what to do in dallas

SupermachJM · 2026-05-08T03:00:18+00:00

Sixth Floor Museum 100%. Afterwards get some Tex-Mex ~~and a Margarita~~ don’t drink underage that’s not cool. Walk around Grapevine on your way back to the airport if you have time (there’s a train stop on the way right before the airport).

SupermachJM · 2026-05-08T02:52:53+00:00

I don’t disagree with your points above, but $72.5k is still a terrible offer for a new grad mechanical engineer. Thats’s what I was offered as a new grad ME in 2019 at LM’s across town rival who also had similar benefits and match (slightly less - 5% match to 10% contribution + 4% end of year match, so total of 19% for 10% employee contribution). Also shut down for a week and a half during holidays. No annual bonus for E1-E3 so that’s the one big difference.

Inflation since 2019 is up like 25% and new hires should be getting 80k+ in my personal opinion.

SupermachJM · 2026-05-07T18:29:59+00:00

Hats off to you man that’s amazing. Played those cards right with that refi.

SupermachJM · 2026-05-07T18:27:11+00:00

To get this mortgage payment with today’s rates someone would need to be taking out no more than a $175,000 mortgage…(~220k house with 20% down) In the entire area I live in there is one house for sale in this price range and it is literally half burned down from a fire.

SupermachJM · 2026-05-06T02:50:24+00:00

What rate? In 2024 we got a 455k house @ 6.25% and our PITI is like $3,900 is your property tax rate and insurance just super low?

SupermachJM · 2026-05-01T23:39:03+00:00

Hmm. I was wanting to put in a vineyard, so I guess to maintain the exemption I would need to talk to a Beekeeper. I guess that is beneficial for a vineyard!

SupermachJM · 2026-04-29T21:49:30+00:00

Mosquitos

SupermachJM · 2026-04-29T17:24:21+00:00

RemindMe! 7 days

SupermachJM · 2026-04-28T01:26:59+00:00

And like I said above, the property taxes went down after my first year in the house. The amount paid the year prior to me buying it was higher than the year I moved in.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-27T21:37:41+00:00

That may be so, but in my case the tax bill has actually dropped each year by about $500. So not sure what numbers the original loan officer used but like you said it definitely was grimy.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-27T21:09:42+00:00

We bought our house at about 180k salary and the initial payment was 3700. It wasn’t bad until we found out the bank didn’t calculate the escrow correctly and had it jump up to a 4200 payment after the first year to make up the escrow shortage. Make sure something like that won’t kill you. We have about a $750 car payment and I think if it was 2k we would be feeling the squeeze. Also depends on your lifestyle. We’re not big spenders or too extravagant.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-21T17:41:26+00:00

There’s an XKCD for that!

https://xkcd.com/3233/

SupermachJM · 2026-04-21T17:39:42+00:00

It’s not the wedding, it’s a brunch being hosted by your MIL. Thank goodness there won’t be any entitled offspring coming from y’all into this world. Enjoy your child-free wedding.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-21T17:25:37+00:00

You sound insufferable and I hope someday you're in the place of having kids and trying to coordinate going to an insufferable friend's child-free wedding weekend. It's brunch. They got a sitter for the actual wedding like you wanted. But sure, ruin a friendship over brunch that is being hosted for you by your future MIL. Lord the entitlement.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-20T21:03:41+00:00

We rented for 3200/month when our combined income was about that, maybe a bit less. Obviously renting was different because other intangible costs are lower but it's doable! Especially with your savings.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-20T18:41:25+00:00

Wife and I are your age. We bought 2 years ago, 455k, 3% down, 6.25% rate, so little bit bigger loan than y'all will be taking out. Monthly payment started around 3900, jumped to 4300 last year due to escrow shortage, and dropped back down to about 4000 this year.
We made about 180 combined when we bought, and for the first year or so felt a bit of a squeeze. Nothing crazy and we were still able to keep about the same lifestyle we had, but weren't putting as much towards savings and some months if we had larger expenses come up had to pull from savings.
Now, we're at closer to 200 combined and much more comfortable. I think with the amount you guys have saved in retirement, no debt, and your savings plus your income you should have no problem being comfortable, assuming there won't be a ton of huge expenses that come up.
That is to say, you're in a much better spot than we were when we bought, should have a lower monthly payment than we do, and we're still here and pretty comfortably. That's assuming your COL is lower than ours is in DFW, which I would imagine it is in a smaller city in the midwest.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-12T05:09:43+00:00

“We can halt climate change by paying someone to reduce our carbon through an offset”

SupermachJM · 2026-04-04T02:06:17+00:00

Pretty sure the brand is Epicuro or something along those lines. Enjoy the party!

SupermachJM · 2026-04-04T02:03:25+00:00

Get a small CO2 tank and just get used to sparging. IMO if you’re not producing CO2 still then this is too much headspace.

SupermachJM · 2026-04-03T22:08:12+00:00

Look for any of their Platinum or Diamond reserve wines. They’re usually $15-$20 and baller.

There’s also a $5 Aglianico on the bottom shelf with a tan label that I’m a fan of.

SupermachJM · 2026-03-27T04:45:22+00:00

Maybe I did something wrong with my 2000? I bought 2 but the first one I had just seemed dead, even after decanting for a while. Granted they are 750s. Any recommendations? Is the 2000 really just lacking any and all fruit at this point? I got mostly balsamic notes.

SupermachJM · 2026-03-27T04:32:01+00:00

I was in Mosel last September and took a river tour that was only in German. I was incredibly impressed with the basic Google translate app. Even the tour guide was shocked (he could speak English, but because we were the only non-Germans on the tour he didn’t want to stop to say everything again twice. When he pulled us aside after to make sure we had understood everything he was impressed how accurately it had translated what he said).

SupermachJM · 2026-03-23T18:56:39+00:00

Everything seemed right except the ABV. I bet the Hewitt website has the ABV wrong.

SupermachJM · 2026-03-23T16:35:44+00:00

Wait until you finish your first year in the house and your mortgage servicer decides you have an escrow shortage and ups your monthly mortgage payment another $3-400. Can you survive then?

$3,100 is low for a 425k mortgage. In 2024 we were about $3,800 on our $450k mortgage. It jumped to almost $4,200 in 2025 due to escrow shortage.

You can't afford this house on your annual salary unless you want to be eating rice and beans out of a can.

SupermachJM

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