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Why? Less money velocity would mean cheaper goods. And maybe less need for services if there’s more free time. Why pay for a massage if your wife or gf has time to give you one?

The “working norm” of 40+ hours per week is purely arbitrary.

And you still didn’t speak to misallocation. If the potential inventor of a controlled fusion reactor chooses to push money around in a Wall Street whorehouse instead, it’s a net loss for society and the Earth.

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FlyerInHI – maybe a trip to Hong Kong is in order…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2013/04/29/the-worlds-most-famous-tailor-at-prices-you-cant-miss/

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To a certain point. If the “best and brightest” are lured to commodity trading by the promise of a lot of money, they are being lured away from possibly more useful activities like scientific research and infrastructure design. Both of which are sorely lacking in the US outside of the I.T. sector.

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Sure, but it will happen 🙂

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Before every crash, there are people who say it won’t happen 🙂 The .com bubble was supposed to be permanent. So was the housing bubble. And the 1920s credit bubble. The only questions are how, where, and when.

Here’s to chaos! And opportunity.

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Not having to own a car and drive it day-to-day. Interesting places with interesting people within walking distance, cafes, etc.

Serendipity. Randomness and some level of chaos on the street. Being able to have interesting conversations at random, not going from bubble to bubble (i.e. home-car-workplace).

Being in a place where kids can be somewhat independent starting at age 10 or so, not somewhere where encourages helichopper parenting.

Not having a large, grassy yard around my house. Maybe a veggie garden and deck in back. But mowing grass or paying some neighborhood sprog to do so for you is a big waste of life and effort. So is maintaining the outside of a house when you can pay an HOA to do that for you (or just have a brick, semi-attached house in the city where mx is minimal).

A large non-American population. People not born here tend to have a different, often more pleasant, perspective on life.

Four real seasons. No thanks to a namby-pamby Southern “winter” for me. Bad enough that it’s 50F on x-mess this year.

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Guess it’s a job I won’t be taking then, huh? I’d rather stay freelance and landlord than work for some bunch of assholes who moved their company to an utter festering pesthole.

I’d rather have an apartment or house in the worst ghetto of a decent-sized city…

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I’d rather move to Vermont, northern NH, or Europe than anywhere in the humid, poorly-transited, trafficky Southern US.

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Like econ prof said, home warranties are now part of the standard real estate purchase agreement.

Out of three properties I’ve bought, zero have had a warranty attached. I’d have told the seller to take their warranty, shove it where the sun don’t shine, and give me the correct discount if any seller would have tried that waste-of-money crapola.

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Why not just a normal condo or house? Is spending one’s old age surrounded by lizards(*) really good fun?

(*) – in EMT parlance, not in bearishgurl’s parlance.

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*HURL*

I’d sooner move to Eastern Europe, which doesn’t have all of the disadvantages of the South (overly strict laws/enforcement, lack of public transit, disgusting sprawl, shit climate, etc), yet still has reasonable cost of living.

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You can get quite annihilated off wine. And the vomit stains better.

Ask the ancient Romans.

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Maybe it’s a replacement for p**s-poor levels of edumacation in many high schools.

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Neighbor should have a shot at getting one without going into massive debt. If he wants to, and if he can hack it, of course. It shouldn’t be a default option, but it should be AN option for all citizens.

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Rent it out as a venue for the reception? The wedding itself would be in the {church,synagogue,Sumerian temple,Buddhist shrine} of choice. Therefore, it’s not a wedding venue.

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