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svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]You old guys are Living in the Past[/quote]
Don’t think we’ve heard what music artists you listen to…care to share?
svelteParticipantI don’t look down on single folks who never met that right someone and therefore don’t aspire to greater things. That could very well have been me. I dated a lot, but after a few dates that was it, time to move on. I became bored easily. No long term gfs until I met my wife. So I could very well have ended up single my entire life and actually I was starting to think (worry?) that would be the case.
We have several super smart friends in NorCal who did marry and find the right person but still chose not to apply themselves or chose artistic careers that don’t pay. I’ll never understand that, but if it makes them happy so be it. I figure if I’m working hard I might as well be doing something that pays well…
svelteParticipantsvelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=spdrun]Well, take housing advice from someone like that if you don’t want to spend the next 20 years with a ball and chain around your leg :D[/quote]
also, my wife and kids were net moneymakers for me. She makes money. The kids make me get up and work every day. I never wouldve bought a giant mansion without my crazy wife. i probably wouldnt have even gotten a 401k. i wouldnt have gone to law school. i certainly never wouldve kept working. [/quote]
Exactly! Scaredy gets it!
I’ve often told my wife that had I not met her, I would have moseyed through life without accomplishing much. I didn’t really care…if I was having fun, that was all I needed. Maybe I’d finish my degree, maybe I wouldn’t.
Maybe I’d work hard, maybe I’d take some time off.But suddenly, when I had a gf then wife then kids, I had someone that made me strive to be better and more successful.
One of my favorite movie lines of all time is when Jack Nicholson said “You make me want to be a better man” in “As Good As It Gets”. He summarized in that one line exactly what I knew to be true in my own life.
So it’s exactly as scaredy said…those balls and chains actually made me quite a bit of money…way more than they cost me.
And when I look back at the males in my family tree, I can almost see the moment their life took off…the moment they met their wife. I can’t go back and reconstruct whether my theory is true for all of them, but I suspect it is…
svelteParticipant[quote=The-Shoveler]
Most people still want to live in the burbs with a three car garage, good sized yard etc.. if they can afford it anyway.[/quote]I think it has to do with what stage of life they are in. I know many co-workers in their 20s who lived in and were all about downtown SD or Little Italy or PB.
By then they turned 30, got married, have kids on the way, and they’ve all left for the suburbs: Poway, Penasquitos, RB, 78 corridor. As you say, the garage and yard start speaking to them in a big way.
svelteParticipantI’ve been watching Louis Rossman videos on NYC. He’s not fair and balanced at all, but he does have an interesting perspective.
I guess I like him because he’s so anti-Apple. 🙂
svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]In other news, water is wet.
End of the month is always move in/move out time. Pre-COVID, there were always a couple moving trucks on my block at the end of the month — also, it was the best time to pick up “used furniture,” if you know what I mean.[/quote]
I don’t know. These charts look pretty convincing.
What remains to be seen is whether the trend will reverse once the CV panic is over.
North Dakota and Kansas were unexpected on the outbound chart. I think the oil glut explains the ND numbers – oil workers are going back home. Not sure what explains Kansas.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Is it time to sell yet?[/quote]
The whole timing the market thing is tough, and in most cases unwise, as Rich has pointed out.
It is nearly impossible to know the top and bottom, and therefore you’ll just capture a fraction of the movement.
I like flu’s theory that things should be done incrementally and not in one swoop. Maybe move 10% out. Then another 10%. Etc.
svelteParticipantI lived out in the country when I was 15 and already had a car that I would tinker with in the garage. My grandfather lived about an hour away and sometimes when he visited he would let me drive him around the countryside. Times were different.
Anyway, the only song he ever told me to turn off because he refused to listen to it was Aqualung. So I pulled the 8-track out of the player (yes that long ago). I think he objected to eyeing little girls, I guess I don’t blame him that is a pretty putrid thought. Though I do like the rest of the song.
The only song my father objected to? Slow Ride by Foghat. There is one part where the guitars get obnoxiously squeaky and after a long day of work (I was driving him home), that was his limit and HE pulled the 8-track out.
We drove the rest of the way home in silence.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]The old rocker wore his hair too long
Wore his trouser cuffs too tight
Unfashionable to the end drank his ale too light
Death’s head belts buckle, yesterday’s dreams
The transport caf’ prophet of doom
Ringing no change in his double sewn seams
In his post-war babe gloom[/quote]+1
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
too old for a midlife crisis, too young to die.
maybe i can sell that slogan as tshirts at senior centers…
[/quote]or put out a music album…
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svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]
Thinking back to the homes Ive bought to live in, Ive always been so worried about getting in over my head. Within a few years it always gets much easier, after several I say why didnt I go for a nicer place and after ten why didnt I buy 2![/quote]
Truth! When I think back on the places I passed up. I’d be retired by now.
On the other hand, i’ve slept like a baby most nights and may have died from a heart attack had I bought them.
Life is a cruel mistress.
svelteParticipantLove the let time work for you thing.
That’s something I discovered in my 20s…I sleep much better if I put myself on a course where every day gets a little better, a little less risk. I struggle when I’m on the opposite path. One of the reasons I never chose an adjustable rate mortgage, though in hindsight that would have been better. Who knew?
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor] I think of my self as not being as smart or successful as most people. [/quote]
I don’t think that is true at all. Far from it.
You give much more thought to things than most people and reach far better conclusions.
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