My quality of life is working 40 hours a week and taking a 4-5 weeks off per year while the suckers work to pay the mortgage and taxes on their one-family boxes of ticky-tacky.
Government regulation and standards allow for prosperity.
Public (or semipublic) health insurance means that employers can be free to do whatever they do, not be benefits managers. It means that employees can choose the job that best fits their skill set, not one that they're chained to via the prospect of losing insurance.
Environmental standards -- people without access to clean water, food, and air are less productive.
Rule of law means that business or personal property generally (outside of abominations like civil forfeiture) can't be stolen at random without redress.
True, there are excessive regulations like environmental-impact rules on infrastructure that drive up costs massively, but no one who has a sense of history wants to return to Love Canal and the burning Cuyahoga River.
I mean along the Jamaica Ave corridor, east of LIRR and the new apartments. It's slightly rough, but not that rough, and very few Starbucks' and other signs of hipsterization in sight. I count this as a good thing.
If you own a duplex, make sure not to rent to bad people -- it's relatively easy to vet/find good tenants through your social network if you're not advertising in public and aren't in an extreme rush to rent the unit.
You're still stuck in a G-d damned glass and steel sensory deprivation bubble without ability to get up and stretch your legs for 20 hours (2hr * 2 * 5 days/wk) a week. And gaining weight as you munch on your Fritos during your commute.
Sounds like a cr@ppy way to live, but some idiots will opt to "live" that way.
Demographics don't matter as much as you think -- the problem is that school administrators in many white bred 'burps think that people of color can't achieve. They're tracked in lesser classes and that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Buy in Jamaica. I don't mean the nation, I mean the part of Queens. You can get a comfortable house within walking distance of the subway for about $200-300k, maybe even a fixer-upper duplex.
Oh, and good South Asian and Latin American food all around you:)
The irony is that many "inner city" schools are better than schools in affordable subBURPs these days. To live in a 'burp with good schools, you'll end up paying as much (or nearly so) as for living in the city.
Isn't a condo, or a townhouse, or even a "starter home." It's a clapped out duplex that they can renovate. It's lovely to have someone else (tenants, babeh!) paying most of your mortgage and property tax at age 35.
You should have bought a duplex or triplex. They're typically prices similarly (or cheaper) than single family houses, and, if you rent the other unit(s), you have some other skell paying most of your mortgage and taxes. Beautiful situation.
Ok, then let me rephrase that. People who are oppressed should have the ability and right to riot when other avenues are exhausted. Riots are often a good thing.
If there weren't "riots" in the 1960s, the Vietnam War may have dragged on for much longer. The ability to protest while causing inconvenience to the public is an important force for social change.
And if the Tiananmen Square protests had spread and succeeded, maybe China wouldn't be in the authoritarian mess that it is in right now.
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If you didn't get the irony, I was mocking the original posters use of the word. I aspire to become a hard-ass landlord.
The county sets a "tax value" -- it doesn't mean the home will actually SELL for that value.
A recession is just an investment opportunity by another name.
My quality of life is working 40 hours a week and taking a 4-5 weeks off per year while the suckers work to pay the mortgage and taxes on their one-family boxes of ticky-tacky.
Government regulation and standards allow for prosperity.
Public (or semipublic) health insurance means that employers can be free to do whatever they do, not be benefits managers. It means that employees can choose the job that best fits their skill set, not one that they're chained to via the prospect of losing insurance.
Environmental standards -- people without access to clean water, food, and air are less productive.
Rule of law means that business or personal property generally (outside of abominations like civil forfeiture) can't be stolen at random without redress.
True, there are excessive regulations like environmental-impact rules on infrastructure that drive up costs massively, but no one who has a sense of history wants to return to Love Canal and the burning Cuyahoga River.
This is a good thing for smart money -- just buy a rental property at the new, depressed price. :)
Sounds like you fixed it by upgrading :)
I mean along the Jamaica Ave corridor, east of LIRR and the new apartments. It's slightly rough, but not that rough, and very few Starbucks' and other signs of hipsterization in sight. I count this as a good thing.
Sure, but the Republicants lump them in as "entitlements."
If you own a duplex, make sure not to rent to bad people -- it's relatively easy to vet/find good tenants through your social network if you're not advertising in public and aren't in an extreme rush to rent the unit.
You're still stuck in a G-d damned glass and steel sensory deprivation bubble without ability to get up and stretch your legs for 20 hours (2hr * 2 * 5 days/wk) a week. And gaining weight as you munch on your Fritos during your commute.
Sounds like a cr@ppy way to live, but some idiots will opt to "live" that way.
As I said, 'burps with good schools ain't cheap.
Demographics don't matter as much as you think -- the problem is that school administrators in many white bred 'burps think that people of color can't achieve. They're tracked in lesser classes and that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Buy in Jamaica. I don't mean the nation, I mean the part of Queens. You can get a comfortable house within walking distance of the subway for about $200-300k, maybe even a fixer-upper duplex.
Oh, and good South Asian and Latin American food all around you :)
Until you're ready for social security and Medicare, at least. Then you'll scream and yell for entitlements.
Soon you can buy another property in the next crash and rent the old one to some other "good family" for income. BECOME that n*zi landlord.
The irony is that many "inner city" schools are better than schools in affordable subBURPs these days. To live in a 'burp with good schools, you'll end up paying as much (or nearly so) as for living in the city.
Isn't a condo, or a townhouse, or even a "starter home." It's a clapped out duplex that they can renovate. It's lovely to have someone else (tenants, babeh!) paying most of your mortgage and property tax at age 35.
You still did it wrong.
You should have bought a duplex or triplex. They're typically prices similarly (or cheaper) than single family houses, and, if you rent the other unit(s), you have some other skell paying most of your mortgage and taxes. Beautiful situation.
Essential means the tower, ILS beacons, runway lights, and radios, so planes can take off and land without crashing. All else is optional.
Sure you can -- it's just slow and labor-intensive...
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better yet, keep the pigs too powerless to enforce such things.
Citation needed ... Singapore, which is painstakingly law-abiding vs NYC or Prague. One is Disneyland, the other two are more interesting to live in.
Minor offenses? Things that shouldn't be crimes, except for the ideas of Puritan Christian, Muslim and/or Confucian killjoys.
Ok, then let me rephrase that. People who are oppressed should have the ability and right to riot when other avenues are exhausted. Riots are often a good thing.
If there weren't "riots" in the 1960s, the Vietnam War may have dragged on for much longer. The ability to protest while causing inconvenience to the public is an important force for social change.
And if the Tiananmen Square protests had spread and succeeded, maybe China wouldn't be in the authoritarian mess that it is in right now.
Are "superstition-based", "cult recommended", or "not superstition based" permitted?
Flaw? You mean "backdoor", created at the behest of one or more intelligence agencies?