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Title: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 20, 2023, 02:01:47 AM
I gather she was in her 60s or early 70s.

White, destitute.

Whatever pocket change I had.

It's actually better to help people out, otherwise I notice they go into stores and steal.

There's actually nothing wrong with people being poor or being needy.

As long as they're honest.

Actually it's when they steal, that it's bad.

I don't give to thieves or scammers tho

Just those in genuine need
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Herman on October 20, 2023, 02:11:33 AM
She gave it back to Joe and said you need it more than I do.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on October 20, 2023, 03:13:55 PM
Quote from: Herman on October 20, 2023, 02:11:33 AMShe gave it back to Joe and said you need it more than I do.

Hahahahahahaha!!!!
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Trump’s Niece on October 20, 2023, 03:39:26 PM
 :crampe:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oliver the Second on October 20, 2023, 06:16:46 PM
One day I was coming out of the store and people in front were soliciting funds for some kind of 'Just Say No' campaign to get people off drugs. I flipped them a five and hopped in my car and drove to the dispensary to pick up my weed. May as well cover all the bases I guess.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 21, 2023, 11:21:39 AM
Quote from: TheProwler on October 20, 2023, 03:13:55 PMHahahahahahaha!!!!

...reason why I support a Land Hoarding Tax, Prowler.

I don't mind if people have a large first home even a mansion and nice vacation home.

But it's when they own 5,6,10 or 20 of them that it contributes to a land housing shortage in our city. That's not even free market capitalism. It's akin to one guy buying up all the fancy graphics cards in a sale from Best Buy, leaving nothing for the other customers. That's why stores like that have signs that say 'Limit 2 per customer'. Because they wanna make sure there is an available supply for their loyal customers and a 'free market'. So that's what should be done to real estate in Vancouver. Limit the hoarding. Punish the hoarders so they'll subsidize everybody else instead of single home owners subsidizing them.

This is why I hate fucking China where Zetsu is from.

Because they're like a bunch of locusts who hoard the land and push up rents like that. Then they push vulnerable people like that woman onto the street.

I also hate the fucking Mayor of Vancouver Kenny Sim too and his ABC party too.

he thinks our public streets are valuable real estate to block off and tear up. We're actually losing streets and ramps to real estate hucksters who just wanna make a quick buck at our expense. Our road system is a fuckin joke. They wanna double the populaiton density while cutting/hacking our public road system in half.

That's why sensible nations are right to keep fucking China out so they don't displace the local popuation.

Average 1BR rent Vancouver, $3,000 per month:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/average-rent-for-a-one-bedroom-apartment-vancouver-tops-3000-a-month

What I think should be done is anyone buying more than 1 home should be taxed progressively so with each home added, they pay more tax. So if they buy 10 homes, then 10th home will be taxed muc higher than the 1st or 2nd.

And people who use shill buyers will be fined accordingly as well.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on October 21, 2023, 07:25:22 PM
What are you going to do about it, Senile Joe?
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Herman on October 22, 2023, 01:49:32 AM
Quote from: TheProwler on October 21, 2023, 07:25:22 PMWhat are you going to do about it, Senile Joe?
He is going to beg a gal for money.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oliver the Second on October 22, 2023, 09:00:30 AM
There's a real problem here with real estate investors buying up houses and turning them into rentals. They deplete the available supply at the same time they raise rents. I'd love to see a law saying "You can't buy a house unless it's going to be your primary residence". Maybe then I wouldn't be seeing all these people living in motor homes and tents on the side of the road. An absolute disgrace is what it is.

A house is supposed to be a home, not an ATM machine for some investment group.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: caskur on October 22, 2023, 01:41:17 PM
Quote from: JOE on October 21, 2023, 11:21:39 AM...reason why I support a Land Hoarding Tax, Prowler.

I don't mind if people have a large first home even a mansion and nice vacation home.

But it's when they own 5,6,10 or 20 of them that it contributes to a land housing shortage in our city. That's not even free market capitalism. It's akin to one guy buying up all the fancy graphics cards in a sale from Best Buy, leaving nothing for the other customers. That's why stores like that have signs that say 'Limit 2 per customer'. Because they wanna make sure there is an available supply for their loyal customers and a 'free market'. So that's what should be done to real estate in Vancouver. Limit the hoarding. Punish the hoarders so they'll subsidize everybody else instead of single home owners subsidizing them.

