General Politics Discussion (IX) [ARCHIVED] • Page 420

I close on a house a week from today, and I’m having these thoughts now. With how the housing market is now, I was only able to see the house once.

Recently got a promotion at work that’s six grand increase. It’s part of the reason I was able to change my debt to income ratio. Luckily living in Ohio makes it’s a bit easier to survive. I don’t think I could anywhere else.

 

It was amazing how quickly my savings disappeared when I moved out of my parents

 

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/08/13/these-are-the-world-s-best-healthcare-systems-and-also-the-united-states

 

We’ve been looking at homes for a long ass time now and the market fucking blows. We go to view homes and after 10 minutes the realtor looks at us and basically asks if we want to make an offer and I am NOT the kind of guy who can just make a life changing decision in the matter of minutes, especially when we’re talking about 300-350K+ homes. Like who can make that commitment that quickly? Our current house (which on the flip side would sell in a day or two for way, way more than what we paid for it back in 2014) we looked at like, six times in a two-month span before making the commitment. I can’t imagine being rushed into this decision because I feel like I’d eventually regret it.

also in Ohio, by the way.

 

Which European country has the world's best healthcare system?

"American exceptionalism
The American, British, and Swedish healthcare systems ranked highly for their care process, scoring well for preventive care measures like mammograms and seasonal flu vaccines.

However, the report put the US in last place for every other category. The American healthcare system's overall results were so far behind the other ten countries that the report's authors were forced to change the way they calculated the average country's performance.

According to the report's methodology, the US was "such a substantial outlier that it was negatively skewing the mean performance".


In other words, the American healthcare system performed so uniquely poorly in the report's analysis that it was unfairly making the others look bad.

Of particular concern to the report's authors were the poor health outcomes in America's insurance-based system.

While the US spends the most on healthcare relative to its GDP, it has the highest levels of maternal mortality and avoidable deaths among the 11 countries surveyed.

According to the report, Americans were also sicker and their life expectancy was getting shorter."

 

Yeah I’m also in Ohio! The housing market is still pretty crazy here (Akron area). I hope it works out for you but couldn’t hurt to check out the place and the neighborhood again. It’s not too late to back out until you sign on the line at closing. but I’m sure it’ll be fine, I just have a combination of being neurotic and having just terrible luck.

 

Akron, Columbus, and Cincy are all dope. Would consider it in the future

 

Man. In 2014 my starting salary was $28,000, and when I left public ed I was at $34,000. I had to go to private school 100% virtual to get over $50K...

Aaaand that's why the wife and I agreed to multigenerational living with her parents.

 

Only trial court level but still good news

Though they probably just did this to try to distract us from the real problem: leftist twitch streamers who spend too much on their home

 

My new fiscal plan for the future is to break into an old, dilapidated seaside restaurant, go down in the basement, open up a creepy storm drain and climb down inside of it, then walk through a bunch of tunnels until, after a few lighthearted yet dangerous misadventures, I stumble upon something like this →



Problems = solved.

 

Pretty resigned to renting forever or until the housing market crashes again.

 

Youngstown here. The same issues for me! I'm neurotic and overthink every decision and possibility until it mentally and physically hurts.

 

The thing about the market flipping, it will probably involve interest rates rising again. So you’ll still be paying, you’ll just be paying more to the bank. There is no winning, that’s why we should go to the twitch guy’s house and to other socialists who bought big houses and live there

 

My coworker and friend is moving out of Massachusetts because they are in a situation where they need more bedrooms, and even though they can and probably will get a good price for their condo when they sell it, it's not enough money to be able to afford the insanely high house prices where they live now, north of Boston.

 

You know you're fucked when this is your argument

Josh Duggar Tries to Dismiss Child Porn Charges on Grounds That Trump's Homeland Security Leaders Were Unlawfully Appointed

 

Around here the only options are to pay high rent in the city or buy a crappy old house in red country.

 

Yikes, yeah I’ve heard some places are just extra insane, Boston area being one of them.

 

Pure evil

Was listening to a podcast that brought up this story, and how evangelical ideas about being subservient to men always lead to the cover up of their abuse. When you are taught to treat men like gods it can only lead to horrible things. These people are so fucked for enabling this and its all based on this flawed ideology.

 

Just caught up on this thread. I make about 45-50k a year working 2 jobs. I have a decent savings and plan on buying a house in the next 2-3 years. If I made 100k a year my life would be drastically different.

 

I make remarkably little. Though my soon-to-be wife just got a raise worth more than what I make.

 

My 65 year old Mom, who’s been a nurse for 40-something years, yesterday told me she decided to put in her “two week notice” at work, officially retiring at the beginning of September. Mainly, she can’t take it anymore. She spends so much more time having to do shit on the computer, than actually taking care of patients themselves. There’s so much bureaucracy and inefficiency in everything they do, a lot of it down to legal reasons (from the threat of being sued and so forth), that she just doesn’t want to have to deal with it anymore, even at roughly $70 an hour. She was very emotional about it, as it’s really the only thing she’s even done/known in her life. She wants to keep working in some capacity, but has no clue how people apply to jobs in this day and age. Will probably try working in a local garden center (she loves gardening), but still, a big life adjustment she didn’t want to have to do. The act of taking care of patients she very much enjoyed, but everything else about it has driven her out

 

Yup, that's what she does as well. It's real bad.

 

That seems to be a very common theme around the country. Here around philly rent isn't even that much cheaper in the burbs for the most part. Affordable places are sparse and They are only building those stupid luxury complexes everywhere that will always be half empty since most people that can afford 1600 a month arent gonna opt to rent way out in the suburbs