I appreciate the confidence! I definitely have my own issues to work out. I never chose a direction because I never felt capable of anything more than menial labor. All of my interests are in either sectors with severely limited employment opportunities, or just simply way above my capabilities. As you say though, I’ll be 45 regardless. I just have to figure myself out. Thanks again!
I can’t claim to have looked at every town in every state, but the vast majority of places I go to look don’t have work even remotely close to where a house at that price would be located. To make matters worse for my specific situation, I’m “uneducated” and rapidly approaching 40 so my employment prospects are severely limited.
I had also wanted to stay within 5ish hours of family but beggars can’t be choosers and all that… I’ll have to give Iowa a better look. Thanks for the info!
Yeah literally nowhere is affordable for a single guy… I gave up on any hope of owning a home. Guess it’s illegal basement apartment after illegal basement apartment for the rest of my life…
But hey, at least I get to pay off someone else’s mortgage with the insane rent prices people are asking for while never owning anything of my own!
Yeah that one’s on me, it’s really hard to satirize someone that’s already a joke. :P
That’s the seriously fucked part of all of this… Trump will run his 4 years because the worst of us never die, then the DNC runs the resurrected corpse of Regan to court the moderate vote again, loses in another landslide to Vance, Vance gets 2 terms… By then Musk runs some fiefdom, Bezos runs his own, Zuckerberg run his Hawaiian fiefdom… After that if I’m not dead I’ll make sure I am.
Sure! I mainly accept laughs though, thoughts and prayers are worthless where I’m from. :P
“International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.”
“Bibi laughed and said: get fucked loser. The strong do what they will and the meek suffer what they must. Who’s going to stop me? Biden? Trump? The rest of the world that isn’t doing shit but finger wagging? HA! We won, cry more snowflakes. He then punched a child in the face and continued laughing.”
“Biden has remarked on the subject saying: Hurnmenlem… whaaa? We beat medicare.”
I’ve been considering the opposite. Life has only been getting worse and with this there future is guaranteed to be much worse.
I have my cat to worry about though, so I’m stuck here until she goes.
Last Week Forever: “Surprise twist this week: Trump good? Here’s why Trump is God and we should always worship him!”
who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.
Well I now worry for them since the DOJ will now be the arm of Trump to go after “political opponents” who “unfairly persecuted” him. :(
Republicans donors: “…and Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm.”
Not that there was any hope before, but now it’s solidified that we will not be getting any help with the housing market moving to a fully landlord controlled renters market… Goodbye homeownership hello neofeudalism!
I’ve been saying this all day now, when the Nazi eventually cries about the higher food prices because they deported all the immigrants our duty is to tell them: shut the fuck up, you voted for this.
Unfortunately I strongly believe that capital will always win. It’s literal power. The only positive we could hope for in all of this is the democratic party dies, but I doubt that. :/
I’m just hoping that there’s no one with his “charisma.” Thankfully everyone else scummy enough to be in the GOP is a wet rag in comparison to him so far. He may be a piece of shit, but a con man “confidence man” he most definitely is.
When I read gorging on
“Soldiers on the battlefield have reported seeing the robotic AI driven dogs charging enemy positions shouting “STOLEN ELECTION! VACCINES CAUSE RABIES! JEWISH SPACE LASERS!!” it has been considered a resounding success.”
I’m on the wrong side of 35, and owning ANYTHING
reasonably sizedfor a reasonable price has just seemed deeply laughable for the entirety of my career.
I’m right there with you friend. Almost done with my 30s and they have not been fun as far as economic/housing stability goes… I moved from “illegal” apartment to “illegal” apartment 5 times in the last 10 years with no end in sight.
printing press fired up in 2020 and real estate investors seemed to get plenty of that cash.
Maybe I’m just ignorant, but in a just world that should have never been allowed to happen… I’m sure our politicians had nothingggg to do with that “oversight.” :/
Thanks for the links!
Yeah that was me too… I FINALLY got to the point where I could realistically start looking, got the pre-approval and everything just after COVID started… People had already starting WFH and moving away from where they worked and investment companies kept buying and now I’m still living in someone else’s garage because prices went through the roof pretty much as I was looking…
Of course once you mention WFH everyone gets defensive and claims this was a trend, but those charts are the same everywhere. Houses in 2018-19 were often less than half of what they cost now…
Lol lunch breaks. I wonder how soon it takes for that to be on the chopping block too. :(