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AnimeIsTrash posted:You can actually apply to cuba to study medicine. Rania Khalek interviewed a bunch of US students there when she was visiting. It's a young person's program tho
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Xaris posted:is there any evidence of all the computer touchies who fled to bozeman or bend or boise or sand point or upstate ny having to come back it's a mix, my current and former companies both transitioned to "remote for as long as needed / forever" mode and haven't changed that position I have heard from plenty of other people in software that they are being requested back to the office mostly this seems to cause the ~30-40% of people who can get another job on basically no notice to just go do that for whatever other remote thing comes up first, so, it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out. i have worked at some places at least part of the way through brain-drain periods. it's not that you can't go through that and make money, because pricing in general and software specifically is detached from reality. but, product quality and customer experience always gets shittier when your motivated and smart people all decide poo poo's hosed, hit da bricks edit: most software companies do not care about "product quality and customer experience". see: Facebook, Somethingawful, etc
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# ? May 26, 2022 21:54 |
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Western Europe sounds like it’s gonna be even more dangerous than ever if you’re not white, and it’s going to be cold, starving, and otherwise generally immiserated with imminently privatized healthcare ( got to pay for war )
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Cabbages and Kings posted:edit: most software companies do not care about "product quality and customer experience". see: Facebook, Somethingawful, etc lol
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shrike82 posted:lol that’s not true lmao guess she never had any other option but to get married then
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# ? May 27, 2022 02:42 |
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projecthalaxy posted:Theres that crazy libertarian island off norway where there are no laws, Skalbard or whatever. Maybe they need gentrification. naw they have laws in england it just normally looks like that
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# ? May 27, 2022 04:09 |
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I hate the housing market.I hope it dies and goes to hell.
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# ? May 27, 2022 04:53 |
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/realestate/renters-affordable-lottery-brooklyn.html?smid=tw-nytrealestate&smtyp=cur tldr: white dude from michigan applies for housing lottery futher gentrifying nyc! quote:He Won the Lottery for an Affordable Apartment, After Years of Trying
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# ? May 27, 2022 12:48 |
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he was living in nyc at the time he applied and he is income verified for the specific affordable unit this is a nothing story and I don’t know why you posted it
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# ? May 27, 2022 15:21 |
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I liked the part about a woman named Orion who had recently given up her pet rooster after the other tenants complained about the noise.
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# ? May 27, 2022 15:24 |
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I like the part where Josh Bianchi, 30, spent years applying to affordable housing lotteries while cycling through Craigslist rentals. This winter, he found his golden ticket.
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# ? May 27, 2022 18:26 |
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it was cool that he had a Slack channel at his work to help him and people working with him find apartments, too. labor organizing for housing ftw.
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# ? May 27, 2022 19:11 |
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I have just learned that mortgage rates are going back down a bit But only for jumbo loans So really you'd be an idiot to get a mortgage for less than a million dollars
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# ? May 27, 2022 19:49 |
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My old man told me about buying his first house in the early 80s with an interest rate of 13% Apparently the going rate was 17%, he only qualified for the 13% rate because his income was so low, which makes zero sense to me
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# ? May 27, 2022 19:59 |
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Not a Children posted:My old man told me about buying his first house in the early 80s with an interest rate of 13% I can't imagine that poo poo but then you realize how low the price was and it's like ohhh yeah, okay sure.
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Mattavist posted:I like the part where Josh Bianchi, 30, spent years applying to affordable housing lotteries while cycling through Craigslist rentals. This winter, he found his golden ticket. Philly is finally opening up 150 public housing units in the summer, which will help clear out our waiting list of merely 30000 people waiting for public housing
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The Oldest Man posted:I have just learned that mortgage rates are going back down a bit out here price per square ft on some of the million dollar properties is 277. on the 1000 ft homes it is as high a 700.
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Not a Children posted:My old man told me about buying his first house in the early 80s with an interest rate of 13% when I looked at interest rates when refinancing, it seemed like the lowest rates are just for houses in a certain range, and then it goes up again. so the lower and upper tails have the highest rates, and the middle area had the lowest
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Not a Children posted:My old man told me about buying his first house in the early 80s with an interest rate of 13% my parents were so stoked when they got like a 7.25% 30-year fixed around '93 that they literally got a keg and invited all their friends over to celebrate
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# ? May 27, 2022 21:05 |
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mortgages should be indexed to inflation
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indigi posted:mortgages should be indexed to inflation the word for that is rent
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# ? May 28, 2022 00:07 |
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rent increases way faster than inflation
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# ? May 28, 2022 01:36 |
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I think I will own several homes. I've decided to live in each one every day, but only keep one clean.
