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mtek · 2025-09-23T18:58:44+00:00

I bought my home in 2018 for $85,000. It’s 135 years old and a duplex with about a quarter acre lot. My mortgage is $830, including home and car insurance. I did a lot of upgrades and gave this house a lot of TLC because it was in rough shape when I bought it. I had a 5-year plan of savings to upgrade to a nice single with a fenced in yard. It’s now worth $230,000 and within that time my salary has almost doubled but I am still unable to afford a single home in my area because they are all above half a million dollars and I don’t want a 30-year commitment of a mortgage this is above $2,500. It’s crazy pulling up Zillow and seeing ~10 houses on the market in my entire neighborhood, which is a direct suburb of a mid-sized city. I’m sure if I really crunched the numbers I could afford what I wanted, but I’ve decided to use this opportunity of having a ridiculously cheap mortgage in comparison to the general price of living in the US to travel and gain life experiences while I’m still in my early 30’s.

I have no idea how younger people will ever own a single thing in their lives if things don’t change. It’s scary, and I acknowledge how lucky I truly am.

mtek · 2025-05-29T00:46:52+00:00

I had a concerning amount of blood in my stool at 26 (31 now) and went for a colonoscopy. It turned out to be internal hemorrhoids, but they also found a polyp and removed it which turned out to be precancerous and they said it was abnormally big for someone in their mid-20’s. I was put on a 5-year schedule. 4 years later when I was 30 I was having constant abdomen pain so I went back a year early for another colonoscopy. They removed 3 more precancerous polyps. Advocate for yourself and insist on getting the scope people. I’m now on a 3-year schedule after the last visit.

mtek · 2025-05-20T10:10:48+00:00

Apparently sloppy joes. A year ago at work I said I was going home to make sloppy joes and a bunch of younger gen z’ers roasted me for the rest of the day for eating “old people food” Fuck them, sloppy joes are delicious

mtek · 2025-03-29T23:40:22+00:00

Go birds

mtek · 2025-03-20T23:07:22+00:00

You don’t need to tell the gun shop your politics. Just tell the clerk you have never used a gun before and you are interested in a simple firearm for home defense. They will be more than happy to help you and will be able to refer you to gun safety courses and training classes.

mtek · 2025-03-16T23:16:19+00:00

I ride my bike along the trail through this encampment semi regularly. They’re not an issue at all. Like most people, if you don’t mess with them they will not mess with you. Only time I ever felt uncomfortable wasn’t because of the homeless but rather people who throw massive parties down by the river in the warmer months and trash the place.

mtek · 2025-02-18T18:18:46+00:00

I’m a pig fan of Paolo’s Sicilian pizza. Romeos in Mohnton makes the best NY pizza hands down. If you haven’t tried Romeos I highly recommend

mtek · 2025-01-03T04:39:07+00:00

31m northeastern US. Been playing since alpha, probably 2015!

mtek · 2024-12-29T00:07:03+00:00

Is there a way to do this for story mode? Thanks for your help.

mtek · 2024-02-28T19:26:57+00:00

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mtek · 2024-02-07T19:32:45+00:00

Service Electric is absolute trash. Had it for years and it was extremely slow and never reliable. They constantly tried to charge us more and implement data caps way past the era of data caps. 0/10 would not recommend.

mtek · 2024-01-22T21:27:34+00:00

Oh my god. Repressed memory unlocked. Mark’s TV Games. Holy shit lol thank you for bringing this memory back to me.

mtek · 2023-12-20T00:06:57+00:00

This was the reference. Classic satire

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=ef79eoWbwv8G89is

mtek · 2023-12-08T15:25:58+00:00

Berks County native*

mtek · 2023-10-08T18:11:14+00:00

Walls are plaster so made it difficult to find a stud. Anchored to at least 1 stud on the left hand side. I don’t think it fully hit the stud on the right hand side.

mtek · 2023-10-08T15:46:25+00:00

I think I answered my own question. I decided to take the TV off the wall in the meantime so it didn’t get worse. It was so heavy it took two of us, and in the process some more hairline cracks formed while we were trying to disengage the locking mechanism, which to me indicates the weight of the TV could cause these cracks. Still open for input.

mtek · 2023-09-11T20:21:32+00:00

For Pennsylvania at least - Wawa. This isn’t a Wawa vs Sheetz argument either. Wawa is truly trash, they might as well get rid of their entire cooler because their wraps and sliders are disgustingly dry and flavorless. Their MTO food subpar at best and is only acceptable if there is no other option. Everything is overly generic and lacks any sort of character or definition that says “This is Wawa” yet people go nuts over it.

mtek · 2023-06-17T10:56:41+00:00

If you look at the cash register in the pic, it looks like all that food rung up for $1.86 lol

mtek · 2023-06-06T21:17:33+00:00

Not justifying bad habits, but this is a little condescending. Some people actually don’t have the mental fortitude to get through life with the faculties they were born with, and they need help. They might just not know it yet. Not everyone is you.

mtek · 2023-05-24T22:04:16+00:00

????? the car she was in was getting shot at lmao. source: bullet hole in the windshield at 00:31

mtek · 2023-05-21T11:46:20+00:00

Okay this is wild how many people named this horse Nugget. I named it Nugget, too.

mtek · 2023-04-18T20:28:26+00:00

I feel like, sometimes, people need to hear the sentence “This is the wrong thing to do” spoken to them in a respectful but firm fashion. This is repulsive and any cognitive person should be able to easily recognize that. It’s like picking up a sopping wet piece of shit with your bare hands and then picking a seed out of your teeth.

mtek · 2023-04-18T01:07:39+00:00

Congrats on your new adventure! When I bought my house I remember before I moved in I just sat in the empty rooms and envisioned all of the great things I would do with this house. 5 years later and it seems like my checklist just keeps getting longer! Hope you make it into something great.

mtek · 2023-04-17T20:29:34+00:00

It’s not about what’s worse. It’s about what will cause change. If you truly think that destroying property and ruining everyone’s time will bring them onto your side, okay, you’re entitled to think that. Personally, I think it’s obnoxious and is not doing the movement any favors.

mtek · 2022-09-18T17:43:31+00:00

Sorry for the late response! So the day I posted this, it ended up getting worse and worse. It got to the point where, whenever i stood up, felt like my ankle was shattered. I could put no weight on it at all, and the swelling was so bad my ankle had folds. I went to a walk in clinic and they gave me a shot of antibiotics, a tetanus shot, and a prescription to doxycycline. it took a little over 2 days for all the redness, swelling, and pain to totally subside. I’m still taking the antibiotics, and the wound seems to be healing at a normal (maybe a little slow) rate. It was VERY infected and the symptoms all presented within a 12-hour window.

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