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temeculaguy
ParticipantActually renters get more chicks. It’s true, the demographics of rentals and renters include more single women. Who didn’t meet girls in the laundry room or the parking lot of their college rental. In my rented condo that I spent a few years of my late 30’s, many of the women were divorced or single. Now I own again and in two years, the only women I see in my primarily owner occupied neighborhood are pushing strollers or sporting wedding rings. My sixteen year old son complains about the lack of talent at our community pool now that we live in the high rent district and many people have their own pools and the bathing suits contain more fabric. At the condo pool it always had a few women of questionable repute sunbathing with improperly fitted bikinis and interesting body art. So I’d say loser is not the correct word.
temeculaguy
ParticipantActually renters get more chicks. It’s true, the demographics of rentals and renters include more single women. Who didn’t meet girls in the laundry room or the parking lot of their college rental. In my rented condo that I spent a few years of my late 30’s, many of the women were divorced or single. Now I own again and in two years, the only women I see in my primarily owner occupied neighborhood are pushing strollers or sporting wedding rings. My sixteen year old son complains about the lack of talent at our community pool now that we live in the high rent district and many people have their own pools and the bathing suits contain more fabric. At the condo pool it always had a few women of questionable repute sunbathing with improperly fitted bikinis and interesting body art. So I’d say loser is not the correct word.
temeculaguy
ParticipantActually renters get more chicks. It’s true, the demographics of rentals and renters include more single women. Who didn’t meet girls in the laundry room or the parking lot of their college rental. In my rented condo that I spent a few years of my late 30’s, many of the women were divorced or single. Now I own again and in two years, the only women I see in my primarily owner occupied neighborhood are pushing strollers or sporting wedding rings. My sixteen year old son complains about the lack of talent at our community pool now that we live in the high rent district and many people have their own pools and the bathing suits contain more fabric. At the condo pool it always had a few women of questionable repute sunbathing with improperly fitted bikinis and interesting body art. So I’d say loser is not the correct word.
July 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #584656temeculaguy
ParticipantYet despite all of the various hand wringing I’ve read throughout my life, the middle class in the U.S. today is as well off as it has ever been in history. With the exception of the lack of concubines and servants, most of us live as well as royalty did a few hundred years ago. Most of us live better than a Doctor or a lawyer did in the 1940’s or 1950’s, at least those of us who aren’t doctors and lawyers.
Be realistic, what was the middle class 30, 40 or 50 years ago? There’s a lot of complaining nowadays that a college degree doesn’t allow you to live worry free about money, but today, a college degree is not that exceptional, it’s kinda middle class. Today, a minimum wage worker can eat all they want, work at a job that isn’t too dangerous and enjoy recreation, media, a car, their own room in perhaps a shared apartment. That is the lower class today, the middle class in the 1950’s meant 6 kids in an 1100 sq ft house, two kids to a bed, not always having enough to eat, having to forgo dentistry and optional medical care and going to work in a factory or some other job where there was a decent amount of risk involved. Today middle class is a 50″ television in the main room and steak whenever you want it.
Now we have hair stylists that can drive a used bmw, get breast implants and take vacations involving flying to other countries. My grandfather was quite successful, owned a business with about a hundred employees and was considered the richest guy in his town of about 30k people. He owned the first swimming pool in his town when he was only 45. He never took a vacation outside the u.s., never owned a remote control, never had about a hundred things that i have now, my house is bigger, my stuff is cooler and my stomach is bigger (unfortunately). But I’m not the richest guy in my town, not even close, yet I had earned more than he ever had by the time I was 27. So if the middle class suffers some setbacks compared to a chart that represents buying power, what is it that people are afraid of? It’s not even been a hundred years since the struggle for survival and food was a real issue and had been since the beginning of man. If I’m lucky I’ve got 40 years left on the planet, my kids might have 70, my grandkids will be gone in a hundred since they haven’t shown up yet. None of us will starve, we will all have more leisure time and more food than we should be allowed, we will always have to join gyms and go on diets because our easy lives aren’t actually good for us. So if in a thousand years, we live like peasants again, I don’t really care, after the next hundred years, it’s none of my business, I wont know any of those people or care about them, that’s their problem. But I’ll bet they are fine.
