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  1. #13101
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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Shit happens. Keep the debts low.
    We've lived *far* below our means pretty much forever... mortgage is just about gone, last car payment was on a used minivan back in '08, never had any CC debt.

    My only major expense at this point is 2 fuckin' crotch-fruits in college with another headed there in another 2-ish years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liv2ski View Post
    White privilege? More like my girl sayin that is it. That is where we will live if you make enough $$$. Who is going to argue with a smokin hawt redhead?
    Will need naked pictures of smokin hawt redhead to evaluate your life choices.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Holy crap.. This is when I realize I have had a very different life than many of you. Just, yeah, this place looks good, I'm staying here, no matter what. How luxurious. How fucking white privelege.

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    Firmly in the Benny camp on this one. It's not absolute but the having the option of where to live is a type of luxury. Coal miners would love to keep digging coal where their father's father's father did the same and it just isn't realistic. This coming from a much younger (like, really, much younger) perspective.

  5. #13105
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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Holy crap.. This is when I realize I have had a very different life than many of you. Just, yeah, this place looks good, I'm staying here, no matter what. How luxurious. How fucking white privelege.
    Some of us have jobs that are very much tied to a specific place. I could lose my job tomorrow and get essentially the same one the next week down the street, but I can't feasibly leave the state and continue my career.

  6. #13106
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    Well, yeah, sort of my point. I was stuck in NYC, mostly. But, economies flow and change. Today's boomtown can be tomorrow's Detroit. Nothing is guaranteed. And confronting bad times at 55 with a mortgage can be tough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Well, yeah, sort of my point. I was stuck in NYC, mostly. But, economies flow and change. Today's boomtown can be tomorrow's Detroit. Nothing is guaranteed. And confronting bad times at 55 with a mortgage can be tough.
    Yeah. My mortgage *should* be gone this year... but I suspect the landscaping we need to get done is going to likely push the payoff into next year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Well, yeah, sort of my point. I was stuck in NYC, mostly. But, economies flow and change. Today's boomtown can be tomorrow's Detroit. Nothing is guaranteed. And confronting bad times at 55 with a mortgage can be tough.

    My business was in S Bronx. Life was hard.

  9. #13109
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    You played for the Yankees?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woolly the Mammoth View Post
    Will need naked pictures of smokin hawt redhead to evaluate your life choices.
    WTM, those pics were back in the Polaroid days. None ever made it to digital media. Sorry, as she was magnificent.
    Quote Originally Posted by leroy jenkins View Post
    I think you'd have an easier time understanding people if you remembered that 80% of them are fucking morons.
    That is why I like dogs, more than most people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    You played for the Yankees?
    Just a little further south.

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    That Staten Island AAA Yankee team?

  13. #13113
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    It's not absolute but the having the option of where to live is a type of luxury.
    Truth, I've been thinking recently how lucky I am that my career/finding employment hasn't driven where I live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    That Staten Island AAA Yankee team?

    Thats not in S Bronx. Hunts Point Market.

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    Yeah, sorry, I figured that. Aren't they closing that or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Yeah, sorry, I figured that. Aren't they closing that or something?
    No it's central to produce distribution for the entire eastern seaboard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Holy crap.. This is when I realize I have had a very different life than many of you. Just, yeah, this place looks good, I'm staying here, no matter what. How luxurious. How fucking white privelege.
    Lol

    Yeah, cause so many poor minorities are forced to relo for the next job.

    No. You are the white privilege. Moving for a J.O.B,
    Lol
    . . .

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    Are you drinking heavily tonight?

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    No. Just enjoying my white privilege.

    Moving from town to town becrying my lost youth and loves.

    If only I had settled down and married a decent woman and raised a family.

    #sarc

    Why you so bitter? Get a Robert Kraft Handy and call it a night.
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by BCMtnHound View Post
    I don't think you are reprehensible, but perhaps a but selfish

    As our population increases, so does the cost to flush the toilet, turn on the tap, provide hospitals, schools, policing, pavement, etc. And I may be misinformed, but economics of scale are not simple between those increasing costs and population increases - it becomes increasingly expensive per person for those services as the pop increases. You are still using those services, no?

    The wage you received when you were 20 something bought you a lot more than the average wage that those 20 somethings get now, so trying to incease the tax burden on the younger population is a self defeating proposition unless wage power returns to the middle and lower classes.

    Finally, I still find this notion of retirement from the last 100yrs or so to be silly. It has never existed in the past, and is unsustainable going into the future. Don't agree? Then your argument that SS will not be there for you is moot IMO, can't have it both ways.

    Sorry, but everyone needs to contribute. Age, and withdrawal from the regular workforce of the middle classes has nothing to do with it. Not saying your property tax is too high - no idea the costs your community faces, but everyone who has a connection to the system, and can reasonably contribute to the cost, should pay up.
    Damn socialists. Fwiw I agree. And I've got no kids and contribute via 3 properties

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    Perfect option for someone looking to down size.

    https://www.redfin.com/OR/Bend/63270...9uX251bWJlcj0w
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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    Quote Originally Posted by liv2ski View Post
    WTM, those pics were back in the Polaroid days. None ever made it to digital media. Sorry, as she was magnificent.
    Lick a stripper thread?
    Live Free or Die

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    does it still count as waterfront if there's a hundred foot cliff down to the river?

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    Quote Originally Posted by m2711c View Post
    does it still count as waterfront if there's a hundred foot cliff down to the river?

    The technical term is "high bank riverfront."

    No flooding concerns, and the rope swing potential is off the charts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by glademaster View Post
    The technical term is "high bank riverfront."

    No flooding concerns, and the rope swing potential is off the charts.
    Not to mention the bungy cord action. Of course hitting the side of the cliff would be an issue.
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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