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Holy shiteballs — $1300+/mo in tax on a $300k house? That’s ‘spensive even by Northeastern standads.

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I’m greedy when fools (most people who buy property during a bubble) are concerned. A small % of people get foreclosed due to health, death in family, loss of job reasons. I feel sorry for them.

However, the majority of foreclosure and short sale owners were just blithering idiots, who took a loan ass-u-ming their income would somehow triple in five years. If they read the terms and conditions at all.

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Bad for the US and global growth is good for buy-and-hold investors like you if they want to pick up more property. Why not kick back and root for it? A worldwide decrease in interconnection will hit property prices in the US as well, which would allow you to buy more at a better price.

Eventually, people will come to their senses, but not before some blessed opportunities present themselves.

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The UK has been plenty multi-ethnic since they acquired colonies. I’ll bet that there are more immigrants that incite racist sentiment from Commonwealth countries (former colonies) than from the EU.

Brexit is silly. The UK already is not a part of Schengen, and maintains its own immigration controls. They can allow and deny non-EU citizens at will. They also have their own currency and central bank.

Yet their subjects can live/work anywhere in the EU, which is an advantage for them. They have the best of both worlds now.

I think Brexit is dumb, but I don’t mind the uncertainty and chaos that is coming from the vote.

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If the old people who stay eventually move out of state to be closer to their kids, who have put down roots, their houses might end up on the market. This is a good thing for the young that will stay. And the cycle continues…

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London was full of immigrants even before the EU was a major force. I remember London in the early 90s — it was very multi-ethnic.

I wonder why they’re not whining about Commonwealth membership. A lot of their immigrants come from Commonwealth countries, and historically, there’s been a lot of racist sentiment.

Maybe restricting students and workers from the rest of the Commonwealth will be next? 🙁

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Buying popcorn and beer. Whichever way it goes, should be a fun show!

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The only thing that will reduce medical costs is national basic insurance, but Americans are too fucking brainwashed to support that.

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Not being on a no-fly list doesn’t mean that you aren’t transporting or selling drugs. Apparently, using rental vehicles is pretty common.

What I noticed is that I didn’t get much cr@p when the rental was registered in the same state. Take an AZ rental to CA or vice-versa, and they go full-on ‘tard.

This being said, I agree that the stops are garbage, and the people (if you can call them that) working them are also mostly filth. I’m not grateful to them for “keeping us safe.” They fall into my “I wouldn’t take a p!ss on you if you were on fire” or “I wouldn’t call 911 if I saw you get hit by a speeding truck” category.

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Why should I have to pay the penalty?? I, as a native American citizen, should be allowed to travel freely within my OWN COUNTRY! Does anybody here object to that??

I agree. Shut down the checkpoints: they’re un-American. Legalize most drugs. Let non-functional addicts either get treatment or croak, their choice. The lives of trashy people who are stupid enough to get hooked on hard drugs are not worth the cost of the “War on Some Drugs” nor the destruction of civil liberties that it entails.

But do you really believe for a moment that Trump will shut down the checkpoints? He’s shown his true colors (authoritarian piece of dogshit) on many occasions. He’s also a cop-hugger. You think he’d be willing to put Federal cops out of work by making their work redundant?

If so, I have a bridge to sell you.

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The reason so many Americans are out of work is because their (prior) jobs were “outsourced” to countries with much cheaper labor.

Outsourcing and immigration are separate issues.

I personally have a problem with Chinese factories who have made money hand over fist manufacturing “engineered” or “laminate hardwood floors” for YEARS for giant US retailer Lumber Liquidators using (toxic) formaldehyde in the process. That’s disgusting and never would have happened had the flooring been manufactured inside the borders of the US.

US firms have never done harm?

Ever heard of the Michigan PBB incident?
How about the Macondo oil spill?
Or formaldehyde in good ‘ol US-made plywood in the 80s?

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Borders are artificial and arbitrary. Why does someone have more right to live in a given place if they were born there, vs not being born there?

Plenty of native-born Americans contribute little to society, some are even criminals, but they luck happened to win the lucky sperm/ovum jackpot by being born on US soil. Thus they can be here by default.

Why should one feel closer to people who just accidentally happened to be born in an area controlled by the same government? It seems like a pretty daft way to pick whom you feel a commonality with or closeness to.

Maybe I’m just not wired to feel nationalism and patriotism.

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Wasn’t everyone terrified of the Japanese buying up half of California in the 80s?

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Local schools. Public, private, or Catholic depending on country. I wouldn’t want them growing up surrounded by coked-up embassy brats in an international/American school.

University would depend on circumstance. e.g. medical school in many European countries is cheaper, shorter (it’s combined undergrad and grad) and as good as school in the US.

I’d rather have them study in Poland than the US, for example.

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Or live in the US and date foreign-born women 🙂 Not as if they’re in such short supply in California (or NY). Maybe I’ve had bad experiences, but I’ve felt like white/Americans often turn dating into some sort of tedious head-game with too many rules.

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