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cursedshitbox posted:Imagine how it feels for those that are making fuckall in this bullshit country. I see all the talk about prices on the West Coast, and I've seen the prices in central Ohio go up by 45% since I bought this place in 2007. But there's also the option of going out in the open, especially in Ohio. This city and property was chosen randomly, and I'm not making a pitch for this particular property, but for barely more than $100k, you can have a house on 3 acres. The house is kinda poo poo, but you could make it nice. You're about 20-40 minutes from any real shopping or support, but I keep thinking that I could buy something like that, have no house payment and less than $2k per YEAR for taxes... it's something that I could sustain forever and never work again. What's the down side? (in my case, kids I don't want to disrupt with a move (especially to shithole rural Ohio), and a wife that wouldn't be game, but drat, I think about it. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/38126-Lower-Clearfork-Rd_Cadiz_OH_43907_M34827-55771
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I'm gonna go check out Northern Michigan/UP either this fall or next spring. 200k goes far there for building a compound to hold my tools. It has fiber, and musknet is becoming a thing. Mustache Ride posted:If I could I'd buy a boat and work from the Caribbean. I've been thinking about boating too. 40-50' sailboat and just go around the world. I know fuckall about sailing and would have to spend some time on small shits learning the ropes.
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cursedshitbox posted:I'm gonna go check out Northern Michigan/UP either this fall or next spring. 200k goes far there for building a compound to hold my tools. Northern Michigan is lovely, I've got family in Traverse City and really like it there. My grandpa used to have a cabin on 100 acres in Baldwin, which I really wish I could have bought when it had to be sold - it was very pretty and has a creek so clean you can drink from it*. *who knows if you can these days, but you sure could when I was a kid.
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meatpimp posted:I see all the talk about prices on the West Coast, and I've seen the prices in central Ohio go up by 45% since I bought this place in 2007. But there's also the option of going out in the open, especially in Ohio. This city and property was chosen randomly, and I'm not making a pitch for this particular property, but for barely more than $100k, you can have a house on 3 acres. The house is kinda poo poo, but you could make it nice. You're about 20-40 minutes from any real shopping or support, but I keep thinking that I could buy something like that, have no house payment and less than $2k per YEAR for taxes... it's something that I could sustain forever and never work again. What's the down side? (in my case, kids I don't want to disrupt with a move (especially to shithole rural Ohio), and a wife that wouldn't be game, but drat, I think about it. Isn't that the part of Ohio that thinks it's the South?
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mariooncrack posted:Isn't that the part of Ohio that thinks it's the South? You know, this isn't a valid criticism anymore. After four years of trump a solid third of this country thinks it's the south.
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Rhyno posted:You know, this isn't a valid criticism anymore. After four years of trump a solid third of this country thinks it's the south. Yup. Get out of any metro out west and the trump/confederate/plztreadonme/blueobeseline flags are flying. Hey at least they're advertising they have nothing intelligent to say. ...which also makes these areas not worth buying in, helping drive housing costs in cities.
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cursedshitbox posted:Yup. Get out of any metro out west and the trump/confederate/plztreadonme/blueobeseline flags are flying. I live in a city that's solidly divided on that and housing costs are out of control, and this is Indiana for gently caress's sake. But my town keeps getting lauded as "best places to live in America" and "best cost of living" and other things. Plus a booming job market is really bringing people here. Edit: So a while back i mentioned my wife's ex-step father (divorced from her deceased mother) still views her as his daughter and wants to leave her one of his properties. The options were a couple empty acres in a shithole town two hours away, or the house she lived in when she was a teenager, about 50 minutes away. So she has opted to go for that. This is ours (or will be in a couple years)  The red line is roughly the property line, there are two houses on the lot, roughly half an acre. Currently rentals, we figure we'd continue on with that until another option comes up. Edit 2: yeah, probably don't need the address in there. It's in a small town in NE Indiana, that's enough. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Trip report. Made it a few miles down to the sporting goods store. Truck fired up easily after shopping, swapped tanks, got about halfway back and got some bucking, swapped tanks back to pure gas and no problem. Stopped for lunch. I may just be forced to use pure gas or additives to lower the boiling point. Current temp outside is 85F.
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The "storm" that Cleetus claimed was threatening his event is a complete non factor here, but let's go ahead and blame the cancellation on that and not covid like it should be. Might offend all the trum..uh I mean Cleetus supporters!
