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ParticipantI like how so many people jumped right in with the intellectual pap without even seeing the movie – as was the OP’s request.
To those of you who think our current medical system is so great – consider yourselves lucky, but I don’t want my health care to depend on luck.
I can assume you have never been in a position to have to pay COBRA, or HIPPA, or haven’t been paying attention to how much more you are paying for less health care coverage.
Health care / dental care costs have the nature of snowballing as you grow older no matter how well you have taken care of yourself. Those years between 45 and medicare can easily bankrupt you. Wait til you have to apply for private coverage and the insurance company digs back into 10 years of medical records and comes up with some trumped up pre-existing condition so they can deny you when they really are turning you down because they don’t want to take the risk of your age.
Like someone else has brought up, consider yourself lucky if you have not had to spend hours trying to understand your annual new coverage, or spent hours on the phone trying to convince some drone that you didn’t chose to have a colonoscopy for the fun of it.
As for tort – I believe that for every case that makes it to court there are probably at leat 100 cases that should have seen litigation.
I have known many expatriots living in this country that have the best health coverage provided by their homeland companies while they are here. They see the best providers in this country, yet, if you ask them if they would trade their “socialized” medical system back home with our system, you will hear a resounding “NO!”
As to overweight Americans, I’ve been suspecting this for awhile and just saw this today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR2007070100431.html?hpid=topnews
New Study Links Stress, Obesity – washingtonpost.com
I believe that Americans have no idea how much stress they are living under because it is part of our existence.
ParticipantLooks like a miserable place to live – maybe a vacation cabin~~~?
Reminds me of my high school experience: went to a traditional boarding prep school in the mid-west – most all of the “boarders” were the daughters of the one really rich family living in hick towns.
I don’t know anything about Billings but I bet’cha we’d have to budget in boarding school for our daughters.ParticipantFrom the kid of a lifer Marine pilot and then an Air America pilot for 7 years during the Vietnam war… just because it sounds unbelievable doesn’t make it untrue.
bgates wrote:
“I’d point out that the last time the US Army was involved in a civil war, we won.”Which civil war are you talking about bgates?
Vietnam was a civil war and we lost that one.
ParticipantDefinition of civil war:
dictionary.com
“a war between political factions or regions within the same country.”
Middle East – political factions = religions factions
If it quacks like a duck…
ParticipantI did the same thing – late at night, lost in downtown San Diego, trying to get myself back on track to the airport. Have you ever been lost downtown after dark? Can’t see a damn thing or find a place to pull over and get directions – downtown is dead after dark.
Anyway I went to driving school and it was a total wasted day and I went to one called “Comedy” NOT! The teacher was rambling, obnoxious, boring, sarcastic, notfunny, honestly I would have found my time better spent picking up trash on the side of the freeway – or even on the freeway if I could have gotten out of that class.
This is what you do – in the list of driving schools there are online schools, but better yet, call and tell them that you can’t manage to attend driving school and you don’t have internet access and they will send you the “course” and you can complete it in around an hour or less according to my sister (I heard about this option after I attended the all-day class). The hard copy is better because you can just flip through the book whereas I hear that online you have to keep going back and doing whole sections over when you miss anything.
Or, I also heard that there are “gay” traffic schools and even though I’m not gay I bet that is a lot of fun.
The all-day class is like doing time – and hardly anything is said about traffic laws. I did learn that if you are turning right on a red light and there is a camera, you must stop for at least 3 seconds or you will get ticketed for running the red light.ParticipantSo are you saying you got your price after the $5000 drop? And that there are no contingencies, just the appraisal? Hope all rolls along smoothly and get on with your interests.
ParticipantIt is crazy. Check out the neighborhood profile: the median age = 32 yrs, education levels, median household income less than $50,000.
This particular house seems to be about as good as it gets in the neighborhood. Not every neighborhood in CA will be gentrified – geez.
I don’t know about Fullerton? Is there something special about this location?
ParticipantSubmitted by PD
“…even though the money was better than other job offers they received, they reluctantly turned the job down in favor of a less expensive location. Not only are people moving away, they are also deciding not come here at all.”This has been going on for several years. I have many friends who have been offered positions here in CA with salaries that would make most people salivate, but these are intelligent people and not fools, they look at the whole picture and just say no.
I had never put this together with the numbers of people who are leaving.ParticipantThe absolutely only good reason I have think that one might want to live in Temecula vs the more affordable areas closer in is that the public schools in Temecula are supposed to be good. I certainly wouldn’t move out there for a bigger house.
I live in Carlsbad but will not use my neighborhood public school, so I have had to opt-out and send my kids to a charter school in Oceanside. I tried to get an intradistrict transfer to another school in Carlsbad but was not allowed. You are allowed to use Charter Schools in any district but then, of course, you have to transport your kids to the school, and also, many of the good charter schools are full and have waiting lists.
If you have kids I suggest you buy the best you can afford in the boundries of one of the better schools, this is also a good selling point. There are major differences in quality of the properties, education (check out the API scores), and the problems that the different schools are dealing with – even within the “good” districts.Participantthis liability argument seems a bit far fetched:
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“All expenses are his own and all liability is his. One $100,000 judgement against him that is not his fault in any way but for which he is held liable and he is wiped out.”
bySubmitted by sdrealtorjust exactly what are realtors sued for?
I’ve had a couple beefs with realtors as a buyer and a seller but never thought to sue.
ParticipantI didn’t mean it to be an analogy – I am just too lazy to research what the $$$ deal is, and would like to see the numbers before I assume it’s a loser.
ParticipantWe need to know what the $$$ deal is.
youtube is selling too for $1.65 BILLION ! Is google the greater fool ?
Participantfor some reason the quote I wanted to include from the above blog didn’t print.
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Let me state what I believe is the fundamental reality of this gross regulatory mismanagement: consumers are only protected from predatory practises when the situation grows from a regulatory problem into a political problem. I think this sudden rush of regs to limit the worst lending practises is a 9th-inning attempt to “inoculate” the regulatory agencies from the fully justified accusation that they did nothing while the U.S. lending industry ran amok. The inoculation will fail as rock-ribbed Republican voters start getting foreclosure notices, gigantic ARM re-sets, higher property taxes bills, etc.Participant<
> Wow, a 8.5% drop by 2008 – that gives our salaries time to catch up – NOT – maybe they mean 8.5% drop from 98-99 prices.
I’ve always been amazed that $700,000+ tracts of homes were built and sold, like overnight.
But was really surprised me was how many people could afford that kind of money to buy those cookie cutters or the older junk – of course now the cat is coming out of the bag… many, many (maybe most), of the buyers couldn’t afford what they were buying.
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