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JPJonesParticipantFair point. My only thought was that stars, be it sports or otherwise, aren’t a great benchmark for how wealthy people behave.
e: aaaah I see what you mean. I don’t agree that wealthy means “spend without worry”. So I think that means I agree with you? I need a nap.
JPJonesParticipantAthletes, actors, and musicians are all in the same bucket. For every 1 that makes bank, there are thousands that make next to nothing and fade into obscurity. If you’re looking for a new side hustle, please, for all of our sakes, steer clear of the OnlyFans.
JPJonesParticipantSemi-related, if you live in a tier 2 or 3 fire area, it isn’t too difficult to qualify for a 100% rebate when you install a battery backup system even without solar. If you don’t qualify for the 100% or 85%, it’ll still give back about 25%.
You have experienced two or more utility Public
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AND one of the following additional criteria:
• You live in multifamily deed-restricted housing or a
single-family home subject to resale restrictions.
• You are currently enrolled in a utility Medical
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medicalbaseline.
• You have notified your utility of serious illness and/or
life-threatening condition.
• You have received or reserved other solar-related
incentives (including SASH, DAC-SASH, MASH, or
SOMAH programs).
• Your home relies on electric pump wells for water.JPJonesParticipantI would argue those are outliers. “Sport star” isn’t a statistically significant career.
JPJonesParticipant$3.5 million is definitely wealthy in San Diego. If anything, that number could come down a bit and still qualify as wealthy.
JPJonesParticipantAgreed. Time to nope out.
JPJonesParticipantJPJones – Why shouldn’t unemployment be low? It seems to me that what has been going on over the last decade is a steady drum beat of how horrible things are. The news makes more money by printing stories about how bad things are then about good things. Last consumer sentiment was terrible. But things aren’t terrible. People just listen to what they’ve been told, and they’ve been told the world is heading for disaster. The economy is doing very nicely. People are working and spending. Yeah, fed rate is up to 5%. That’s not a huge deal, it only seems so because we got used to ZIRP. There’s some inflation but hey this ain’t Zimbabwe. The stock market has been in the doldrums for a while now, but so what. Maybe we do get a recession in the near future, maybe not. But you should stop listening to whomever is convincing you that things are bad and collapse is just around the corner.
I wasn’t trying to say things were bad. Things aren’t bad, which is pretty sweet, but I thought they might be based on what I was seeing in the numbers. 5-6% interest rates on a mortgage is considered ideal, so yeah, that’s not bad, either. 3.4% unemployment? That’s too low and is one big reason inflation is still uncomfortably high (4.3%). It’s also what I see as the biggest reason housing prices are steady or moving up both locally and nationally.
JPJonesParticipantSorry, to clarify, I’m at a loss as to why unemployment is staying so low, not why housing prices are staying put or rising. I said at the start of the year that if unemployment stayed this low, housing prices probably wouldn’t drop, and it looks like that’s what’s happening.
JPJonesParticipantAll of those things are constants and have little to do with why their prices fluctuate. They were not immune to the ’07/’08 crash and all of those things were true then as well.
JPJonesParticipantAnd unemployment went down again! I still think it’s a terrible time to try and buy, but man, I figured we’d be in at least a mild recession by now with unemployment ticking significantly upward. Maybe someone savvy than me can try to explain what’s going on. I’m at a loss, but to be honest, I’m pretty happy to wrong on this one.
JPJonesParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Go for a walk around the lakes in Whistler. Gorgeous paths near lake. No fences. No dogs barking wildly.
Go for a walk in the USA. No beach access. Private property. Fences. Dogs that want to eat you. Owners armed to the fucking teeth watching Fox fucking news. Calling the cops because why the fuck are you walking around, near their houses, anyway. Very suspicious.
I think I might actually need to retire out of the USA.[/quote]
Eh. Air travel sucks and we can just drive up to Mammoth. It sounds like all of your gripes would be addressed by moving to NorCal.
Unless that is you aren’t happy unless you have lots to complain about, in which case you’d best stay put. 😉
JPJonesParticipantYou should buy a place there! I hear housing is cheap. XD
Once you’ve bought a place and moved up, report back after Winter so we can see how well this opinion holds up. No? Still good? Try again after summer. It broke 100 this year and if you think AC is scarce in SD, boy have I got news for you!
Canada isn’t better or worse than the US. It’s just a little different.
JPJonesParticipantNominal I think. Whichever one does not account for inflation.
JPJonesParticipantThe Spring 2021 boom, right? 😉
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