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ParticipantWhat’s wrong with negotiating $75k down? Worth a try.
ParticipantI think it’s down to transportation patterns. You either own a house there or go for the day, since it’s about 2.5 hr each way from the NY area. Plus every state and its momma has a casino now.
ParticipantNot sure if you’re right about the Poconos — Poconos used to also be a major coal-mining region till all of the anthracite was mined out. That industry, along with steelworks in Bethlehem, went the way of the dodo in the 1980s. That’s more of why the region is depressed, not because of lack of vacation traffic.
A lot of people still go to the Poconos from NY to ski, hike, and fish on weekends, by the way.
ParticipantAnd what the HELL gives American bosses to impose THEIR ideal lifestyle on everyone? It’s a shame that white-collar workers who are constantly browbeaten don’t resort to old-school union tactics. i.e. bad bosses have an “accident” or make “mistakes” that get them fired.
Under 20% of Americans claim to be happy with their jobs. Therefore, it’s not what we want. It’s what the scum running Big Corp want. We did fine with a de-facto 30-hour work week (average between spouses) through the 1980s, and were significantly happier with it.
As far as Congress, I’ve lost all hope after this election. The average American mouth-breather is too brainwashed and uneducated to know that a bit of socialism is good for him or her, so they vote for corporate whores. They’ve eaten the Faux Noose propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
ParticipantThe average full-time work week is now 47 hours. That represents a misallocation of working hours between people who want to work and people who are worked like fuckin slaves.
Solution to unemployment would be to socialize costs of hiring and require less working time so that more employees need be hired.
ParticipantWhy would you want to be productive all of the time? Best way to live is to be as only productive as necessary while being as comfortable as possible.
Work to live, not live to work. Take the vacations, but live in the same house you’ve owned for years, and keep your cars for 10-20 years.
Speaking of allocation, we’re already fully employed. White-collar labor in the US is just badly allocated, with some people working 50 hr per week, others zero. Changing the max downwards could well fix this.
Idleness is only bad if people who don’t WANT to be idle are idle. And before someone starts yammering about how Americans WANT to only have a week off per year, the same argument was used to support slavery in the 1860s. “But they wouldn’t know what to do with their freedom, they WANT to work for a benevolent master.” Riiiiight.
ParticipantThis is tricky with “bubble” homes that have very little or no equity in the house, and there are quite a few of those on the market these days. Leveraging $2,000 is a lot easier than leveraging 10,000 or 20,000.
Offer to negotiate a shitshow … I mean a short sale … then.
ParticipantCelebrity restaurants are overrated. The South Indian food that I got in a hole-in-the wall place in Queens last night was not.
I’m not a democrat, BTW; I’d rather have a benevolent elitist technocracy.
ParticipantI’d rather have my car look ghetto as a message of love and understanding to my uppity neighbors.
ParticipantA few forces at work here:
(1) Rates due to QE exit
(2) Mel Watt, the realtors’ stooge. He wants to loosen mortgage credit, but so far his “reforms” have been incremental.
(3) Foreclosures stayed by the Homeowners’ Bill of Rights coming online again
(4) GOP win. They might succeed in rolling up the GSEs. Of course, there’s a veto, but there’s also give-and-take.ParticipantIf I’m traveling, I don’t want to spend half a week in a theme park designed for obese Americans, especially not one where the weather can strip paint.
I’ve been there before and found it uninteresting. And I prefer to gamble on things where I have a larger chance of winning.
Seriously, other than bad simulations of Europe and legal bordellos outside of city limits, what does Vegas offer that I can’t get within 100 miles of NYC?
I might have gone in the 1950s when you supposedly could see nuclear tests from rooftops of certain buildings in LV 🙂 I’d have made sure to pack some lead-lined long johns and welder’s goggles, of course.
I don’t want family-friendly. I could have lived with a town with mobbed-up casinos and atomic fireworks for a backdrop.
ParticipantBut why not use it as a point of negotiation? The land has got to be worth something in itself.
ParticipantThe only thing that’s interesting out of those things is the G.C. air tour. Other cities have theatres, you know.
If I’m to see Paris or Venice, I’d prefer to see the real thing. The Mediterranean Sea? We have plenty of beautiful coastline to our own right that beats it. San Diego, parts of Long Island, the Nor Cal/Oregon coast, Maine, Southern NJ, Assateague in Virginia, Florida.
ParticipantBOJ increase in QE is a drop in the bucket compared to US QE. And it’s targeted to Japanese equities.
Draghi hath just spake. He’s promising a return to the ECB’s balance sheet of 2012 (big whoop). US stocks … flat. This is boring.
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