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Applebees Appetizer posted:The "storm" that Cleetus claimed was threatening his event is a complete non factor here, but let's go ahead and blame the cancellation on that and not covid like it should be. Might offend all the trum..uh I mean Cleetus supporters! I really liked Cleetus for a long time, until the covid / safety fiascos and him showing his true approach to the issues. Super sad, in general, the whole situation.
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meatpimp posted:I really liked Cleetus for a long time, until the covid / safety fiascos and him showing his true approach to the issues. Super sad, in general, the whole situation. Same for Finnegan, and a dozen other 'tubers.
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I spent the better part of the day in 100F weather installing a 3-head minisplit system for my sister. These DIY units are way better than I remember. (They chose the system, I just volunteered to help). I'll have to wire and install linesets tomorrow. Given this is 1/5th the price of the quote they got for a furnace/ac replacement, I can see why they went with it for their small house.
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Is Finnegan a chud? Dammit, I'm running out of YouTubers to follow He had the opinion when COVID first started that it wasn’t a big deal, but seemed to change his mind as it went on. I don’t know if it was from corporate mandate or not, but he was at least smart enough to not go against them.
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Is Finnegan a chud? Dammit, I'm running out of YouTubers to follow 
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wallaka posted:He had the opinion when COVID first started that it wasn’t a big deal, but seemed to change his mind as it went on. I don’t know if it was from corporate mandate or not, but he was at least smart enough to not go against them. I always figured it was partly the environment of performance shops in the south. That said, he did mask up taking his Mom Christmas tree shopping. His channel also changed music away from whatever weird band that wasn't a good look (though I forget why).
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Lol. Yet another dipshit Jeep guy ragequit my friends list over a covid post. Good riddance.
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slidebite posted:I'll probably commit suicide if I find out the Techmoan or Curious Droid guys are anything but genuine good people Techmoan is a dodgy accountant for the illegal underground boxing scene and Curious Droid is an assassin that takes particular care to remove all body hair to limit physical evidence at crime scenes.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:I make a six figure salary and have a decent savings account, yet buying a house feels further and further away with each passing day. meatpimp posted:I really liked Cleetus for a long time, until the covid / safety fiascos and him showing his true approach to the issues. Super sad, in general, the whole situation. sharkytm posted:Same for Finnegan, and a dozen other 'tubers. Should be getting my third covid shot end of this week or early next following the new CDC booster shot guidance for immuno-compromised people. Would be doing it asap but I've got surgery next week and don't want to gently caress it up by having side effects.
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StormDrain posted:I'm very excited to have turned in my notice for a job with better projects, a 10% raise plus potential bonuses and a better 401k match (3k instead of a sort of bonus pay situation). I turned in my notice with nothing lined up. Why? I can't stand the job anymore, and my body is falling apart. It's easy as hell to get a job right now, making about what I make now, and NOT destroy my body in the process. If I don't get something lined up quick, I have my gig economy crap to fall back on for now. Yesterday: "you turned in a notice? when?".  I just might not go back, as it is I left early this morning because they decided I never went back to the workman's comp dr after a back injury (when in fact I did, personally handed the restriction list to HR, and my Google Maps timeline shows me at both the doctor's office and the store within an hour of each other last week, outside of my normal working hours, Maps even helpfully attached a picture I took of the work restrictions paper in the parking lot at the dr's office), wound up loving my back up even more while getting bitched at for not telling them I was still on work restriction.  (after telling them I was still on restriction, they told me to just use my good arm to pull 50+ pound boxes down from over my head, that went as well as you'd expect.. then said "you're not in a sling anymore, therefore you're not on restriction").I like the company itself, but holy hell some of the manglement would leave even Walmart executives shaking their heads.. Have another dr appointment today. Going out of town tomorrow for the rest of the week, any fallout from that can wait until I get back. Every phone # I have saved from work, coworkers, etc will be set to go straight to voicemail until I get back. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Aug 15, 2021 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Didn't toryboy Richard from project Binky recently post up about covid affecting his family after spending the last year saying it wasn't poo poo? Yeah a lot of moaning about lockdown and freedom and such, then I think the whole family got it.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Yeah a lot of moaning about lockdown and freedom and such, then I think the whole family got it. Huh I wonder how that could have possibly happened I see he has discovered "consequences"
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Yeah a lot of moaning about lockdown and freedom and such, then I think the whole family got it. Claimed he was vaccinated at least. The list of youtubers that are almost certainly not idiots is loving small. MCM, Benny's Custom Works and.....? At this point I'll just be happy with car content creators that hide their shittiness completely but I pretty sure if they were poo poo, we'd know, the last 24 months have been good at getting people to show their true selves.
