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barnaby33ParticipantThe point of Yoga isn’t to make you feel better. It’s to make others feel worse, for not doing it.
-Bleeding Gumsbarnaby33Participantflu, you could have shortened that whole story to, “you can’t pay someone else to deal with your problems.” Educating your kid is your problem!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantWhat we want is to create innovation so that formerly “luxury” products and services become common place commodities that everyone can afford.
Individuals and companies are only free to create innovation if the competition can’t just steal it.
What people want are shiny champagne finished washing machines. What they NEED are education and healthcare. Neither is amenable to the free market. Oh Brian, you spill so much digital ink, yet say so little.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantUntil you live next to it, then it’s not so avant garde.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI believe in the value of a dollar.
Now there’s religious dogma!
barnaby33ParticipantTenant quality in NM is going to be a big concern. NM is a poor state, with lots of poor people. They tend to be hard on things.
JoshMarch 22, 2019 at 1:49 PM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812194barnaby33ParticipantAs an OG of this site I have dropped in every few months only to close the window in disgust to see what my once loved forum has become. I have different motives today than I did back then. I bought eleven years ago after the biggest bubble in my lifetime and I will always credit this place with how I managed to time the market. Now I’m curious as my children are now adults, college grads and in the workforce, I want to give them advice that is timely as far as purchases or renting goes.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. So you’ve been absent for almost a decade but now you want advice and you’re disgusted to find that the forum you stopped helping to maintain didn’t stay what you wanted it to in your absence. Sorry man, I feel for you, but that’s just weird.
To answer your question, housing will return to the forefront when we’re all contrarians again. Maybe never. Most of us took the knowledge we gained and profited from it and are now on the other side and whether we admit it or not are wedded to a different outlook. So we aren’t the avant garde jealous bitter renters we once were; full of piss and vinegar and stats showing how wrong housing prices are.
You want Piggington to be relevant again, pray for an activist Fed, or a recession, or both. Other than that I think, as do many others that we’re settling in to watch the paint dry.
Nice to hear from you though! Hugs!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantIf you don’t drive much, then why does mileage matter? I have an 18 year old 4Runner that if it gets 18 MPG on the highway, I’m lucky! However I put 7-10k a year on it, so mileage isn’t really that important.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantSpeaking as someone who’s married to a Peruvian and really loves Medellin (or at least used to) Latin America can be great for stretching your dollars and living above your income level. However there are no free ham sandwiches and violence is a key.
I will say though that generally Peru is safe in terms of violent crime and Lima in particular is safe so long as you stay in the better parts of the city.
For cheap and developed I’d look at Uruguay. The major drawback is it’s a LOOOOONNNG way south.
JoshJanuary 11, 2019 at 8:13 AM in reply to: San Diego homeless, mercifully, do not live very long #811560barnaby33ParticipantCan you find an example in history where pissed off voters turned left, before a hard right turn?
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantOk so we were all early, which is to say wrong! If only Chris Scoreboard were here to tell me/us how wrong we were. However I’d like if possible to get an update on what’s going on in Sydney. Not out in Paramatta or who cares what western suburb, the good parts!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantAny cook? Hmmm I like induction too. Cleaner, faster to heat, though sadly still expensive. I bought a 70 dollar portable induction top for my kitchen bar so friends could prep/cook. It throws off little to no waste heat. It’s only real drawback is that you have to induction ready pots, so no Calphalon.
barnaby33ParticipantHSR probably won’t get done and it’s not that sad at all. We have an immediate problem of not even having enough functional regular rail in this country. Upgrading out existing rail networks needs to have a higher priority than the fantasy of tech workers and vacationers easily able to get from La to Vegas or SF to LA.
Second if you are going to dream of a shiny future for human transport, why not build out hyperloop. Now that has sizzle and probably ultimately at lower cost.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantBased on the last cycle, 3-5 years after the peak. Admittedly your area may very. My bestie and Temecula guy got smoking deals in Temecula earlier, because it crashed earlier. I bout in MV in Aug 12 and missed the bottom by 9 months or so.
If my memory serves me the peak was somewhere between Aug of 05 and Aug of 06, depending on which set of numbers you were looking at. I tend to remember it as the former. So for me the bottom came 6 years after. The last cycle was ahistoric and the largest ever seen so our mileage may very.
Also if mortgages go back above historical averages, something like 8% on a 30 year fixed I’m guessing it’ll be time to buy.
Josh
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