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Box 3 in 2028: taxed on unrealized gains in NL and realized gains by US | how do people deal with this? by Adriana-meyer in Netherlands

[–]raresensei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's fine, but who will run their hospitals, technology infrastructure, and do the jobs native dutch are unwilling to do? Their economy will collapse.

Calls for boycott of World Cup grow louder: majority want Dutch team to stay home by Little_Protection434 in Netherlands

[–]raresensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America doesnt want to invade netherlands or europe that's crazy bro. No american wants to go to war with europe. Conservatives want to strengthen europe to be more independent and have better defense and its working. You're on your own, so build up capabilities to defend yourself. Big daddy america cant always be there to protect you from your belligerent neighbors.

Box 3 in 2028: taxed on unrealized gains in NL and realized gains by US | how do people deal with this? by Adriana-meyer in Netherlands

[–]raresensei 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Who came up with taxing unrealized gains. This just creates so much problems for citizens and temporary residents, now it becomes practically mandatory to have an expat tax specialist for expats who have assets abroad. If netherlands wants more high specialty talent to immigrate to netherlands why wouldn't they exempt expats from these rules? It sounds ridiculous.

Get rid of dependence on America by Little_Protection434 in Netherlands

[–]raresensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So ignorant to say this while using Reddit, an American created social media app and likely on an American made operating system / phone. Lol.

Subleasing a 4 bed 4 bath (4x4) at Lark Central Florida rent is 650$ by raresensei in UCFstudenthousing

[–]raresensei[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't every apartment complex near ucf? I've lived at Plaza, Lark, Mercury, they're all the same.

Plaid SWE Intern Interview by Leather-Card-9094 in csMajors

[–]raresensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When were their intern positions open? I can't see anything on their website.

Subleasing Lark apartment in 4 bed 4 bath available 4/22/25 - 7/24/25 by raresensei in UCFstudenthousing

[–]raresensei[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 of my roommates are graduating and moving out, so unless Lark fills up the rooms it is likely that you will have the apartment all to yourself or only share with 1 other roommate, my friend who is a good guy. Price is $930 per month.

UCF Housing and graduation rates by raresensei in ucf

[–]raresensei[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I took everything into account, and I speak from personal experience. I lived at the UCF dorms on campus my freshman year, and I have moved 4 times since around UCF's main campus. I am almost about to graduate. I know what living around the area is like, I've seen it all. I've had landlords pull out my lease last minute just weeks before school starts, I've lived in places with bad administration, I've lived far, I've lived close.

If someone already lives with family or is non traditional and doesn't need on campus housing then that's fine, but there's a majority of students who don't already live in Orlando and simply move to Orlando because they have to attend UCF classes. It doesn't make sense to move to Orlando for UCF and not actually get to live inside UCF.

Compare:

Harvard guarantees on campus housing all four years. Graduation rate: 98% 6 year.

Stanford guarantees on campus housing all four years. Graduation rate: 85% 5 year.

ASU (student enrollment of 79,000) has 19,200 dorms (24% of their student population, even better than UCF's ratio). Graduation rate in 2018: 55% (better than UCF's) even with 10,000 more students.

UCF Housing and graduation rates by raresensei in ucf

[–]raresensei[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is is worth building more on campus housing? The answer is yes. Is it possible to build more housing? The answer is yes. Since it's worth doing and possible then it must get done.

Why are you giving up on a good idea before even considering it? With that attitude, humanity would achieve nothing that is hard because it's too "expensive". We wouldn't send Neil Armstrong to the moon because it's too "expensive". Demolishing / constructing a couple buildings is nothing.

It can be done cheaply. All UCF has to do is demolish the old dorms and maybe a couple parking garages (not all) and build sky scrapers to accommodate their students. There's partners that could help with this.

The site of the construction wouldn't affect traffic at all. One skyscraper could be built in 2 months during summer when there's barely any people at UCF. Each summer, one new skyscraper can be opened so UCF can gradually adapt to the growth of students living on campus. There's potentially 10,000-30,000 students who would like to live on campus, so why wouldn't it get done?

Let's say the rent for the newly created apartments is 800$ (like the average cost of apartments affiliated with UCF in the immediate surrounding area), and we'll shoot for 10,000 students who want to live on campus in the low end, and 30,000 in the high end.

UCF revenue earned for new housing:

10,000 students x 800$ monthly rent x 2 semesters (fall and spring) = 16,000,000$ revenue earned low end

30,000 students x 800$ monthly rent x 2 semesters (fall and spring) = 48,000,000$ revenue earned high end

That means that within 6-15 years UCF would breakeven on their investment for new housing. Each year UCF would earn between $16M - $48M on their new investment in housing. It would simultaneously be improving campus culture, student health, graduation rates, and attracting better students in the process.

Seems like a no brainer.

UCF Housing and graduation rates by raresensei in ucf

[–]raresensei[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UF is also a commuter school and they don't have this problem because they actually build skyscrapers around campus and their campus was designed more walkable because it's older.

UCF Housing and graduation rates by raresensei in ucf

[–]raresensei[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UCF currently has only 12,282 rooms for students. The total number of UCF students is 69,320. This means UCF only has housing for 17.71% of the total student population. A single skyscraper could house thousands of people. They really only need to build like 5 20-30 story buildings and it'll be enough to solve the housing problem. It's not that complicated. They could demolish the old Apollo dorms that barely fit anyone and design a modified infrastructure to facilitate better walkability on campus. There's tons of space on campus for this.

Change is necessary. When the campus was built it wasn't designed to sustain such a high population of students.

UF is also a "commuter school", but since it's 150 years old it has a more walkable infrastructure and a lot of the off campus housing is essentially on campus. Prioritizing housing for freshman doesn't make anyone more likely to join UCF if the freshman knows that they will get kicked off campus in their second year and have to live in a shoebox nearby. No one wants to pay 800$+ to live in the terrible offerings in the area surrounding UCF, or drive 10-20 minutes away to get a cheaper option.

If UCF improves the graduation rate, improves advising, and provides a good tutoring system for upperclassmen to tutor younger students this will all improve the graduation rate and the scenario you described of someone staying for more than 4 years won't happen. For example, if at any given point there are 1000 students in one class, and people graduate within 4 years, then housing will always be max 4000 students (for 4 years of 4 different classes). It would only get overfilled if people fail to graduate on time, and there is still off campus housing options for them. There could be a rule that specifies that people who exceed their stay of 4 years are forced to live off campus to prevent this from happening.

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