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Flu covered most of it but most of the documents you want on a local level are far from online. You can’t integrate what doesn’t exist. Think about BG toiling away at her teletype machine trying to hanging onto her precious paralegal position with every last breathe of her being. I do admire your starry
eyed changed the world optimism but thing just don’t work that way. We have heard all the “new economy” nonsense and know the reality is change happens slowly and incrementally not radically. The things you dream of won’t happen in your lifetime.
First problem is you are an engineer and believe other people think like you. Sorry most people make bad emotional decisions and aren’t anything like you. You won’t take their losses but those nitwits set the market. As smart as you can be, some nitwit can come along and overpay raing the comps and your price of admission. You can automate everything you want but those nitwits will still be there. Next problem is all it takesisone emotional spouse to screw up your or any buyers life.
Was just out with a good friend last nite. He just got a big time job in OC and is reloing from Boston. His wife is from Boston and she would have to leave her family. She knows he can’t not take the job but she has her list of what she HAS to have. He just sold the Boston abode For 800kand has 500k in his pocket. He’s a smart guy and I told him to rent, learn the lay of the land, figure out where he really wants to live. I told him he could rent a house on any street in SoCal which is pretty much true. I told him buying now would likely cost him 50 to 100k vis a vis waiting a year to figure it all out. He nodded and agreed. Then his response……”dude it’s complex, you don’t understand, gotta buy a house now”. My response …..”dude i completely understand, sorry…make the best of it”
Here my best story. I was two weeks away from a 8 figure payoff from a company I never worked for. One of my good friends was the founder of what was going to be Goldman Sachs biggest IPOD of fthe Internet era. He gifted me as many shares as most of the VP’s had. I always laughed and never believed I would see a cent from it as I had worked with him on a couple projects before. We had a friggin helicopter on order to transport us from his house on Coronado to padres games. Dude it was gonna be epic!
Some day you will grow up and will have stories like we do. The world will still be the world. There will still be a Fed……there won’t be anyone named Paul in the White House but it will all be ok. Life as we know it won’t have ended and there will still be realtors. Sorry dude……
