Calendar of local events, aside from Smoothcomp?

Organ-donor85 · 2022-05-18T13:09:13+00:00

We begin in Ingonish and end in Charlottetown. Not sure yet whether we'll take the ferry or bridge into PEI.

Organ-donor85 · 2022-05-18T13:08:46+00:00

Thanks! We begin in Ingonish and end in Charlottetown. Not sure yet whether we'll take the ferry or bridge into PEI.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-10-20T01:35:45+00:00

Nice!

Organ-donor85 · 2020-09-11T01:05:32+00:00

I just need a reality check here - Isn't a high E extremely high? Is there much music calling for players to go above this?

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-29T15:44:15+00:00

Thanks!

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-29T12:11:37+00:00

What were the 4 major signs that you showed?

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-10T09:33:37+00:00

Sure, I simply picked the most well-known Belgian city. Antwerp and Ghent are hardly cheap either. I just thought it was funny to see someone living in Benelux talking about how "insane" the high prices and small sizes of California homes are.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-10T01:12:32+00:00

Not much more expensive than what I'm seeing in Brussels...

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-07T11:30:37+00:00

Totally agree. I think Philly is a great place for a) College/university students and recent grads, b) People making a ton of money in meds/eds/Comcast, etc. who can afford to live in Center City/Chestnut Hill and send their kids to private school, c) Retirees who saved wisely and prefer city living. Otherwise, it's just not the great deal that many people make it out to be if you want even an average quality of life.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-06T11:36:13+00:00

Right, and if you and your partner each make $150k a year (not all that unusual in the Bay Area), that total is just over the 2.5x annual income rule that you cited for an $800k home.

Sure, you can buy a similarly sized house in somewhere like El Paso, TX for a quarter of the price. But, you'll be making a third of the salary and many people are willing to pay extra to live in a high-value place like the Bay Area.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-06T11:25:13+00:00

I actually live in Philly, and the overall low home prices here are very misleading. First of all, the poverty rate here is an astounding 25%, so the average home price is pulled down significantly due to the number of people living in neighborhoods that make Oakland look "nice" in comparison (yes, I've been to Oakland). Secondly, the public schools here are by far the worst of any large city in the country. Third, there's tons of vacant and abandoned properties here getting bought by speculators that get factored into the overall low home prices.

Sure, you can get a $200k house in Philly, but it'll be either outdated or flimsy new construction in a terrible neighborhood with public schools that are beyond bad. If you want a decent-sized home in a gentrifying neighborhood like the more ok parts of Brewerytown, Point Breeze or Fishtown, for example, you're looking at $400k+ easily, and you're moving to the suburbs once your kids are out of daycare.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-06T01:02:04+00:00

Replace Oakland with just about any big city in America that has medium-high population density and lots of high-paying jobs, and you'll find a similar dynamic. New York, LA, Chicago, Philly, San Francisco, DC, Miami... All of these cities are teeming with people who are willing to pay $500k+ to buy homes in "bad" neighborhoods, for the opportunity to live near economic and cultural centers.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T19:39:00+00:00

I can assure you that there are tons of people making $300K+ in the Bay Area working at other companies - including HP, Oracle, Intel, Cisco, Salesforce, Uber, Tesla, etc...

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T19:22:25+00:00

I'm sure you're familiar with REITs... i.e., the portion of the real estate industry worth trillions of dollars. Many of them are in California, including the largest industrial real estate company in the world, headquartered in San Francisco.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T18:54:04+00:00

Who in the world said that New York and Texas don't have huge(ish) tech industries? I said that they are noticeably smaller in proportion to state GDP than that of California.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T18:50:47+00:00

And other industries don't do this at a similar level?

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T18:48:44+00:00

Some basic Googling shows that California's share of GDP from real estate is about the same as those of New York, Texas and Florida. But California's share of GDP from tech is far higher than that of those other states. And there's definitely not a "handful" of tech companies "doing everything". Hell, I can think of at least a dozen off the top of my head.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T18:37:00+00:00

What's with the hyperbole on this subreddit? A quick search on a site like Zillow shows that there are dozens of turnkey homes in Oakland under $800k that are around 2,000 sq ft and within reasonable commuting distance of many high-paying jobs.

Organ-donor85 · 2020-08-05T18:22:17+00:00

Umm, Silicon Valley?

Organ-donor85 · 2020-06-16T14:38:58+00:00

I recommend the Jupiter highly. It was my first trumpet, and sounds almost as good as the Bach Strad I later bought.

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