anyone trying to cheat the system. And I guess if you thing playing it smart is screwing over your heirs then I guess you're right.
Okay well I think you're earlier comment made a lot of assumptions. She did fairly well for herself in real estate, and was able to take extravagant vacations several times a year. So now, the taxpayers (through Medicaid) and primarily me are left holding the bag for her basic needs. I didn't suggest that she should save "all her money". I would have been content if she put anything away.
So, you're idea is to spend everything and become a ward of the state? And not that I need it, but as her sole heir, I'll get nothing. In fact, I have to pay a lot of bills for her.
You're not disagreeing with me. I know full well how SS works, I've been paying into it since the 70s. The GP doesn't seem to...getting to 81 won't make you whole.