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SuperfastMatt, ds3shooter and the skid factory seem like they're being careful, but it's hard to tell because most of them don't leave the house or interact with the public too much. Not sure about Mustie.... gently caress I watch a lot of YouTube
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Tony Angelo's youtube channel is infrequently updated and not the greatest production quality while he figures it out, but he's extra careful about masking, including yelling at Finnegan about it. (One of his no-longer-newborn daughters had a liver problem at birth, so he has cause to be extra careful, and our area is fairly decent about it.)
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:I hate my apartment and want to own my own house. I also hate my job and the city I live in and have feared that I'd be stuck with a house I couldn't sell if I ever did change jobs and move. Joke's on me, it's easy to sell a house. It's just hard to buy one. That has always been me too haha. If my guy comes through for me tomorrow with an offer letter I'll be traveling 75% of the time for work so owning a house would be even less ideal lol. I like my small rear end apartment right now actually (first time for that). Guy at the Subaru dealership here in Austin called me back asking if I wanted to place an order after I called a few weeks ago asking for a BRZ test drive. I told him upfront that I'm not buying it until I can test drive the car and then he just straight up asks if I want to put down a deposit for an order? I feel really bad for him honestly it must be really hard selling cars right now with the inventory situation the way it is... He's a nice enough guy but fwiw the Subaru dealers in the Austin/San-Antonio area won't have the new BRZ on lots until Jan 2022. If my finances are in line and they give me a decent trade in offer on my Corolla I'll do it if the new BRZ is all it's cracked up to be. I'm gonna just buy from the dealer that has a black one kitted out the way I want though haha.
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Watching the US fully cede Afghanistan to the Taliban makes me think again that the strongest military in the history of the world is not very good at war. None of us on this forum are old enough to have been alive the last time the US won a war. Korean War? No win, still two Koreas. Vietnam War? Straight loss, run out on rails, after bombing the poo poo out of Vietnam and Cambodia for a decade. Desert Storm? Debatable, maybe. There wasn't a lot of fighting, we just kicked some puppies. War on Drugs?  War on Terror? We let the Taliban sit and grow stronger, just waiting for us to leave as we used the country as a bombing range for 20 years. Now we're leaving and show that there was no exit plan whatsoever. We got played so hard.Neverminding all of the failed coups and revolts we seeded and funded in Central America and Africa. The US needs a serious time out.
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Mustache Ride posted:Not sure about Mustie.... Mustie briefly had a video up ranting about the election results IIRC before taking it down. Or maybe it was a comment? I forget. But even without that you can read between the lines and get a pretty good picture of his politics.
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meatpimp posted:Watching the US fully cede Afghanistan to the Taliban makes me think again that the strongest military in the history of the world is not very good at war. its even worse when you consider all the heinous poo poo the US did during the cold war with influence, "soft power", CIA ops, ect
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Alarbus posted:Tony Angelo's youtube channel is infrequently updated and not the greatest production quality while he figures it out, but he's extra careful about masking, including yelling at Finnegan about it. (One of his no-longer-newborn daughters had a liver problem at birth, so he has cause to be extra careful, and our area is fairly decent about it.) The way you worded that made me think the poor kid had passed away. Tony seems like a genuine guy so I'm happy things worked out.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The way you worded that made me think the poor kid had passed away. Tony seems like a genuine guy so I'm happy things worked out. Oh poo poo, no, she's fine! The liver issue was solved by a surgery that's been around since the 70s, I just realized that they're now toddlers. Also terrifying, my son is closing in on 4. Time moves too quickly sometimes.
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meatpimp posted:Watching the US fully cede Afghanistan to the Taliban makes me think again that the strongest military in the history of the world is not very good at war. Yeah and don't forget the pointless loss of life, especially Vietnam: 58,148 were killed in Vietnam, 75,000 severely disabled, 23,214 were 100% disabled, 5,283 lost limbs and 1,081 sustained multiple amputations. Of those killed, 61% were younger than 21 years old. Another fun fact: The average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days of combat in four years. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year thanks to the mobility of the helicopter. One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. Also we didn't lose the Vietnam war, South Vietnam did, the fall of Saigon happened two years after we signed the peace settlement and left because the south couldn't get their poo poo together. The people run out on the rails were all civilians trying to escape the inevitable collapse. So if you wanna say we gave up, sure, but it was more of a result of South Vietnam being worn down and not really giving a gently caress anymore.
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