16 hours ago17 points(+0/-0/+17Score on mirror)2 children
If anyone hasn't seen what the cheap foreign Mexican laborers do on house construction, they really should. Go to a new neighborhood while under construction, and watch for a little bit. It's not just dirty, pathetic, and halfassed, but dangerous. These Mexicans treat the dirt lawn, before the sod is laid, like their own personal trash can. Plastic wrappers, nails, screws, rocks, drywall, and all assortment of random discarded construction material, all end up in that dirt right underneath the sod. It's disgusting, and if you have to redo any of the lawn it becomes obvious how filthy it is.
I just helped some family redo the sod in their backyard, and I managed to get a full wheelbarrow load of trash, just from tilling and raking the ground before laying the new sod, and just from the really small side section between the neighboring house.
They literally shit in empty shim boxes, piss in Gatorade jugs, throw them in the walls then drywall over them. If you want a house built by drunk, retarded third worlders, buy a house built in the last 10 years.
15 hours ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)3 children
ugh i hate green grass lawns.
I'll show myself the door before i derail this thread with rants about lawns and all the spics that lazy White people hire to cut their stupid fucking grass for them, not to mention the draw on the city water supply just to water useless grass that they aren't even feeding to livestock. Hell most of them don't even remulch the grass back into the ground, but instead have it hauled away and then pay extra for synthetic fertilizers that damage the ...........bye
Not disagreeing with you but the water use aspect is highly location dependent. Where I’m at everyone has lawns but almost nobody waters them, we get enough rain.
I like lawns though, ideally I think I prefer a mix of grass/clover/short growing native plants and weeds but to each their own
I’ll never understand the aversion to cutting your own grass, and maintaining your own landscape. I always looked at it as great exercise and getting some sun. I have a decent size property to maintain, and I stilluse a regular push mower that is easy to maintain, and fix. If I’m feeling really froggy, ill sometimes throw a weight vest on while I cut to make it a bit harder.
13 hours ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Weedless, freshly cut green grass is pretty and fun to play around in with kids. I’m sorry you live in an apartment like all the other larpers. And no, I don’t buy that you own any sort of land.
And the house on the left was much newer as well. Boomers bought 30 year old homes in the 90s or maybe 20 year old homes in the 80s. We're buying those same homes but now they are 60-70 years old and were largely neglected for thirty years and require a ton of deferred maintenance
12 hours ago8 points(+0/-0/+8Score on mirror)2 children
This is the right answer. That and college debt. Imagine having to make a $500 payment monthly per person for the rest of your lives because you wanted to go to F U.
4 year College is a massive scam, and its subsidized by the government, enforced by the corporations, and glorified by the media. We need to go back to where college was truly for the best and brightest, and turn most colleges existing today into trade schools (which is what a lot of the 2 year ones basically are already).
Boomers living in huge mansions hiring mexicans do all their gardening for them and taking out credit to go on cruises until the day they die, leaving their heirs with literally nothing except for some knick-knacks.
12 hours ago12 points(+0/-0/+12Score on mirror)2 children
Most Boomers are in their 60s / 70s now. They don’t argue. They don’t care. They never cared. They got what *they* wanted when they needed it. You won’t and that’s too bad.
15 hours ago11 points(+0/-0/+11Score on mirror)1 child
This is the thing people don't talk enough about. We should be banning corpos from owning single-family homes but on top of that these fucking boomers with like 3+ homes are part of the problem. They swallowed the "you need tons of passive income for retirement" lie and ran with it. They buy up all they can and rent them out, whole towns get destroyed because of this.
The people who work retail can't afford to own a home and can't afford to move so they get trapped. The ones that get out are never replaced because the trapped can't afford kids and the rich won't let their kids work a real job. Then stores close down due to no emplyees and the ones that survive fall for the "just import cheaper labor" lie.
It's a multi-pronged attack onf all of small town USA. Fueled by retarded boomers.
17 hours ago14 points(+0/-0/+14Score on mirror)1 child
I know a guy who's son dropped out of school and became an electrician, was fully licensed before he turned 21 and now makes 200k a year and is about to buy his first home cash with no debt
Why don't you and your family become electricians too? Its so easy.
15 hours ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)2 children
Obviously it’s easier for younger people to make a move like that but yeah if you’re young get into a trade and don’t get some bullshit office job or go to college or whatever.
I’m sure it varies depending on where you are but not long ago there was a news story about some trade union that had an open house type signup/application day. They had like 60 or 70 spots to fill and a half a dozen people showed up.
My brother only managed to complete two thirds of his education to become a qualified electrician, somehow he still got a job working as a mechanic on the light rail and became the shift manager in two years. Now he is working as a consultant for the state on a huge project.
It’s weird more whites refuse to accept this. It’s our “pride”, and hubris that keep us from fighting back in the simple legal ways. Good decent whites are the ones who should take adavanteg of the “help”, but they’re also the ones still to ashamed to.
