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ASAPI posted:WFH is absolutely a factor in the housing market. I don’t disagree. It is a factor. I just don’t think it is the primary reason why median house prices nationwide are jumping so much. Probably a bigger factor: it’s not just demand for what we typically call a single family home. There were simply less single family homes for sale over the past year. So supply has been low, as opposed to the 2007-8 run-up where prices were rising, and also there was an abundance of supply. So less supply compounded with these millenials being of home buying age and means and becoming the dominant number of home purchasers. Millenials: finally not killing the housing market! I’m sure we’re still to blame for the rest of the ills.
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mlmp08 posted:I don’t disagree. It is a factor. I just don’t think it is the primary reason why median house prices nationwide are jumping so much. It also depends on location. Some tourist towns really are getting overrun by people shifting to permanent remote work that no longer need to live in high cost of living cities. https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-04-30/covid-wfh-boosts-palm-springs-lake-tahoe-housing-markets quote:The Lake Tahoe property boom is a vivid example of a trend that emerged last spring when white-collar workers got the mandate to start working remotely. Those with the money and newfound freedom to work from anywhere have headed to the mountain, beach and desert wonderlands where they used to only be able to spend their weekends. And for a laugh: quote:Hostility to the influx in residents over the last year has sometimes boiled over. Klovstad said she received multiple emails from constituents demanding the city close the exits to Truckee on I-80 to keep people from being able to access the community. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 13:56
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My house I bought 2 yrs ago has jumped like 20% in value during all this but even if we were going to sell it there's literally nothing within 20 miles of us that isn't also selling at a massive increase. e: \/\/\/\/ it's mostly NY / NYC or Boston people buying up RI places as 2nd homes or new WFH digs from what I've heard around here so far. That Works fucked around with this message at 14:07 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 14:01
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Anecdotally, NYC rent has become somewhat affordable compared to 2 years ago. The contrarian take would be to sell a suburban home at the top of this market and move into the city on the off chance that employers dont like the long term effects of WFH and want people back in the office.
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May 5, 2021 14:03
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May 5, 2021 14:06
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We thought briefly about moving to Boise to be closer to some friends, then we looked at real estate. I like Boise, but not enough to pay Denver real estate market prices. My little brother is trying to get his life together to buy a house and it's disheartening. Like I don't know how someone is supposed to buy or even rent a place with prices were they are. I couldn't afford to rent the house I live in. My mortgage is 1300 and I think I could rent it out for close to 2500. I guess that explains why half the houses in the neighborhood are rentals.
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May 5, 2021 14:08
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He’s definitely going to blog about this.
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May 5, 2021 14:14
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Oh thank gently caress.
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May 5, 2021 14:15
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Here's something fun to read: https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2021/05/04/how-local-companies-are-filling-open-roles.html Ice cream shop in Pittsburgh can't staff people. Offers $15/hr, and suddenly they're fully staffed with dedicated employees and a mile long standby list if they ever need more help.
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May 5, 2021 14:28
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Whoa that’s surprising. I thought for sure they’d let him back.
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May 5, 2021 14:32
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I don't often say "well, this cannot possibly get any worse", but Jesus Christ. It sounds like a lot of critical infrastructure (including O2 transportation, which is part of why the O2 situation is hosed up) is hurting because enough people have COVID that they can't staff anything anymore.
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May 5, 2021 14:35
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here's something fun to read: https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2021/05/04/how-local-companies-are-filling-open-roles.html Lazy rear end workers, only motivated by the desire to make more money, unlike business owners who are motivated by- Notahippie posted:It sounds like a lot of critical infrastructure (including O2 transportation, which is part of why the O2 situation is hosed up) is hurting because enough people have COVID that they can't staff anything anymore. Everything I’ve read about India suggests that they are facing the absolute worst case scenario in terms of health care collapse and also that of critical industries like transportation, which is just compounding the other issues more. It’s super scary and I wonder how close we came to seeing that in NYC and other places here in the US last year. I’ve said this before and maybe I’m still just broke brained from 2020, but even though the US is increasingly vaccinated and the vaccines are effective, I still don’t think we’re out of the woods with this, not by a long shot.
