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barnaby33ParticipantTo me anyone who says audiophile and 5.1 in the same paragraph you suspect. Surround sound is for movies not music.
barnaby33ParticipantOh the irony! NYC invented the hipster.
barnaby33ParticipantDid he work full or part time?
What was his student loan debt level at graduation?
Did he live at home?
Did he study in an impacted or under resourced major?Lots of things effect the ease of graduation.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantWell at least this board hasn’t yet degenerated into Zerohedge, so we got that going for us.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantTo me this was the high water mark of bubble posting: https://piggington.com/life_is_good_in_amarillo
4PlexOwner, where are you now?
Rich accelerated me down my path, ironically by asking me for money. Somehow I think paying for his early news letter made me more serious about absorbing it’s content.
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barnaby33ParticipantBelow replacement rate is exactly where we need to be. This country and the world in general are way beyond carrying capacity. Especially if you take the unbigoted view that you’d like most if not all to have a shot at an American standard of living. My wife is Peruvian I’m well versed in the not everyone is poor or poorly educated meme. However I also grew up here, specifically in an agricultural town. I think I am pretty well versed in both the actuals of immigration and the theory. It’s great that we can agree to disagree and do so with neither of us yelling at the other.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI don’t even want one immigrant to come here and do harm to even one US citizen. I don’t know anyone who feels differently than me on that point
You’re letting good be the enemy of possible. Its a big world and lots of people in it are immigrants. Your last statement shows all the fear of the unknown that immigrants represent so you probably really aren’t pro-immigrant.
Having just gone through the vetting process to get my wife a green card, most native born citizens will never know what a PITA it is and how powerless you are. That being said, the system does need revision. We can’t continue to absorb 1 million immigrants a year, even highly skilled ones. Blocking people because they are Muslim however is just stupid and racist. Doubly so when the countries that have contributed most of the terrorists aren’t even on the blocked list.
Lets grant less visas make sure they are high quality and rejoice in the fact that people still want to come here. Let’s also not let our basic human nature be overridden by laziness, which tends to favor immigration (poor and poorly skilled) from our southern neighbors.
A national Id would be a fairly easy way to ensure that people who were working here had the right to be here and then make it easier for us to grant tourist visas without so much fear of people overstaying and living in the gray.
barnaby33ParticipantNobody should be that happy all the time, just smacks of false-ness, ‘Merican style.
November 9, 2016 at 3:36 PM in reply to: Senate Bill 1069 Makes it easier to add Granny Flats #803341barnaby33ParticipantNot In Her Back Yard!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI found the article interesting in what it doesn’t mention, the opposite end of the spectrum. Costco faces competition not just from people who don’t drive as much and have smaller places but have services which deliver the basics and more importantly, the high margin luxury goods at their convenience, at home. Things like Amazon Prime. Costco was a new invention 20 years ago, bulk for the upper middle class masses. Now there are retailers competing away some of their customer base. The suburbs may be dying but it’ll be a long slow death. I doubt Costco will go away anytime soon.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantIf you are all slumming it anyway, why not just drink 2 buck chuck and git-r-done.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantWhere will the water come from for all this growth?
JoshJuly 25, 2016 at 2:43 PM in reply to: Updated: Landlord charging hourly rate for emails and phone calls (rant, I guess) #799970barnaby33ParticipantParty at FLU’s house?
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantSo to paraphrase, you’ve already found one needle in a haystack and you are now looking for a second. Good luck jfel! I don’t mean that sarcastically.
Does safety trump school quality? What’s your maximum commute time, because where I grew up in 92082 was very safe, though rural. I wouldn’t have called the schools awesome but they weren’t bad.
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