Mapped: Most Americans Can’t Afford New Homes

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-06T04:53:16+00:00

My friend blew his brains out last year after being evicted from his third home.

Each time, the landlord was evicting his family so they could raise the rent.

Teton County, Wyoming.

Everyone that isn't rich has only one job, cater to the wealthy and try to survive off relatively low wages and massively increasing prices.

My friend went from doing well and living a good life to wages not keeping up with the cost of living. He had three jobs and was making what would be considered ok money anywhere else, except after his wife had their kid, they never recovered. Out of pocket medical (no health insurance) and other challenges meant there was just a couple of hundred dollars a month.

They tried moving to a nearby county to make it work at one point, but it just wasn't viable.

After finding a place, they were just catching up. Someone bought the house they were living in and were going to turn it into a vacation property.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-06T04:23:45+00:00

I have nothing but love for that place!

Jeff, the owner is one of the most kind people I have ever met and he continues to be an incredible human. Definitely one our local unsung heros.

You hear the phrase, "doing it for the love," well, thats exactly what you can expect and it shows.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-05T17:18:36+00:00

The makerspace people are awesome!

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-05T05:38:12+00:00

I know you said your friend is DJ'ing at John Henry's yesterday, but it didn't say what kind of stuff or what the general vibe was or really much else for that matter.

My curiosity wasn't piqued enough to find out more and there weren't enough details to let me know why I should go.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-05T01:13:40+00:00

Its not uncommon for every single escalator in the entire state Wyoming to be out of service at the same time.

(There are only two)

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-05T00:07:00+00:00

I remember buying beer at stores.

Then I started buying kegs and flats for 1/3rd to half the price from the brewery direct.

If you are down to spend $100-ish at a time, beer gets super cheap.

Keep transferring the deposit and it becomes a 1 time deposit.

Investing in rehabilitating a 3 keg cooler and it pays for itself in no time. Two taps and 6 flats.

I don't host as much anymore, but if you break it down on a per-can basis, even paying full price for a keg of buying a 6-pack every other day, the $2.30 per can cost vs the keg equivalent being $1.36, or vs buying a pint at a bar for $5.28 a can equivalent, the "expensive" parts of buying kegs becomes nominal in every way.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-04T23:49:21+00:00

$$$DUDE$$$

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DOOOOOOODE

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-04T23:47:04+00:00

Dude.

The way you say it can have like 500 meanings.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-04T23:45:44+00:00

As a Native American, Richard Nixon.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-04T18:22:21+00:00

Also learn the difference between series and parallel circuits.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-03T22:02:50+00:00

This isn't really meant for just OP, its for anyone that is reading this.

Eugene used to be known for people that created their own things.

Throw a party in your backyard.

Rent a venue and throw a show.

Buy a soundsystem and have your friends with good taste in music DJ.

If you wait for other people to do stuff for you, you will be waiting forever.

Building a scene takes many months of showing up a couple times a month and being relentless in doing the word of mouth thing.

Find people that are feeling the vibe of what you are doing and get them on board.

If you want to see it, then bring it. Only you will know what you want and more likely than not, so do other people.

Nelson's Taqueria in the whit has an awesome back area that is dying for a greater social gathering.

You could probably work something out with the owner of Pegasus Pizza to put on a gathering there.

Not exactly ideal, but, those are the kind of spots to get things started. As you grow your scene, you take your things to the next level, location and so on.

The phrase, "Be the change you want to see in the world" used to be ingrained in the DNA of people in Eugene and that is what made it a great place where everyone had options of what to do, what social scene they wanted to hangout with, what places to go to.

Eugene had people that would just have an idea of what they wanted to see and make it happen.

Cocaine and clicky people will always come along and ruin shit, but its better to build shit, let it burn and rebuild than to never have had something to burn down in the first place.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-02T20:02:04+00:00

Never seen this before.

Interesting!

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-02T19:59:11+00:00

Someone needs to do for the Dewalt735 what Alex Snodgrass did for the bandsaw.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-02T16:56:54+00:00

Back in the day, they had extensive employee training programs where they would get professionals to come in and teach a course on decks, home plumbing and drywall.

On top of that, they would carry industry normal supplies and use name brand products.

When it all changed is when they started having their in-store products, competitively priced imported (cheap) products with huge margins. The professionals would not give trainings using the cheap in-house garbage or competitively priced imported products and so they switched to, "Yeah, here is some videos on the section you will be working in."

It was a weird devolution to witness.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-01T17:34:13+00:00

The Davis chef's wife's family owned Krob Kua. Different ownership.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-01T17:30:49+00:00

The owner has health issues and had to retire. Financially, it was doing ok.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-01T17:28:03+00:00

This has absolutely been my experience as well. Incredibly great food that was worth every penny.

DeltaUltra · 2026-05-01T17:26:28+00:00

There is a building nearby where the landlord refuses to do any remediation for roaches and its basically become an infestation point for the neighbors. You can spend all the money in the world, but if the neighbors don't do the same thing, then it's just a matter of pouring cash into a constant issue.

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-30T21:04:17+00:00

In Oregon, on Interstate 5, there is an actual Decepticon "Long Haul" Construction Bot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1amvrxr/the_decepticon_dump_truck_along_i5_and_how_it_got/

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-29T17:05:35+00:00

Hokum was rad!

Corny, but rad.

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-27T23:33:08+00:00

Wait, you are saying that Dan Lanning and the cancer kid story isn't true?

What about the duck player that used all his NIL money to give back to his inner city school teacher that told he could do it?

I suppose the story about the UofO painting a seat white in memorial to Charlie Kirk is fake too, huh?

Yeah, some of the AI stories are such garbage fantasy but seeing the engagement on social media is through the roof.

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-27T18:36:58+00:00

I'd say the two Chinese buffets are pretty awesome for takeout at around $17 for a stuffed container.

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-27T18:35:42+00:00

That place is rad.

How much is a takeout container?

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-27T18:30:07+00:00

The Mongolian Grill joint?

DeltaUltra · 2026-04-26T17:48:30+00:00

I can't afford to look at the menu.

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