July 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #584748temeculaguy
ParticipantYet despite all of the various hand wringing I’ve read throughout my life, the middle class in the U.S. today is as well off as it has ever been in history. With the exception of the lack of concubines and servants, most of us live as well as royalty did a few hundred years ago. Most of us live better than a Doctor or a lawyer did in the 1940’s or 1950’s, at least those of us who aren’t doctors and lawyers.
Be realistic, what was the middle class 30, 40 or 50 years ago? There’s a lot of complaining nowadays that a college degree doesn’t allow you to live worry free about money, but today, a college degree is not that exceptional, it’s kinda middle class. Today, a minimum wage worker can eat all they want, work at a job that isn’t too dangerous and enjoy recreation, media, a car, their own room in perhaps a shared apartment. That is the lower class today, the middle class in the 1950’s meant 6 kids in an 1100 sq ft house, two kids to a bed, not always having enough to eat, having to forgo dentistry and optional medical care and going to work in a factory or some other job where there was a decent amount of risk involved. Today middle class is a 50″ television in the main room and steak whenever you want it.
Now we have hair stylists that can drive a used bmw, get breast implants and take vacations involving flying to other countries. My grandfather was quite successful, owned a business with about a hundred employees and was considered the richest guy in his town of about 30k people. He owned the first swimming pool in his town when he was only 45. He never took a vacation outside the u.s., never owned a remote control, never had about a hundred things that i have now, my house is bigger, my stuff is cooler and my stomach is bigger (unfortunately). But I’m not the richest guy in my town, not even close, yet I had earned more than he ever had by the time I was 27. So if the middle class suffers some setbacks compared to a chart that represents buying power, what is it that people are afraid of? It’s not even been a hundred years since the struggle for survival and food was a real issue and had been since the beginning of man. If I’m lucky I’ve got 40 years left on the planet, my kids might have 70, my grandkids will be gone in a hundred since they haven’t shown up yet. None of us will starve, we will all have more leisure time and more food than we should be allowed, we will always have to join gyms and go on diets because our easy lives aren’t actually good for us. So if in a thousand years, we live like peasants again, I don’t really care, after the next hundred years, it’s none of my business, I wont know any of those people or care about them, that’s their problem. But I’ll bet they are fine.
July 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585284temeculaguy
ParticipantYet despite all of the various hand wringing I’ve read throughout my life, the middle class in the U.S. today is as well off as it has ever been in history. With the exception of the lack of concubines and servants, most of us live as well as royalty did a few hundred years ago. Most of us live better than a Doctor or a lawyer did in the 1940’s or 1950’s, at least those of us who aren’t doctors and lawyers.
Be realistic, what was the middle class 30, 40 or 50 years ago? There’s a lot of complaining nowadays that a college degree doesn’t allow you to live worry free about money, but today, a college degree is not that exceptional, it’s kinda middle class. Today, a minimum wage worker can eat all they want, work at a job that isn’t too dangerous and enjoy recreation, media, a car, their own room in perhaps a shared apartment. That is the lower class today, the middle class in the 1950’s meant 6 kids in an 1100 sq ft house, two kids to a bed, not always having enough to eat, having to forgo dentistry and optional medical care and going to work in a factory or some other job where there was a decent amount of risk involved. Today middle class is a 50″ television in the main room and steak whenever you want it.
Now we have hair stylists that can drive a used bmw, get breast implants and take vacations involving flying to other countries. My grandfather was quite successful, owned a business with about a hundred employees and was considered the richest guy in his town of about 30k people. He owned the first swimming pool in his town when he was only 45. He never took a vacation outside the u.s., never owned a remote control, never had about a hundred things that i have now, my house is bigger, my stuff is cooler and my stomach is bigger (unfortunately). But I’m not the richest guy in my town, not even close, yet I had earned more than he ever had by the time I was 27. So if the middle class suffers some setbacks compared to a chart that represents buying power, what is it that people are afraid of? It’s not even been a hundred years since the struggle for survival and food was a real issue and had been since the beginning of man. If I’m lucky I’ve got 40 years left on the planet, my kids might have 70, my grandkids will be gone in a hundred since they haven’t shown up yet. None of us will starve, we will all have more leisure time and more food than we should be allowed, we will always have to join gyms and go on diets because our easy lives aren’t actually good for us. So if in a thousand years, we live like peasants again, I don’t really care, after the next hundred years, it’s none of my business, I wont know any of those people or care about them, that’s their problem. But I’ll bet they are fine.