This is why I hate fucking China where Zetsu is from.

Because they're like a bunch of locusts who hoard the land and push up rents like that. Then they push vulnerable people like that woman onto the street.

I also hate the fucking Mayor of Vancouver Kenny Sim too and his ABC party too.

he thinks our public streets are valuable real estate to block off and tear up. We're actually losing streets and ramps to real estate hucksters who just wanna make a quick buck at our expense. Our road system is a fuckin joke. They wanna double the populaiton density while cutting/hacking our public road system in half.

That's why sensible nations are right to keep fucking China out so they don't displace the local popuation.

Average 1BR rent Vancouver, $3,000 per month:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/average-rent-for-a-one-bedroom-apartment-vancouver-tops-3000-a-month

What I think should be done is anyone buying more than 1 home should be taxed progressively so with each home added, they pay more tax. So if they buy 10 homes, then 10th home will be taxed muc higher than the 1st or 2nd.

And people who use shill buyers will be fined accordingly as well.

We have big problems in Australia too... your problems sound just like ours.

I fear for our young people. They are the ones directly affected by housing or lack there of.

Suicide is up.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oerdin on October 23, 2023, 09:34:16 PM
A land hording tax sounds like one of those retarded ideas which would definitely create far more problems then it solves.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 25, 2023, 09:03:50 PM
Quote from: caskur on October 22, 2023, 01:41:17 PMWe have big problems in Australia too... your problems sound just like ours.

I fear for our young people. They are the ones directly affected by housing or lack there of.

Suicide is up.

...because it's caused by the same fucking people.

Likely most from China.

apparently even the fentynal crisis as well.
At least in Vancouver they keep pushing the shit onto our streets.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: caskur on October 25, 2023, 10:07:08 PM
Quote from: JOE on October 25, 2023, 09:03:50 PM...because it's caused by the same fucking people.

Likely most from China.

apparently even the fentynal crisis as well.
At least in Vancouver they keep pushing the shit onto our streets.


Yep...

but here is a notion Joe, they can't take it back home with them. I  remember in the 80s when there was a running joke, Queensland, beautiful one day, Japanese the next....it came from an tourism ad, Queensland, - beautiful one day, perfect the next. They were worried the Japanese buying all the real estate.

Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: caskur on October 25, 2023, 10:12:41 PM
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: caskur on October 25, 2023, 10:21:56 PM
Joe.... look up Australia's "negative gearing"


The more houses they buy, the less tax they pay.

Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 26, 2023, 01:54:17 AM
Quote from: Oerdin on October 23, 2023, 09:34:16 PMA land hording tax sounds like one of those retarded ideas which would definitely create far more problems then it solves.

And yet some countries have adopted such measures such as Ireland and Ecuador

Places like Peurto Rico the locals are veing pushed out of their homes because they can no longer afford to live in them as foreigners move in to gobble up the real estate

So this is not an isolated phenomenon
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 26, 2023, 02:05:26 AM
Gave money this time to a male beggar

There's actually nothing wrong with that as long as a person genuinely needs it they dont steal and its for something like food.

I bought food for him before
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on October 26, 2023, 04:16:37 PM
Quote from: JOE on October 26, 2023, 02:05:26 AMGave money this time to a male beggar

There's actually nothing wrong with that as long as a person genuinely needs it they dont steal and its for something like food.

I bought food for him before

I donated $50,000 to a homeless shelter yesterday.

It is one where I sometimes put on free music shows.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 26, 2023, 06:02:08 PM
Quote from: TheProwler on October 26, 2023, 04:16:37 PMI donated $50,000 to a homeless shelter yesterday.

It is one where I sometimes put on free music shows.

Do you have any proof?

Which shelter?

Receipts?

Letters from the designated shelter thanking you for your gift?

Usu such an amount in a small town like yours would not go unnoticed and be published in the local paper.

Post any articles citing your gift as well

Did the give you a name plate and honourable mention as well?

Post that too Prowler
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Herman on October 26, 2023, 07:21:56 PM
Quote from: JOE on October 26, 2023, 06:02:08 PMDo you have any proof?

Which shelter?

Receipts?

Letters from the designated shelter thanking you for your gift?

Usu such an amount in a small town like yours would not go unnoticed and be published in the local paper.

