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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    Yes, when I get my large checks, I am indeed dreaming about a retirement spent in luxury. Maybe some day your grandkids can clean my toilets when I'm slumming in your neighborhood in my golden years.
    LOL! I doubt it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    It sure sounds like your type. We conservatives value freedom, you won't find many there. And we, out here in rural America, don't create the problems that need fixing like the cities do.
    There is absolutely no reason to believe any of "her" claims about "herself."

    I suspect "she" is a fat old white man with a K-pop fetish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    Yes, when I get my large checks, I am indeed dreaming about a retirement spent in luxury. Maybe some day your grandkids can cleanIng my toilets when I'm slumming in your neighborhood in my golden years.
    Horse mierda, pende*a.

    Large welfare checks?

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    I don't think living in a van would be so bad. Technology has made bigger homes unnecessary. You don't need a house for the newspaper or phone. You don't need a house for your music or book collections.

    What really sucks about living in low-cost conditions is that most people in such a state are trash. I don't need to live in a nice neighborhood, except to get away from trash and crime. A better solution would be just to hang the trash and save everyone a ton of money and misery.
    Ape lives matter. Stop putting them in zoos. Boycott businesses that don't hire apes.

    Then answered all the Jews, and said, Jesus' blood be on us, and on our children. So be it.
    Jews want to turn America into an atheistic, amoral, socialist farmyard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    There is absolutely no reason to believe any of "her" claims about "herself."

    I suspect "she" is a fat old white man with a K-pop fetish.
    I know she's full of shit. My cousins lived in Phila. for 21 years. He was a cop, she was a concert pianist instructor/consultant. They bought the other half of my uncle's home when he passed and didn't have much left over.
    Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    I know she's full of shit. My cousins lived in Phila. for 21 years. He was a cop, she was a concert pianist instructor/consultant. They bought the other half of my uncle's home when he passed and didn't have much left over.
    Anecdotal claims are worthless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Horse mierda, pende*a.

    Large welfare checks?
    Obviously trolling with boast posts, Earl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    I know she's full of shit. My cousins lived in Phila. for 21 years. He was a cop, she was a concert pianist instructor/consultant. They bought the other half of my uncle's home when he passed and didn't have much left over.
    I've only been to Phily once but that City is a different animal isn't it? I feel like they have a lot more affordable housing that other big cities. A huge issue in SF for instance is that not only can cops and teachers not afford to live here but first responders can't either. If another big one hits many of the first responders will live too far away and might not be able to access the City.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    Not at all. Let's say you work in NYC and own a median home in Brooklyn. As of 2018, at least, that was worth about $808,000:

    https://www.6sqft.com/for-the-first-...-1m-threshold/

    And let's say you were willing to step back, in retirement, to a much less desirable location. For example, let's say you are willing to live somewhere like Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Here's a McMansion there for $73,324 (5 bed, 2.5 bath, 4,398 sq ft):

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...76210386_zpid/

    You could buy yourself that place for the money you made selling in Brooklyn, and have $734,676 left over. If you stuck that into an index fund making 10% per year, you could produce $73,468 per year for life. And with the crappy local pay scales in Pine Bluff, you could hire yourself a couple full-time domestic servants with that money, with plenty left over (even if you paid them each enough to fund a median household in the area, it would cost $64,996, leaving you enough left over for a couple nice vacations per year.)

    It's a smart move, if you can stomach living in such a place. With the wealth you accumulated in a productive part of the country, you can go and live like a queen in a less productive part.
    in a productive part of the country,


    Yea great city you live in. Funny we don't have those numbers percentage wise in our nonproductive cities like Atlanta. 3,000= .06% versus 78,000= 1.02% so much for your great emerald city from the land of OZ.

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    put Democrats in power the entire country will be the craphole that is California right now

    America is smarter than that
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    every one of those cities is run by Democrats, coincidence?
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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    To each their own. I grew up in New Orleans and the mindset of many native New Orleanians is extremely provincial as I'm sure it is with other places.
    They'd rather earn half of what they could make in Houston to live in N.O. where they grew up. Personally I'd rather have my eyes gouged out than live in that shithole for any amt. of money.
    "Collective wisdom", lol. I can easily turn that around and call it collective stupidity. Let's take your analogy of the BMW and Ford Fiesta. I'm not a car person, therefore tend to buy used cars and drive them until they're irreparable. Paying for a BMW or any premium car would actually make me unhappy because I'd be reminded of money I didn't have for traveling or golf, e.g.
    So in the end, it's what makes one happy. Has nothing to do with wisdom. If living in a shithole , literally, around homeless vagrants makes you happy, fine. I'm not going to judge you. I just don't want to be around you.
    Certainly each person has her own tastes and they may not reflect those of the market overall. For example, if a vacation at the local Ramada Inn makes you happier than a luxury suite in Fiji, that's cool. I'm just saying that when you look at people as a whole, they're judging living in liberal cities to be more desirable than living in cheaper areas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post


    every one of those cities is run by Democrats, coincidence?
    No, but the Southern Democrats seem to know how to run a city much to my chagrin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    We conservatives value freedom....
    Conservatives value some freedoms for some people.... but it's always interesting how few conservative speak out against mass incarceration, or infringements on reproductive rights, or against privatization of public lands (which, of course, deprives the vast majority of people the freedom to access those lands), etc.

    And we, out here in rural America, don't create the problems that need fixing like the cities do.
    That strikes me as an inviting a True Scotsman fallacy -- as in, I could point out all sorts of problems that are worse in rural America, like much worse every health, life expectancy, and education levels, but that would just cause you to conclude those are not problems "that need fixing" -- consistent with your initial statement. Meanwhile, problems from the cities, even if most people never encounter them (I've lived in a city uninterrupted for three years and have never seen human excrement on the streets) would be defined as a problem that needs fixing.

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