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Participantflu — why are NYC and NJ “shitholes” for tech workers? At the lower end of the income range, you have a hell of a lot better chance of buying a single-family home than in SD. You also have access to subsidized apartments for sale, meaning low maintenance fees (generally taxes + common charges + heat all rolled into one monthly fee). Unless you bought in SD between 2008 and 2012 or the markets crash again, you’re probably better off cost-wise in the NYC area.
Not all of NYC is Manhattan below 125th St. Per NAR – average NYC metro SFR price ~= $400k. Average for San Diego metro ~=$650k.
ParticipantYou’re all assuming that Amazon actually wanted two HQ2 sites, as opposed to narrowing it down to one site being the end game.
Participantflu — what is “extreme government?” You know, the US locks up the largest number of people (proportional to population) of any “free world”/”developed” country, yet it claims to be free. I’m literally in grad school in the US to make myself more marketable to foreign Ph. D. programs — I plan to cut and run as soon as I can.
Germany is great. I won’t have to worry about college funds for my kids there, since higher ed is nearly free. They have beautiful, fast, amazing trains that are relatively cheap to ride. Their culture is much less prudish than the US, I can enjoy the beach on my own terms, if you know what I mean.
ParticipantNational debt tops $22 trillion. $6 trillion of that is money thrown away in the Middle East and Afghanistan since 9/11/2001. Another few trillion is probably money thrown away by predatory “War on Drugs” law enforcement and imprisonment. Imagine how great we could be if we spent money on things that are actually useful to Americans instead on killing and jailing people.
America may or may not be in decline, but it falls short of its potential due to militarism, corruption, and authoritarian culture.
ParticipantCall it an anti-Cartel Protection Rampart, but make sure the guards’ rifles face north.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
“GDR authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”
ParticipantThe bullet train isn’t a waste of funds — the construction was just grossly mismanaged. A French or Chinese consortium could have done it at 1/4 the cost, but no, we have to “buy American.”
I suspect that’s the idea — have the corrupt US contractors build it Merced to Bakersfield, and have a foreign company with actual experience build from Bakersfield to LA. Tracks already exist from Oakland to Merced. With lighter off-the-shelf European trains now being allowed by Federal law, this section could be electrified and used for the northern section to SF, with the “last mile” being along the Bay Bridge.
ParticipantThe Green New Deal is not meant as a serious proposal — it’s meant to “ask for 100 things and get 5% of it done.” I admire AOC, she’s single-handedly pushing the Overton Window in the US to the left.
Bullshit on the “nationalization of everything…”
Why does everyone conflate social democracy with Chinese or Soviet-style authoritarianism? Nationalize housing? Please. You know that the US home-ownership rate is only middle of the pack — most social-democratic countries (hell, even China), have a higher rate than the USA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate
If people don’t have to worry about $500/mo health insurance premiums and $10,000 deductibles, maybe they may actually be able to afford a mortgage. What a thought!!!
ParticipantI hope it does break the country — California may be better off on its own, without having a millstone around its neck.
ParticipantI wasn’t mocking NeetaT’s comment. I was disgusted by it. I like states with public services. Love trains, love riding on trains. Love cheap public universities. Love having a safety net as far as healthcare. I don’t think some fucking clown in DC should force the state I live in to lower taxes and get rid of services that are useful to me and that I enjoy.
ParticipantWhy should states not have the choice to enact high-tax/high-spending policies? Why should some filth in DC be entitled to “hit back” at them for their choices, especially if the state is paying more into DC than it’s getting back? Personally, I think places like California would be a hell of a lot better off without a bunch of hayseed politicians in DC telling them what to do. (Calexit 2020!!!)
If you want low taxes, then bugger off and go move to Oklahoma or Arkansas — don’t rely on a Trumpian nanny state in DC to ruin all that’s good about CA (decent public transport, public education, healthcare by US standards). Seriously, why are you still in California if you hate it so much?
ParticipantHe just had a better speechwriter and he was threatened with lack of sex by Melania if he didn’t stay on topic.
February 3, 2019 at 7:55 AM in reply to: Any peer to peer mortgage sites with decent interest rates? #811699ParticipantYou’re not competing with a CD, you’re competing with the return on buying the property yourself and renting it out.
ParticipantThat’s actually a lot fairer of a system than in NJ, where the copscum will actually arrest people for unpaid parking tickets. Civil collection at time of registration seems a lot simpler and less disruptive/violent.
ParticipantIt’s not necessarily lonely if you:
(1) Move to a country that has a fairly friendly/open culture
(2) Do something that involves interfacing with lots of people (e.g. teaching or tourism industry)
(3) Are willing to learn the language and be culturally adaptable -
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