Post any articles citing your gift as well

Did the give you a name plate and honourable mention as well?

Post that too Prowler
Says the guy who has never once posted a picture, but claims he has a full head of hair. :laughinatu:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on October 26, 2023, 09:42:13 PM
Quote from: Herman on October 26, 2023, 07:21:56 PMSays the guy who has never once posted a picture, but claims he has a full head of hair. :laughinatu:

Just as your alcoholism is well known in these forums, the folks here and at BF are fully aware of The Prowler's baldness.

But just to satisfy your curisioty, I can post photos of my coin collection if you wish.

It's just a small hobby collection & worth as much as Prowler's alleged $50,000 donation to his local homeless shelter.

But at least I can provide proof.

Not sure if the Prowler can or will at his end.

Would you like me to do that, Herm?
Would that satisfy your curiosity?
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Thiel on October 26, 2023, 09:51:56 PM
Quote from: Herman on October 26, 2023, 07:21:56 PMSays the guy who has never once posted a picture, but claims he has a full head of hair. :laughinatu:
I don't care that Joe is bald. He is still cute as the dickens.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on October 26, 2023, 09:53:06 PM
Have you hooked up on the down low with Thiel yet, Joe?

Do I hear wedding bells?
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Thiel on October 26, 2023, 09:57:23 PM
Quote from: Frood on October 26, 2023, 09:53:06 PMHave you hooked up on the down low with Thiel yet, Joe?

Do I hear wedding bells?
He still has that conservative bugaboo. He is definitely conservative curious.

He will come around though and realize conservative men can be good lovers just like all his socialist boyfriends in the past.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on October 26, 2023, 09:59:51 PM
Quote from: Thiel on October 26, 2023, 09:57:23 PMHe still has that conservative bugaboo. He is definitely conservative curious.

He will come around though and realize conservative men can be good lovers just like all his socialist boyfriends in the past.

Socialists aren't good on giving... only taking.

So if Joe doesn't want to ride the bus or you don't care to drive it, it might be a short-lived bromance, dude.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Thiel on October 26, 2023, 10:07:56 PM
Quote from: Frood on October 26, 2023, 09:59:51 PMSocialists aren't good on giving... only taking.
That's okay. Jo Jo will be a receiver.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on October 26, 2023, 10:38:09 PM
Quote from: Thiel on October 26, 2023, 10:07:56 PMThat's okay. Jo Jo will be a receiver.

Tip that customer well.

You just know he carries huge amounts of interest in your divid-end and would give his seat up at the Bored Meeting for multiple promised inflation hikes.

I guess you could say that old incel Joe's bottom line is money in the bank.. 
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on October 27, 2023, 06:21:29 AM
Quote from: JOE on October 26, 2023, 06:02:08 PMUsu such an amount in a small town like yours


"Kitchener is Canada's 10th most populated city with an estimated population of over 480,000 people."

https://www.canadapopulation.net/kitchener-population/

I do not really live in a small town, you dope.

And of course I got a receipt for tax purposes.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Herman on October 27, 2023, 01:22:06 PM
Quote from: TheProwler on October 27, 2023, 06:21:29 AM"Kitchener is Canada's 10th most populated city with an estimated population of over 480,000 people."

https://www.canadapopulation.net/kitchener-population/

I do not really live in a small town, you dope.

And of course I got a receipt for tax purposes.
It's about the size of Regina and Saskatoon combined.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oerdin on November 01, 2023, 05:57:46 PM
Quote from: TheProwler on October 27, 2023, 06:21:29 AM"Kitchener is Canada's 10th most populated city with an estimated population of over 480,000 people."

https://www.canadapopulation.net/kitchener-population/

I do not really live in a small town, you dope.

And of course I got a receipt for tax purposes.

Decent size.  It would seem empty to me as my county has 3 million but if someone came over from Asia they'd probably complain this area lacked people.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 02, 2023, 11:33:30 PM
Quote from: Oerdin on November 01, 2023, 05:57:46 PMDecent size.  It would seem empty to me as my county has 3 million but if someone came over from Asia they'd probably complain this area lacked people.

TheProwler is a small town Canadian hick who actually thinks a Camaro is a 'high end vehicle.' But of course where you live, $200,000 cars are commonplace. And like Vancouver, the rich drive Audis, Porsches, Mercedes or Teslas. Anyways, that's what I see in their garages. Either that or they drive pristine vintage cars and show them off.

