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re: City of Shreveport to shut off water to 3 apartment complexes next week
Posted by Salmon on 5/9/24 at 7:26 am
I lived in the Quail Creek apartments around 2008ish and they were decent apartments.
I'm not sure when they changed hands, but they went down fast....
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re: How many of you know when your kids were born?
Posted by Salmon on 5/8/24 at 3:33 pm
My wife does
I can tell you the first was born around 6ish in the morning and the 2nd was born around noon ...
re: Amount you need to earn to live comfortably by state
Posted by Salmon on 5/8/24 at 2:38 pm
[quote]I’d love to see what constitutes “necessities” to whomever came up with this chart.[/quote]
here you go
[link=(https://livingwage.mit.edu/pages/methodology)]LINK[/link]...
re: Amount you need to earn to live comfortably by state
Posted by Salmon on 5/8/24 at 1:42 pm
median household income in Louisiana is $58k FWIW
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re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 4:11 pm
I think the funniest part of this thread is that younger generations are the one’s buying these homes because it’s what available.
So even their narrative that millennials won’t make the necessary sacrifices is false :lol:...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 4:04 pm
How have you still missed the point after 30 pages?
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re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 4:00 pm
[quote]never satisfied. must have best newest biggest toy right now or i will cry to mommy.[/quote]
Remember when you were preaching “nuance” earlier in this thread and now you are doing “if you don’t want to move across the country to a poor area with high crime in a flip house then you will ne...
re: Boy Scouts of America changing name to be more inclusive
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 1:37 pm
Yeah. The reason my daughter didn’t do Girls Scouts is because she wanted to do the outdoor stuff and we have friends in Girls Scouts and they never go camping or anything.
We went camping a lot with her pack....
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 1:28 pm
You know you lost the conversation when all of your posts are just massive strawmen
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re: Boy Scouts of America changing name to be more inclusive
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 1:12 pm
[quote]I mean, when they are kids let it be co-ed, and then as they age let there be a boys wing and a girls wing of scouts. Camping, the outdoors...that's for everyone. [/quote]
That’s exactly how it is set up.
My 11 year old just did her crossover this week.
She will now be in an all gir...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 8:18 am
[quote]So again, these places exist, they’re just not what you “want”.
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for the 100th time
the point is that previous generations did not have to buy 500 sq ft tiny homes or homes in the ghetto as "starter homes"
my god how do y'all keep missing this ...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/7/24 at 8:11 am
[quote]My wife and I lived in a cheap apartment saving our money until after we had our first child, then we bought a house. That was 7 years because we DID wait till we could afford it.
This is how you do it, are you listening? I doubt it but here we go.
1 - wait until AFTER you’re married to...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 12:58 pm
[quote]Yes things are bad[/quote]
Several posters refuse to even admit this.
[quote]But no, you individually can determine your outcome.
[/quote]
To an extent, yes. No one denies this.
The simple point is that it is more difficult than previous generations. Its just so weird how some c...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 12:45 pm
If the older posters were suddenly 18 years old today, and moving forward they made the exact same choices and decisions as they had previously, they would not be able to afford the same things when they did today, then they did previously
and that sucks
I'm not sure why that is so hard to gr...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 12:33 pm
[quote]Biggest problem with that? They don’t think. They’re actively discouraged NOT to think. [/quote]
says a collective group of posters that ignore objective data and just parrot outdated talking points ...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 12:30 pm
[quote]Because specifics and choices matter.[/quote]
We are talking on a macro scale here. So no, individual specifics don't really matter.
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re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 12:19 pm
[quote]hese threads are a waste of time because nobody knows the individual specifics of the people posting.[/quote]
why would the individual specifics matter?...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 12:07 pm
[quote]Note: at some point, the “desirable” areas were the rural areas that people who wanted cheaper housing moved to.[/quote]
Note: you completely dodged the point again ...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 11:55 am
[quote]and not hypotheticals that show that in actuality there are affordable alternatives if you zoom out on the map or don’t pick the absolute top neighborhoods in the area.[/quote]
once again, the point being that previous generations didn't have to move out further or move to shittier neighbo...
re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted by Salmon on 5/6/24 at 11:50 am
[quote]Before my current house, I lived in a trailer and another house that is currently worth about $95k.[/quote]
completely irrelevant to the point, yet you keep repeating it as if it does have relevance, why?...
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