I do live in the boonies.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
I can't even get high speed internet. My next door neighbor is half a mile away.
I do live in the boonies.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
I can't even get high speed internet. My next door neighbor is half a mile away.
No, I don't. Maybe it's more you live in the most expensive state/city in the US in terms of rent.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
Rent shouldn't be that high anywhere.
EXACTLY. These overpriced areas were barely propped up by people paying up to 50% of their income on rent. It's fine when you can get zillions of jobs as a server or bartender in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and make $30 bucks an hour (or even more) on tips. It's a recipe for disaster when those same governors pull the plug on that income.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I didn't know we were talking about you. If we are--$1500/mo for a one-bedroom and bad internet--then it seems like you got a bad deal. I know people in Manhattan with better deals than that.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
I'm not talking about me specifically, but I really don't understand why you're arguing that rent and mortgages are reasonable at this point in time.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
The entire real estate market is objectively broken.
I think Mr. Idiot is a property owner and trying to save face. There's lots of people on facebook right now that are doing the same "won't somebody think about the landlords waaaaahhhhhhh" when we are dealing with the biggest economic catastrophe since the great depression and (rightly or wrongly) it is through ZERO fault of their own that these people lost their jobs. They shouldn't be homeless PERIOD. I do think property owners should get some leeway through mortgages (if they don't own outright) by bringing their principle down if they have a 30/year fixed for example. But mortgages are more bendable. People refinance for cash money on the backs of their property all the time. Leases aren't (at least in California). Missing a rent payment, even if they don't get evicted, still means paying that rent sometime down the line. Worst case scenario, these people are facing a massive rent due in like June or July and as soon as the eviction moratorium is gone (which is up right now through State gov executive decree by Newsom) these people are going to get a notice that says "$6,0000 RENT DUE BY JULY 1st" and if it's not paid by July 15th they will get evicted. Thrown out on the street. Kaput. Through NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN if they lost their job from COVID-19 shut downs. I don't feel sorry for property owners w/o a mortgage. My old boss in SF owned primo downtown real estate outright right across from the Linked In global headquarters. He bought a small three story building for nothing back in the '70s. He had it appraised around 2015. Worth about $20 million dollars right now.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I'm not arguing rent is reasonable. I'm arguing rent doesn't have to be as unreasonable as you say, so long as one is willing to downgrade.
Also, any smart landlord would much rather keep a great tenant and lose a month or two rent completely than have to deal with vacancy and risk signing a lease with someone who'll be a problem.
Why would Mr. Idiot be trying to save face--I don't even know you lol.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
You've clearly never rented an apartment in places like CA or NY. A small few landlords are "nice" and might wave rent for a month. The vast majority are either evil bastards who will take you to court to get blood from a stone. Or they are corporate conglomerates and you don't even know who runs them or who to talk to AND they will take you to court to get blood from a stone.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I rented an apt in Manhattan’s Upper East Side for years. Once I sensed it was no longer financially feasible I moved somewhere cheaper.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
Today I read someone saying (in earnest) that they think COVID-19 was created by Harvey Weinstein in cahoots with the Chinese film industry, in order to get revenge for not having his back and make room for Chinese cinema to take over the world film stage.
I felt like RDJ in Tropic Thunder, saying that you should never go full retard.
So rent should be a static thing now? Always under $2k? Doesn't matter if you live in the most desirable city in the country or the woods? Love the concept.
Just move to Albuquerque:
Got a call from a buddy on his way to the gun store yesterday to pick up a special order gun part. He asked if I needed anything. I laughed and said I haven’t needed anything for years.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Wish I was surprised / shocked.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
*sigh*
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Japan's numbers are probably unreliable: Until a few days ago, the country was still planning to go forward with the Olympics and likely hasn't yet reported the full numbers, just as they tried to hide the full extent of the Fukushima catastrophe.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
No, everywhere is overpriced. Everywhere.
In a self-correcting market that is literally impossible.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Yeah, Japan and China's numbers are absolutely not reliable. I can vouch for Korea's though. No-one my wife and I know personally have been infected, and life has gone on relatively normally. It has helped that school has yet to start up for the year (well, public schools - I'm currently teaching online)Quoting baby doll (view post)
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Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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Yeah, it's kind of pointless to even consider China's numbers in anything on this.
I wasnt trying to be a dick. I was bragging that I have a great boss. I think all rent and mortgages should be suspended until this is over. What, is a bank gonna fail? No, they'll get bailed out by federal government.
I apologize for being testy and sweary, but I have lots of friends in the Bay Area & Los Angeles and I'm hearing some nightmare horror stories that are being overshadowed by the covid-19 disaster (which isn't nothing). Knowing the news cycles, when this blows over with the covid, I have a feeling that people that have cushy jobs to return to are going to assume everything is fine. It's not. I was watching someone from the national restaurant organization on CSPAN do an interview yesterday and he said 300,000 restaurants in the USA have already closed. Not "hey, let's wait this out and see what happens, then maybe we'll reopen" like they are 100% permanently closed, keys given back to the bank. Never reopening. And that's just in two weeks. That's a lot of fuckin' restaurants and a lot of jobs lost.
1 million unemployed in California so far. I'm guessing the number of working age people (18-65) in CA is around 20 million? If this hits five million unemployed in California that means 25% unemployment. That's insane, catastrophic, beyond Great Depression levels. I don't know if it will reach that level, but brace yourselves.
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Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Apparently not, since that's literally reality.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
The majority of people live paycheck to paycheck and spend between 50 and 70% of their income on rent.
That's not how things are supposed to be.