Doesn't California have at least 25% of all the Lambos in the USA?
Esp SoCal.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on November 02, 2023, 11:40:25 PM
Shouldn't you be giving T a full body massage with exotic essential oils from around the globe, Joe?

Your comic books, coins, stamps, and Happy Meals will be lucky to pay the basic bills beyond your first year of retirement in your 80's...  :dontknow:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on November 03, 2023, 03:26:14 AM
Quote from: Frood on November 02, 2023, 11:40:25 PMYour comic books, coins, stamps, and Happy Meals will be lucky to pay the basic bills beyond your first year of retirement in your 80's...  :dontknow:

Joe literally was on these boards complaining about having to help his mother clean her home a few weeks before she croaked.

Now he got the inheritance and blew it all on comic books and counterfeit coins and he cannot afford to buy a $400K condo in the slums of Vancouver.

The guy is a bit of a loser.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on November 03, 2023, 03:44:05 AM
Yeah.... he's a loser.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 03, 2023, 05:53:59 AM
Quote from: TheProwler on November 03, 2023, 03:26:14 AMJoe literally was on these boards complaining about having to help his mother clean her home a few weeks before she croaked.

Now he got the inheritance and blew it all on comic books and counterfeit coins and he cannot afford to buy a $400K condo in the slums of Vancouver.

The guy is a bit of a loser.

I have no intention of buying a bottom of the barrel $400K condo in Vancouver. That's precisely the trap the developers and the ruling elites want us all to buy into, Prowler. 99 and 50 year leases with tenuous ownership clauses. Looked into it, I can buy land with permanent title for 1/2 that price or less outside the city. Same climate, same environment but even better since they still have open space as opposed to a crowded and congested city. No crime either.

Another thing the City/Province did was to lower the threshold to unload and bulldoze perfectly viable housing developments. At one time the approval 100% of strata owners to sell and vacate a development if someone wanted to go in and bulldoze it, build something else in it. Now it's 80%. The rules were 'relaxed' for the benefit of developers at the expense of the homeowner. So of course, now these poor seniors who bought into them in the 1970s thinking they had something permanent in their elderly years are Shit Out of Luck now, because their fellow strata owners decided to sell the place even they voted to stay. And when they try to go back and buy in, now they need a million or so to get back what they had. Of course, they're only offered $200,000 or so for the homes they once thought permanent. In all probability they'll just keep lowering the requirements till its 60% and 50%?

The politicians here are very greedy, power hungry and have sold the most vulnerable out to the highest bidder.

All those shitbox condos are, is the gift that keeps on giving to the developers and the politicians. I recently met someone who must have paid upwards of $1 million for hers and now I heard she heard she lost her job.

BTW, I can always sell my collectibles and gold and get 100% or more for it.

But your camaros won't sell for more than 20 cents to the dollar.
Far fewer people will want your gas guzzling monsters esp when fuel reaches $20 a gallon, Prowler. Personally, if I were going that route, I'd buy a vintage show car such as 1957 Corvette to rent out to the movie studios and advertisers for photo shoots.

You think I'm 'money obsessed' to have that mindset, but that's exactly how the largest limousine company in my city thinks. Star Limousine - go look them up. I've been there. They have 100 cars on their lot. When they spend $200,000 on a brand new Mercedes, they wanna see revenue out of it. So if they can't pull in as much as they paid for it, it's a money losing proposition for them and they get rid of them if they can't turn a profit. If those things don't make money, the limo companies get edgy and begin to lay off staff and unload expensive unnecessary cars in their lot.

In my books, a person should make money from high priced assets. At least as much as they paid for them or be able to sell/unload easily in the future. Otherwise, they just become an expensive paperweight.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Herman on November 03, 2023, 06:00:33 AM
Quote from: TheProwler on November 03, 2023, 03:26:14 AMThe guy is a bit of a bullshitter.
This is what you meant to say.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oerdin on November 03, 2023, 02:57:37 PM
Quote from: JOE on November 02, 2023, 11:33:30 PMTheProwler is a small town Canadian hick who actually thinks a Camaro is a 'high end vehicle.' But of course where you live, $200,000 cars are commonplace. And like Vancouver, the rich drive Audis, Porsches, Mercedes or Teslas. Anyways, that's what I see in their garages. Either that or they drive pristine vintage cars and show them off.

