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Caleb James DeLisle

Caleb James DeLisle

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Supposedly buyers are already drying up, but this always starts in Florida McMansionVille, and hits places like rural NH last.

Then the counter-point is: Is it really that expensive? How many loafs of bread is this? How many eggs?

There's a world in which buying over-priced house on fixed rate credit is worth it, because you know that a decade from now median salary is going to be north of 150k.
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Matty-kun

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I think that's conjecture for the sake of it. I don't care to argue the specifics. All I know if that it's getting harder to pay the bills and put food on the table. As such, I want every system leech's head on a pike. I despise filling empty air with self aggrandizing philosophical theses where animus works perfectly as a means to an end and requires much less fart huffing.

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Caleb James DeLisle

Caleb James DeLisle

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> I think that's conjecture for the sake of it. I don't care to argue the specifics.

Fair enough.

> As such, I want every system leech's head on a pike.

Printing money into worthlessness and importing cheap labor to bid down wages so as to "hide inflation", is a crime warranting bloodline termination.

That said, unless it's time to start shooting down private jets (BTW: clones of the Ukrainian Shahed-busters are on Alibaba), the question "is this house a decent decision" is still worth thinking about...
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Caleb James DeLisle

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I don't know that market well enough to say you're wrong - but if 1 bedroom, 1 acre, needs work is going into the high 2's, then I should get the boomer award...

My dad sold a house a couple hours drive from there, 3 bedrooms, 3 acres, needs work, and AFAIK the number started with a 1...
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These niggers base it on the location of the property, never the actual state of the house or what repairs it needs.

I know most new construction is shit. Ticky tacky slop assembled by the lowest bidding contractor; often meaning amigos larping as competent handyman assembled the home. At least here in the US. I could only ponder who European contractors use for their labor if they're not hiring the indigenous White people.
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Capt. Of the workshop

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There's a development by Ryan Homes going up right off the highway north of me. I drive by it every day while at work. They will build two-story Matchstick houses in 2 weeks. People will be moved in by the third week. These aren't prefab houses either, they pour the foundation and then start putting the house on top of it the very next day. They're so ugly and so poorly made it's unreal. They're about 6 ft apart from each other and face directly into the sun. It's just gross

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Caleb James DeLisle

Caleb James DeLisle

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Typical of France is everything is kind of the same problems as the US, except not nearly as dire. It's kind of like "as bad as the US was in 2006".

Minimum wage in France is 14€/hour, but there's enough payroll taxes that you're pretty much gonna end up spending 25/hour. So there really isn't any such thing as "cheap labor" to chase after.

What I've seen of construction workers is they're either French, Spanish, or Romanian.
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