President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Jake from State Farm · Sep 16, 2021

Historian Heather Cox Richardson started posting these on Facebook two years ago today
I hope she has saved them
They’ll make a damn good history book

Letters from an American

DanielSimpsonDay · Sep 16, 2021

Jake from State Farm said: ↑

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From the Michigan State message board
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Tarheel316 · Sep 16, 2021

Jake from State Farm said: ↑

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From the Michigan State message board
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Well she is really dense.

garrow · Sep 16, 2021

2muchcoffeeman · Sep 16, 2021

Jake from State Farm said: ↑

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Hell, she has a thicker neck than Kurt Angle.

2muchcoffeeman · Sep 16, 2021

welp!

Baron Scicluna · Sep 16, 2021

2muchcoffeeman said: ↑

Hell, she has a thicker neck than Kurt Angle.
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It's true. It's damn true!

Jake from State Farm · Sep 16, 2021

Reunited and it feels so good

BREAKING: Piers Morgan is Joining Fox News

champ_kind · Sep 16, 2021

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Hmmmmmmm ...
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excellent insight

champ_kind · Sep 16, 2021

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I don't think the recent exodus of Californians has much of anything to do with politics. It's all about the insane housing prices/costs, and people either trying to take advantage of them, or to escape them.

Even the dumpiest places are going for ridiculous, and honestly, unfair prices that they are not really at all actually worth. It is truly not a reasonably affordable place to live anymore. People who already own homes are trying to figure out where to move to that they can buy for half the money (or less) than they will sell their current places for.

Before doing that, though, we also have to figure out/realize why -- seriously, why -- are people paying close to a million dollars to buy nice-but-average/standard suburban homes on small parcels that were bought for prices in the neighborhood of $300,000 just 20 years ago? Why are places (exactly) like my 50-year-old, 810 sq. ft., 2 bd, 1 ba condo with no outdoor space in one of the oldest complexes in town going for over asking price and fetching $385,000? And we have to then decide if we really want to leave. Because once you leave California, you might not be able to afford to move back.

Also, there actually is a reason people like living in California. It sounds simplistic, but a lot of it has to do with the good, consistent weather. Climate really is a big deal when it comes to living well, and living easily, particularly as you age. There is a lot to be said for consistently temperate conditions -- ones that don't include concerns about hurricanes, tornadoes and tropical storms, etc.

These are all questions/things I am wrangling with and trying to decide, myself, because it feels like it might be something I should do soon, if I'm going to do so. But it's not easy to pull the trigger with a definitive decision unless you're absolutely positive about what you want to do and where you want to go.
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We rent a 2-bedroom apartment. With a 6-month-old and talking about another one, things are getting pretty cramped and we'll probably head back to the Midwest rather than buy somewhere inland. Wife worries I will be resentful if we leave Southern California to be near her family, which is silly, but damn will I miss it being 73 every day.

qtlaw · Sep 16, 2021

LanceyHoward said: ↑

I interviewed for a job in LOs Angeles in 1993. It would have been 30% more money.

The downsides were that the job was located near downtown. I had a wife and infant son. So to find a decent school system and a decent house that I could afford would have required a considerable commute. When I stayed in California I had a friend in Redondo so I stayed in that area. I went in and saw a realtor and she told me that a 1300 square foot, 1960 era house with three bedrooms and two baths would cost 300k plus in southeast Torrance. It would have been a hell of a a stretch but I thought I could buy the house.

I walked around the neighborhood and it the weather was sunny and beautiful. I decided that if I got the job I would move, the hell with the higher housing costs and the commute. California here we come. I did not get the job.

But I recently was in Los Angeles. I checked the neighborhood on Zillow. The houses in that neighborhood are now running one million dollars. There is no way I could get in. Even adjusting for wage inflation there is no way in hell I can get into the housing market.
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That area is a nice place; gorgeous weather (cousin lives around corner) 10 mins to beach. Hope you and your family landed in a good spot anyways.

qtlaw · Sep 16, 2021

champ_kind said: ↑

We rent a 2-bedroom apartment. With a 6-month-old and talking about another one, things are getting pretty cramped and we'll probably head back to the Midwest rather than buy somewhere inland. Wife worries I will be resentful if we leave Southern California to be near her family, which is silly, but damn will I miss it being 73 every day.
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Exactly.

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