July 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585391temeculaguy
ParticipantYet despite all of the various hand wringing I’ve read throughout my life, the middle class in the U.S. today is as well off as it has ever been in history. With the exception of the lack of concubines and servants, most of us live as well as royalty did a few hundred years ago. Most of us live better than a Doctor or a lawyer did in the 1940’s or 1950’s, at least those of us who aren’t doctors and lawyers.
Be realistic, what was the middle class 30, 40 or 50 years ago? There’s a lot of complaining nowadays that a college degree doesn’t allow you to live worry free about money, but today, a college degree is not that exceptional, it’s kinda middle class. Today, a minimum wage worker can eat all they want, work at a job that isn’t too dangerous and enjoy recreation, media, a car, their own room in perhaps a shared apartment. That is the lower class today, the middle class in the 1950’s meant 6 kids in an 1100 sq ft house, two kids to a bed, not always having enough to eat, having to forgo dentistry and optional medical care and going to work in a factory or some other job where there was a decent amount of risk involved. Today middle class is a 50″ television in the main room and steak whenever you want it.
Now we have hair stylists that can drive a used bmw, get breast implants and take vacations involving flying to other countries. My grandfather was quite successful, owned a business with about a hundred employees and was considered the richest guy in his town of about 30k people. He owned the first swimming pool in his town when he was only 45. He never took a vacation outside the u.s., never owned a remote control, never had about a hundred things that i have now, my house is bigger, my stuff is cooler and my stomach is bigger (unfortunately). But I’m not the richest guy in my town, not even close, yet I had earned more than he ever had by the time I was 27. So if the middle class suffers some setbacks compared to a chart that represents buying power, what is it that people are afraid of? It’s not even been a hundred years since the struggle for survival and food was a real issue and had been since the beginning of man. If I’m lucky I’ve got 40 years left on the planet, my kids might have 70, my grandkids will be gone in a hundred since they haven’t shown up yet. None of us will starve, we will all have more leisure time and more food than we should be allowed, we will always have to join gyms and go on diets because our easy lives aren’t actually good for us. So if in a thousand years, we live like peasants again, I don’t really care, after the next hundred years, it’s none of my business, I wont know any of those people or care about them, that’s their problem. But I’ll bet they are fine.
July 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585693temeculaguy
ParticipantYet despite all of the various hand wringing I’ve read throughout my life, the middle class in the U.S. today is as well off as it has ever been in history. With the exception of the lack of concubines and servants, most of us live as well as royalty did a few hundred years ago. Most of us live better than a Doctor or a lawyer did in the 1940’s or 1950’s, at least those of us who aren’t doctors and lawyers.
Be realistic, what was the middle class 30, 40 or 50 years ago? There’s a lot of complaining nowadays that a college degree doesn’t allow you to live worry free about money, but today, a college degree is not that exceptional, it’s kinda middle class. Today, a minimum wage worker can eat all they want, work at a job that isn’t too dangerous and enjoy recreation, media, a car, their own room in perhaps a shared apartment. That is the lower class today, the middle class in the 1950’s meant 6 kids in an 1100 sq ft house, two kids to a bed, not always having enough to eat, having to forgo dentistry and optional medical care and going to work in a factory or some other job where there was a decent amount of risk involved. Today middle class is a 50″ television in the main room and steak whenever you want it.
Now we have hair stylists that can drive a used bmw, get breast implants and take vacations involving flying to other countries. My grandfather was quite successful, owned a business with about a hundred employees and was considered the richest guy in his town of about 30k people. He owned the first swimming pool in his town when he was only 45. He never took a vacation outside the u.s., never owned a remote control, never had about a hundred things that i have now, my house is bigger, my stuff is cooler and my stomach is bigger (unfortunately). But I’m not the richest guy in my town, not even close, yet I had earned more than he ever had by the time I was 27. So if the middle class suffers some setbacks compared to a chart that represents buying power, what is it that people are afraid of? It’s not even been a hundred years since the struggle for survival and food was a real issue and had been since the beginning of man. If I’m lucky I’ve got 40 years left on the planet, my kids might have 70, my grandkids will be gone in a hundred since they haven’t shown up yet. None of us will starve, we will all have more leisure time and more food than we should be allowed, we will always have to join gyms and go on diets because our easy lives aren’t actually good for us. So if in a thousand years, we live like peasants again, I don’t really care, after the next hundred years, it’s none of my business, I wont know any of those people or care about them, that’s their problem. But I’ll bet they are fine.