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May 5, 2021 14:44
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You know what the most depressing part of the water wars is going to be? You're never going to get people to ever stop wasting it on stupid bullshit. The water will be cut off at the homeless shelters before the fountains at the bellagio run dry
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May 5, 2021 14:51
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That’s cause we aren’t. The USA is in decent shape right now compared to many places because of vaccination rates and the limited natural immunity from the population that had the disease already. The majority of the rest of the world is in bad shape.
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May 5, 2021 14:51
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Milo and POTUS posted:You know what the most depressing part of the water wars is going to be? You're never going to get people to ever stop wasting it on stupid bullshit. The water will be cut off at the homeless shelters before the fountains at the bellagio run dry You will see genocides happen before the suburban homeowner gives up their lawn.
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May 5, 2021 14:52
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At this point, we should be sending the vaccines that the republicans don't want to take to places that will take them. I mean, we probably have enough laying around now to vaccinate the entirety of Canada. Not that I'm playing favorites with america's hat, but they're a tenth the population we are and are struggling in comparison, because we pretty much bought up all the production. Give those shots sitting in rural rear end Dakota hospitals to Canada, give the ones in Texas to Mexico. Oh wait money lol. Fucks sake. Obviously send help to India too, but Modi largely hosed himself and his people so badly, we might as well be pissing on our shoes. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 14:55
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Whoa that’s surprising. I thought for sure they’d let him back. The board punted. It's due for review in the next six months, the board was basically pissed that they needed to make the decision. boop the snoot posted:He's definitely going to blog about this. Apparently he did a low-energy press release attacking Cheney, McConnell, and Pence. He's also convinced that the Arizona Fraudit is going to reverse the election. CRUSTY MINGE posted:At this point, we should be sending the vaccines that the republicans don't want to take to places that will take them. Biden's folks just announced that they're basically abandoning the state population-based formula and giving more doses to states that want them. They're also blessing Pfizer shipments to other countries now. Biden more or less figured out that he's no magician and can't get doses into chuddy arms no matter what he tries, so he's pushing on chud state reps/doctors to do the pushing.
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May 5, 2021 15:04
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*Fortune 100 CEOs crowd an auditorium while the Pittsburgh Ice Cream Shop owner loads a PowerPoint* " To get people to work for you..." * The audience collectively leans in * "...Pay them" *vigorous note taking commences*
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May 5, 2021 15:05
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I look forward to a revolution but let me mine some dogecoin first. Lol.
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May 5, 2021 15:10
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Sacrist65 posted:*Fortune 100 CEOs crowd an auditorium while the Pittsburgh Ice Cream Shop owner loads a PowerPoint* A voice from the back: “Where did you get your MBA?” The ice cream shop owner shrugs. “Don’t have one.” The CEOs laugh and file out.
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May 5, 2021 15:15
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Outside the auditorium, a consultant from McKinsey charges $450 an hour to pitch "IceCream Shop Staffing LLC" to outsource labor costs.
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May 5, 2021 15:44
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the only takeaway from this ice cream shop thing a bunch of big brains will have is the urgent need to automate food service
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May 5, 2021 15:45
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A Bad Poster posted:You will see genocides happen before the suburban homeowner gives up their lawn. Our lawn is mostly clover and various native plants now and we love it. Needs no extra watering and flowers nicely.
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May 5, 2021 15:50
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facialimpediment posted:Biden's folks just announced that they're basically abandoning the state population-based formula and giving more doses to states that want them. They're also blessing Pfizer shipments to other countries now. Biden more or less figured out that he's no magician and can't get doses into chuddy arms no matter what he tries, so he's pushing on chud state reps/doctors to do the pushing. "The demonRATs are hoarding your vaccines for the inner cities!" Is probably the most effective pitch to get chuds vaccinated.