This is one of the few ways whites can protest, and obstruct being slaves, and genocided without getting anything out of it at all. I know of three families doing this now, and one of them I convinced to actually take advantage of it. All of the women and children are on Medicaid, and they get “foodstamps” among other things. A couple of them even take advantage of section 8, and surprisingly the AOs, and properties they’re in are actually kind of nice. It does seem that property owners feel clean cut decent whites are better renters even on section 8. All the “husbands” work, and make decent money, and the “wives” are able to get some of their stolen “tax” dollars back all while staying at home with the children.
13 hours ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)5 children
I was actually just chatting about this recently. I’m very sympathetic, it’s bad out there. But I bought a home at 28 with no college degree. It is doable.
13 hours ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)1 child
The "no college degree" part is probably why it was doable, college at this point is a literal scam, no matter what you go in for. I spent 4 years getting a stem degree, no partying, graduated cum laude, and couldnt get anything for like 3 months after I graduated, got a gig at a local tech startup that payed barely above minimum wage, and quit because they didnt provide any actual training or mentoring (all the other guys had the same level of experience as me), and essentially havent been able to find full time work in my field since, because theyre all either looking for people currently *in* college (which I got screwed out of because the pandemic happened right in the middle of my college) or just hiring jeets for the entry level jobs.
12 hours ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
It’s definitely helped me in my 20’s. I’m trying to do an electrician apprenticeship now hopefully for the rest of my career (to get outta trucking). But I just have a lotta drive. ConPro has helped a lot for advice and direction over the years.
13 hours ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)1 child
Yeah it's doable, but what opportunity costs and future wealth are you missing out on? That's the whole point. We bought our house before things got nuts. Because of that I can have a reasonable job, my wife stays home, and we have a bunch of kids we homeschool. Everyone else I know who's "middle class" that bought late has to work two corporate hell jobs and always can't understand how we can swing it. One of the main reasons is because our mortgage payment is 1/3 of theirs.
Sure, I mean I bought rurally so that helps me. I can maintain our lifestyle just trucking. But we’re also working on turning another property into a more self sufficient homestead too, so we’ll take what we can get.
Not really. My mortgage is cheaper than anything comparable in rent. I have a 5%(((interest))) rate at 20 years so could be worse. I’ve got like 35k in equity into it so far. No other debt
<sarcasm>No, life was wonderful in the early 80s, and the economy never sucked, and all the inflation and interest rates the government publishes are 100% accurate.</sarcasm>
Kids these days have no idea how hard it was in the early 80s and 70s. There's a reason why the people who survived that era are telling them to stop complaining.
13 hours ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)1 child
Fed prime was 10% in 1985. It's 7.5% today. The borrowing rates were only super high for a short period, from 1980-1981, peaking at 21.5%. And I think then mortgage rates never even reflected that high of a rate since it was so short lived.
1985 and 1980 were entirely different from each other. 1984 was when the economy started behaving "normally" again after near hyper-inflation rates for over a decade.
Edit: The "official" inflation and interest rates are not what actually happened. They lied to us in the 70s and early 80s and we have the receipts.
13 hours ago8 points(+0/-0/+8Score on mirror)2 children
Literally doesn't matter since this price includes all that old housing stock. I have homes selling near me that are those exactly 1980s 3br and they're still going for $400-500k when 10 years ago they would have been $200k, and were probably selling for $100k in 1985. You can check your county tax records to confirm.
16 hours ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Yeah and for comparing the difference in *ratio*, the pink bars need to be equal height, otherwise I have to stretch the first two bars in my head so I can compare.
The graph is garbage because the y axis shouldn't use absolute values (dollars) but relative percentages ("% of household income").
16 hours ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
> the pink bars need to be equal height, otherwise I have to stretch the first two bars in my head so I can compare.
No they don't need to be equal height to be able to compare them. You compare them visually. You can immediately see that the second red bar is proportionally much bigger.
With the absolute values you can calculate the relative percentages too:
You can almost do that by adjusting for inflation, the 1985 income is $64,242.67 in 2022 dollars, while the red bar moves up to $226,290.86, a bit less than half the red bar on the right.
I just helped some family redo the sod in their backyard, and I managed to get a full wheelbarrow load of trash, just from tilling and raking the ground before laying the new sod, and just from the really small side section between the neighboring house.
I'll show myself the door before i derail this thread with rants about lawns and all the spics that lazy White people hire to cut their stupid fucking grass for them, not to mention the draw on the city water supply just to water useless grass that they aren't even feeding to livestock. Hell most of them don't even remulch the grass back into the ground, but instead have it hauled away and then pay extra for synthetic fertilizers that damage the ...........bye
I like lawns though, ideally I think I prefer a mix of grass/clover/short growing native plants and weeds but to each their own
Guys who own lots of land and know how to use it aren't growing imported shallow root lawn grass on it. Now i know you're the one larping.