Is Economy Doing Well?

[DTB]

Back around 90/91 I was offered a job that required relocation to FL space coast.

I could have sold my Chicago home and bought a new Rutenberg home and 2 SFR rentals. My monthly nut at the time (out of my pocket) would have been $58. Remember it like yesterday.

Best move I ever made, was to pass on that offer.

My family is in Chicago.

Expense is immaterial.

 

[miktay]

I own an 1800 sf GLA home on 3,800 sf zero lot line, lot. I can sell my home and buy 3 homes (same size as mine) on half acre lots in North Carolina for the sale of my home. Property taxes are about 75% lower too, not to mention sales tax, income tax, license plate tax, gasoline, electricity, services, etc.

They say for everyone one person that moves into California, two people move out.

I'm one of those who moved out. I grew up about 30 minutes north of where you live.
I miss it. It was an awesome place to grow up, back in the day.
As The Pretenders once sang: "My city was gone".

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

As The Pretenders once sang: "My city was gone".

Yes, if I wasn't already over 65, I would be gone from NW Arkansas. WalMart has ruined it. Oh, economically it is leaps and bounds but with it came those folks with no respect for "country ways". They howl for more taxes constantly ("it's the children...it's the children") We had 2 deputies on patrol in 1968 and 2 state troopers in entire area. Now we have maybe 50. Traffic is awful. And driving from my house to Bentonville, then to Fayetteville is a 2 hour event...or about the same time as it takes me to get to the Tulsa, OK airport.

We have lost our entire dairy farm base. The two larger cattle auctions have closed, one tried to sell in the middle of town for apartments and that was prevented although the same city bellyached for years about the odor from an auction that was out of town when first built. There isn't a Foxhunter in the region left as far as I know. We had the oldest Foxhunting association west of the Mississippi River at one time. Gone. You cannot turn your dog loose in the country due to leash laws and high speed traffic. A tractor on the road gets the bird and woe to the hue and cry if you dare move a combine.

Hunting is difficult, nigh impossible yet we are overrun with deer. Tuesday I came up on a driver dragging a deer out of the road that had knocked his fender down... 11 in the morning. They are everywhere. Now we have wasting disease in them. It took 45 minutes to get to the lake and go fishing. Today, unless you go at 2 am, it takes and hour and a half. Our family cemetery has gone from 200 or so in 1980 to over 700 burials...half of the newer graves with no family ties in the community. We had to raise the lot price to keep outsiders from buying them because they were cheaper than town lots.

Traditional farm practices are getting howls from the newcomers. They don't like the smell of chicken litter. So much of it gets trucked out of state and priced accordingly. Chicken litter turned our fields from broomsedges and persimmon groves to lush fescue and orchard grass. Now it is supposed to be a toxin because it contains phosphorus? We are not country anymore. I will never sit on the tailgate and listen to a fox yapping at his neighbor buddy at sundown again. I can't walk my own fields without finding research insect boxes tied to trees, tracks from some fool on a 4 wheeler, or other evidence of trespass. I can go outside at night and can't see the Milky Way...I'd move to Arizona but Arizonans would likely just as soon I stay away. I understand.

 

[DTB]

Adapt, move on or get trampled. Those are the choices we have.

 

[Big ole Boy]

I am catching the Big Dipper in the morning before sunrise. I set up my pop up camper and sleep in it on my property. I am able to get wireless from my house to the camper. Last night could here coyotes next to me whining as a emergency vehicle siren blew miles away. Best time of night is right about 3:45am .... dead silence. When I walk outside at that time I don't feel human - I feel like primordial spirit. Probably sleep out here till mid November .

By the way, one good reason gold plunged last week was because China gold trading was closed last week. This is not mentioned on MSM. Lots of manipulation going on.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Last night could here coyotes next to me whining as a emergency vehicle siren blew miles away.

Although more than 2 miles away, on a quiet night, the train whistle triggers the coyotes to howl and it sort of cascades from one bunch to the next pack over the Lindsey Prairie.

 

[miktay]

WalMart has ruined it. Oh, economically it is leaps and bounds but with it came those folks with no respect for "country ways". We have lost our entire dairy farm base. We are not country anymore. I will never sit on the tailgate and listen to a fox yapping at his neighbor buddy at sundown again. I can't walk my own fields without finding research insect boxes tied to trees, tracks from some fool on a 4 wheeler, or other evidence of trespass. I can go outside at night and can't see the Milky Way...I'd move to Arizona but Arizonans would likely just as soon I stay away. I understand.

Well said, and very very sad, my friend.

 

[Evincere]

Dell Fires 3000 US Employees, Requests 5000 Visas For Foreign Workers

http://wolfstreet.com/2016/09/09/de...-visas-green-cards-to-import-foreign-workers/

Was watching a NOVA documentary about "Water" - well, the Ganges River was featured in the documentary and I went a little further and investigated India and their Ganges problem on line.

I thought this factoid to be stunning. 51% of the population of India have cell phones, while only 35% have toilets. To put the Ganges river problem into proper perspective - The current population of India is 1,331,126,367 as of Tuesday, October 11, 2016


Needless to say, the massive unprecedented problems with the Ganges has to do with lack of toilets and virtually no water management oversight.
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The yearly income earned by an individual in India is the lowest when compared with people living in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) nations, a Gallup survey showed on Monday.

The annual median per capita income in India stood at $616, the 99th position among 131 countries.

Dell will pay these visas $7.00 an hr and they will think they have hit life's lottery. Meanwhile, as this countries talking heads shovel the shet about the need to improve job markets for graduates I no longer believe they are talking about Americans and I for one will never buy another Dell product.

 

[DTB]

Was watching a NOVA documentary about "Water" - well, the Ganges River was featured in the documentary and I went a little further and investigated India and their Ganges problem on line. I thought this factoid to be stunning. 51% of the population of India have cell phones, while only 35% have toilets. Needless to say, the massive unprecedented problems with the Ganges has to do with lack of toilets and virtually no water management oversight.
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Dell will pay these visas $7.00 an hr and they will think they have hit life's lottery. Meanwhile, as this countries talking heads shovel the shet about the need to improve job markets for graduates I no longer believe they are talking about Americans and I for one will never buy another Dell product.

It will have to do ...until "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders" sigh.

 

[Evincere]

Perhaps we should be more deeply concerned with the global economy that has brought foreign high end all cash buyers into the local real estate markets pushing up prices....

Retailers scramble as shipper bankruptcy puts goods in limbo



South Korea’s maritime ministry said Hanjin’s troubles would affect cargo exports for two to three months, given that August-October is a high-demand season for deep-sea routes. The Retail Industry Leaders Association wrote to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero on Thursday, urging them to work with the South Korean government, ports and others to prevent disruptions. It said the bankruptcy is rippling through the global supply chain and could cause significant harm to consumers and the U.S. economy.

We can't be the "consumer nation" if they can't ship us consumer goods.



the scheme is unraveling.

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How many more sets of cheap Christmas tree lights made in China does any American really need to have? It's only October and they are moving the used to be made in Tawain now made in China Santa's and Reindeer's on to store shelves. Oh yea. Significant harm being done.