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# ? May 28, 2022 01:42 |
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It will be cool when the bubble pops and my houses' entirely bullshit value goes away like the fever dream it is.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Everyone Zillow your childhood home My parents never owned a house for me to grow up in.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:it's a mix, my current and former companies both transitioned to "remote for as long as needed / forever" mode and haven't changed that position Anecdotally, I’ve only of one coworker of my wife who moved from NYC to small town Tennessee then moved back within like two years. He had no clue what he was getting himself into and hated having to drive 30 minutes to a non-Walmart supermarket and was generally bored as hell. Nobody made him come back, of course, so it’s not quite the same. I wonder how many coastie computer touchers end up with buyers remorse. There’s gotta be stories of some couple emptying their stock to move into a small Appalachian town thinking they’re going to cosplay as cottagecore mountain folk only to be horrified at the reality of living in some of those areas.
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lol no one's moving to bumfuck nowhere to remote it's either hometown or smaller (cheaper) cities
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ProperGanderPusher posted:
Yeah, no idea, it will be interesting to see what trends emerge. I went remote into the woods in 2016; most of the people I know who are remote tech workers are still choosing to do it from urban areas. I know very few people who made huge lifestyle changes through this beyond the shock that comes from not commuting, not seeing people face to face, not having social lunches, etc. That is already a lot to deal with, throwing a total environment mix up in, is probably more jarring, unless you hate cities as much as I do and so the relief of not having to deal with them just trumps it all. I like my family and seem to be pretty fine not seeing many other people that often but that's also how I grew up, spent a lot of time alone in the woods or with one or two friends in the woods. Also lots of BBSes. shrike82 posted:lol no one's moving to bumfuck nowhere to remote Depends what you count as bumfuck but I moved from the NoVA area to a town in Vermont with 1000 people in it that is a half hour or more from being able to get milk/etc once it's dark half the year. I have no real connection to Vermont, just seemed like the nicest place within a day's drive of mine and my spouse's parents. I agree that this is not at all the usual or normal model, though. I would call myself a pretty extreme outlier, even though that had never really clicked with me until now. Cabbages and VHS has issued a correction as of 06:37 on May 28, 2022 |
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Zantie posted:My parents never owned a house for me to grow up in. Ahead of their time!
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Zantie posted:My parents never owned a house for me to grow up in. og millennials
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Zantie posted:My parents never owned a house for me to grow up in. yeah I could zillow my childhood homes but the implication that my parents owned or still own it is lol
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My old realtor sends me these generated emails about the housing market where I live:
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Fozzy The Bear posted:My old realtor sends me these generated emails about the housing market where I live: price drops are neat but with interest rates rising your payment is either the same or more
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my landlord finally set up online payments and of course it'll cost me $2.95 for the pleasure of paying them through it lmao scum of the earth motherfuckers guess I'm gonna keep using checks until I die
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Crusty Nutsack posted:my landlord finally set up online payments and of course it'll cost me $2.95 for the pleasure of paying them through it lmao yeah my property management company instituted a $10/month fee to pay for the maintenance of the online portal that manages online payments and maintenance requests (which they sometimes defer to ???). lol
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# ? May 31, 2022 16:28 |
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We pay our landlord through Venmo I just assume there are tax crimes of some kind happening there
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WaryWarren posted:yeah my property management company instituted a $10/month fee to pay for the maintenance of the online portal that manages online payments and maintenance requests (which they sometimes defer to ???). lol Ours did this too, on top of a service fee for using any method of payment other than a direct transfer from a bank account and doubling "trash" and "activity" fees. loving shakedown
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# ? May 31, 2022 16:33 |
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we currently pay rent by walking into a bank and depositing a check directly in the landlord's account i guess it's more reliable than putting a check in the mail, but it definitely feels antiquated
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SorePotato posted:We pay our landlord through Venmo same and i prefer it and don’t care. cool emoji too; rent is autocorrected to 🏠💸
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Around 2008-2010 I lived with two friends in an apartment and our landlord was running some tax scam through us by claiming our unit as her primary residence, so all kinds of official notices/mail would show up. She owned a bunch of the condos in that building and we had huge stacks of mail piled around that she never claimed. We moved out before anything came of it but I always wondered what exactly the deal was and if she was overleveraged or something.
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