temeculaguy
ParticipantI was recently in Southpark (which appears to be the southern part of north park but actually on the east side of the park, not sure why they call it southpark), I liked the vibe of the area, I started thinking that after the kids head to college I could totally live in a place like this, checked out some listings and sales on redfin and holy schnikes, some people are crazy. Most of these homes are three wall knockdowns at best, to include north park. Paint and grass isn’t going to fix 60 year old houses that were low end when built, yet the prices were as if there was never a blip in the real estate world, let alone a meltdown. It was then that i fully realized the frustration of san diegans, it is as if everyone in the world got a christmas present and you got coal in your stocking. Something is wrong, the rest of the country just went through an epic half off houses cleansing, with the exception of san diego. Things rarely stay out of whack, eventually they normalize, I’d wait this one out if i were looking down there.
temeculaguy
ParticipantI was recently in Southpark (which appears to be the southern part of north park but actually on the east side of the park, not sure why they call it southpark), I liked the vibe of the area, I started thinking that after the kids head to college I could totally live in a place like this, checked out some listings and sales on redfin and holy schnikes, some people are crazy. Most of these homes are three wall knockdowns at best, to include north park. Paint and grass isn’t going to fix 60 year old houses that were low end when built, yet the prices were as if there was never a blip in the real estate world, let alone a meltdown. It was then that i fully realized the frustration of san diegans, it is as if everyone in the world got a christmas present and you got coal in your stocking. Something is wrong, the rest of the country just went through an epic half off houses cleansing, with the exception of san diego. Things rarely stay out of whack, eventually they normalize, I’d wait this one out if i were looking down there.
temeculaguy
ParticipantI was recently in Southpark (which appears to be the southern part of north park but actually on the east side of the park, not sure why they call it southpark), I liked the vibe of the area, I started thinking that after the kids head to college I could totally live in a place like this, checked out some listings and sales on redfin and holy schnikes, some people are crazy. Most of these homes are three wall knockdowns at best, to include north park. Paint and grass isn’t going to fix 60 year old houses that were low end when built, yet the prices were as if there was never a blip in the real estate world, let alone a meltdown. It was then that i fully realized the frustration of san diegans, it is as if everyone in the world got a christmas present and you got coal in your stocking. Something is wrong, the rest of the country just went through an epic half off houses cleansing, with the exception of san diego. Things rarely stay out of whack, eventually they normalize, I’d wait this one out if i were looking down there.
temeculaguy
ParticipantI was recently in Southpark (which appears to be the southern part of north park but actually on the east side of the park, not sure why they call it southpark), I liked the vibe of the area, I started thinking that after the kids head to college I could totally live in a place like this, checked out some listings and sales on redfin and holy schnikes, some people are crazy. Most of these homes are three wall knockdowns at best, to include north park. Paint and grass isn’t going to fix 60 year old houses that were low end when built, yet the prices were as if there was never a blip in the real estate world, let alone a meltdown. It was then that i fully realized the frustration of san diegans, it is as if everyone in the world got a christmas present and you got coal in your stocking. Something is wrong, the rest of the country just went through an epic half off houses cleansing, with the exception of san diego. Things rarely stay out of whack, eventually they normalize, I’d wait this one out if i were looking down there.
temeculaguy
ParticipantI was recently in Southpark (which appears to be the southern part of north park but actually on the east side of the park, not sure why they call it southpark), I liked the vibe of the area, I started thinking that after the kids head to college I could totally live in a place like this, checked out some listings and sales on redfin and holy schnikes, some people are crazy. Most of these homes are three wall knockdowns at best, to include north park. Paint and grass isn’t going to fix 60 year old houses that were low end when built, yet the prices were as if there was never a blip in the real estate world, let alone a meltdown. It was then that i fully realized the frustration of san diegans, it is as if everyone in the world got a christmas present and you got coal in your stocking. Something is wrong, the rest of the country just went through an epic half off houses cleansing, with the exception of san diego. Things rarely stay out of whack, eventually they normalize, I’d wait this one out if i were looking down there.
temeculaguy
ParticipantI took the link and the exact hoa fee is $666, combine that with the fact that the first description from sdrealtor is that it felt like the morgue. That is just super creepy!!! If I lived there I’d break a few things in the common areas just so they would raise the hoa fees a dollar.
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