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May 5, 2021 16:02
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Soylent Pudding posted:"The demonRATs are hoarding your vaccines for the inner cities!" Is probably the most effective pitch to get chuds vaccinated. Dress the needle up as an F150 and make vroom vroom noises as it moves toward their arms.
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May 5, 2021 16:16
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FORD lol no, gotta get a DODGE RAM to RAM IT IN
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May 5, 2021 16:17
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Milo and POTUS posted:You know what the most depressing part of the water wars is going to be? You're never going to get people to ever stop wasting it on stupid bullshit. The water will be cut off at the homeless shelters before the fountains at the bellagio run dry They're going to destroy pristine ecological reserves in order to harvest freshwater / construct reservoirs / build RO plants. Huge swathes of the planet that are currently inhabited will be abandoned. Whole countries will be upended due to the expense and difficulty of obtaining a resource that used to regularly fall from the sky. Environmental stuff is 100% majorly depressing.
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May 5, 2021 16:22
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Remember the child-devouring $4k Peloton treadmill? As seen in action here: https://youtu.be/onXNnlCYJ4Y Well Peloton tried to pull a NOTHING TO SEE HERE, JUST IGNORE THE TODDLERMUNCHER SETTING, IT'S A FEATURE. It didn't work. https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1389950543511134209?s=19
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facialimpediment posted:Remember the child-devouring $4k Peloton treadmill? As seen in action here: I did not think this was literal 
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Sorry our machine ate your baby. Here’s a half assed apology and a donation to something. We will have our lawyers contact you about a settlement. Click here for the latest Peloton deals.
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May 5, 2021 17:06
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I'm glad that video had a warning because the moment I saw kids I turned it the gently caress off because no no no no no 
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May 5, 2021 17:07
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maffew buildings posted:I'm glad that video had a warning because the moment I saw kids I turned it the gently caress off because no no no no no Extremely same. My imagination is already filling in too many details
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May 5, 2021 17:19
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Did the kid die? Edit: just read.the dispatch. That's awful
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May 5, 2021 17:27
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maffew buildings posted:I'm glad that video had a warning because the moment I saw kids I turned it the gently caress off because no no no no no I linked it a few weeks ago specifically because it wasn't graphic and bloody, just a toddler offering his ball as sacrifice, then getting lightly munched as the treadmill denied the sacrifice. At the time, there were no deaths and only a sporadic few cases. Grip it and rip it posted:Did the kid die? Edit: just read.the dispatch. That's awful Not the kid in the video, I wouldn't link that kind of thing here.
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May 5, 2021 17:28
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Something I wasn't able to find in the articles the last time this was in the news: Is there an increase in child-consuming capability between a Peloton and any other brand of treadmill?
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Wombot posted:Something I wasn't able to find in the articles the last time this was in the news: Is there an increase in child-consuming capability between a Peloton and any other brand of treadmill? Having seen a Tread 1st hand I would think no more than any other fairly well made treadmill. It's basically just another treadmill with a tablet built into it running their app. I dunno if you can control the treadmill from the tablet interface itself or if you have physical controls on the treadmill.
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May 5, 2021 17:33
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A Bad Poster posted:You will see genocides happen before the suburban homeowner gives up their lawn. Lawns are already pretty gross. My dream house has a white roof and native plants.
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That Works posted:Having seen a Tread 1st hand I would think no more than any other fairly well made treadmill. Its a techbro thing, so the tabley is probably a web app to the remote server that actually controls the thing, so its harder and slower to turn off than a traditional treadmill
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May 5, 2021 17:38
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maffew buildings posted:the only takeaway from this ice cream shop thing a bunch of big brains will have is the urgent need to automate food service Considering their astronomically high wages and lack of any tricky "doing complex things with their hands" aspect to their jobs, it makes WAY more sense to just automate the big brains instead.
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Wombot posted:Something I wasn't able to find in the articles the last time this was in the news: Is there an increase in child-consuming capability between a Peloton and any other brand of treadmill? Cross posting from the techbubble thread Shifty Pony posted:it is (was lol) a slat treadmill.
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