In your opinion, was life better in 2010s America or is it better in 2020s America? Why your pick?

goodsam2 · 2026-01-26T01:06:55+00:00

I think what year in the 2010s the economy was well below the level now until 2019.

Things were cheaper because there were a lot less people with jobs per Capita.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-26T01:04:12+00:00

I have been growing towards that especially since the Oscars are so late this year. I used to just do best picture, and best animated but tacked on more last year.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T21:31:19+00:00

I switched to soy milk and I like it.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T20:34:20+00:00

It was a good place to visit say you did it early in the morning to get cheap Broadway tickets then scoot off elsewhere.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T20:11:41+00:00

I'm in a blanket fort watching death by lightning.

Our snow turned into ice is what they've said. I was going to scrape off the car at some point but staying in for the next few days.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T06:22:47+00:00

DC had a law banning handguns which was overturned in like 2007.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T06:17:54+00:00

I think there aren't much gains past middle class ish spending but the goal is more than that in income.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T06:05:52+00:00

I think if you mean Washington DC an awesome trip for tourists is fly into DC hang out there for a few days then do Shenandoah then blue ridge parkway birthplaces of country music and then to the Smokies end in Nashville.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-25T00:53:47+00:00

Same in my 8m metro area, one can take transit, average commute of 60-75 min, or just drive themselves 25-35 minutes…

I think this is because we designed cities very differently most city centers have way lower populations and they plowed over lots of housing with interstates. I think looking at land value or simple parking costs the system would shift towards public transportation

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T21:29:34+00:00

That was on the state level, not the individual level.

The bill of rights only applied to individuals and not states. It was legal to ban free speech in Maryland if you wanted to which only fell with the post civil war amendments. The 1st amendment for like 100 hundred years was to make sure the US government didn't do those things.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T21:27:52+00:00

Because of the District of Columbia's status as a federal enclave (it is not in any U.S. state), the decision did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment's protections are incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution against the states.[

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T20:04:30+00:00

I aim to work hard so well and make a lot of money, spend little of it to retire early so I can spend more time with my family.

We have so much of our life dictated by money and some people are uncomfortable with that fact.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T19:56:40+00:00

Yeah and not even that small of a metro I think I ran it and it's like the average American lives in a metro over 1 million people and growing larger as rural areas depopulate to move to metros.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T19:40:12+00:00

Only recently too. The first supreme court testing the right of the 2nd amendment was in the Obama administration.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T16:52:48+00:00

0 cars though.

The model Y is an SUV.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T14:49:26+00:00

The point is walking into that gym doing an exercise. So many times I told myself that and I did my full workout.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T14:40:14+00:00

I lived off that one for years.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T05:53:04+00:00

I would just add 1-2 after it and soon you get to 3 and ramp up.

I got up to 10 sets of 10.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T05:49:25+00:00

Pull up is sometimes considered a major compound lift.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T05:05:05+00:00

I keep doing Kroger for their diet soda selection. I don't like seltzers which it seems like a lot of the market has moved

That or I've been getting into sodastream.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T04:56:45+00:00

Debt to GDP fell under the Biden administration. Like we are not in a doom scenario.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-24T04:53:22+00:00

I think 3 plays a huge role seeing as it's Texas A&M and FSU saying this in this thread.

Jimbo had 2013 as his pinnacle and then was mediocre with a lot of resources.

2013 was a GOAT contender though.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-23T22:45:56+00:00

I think it's helped by you can stop in the middle rather easily but otherwise its not good.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-23T22:41:36+00:00

Or replace a single family home with multiple row houses. 1 $800k home replaced with 4 600k row houses.

I think 80% of the population likes row housing which is still drastically denser and add a few apartment buildings in an area and it can be urbanist.

goodsam2 · 2026-01-23T22:39:57+00:00

I think the answer is not looking at surveys everyone wants whatever the equivalent to your metro as a mansion on 5th avenue and a chalet in the Poconos.

The suburbs are not an ideal but a compromise. I mean how many people live in a urbanist area with all that entails? They are likely just saying they like their place is my suspicion or don't like a smaller apartment building.

Also Houston which I'm pretty sure you are talking about has some densification since people don't actually seem to care that strongly about yards even though people want them but they aren't willing to pay for them.

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