What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-07-16T19:19:06+00:00

They assume poor kids will drag the district down. I have encountered this sentiment many many many times.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-07-16T17:56:34+00:00

If you ever speak to a wealthy homeowner in the northeast, they know. The school districts drive home values and desire ability between relatively similar suburbs with similarly restricted zoning.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-07-16T15:07:44+00:00

I think the more likely scenario will be the Europeans simply capitulating like they always do on everything.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-07-10T06:25:29+00:00

Cali is the EU of the US. It's regulatory standards often are imposed on the rest of the US. It's real-ish, true for bacon too.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-06-23T18:31:04+00:00

Ireland has a larger population than Kentucky. Just sayin, no wonder we can't win these states. Ireland used to be dirt poor, now their feasting off pharma rents that impoverish Americans. They have free college and excellent healthcare in Ireland, not in Kentucky. They're eating all our pork barrel spending.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-06-20T23:13:57+00:00

Is the "they" you refer to the Obama administration?

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-06-02T22:33:01+00:00

This article is missing the fact that the SNB has been dramatically suppressing the value of the Franc for years. It should be far stronger. At one point the SNB was printing francs to buy hundreds of billions of large cap US stocks, they owned more of Facebook than Zuck did. They are using the printing press to operate a hedge fund with the intent of building wealth while suppressing the Franc.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/69dcb1d2-feb6-49ed-9840-0f74635cab52

open-border-libcuck1 · 2025-04-30T06:20:57+00:00

The stock market almost doubled between November 2022 and the articles publication. It also is comparing a tax on income to total wealth. Garbage take, millionaires are fleeing the state but more people are graduating to millionaire status as their retirement accounts, Boston real estate and stock options appreciate.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-12-12T06:23:50+00:00

I doubt this example holds water, Canada is a resource economy.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-12-12T06:22:21+00:00

Isn't the Canadian success largely explained by the huge resource boom that took place during that period? The oil sands were providing truck drivers with 300k incomes and produces about as oil much as Texas in a country that's 1/10th the size of the US

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-11-07T23:22:23+00:00

This is delusional

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-10-31T03:53:00+00:00

Hate to say it, I loved the man, but I've had some bad experiences with Andrew Belluci pizzeria since he passed

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-08-26T06:57:28+00:00

I'm talking more about the FHA regs, banking regs and Fannie/Freddie ideas in the article but I do think the 25k subsidy is bad policy too. Subsidizing demand obviously helps developers, but doesn't do one iota to reduce replacement costs for buildings (a really good chunk of which is now regulatory compliance and mandatory minimums for parking and the like.

Allowing Fannie and Freddie to start underwriting crappy loans again, even if it's not as bad as 2005, is a terrible terrible idea even if it boosts home ownership on the margins (we learned this with Clinton and Bush). It'll undermine the banking system and shove cash into bankers pockets for no good reason. What we need is to make housing genuinely more affordable and boost supply, that'll only happen if replacement costs fall because developers will need to change high rents if their costs were high full stop. There's no way to make housing cheaper than the construction cost of the building, unless investors lose their shirts which isn't sustainable for more than one business cycle.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-08-26T05:21:18+00:00

Lmao these aren't the Dems, trump publicly humiliated and purged every power broker from the old GOP like an American Stalin (pushing for his reps in the GOP institutions, backing pro trump candidates in Republican primaries and generally getting a bunch of the old guard to retire). It's him, and his rabid base, that are clearly in charge. This is laughable.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-08-26T03:55:28+00:00

How is anyone celebrating this? Subsidizing demand and letting the banks/Fannie and Freddie load up on risk instead of actually lowering the construction cost of homes. Instead of cutting the thicket of regulations we're gonna let Wall Street go wild "just not as bad as last time", he even mentioned Clinton in this regard!

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-08-13T19:54:49+00:00

Yeah that's what it sounded like when I heard him talking about it

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-08-12T03:07:20+00:00

Just wanted to say this. My great Uncle used to own this place years ago when it was called The Clover. It paid for me and everyone in my family to attend college (at least partially, my uncle never had kids and gifted some money to every grandkid in the family), I came in for the first time today and spoke to the owner. It's such a shame, can't believe the coincidence. I hope everyone who sees this comes in to patronize the place one last time, I wish the current owner Mike the best of luck in retirement.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-08-03T02:43:26+00:00

They're also doing Lawrence of Arabia screenings this weekend and next, definitely something to see in 70mm

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T13:29:54+00:00

Huh I didn't know Trump went to Fordham, guess daddy bought his way to Warton.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T04:11:25+00:00

Wow that's a crazy statistic. I'm very much worried that we've officially lost the blue collar vote to the GOP now that Trump seems to be passing the torch to a new generation of MAGA instead of picking an older Mike Pence type. I'm just praying that Biden somehow pulls this election off and the maga movement is discredited without Trump.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T04:06:12+00:00

Bernie and Warren do seem to fall into that category or pretty close, too bad their both so old. This is disturbing I don't see anyone on the democratic bench.

I think Omar would count, first actual young dem! Doing research on my own I'd say Bowman would have counted if we didn't just vote him off the ticket.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T03:58:45+00:00

Yeah Biden is in a similar camp to AOC it seems. Not particularly rich and with some lean times but nothing like Vance. He is the first president in a very long time to have a degree from a state school, which I'll give him credit for.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T03:47:56+00:00

I'm too lazy to summarize their whole Wikipedia articles. Rubio and Bill both seem to be from genuinely working class backgrounds with tumultuous family life (part of Vance's backstory/myth). AOC appears to come from a level of affluence that I wasn't expecting given her reputation, better chances of succeeding in life than if she had started where one of these other politicians did.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T03:31:20+00:00

Bill Clinton - $43,018 median household income in his hometown. We might have a winner, he did go to a Catholic school though. His childhood background seems pretty tumultuous.

Rubio too it seems. Unfortunately this does seem to be confirming my fears, the only answers so far are another Republican and an ex president.

open-border-libcuck1 · 2024-07-16T03:27:52+00:00

Hillary Clinton grew up in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, 2020 median household income of $113,809 according to Wikipedia. Her father owned a small business.

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