Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Well, it will be towards the end of Winter (March) so hopefully I'll catch some in-between seasons luck, but we'll see. I mostly want to see the waterfalls, so they don't have to be green technically.

March may be fine.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

It's not even that. They are just letting people loan so much they are putting themselves at a crazy high debt to income ratio. Two of my friends, against recommendation, put them selves in this position.

First is a married couple, one kid. He is sole bread winner but makes 6 figure strait commision. They got a $300K+ loan no money down. They just got this place in december. He killed it last year, this year he is making a couple grand a month less than normal. They just accepted an offer to sell their place recently because they are just bleeding out. At what they are getting it is enough to put them back at zero.

Another couple, unmarried, no kids. She makes good money, he is a goof and makes just enough to afford is stupid truck payment. She bought the place in her name only, it was just under $300. They are a $400 disaster away from being broke.

It's cool to have a nice place, but if you are so over extended you are house poor, what is the point and why are banks allowing this

The lending is downright predatory. We just rented out our first house. We didn't price at he top of the market, but we attracted what should be a really great tenant. There was another tenant to choose form, but they had an amazing amount of car debt for a couple who didn't even own a home. After turning them down for the house, I ended up paying them back for the credit reports. I figured they needed the 80 bucks a hell of a lot more than I do.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I am a city boy. The huts on a green mountain top may look idyllic but unless you grew up under those conditions you would get very bored very quickly. If you brought in enough modern comforts (such as electricity) that scene would very quickly change and it would no longer be the serene picture it is now but still not have everything a true city would. Just look at what happened to the Inuit people when tech and power was made available. The simple and peaceful life gave way to one of waste and conflict in just a couple of generations. I guess the moral of the story is that you can have one lifestyle or the other but when you try to combine both everything falls apart.

I'd take a hut on a mountain if there's a good internet connection (even satellite) and a hospital within half an hour.

Our neighbor is off grid in the middle of the bay area. He runs generators 24/7. Gets propane delivered once or twice a week. Course he has more of a palace on a hill than a hut on a hill. 360 degree views of mostly hills, though. He bought them all so nobody would develop them.

In the end, I've got my home. Now I need to buy a location for our business. Sigh. Last I looked, prices were so high, it was cheaper to rent. That might be different now. Not sure.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

The lending is downright predatory. We just rented out our first house. We didn't price at he top of the market, but we attracted what should be a really great tenant. There was another tenant to choose form, but they had an amazing amount of car debt for a couple who didn't even own a home. After turning them down for the house, I ended up paying them back for the credit reports. I figured they needed the 80 bucks a hell of a lot more than I do.



I'd take a hut on a mountain if there's a good internet connection (even satellite) and a hospital within half an hour.

Our neighbor is off grid in the middle of the bay area. He runs generators 24/7. Gets propane delivered once or twice a week. Course he has more of a palace on a hill than a hut on a hill. 360 degree views of mostly hills, though. He bought them all so nobody would develop them.

In the end, I've got my home. Now I need to buy a location for our business. Sigh. Last I looked, prices were so high, it was cheaper to rent. That might be different now. Not sure.

Easy to say that now when you don't have to sit in a hut with just an internet connection. It would get old really fast I am sure. Be fine for a week or two but once you are talking a life time it is a whole new call game.




Oh there are plenty of very nice places that manage to combine isolation with tech. The thing they all have in common is, as you said, shitloads of money poured into them. A community based on a sustenance economy will go to hell quickly when tech and consumerism are introduced. They simply do not have and can not afford the infrastructure that we take for granted to deal with everything.

[NoHaveMSG]

Left a can of flavored seltzer water in my car. Guess it got too hot.







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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Left a can of flavored seltzer water in my car. Guess it got too hot.

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My wife left a whole case of rootbeer in the back of her car once. Once one can went they all did. Blew holes right through the boxboard case. Found root beer spray for months.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Thanks to file-share filtering at work that blocked the village picture I was really confused at first because this is what I was seeing in @korhun message you quoted, and I was thinking "Man, @Ultramaroon must really love urban life"

Haha... Me? Urbanite? That's a hoot. I could live in a tent as long as I had power for my damn CPAP which, by the way, has saved my life. The past five years and anything after today are all bonus.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Haha... Me? Urbanite? That's a hoot. I could live in a tent as long as I had power for my damn CPAP which, by the way, has saved my life. The past five years and anything after today are all bonus.

A tent with a flat, even, carpeted floor for you to lay on!

[Ultramaroon]

Who would guess that the best damn Philly cheese steak sandwiches are found in London?


...Ontario


http://www.dandysrestaurant.ca/

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Who would guess that the best damn Philly cheese steak sandwiches are found in London?


...Ontario


http://www.dandysrestaurant.ca/

Did you eat there? You need to have their Caeser salad next time you are here. They are spectacular. In fact they are so good that I am recommending freakin' salad!!!!!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Did you eat there? You need to have their Caeser salad next time you are here. They are spectacular. In fact they are so good that I am recommending freakin' salad!!!!!

Tcoat's salad.




humfrz

[xdavidx]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Did you eat there? You need to have their Caeser salad next time you are here. They are spectacular. In fact they are so good that I am recommending freakin' salad!!!!!

I have never eaten at nor heard of this place, but I know for a fact that you are incorrect. There is no such thing as a salad. They simply do not exist.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by xdavidx

I have never eaten at nor heard of this place, but I know for a fact that you are incorrect. There is no such thing as a salad. They simply do not exist.

Dude I am the King of the Anti Vegetable League and I still recommend this salad. I am pretty sure that 3 pigs gave up their lives for bacon and 2 calves starved to death to provide the milk for cheese making PER SALAD!

[xdavidx]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Dude I am the King of the Anti Vegetable League and I still recommend this salad. I am pretty sure that 3 pigs gave up their lives for bacon and 2 calves starved to death to provide the milk for cheese making PER SALAD!

Is it possible that it was mislabeled? What you are describing is a bacon cheese bowl. A salad consists of one to many imaginary substances containing no actual food and providing no nourishment; the perception of salads is generally the result of extreme diet / starvation induced hallucinations.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by xdavidx

Is it possible that it was mislabeled? What you are describing is a bacon cheese bowl. A salad consists of one to many imaginary substances containing no actual food and providing no nourishment; the perception of salads is generally the result of extreme diet / starvation induced hallucinations.

I believe that in this case the “salad” is simply the carrier for the real food. The greasy home made dressing that drips off the green stuff pretty much eliminates all the leafy taste.