Doesn't California have at least 25% of all the Lambos in the USA?
Esp SoCal.

I find idiots buy expensive cars which go down in value.  You can't put earn stupid behavior which is why there are so many people making $300,000 per year but living pay check to pay check.  Smart people live below their means so they can save and I very the difference.  BTW 400,000 isn't a small hick town.

The town I went to college in, Santa Barbara, had below 300,000 but they kept it intentionally small to keep it exclusive.  As in multimillionaires and billionaires only.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oerdin on November 03, 2023, 05:25:55 PM
Joe, have you or are you actually buying any land outside the city to build a house on?
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: DKG on November 03, 2023, 06:09:48 PM
Quote from: Oerdin on November 03, 2023, 05:25:55 PMJoe, have you or are you actually buying any land outside the city to build a house on?
Of course not. He is a serial bullshitter. He has been trolling like this for at least a decade.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on November 03, 2023, 06:34:36 PM
Quote from: JOE on November 03, 2023, 05:53:59 AMBlah blah blah

Get some new material, you clown.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on November 03, 2023, 06:46:06 PM
Quote from: Oerdin on November 03, 2023, 02:57:37 PMI find idiots buy expensive cars which go down in value.

Consider this....

A few years ago, I was in the market for a sports car.

I like new cars, not used cars because I value being the first driver of the car, and I value the brand new car experience from breaking in the engine to the pristine interior.

I have always liked Corvettes, and the new Corvette looked good and was getting stellar reviews.

So I wanted a new Corvette.  So I got on several waiting lists and when my name came up, I bought the car I wanted.

I paid cash.  I did not take out a loan.  I did not sacrifice any other want or desire in life in order to buy my Corvette.

I consider my Corvette to be a means to something I enjoy very much (driving a sports car).  I consider the price to be fair for the amount of pleasure I get out of it.

I am sure that at some point the value of the car will go down and that is fine with me.  I think the pleasure than I gain is worth the price.

I expect it to be like my 2002 Camaro Z28.  I got 21 years of pleasure driving from it and I do not feel it owes me a dime.

Do you think buying my 2002 Camaro Z28 in 2002 was a mistake?  Do you think buying my 2023 Corvette in 2022 was a mistake?
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 07:14:35 PM
Hmm let me get this straight..

Joe - Complaining about the housing market all day long and struggling to purchase a home but still choose to fling money for hobbies instead (claiming it's for investment purposes, lol)

TheProwler - Has 6 digit income, can afford a house/all necessity, then he choose to buy a $90,000 sports car with room to spare (charity).
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: DKG on November 03, 2023, 07:18:14 PM
Quote from: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 07:14:35 PMHmm let me get this straight..

Joe - Complaining about the housing market all day long and struggling to purchase a home but still choose to fling money for hobbies instead (claiming it's for investment purposes, lol)

TheProwler - Has 6 digit income, can afford a house/all necessity, then he choose to buy a $90,000 sports car with room to spare (charity).
Yes
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 07:28:16 PM
Quote from: DKG on November 03, 2023, 07:18:14 PMYes

Sounds like Joe has been projecting the whole time.  :Doh2:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on November 03, 2023, 07:30:44 PM
Joe would love to have Thiel projecting into his mouth...
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 03, 2023, 08:19:27 PM
Quote from: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 07:14:35 PMHmm let me get this straight..

Joe - Complaining about the housing market all day long and struggling to purchase a home but still choose to fling money for hobbies instead (claiming it's for investment purposes, lol)

TheProwler - Has 6 digit income, can afford a house/all necessity, then he choose to buy a $90,000 sports car with room to spare (charity).

Actually Zetsu, I'm planning to get out of Vancouver in the near future.

The more I think about it, it's the only way to avoid becoming like those poor people on the street or live in their cars. The developers in Vancouver and the politicians they bribe simply don't care about the common folk they displace.

Y'know, I spoke with a very well-known wealthy local radio broadcaster when I drove limo. He said exactly the same thing to me. He bought a house, cuz he doesn't trust Condos and the fragility of that form of home ownership.

I figger the only reason a person would ever buy a condo is to rent it out hopefully at an exhorbitant monthly rate and make their money bock on those shit boxes as fast as they can. then sell the damn thing hopefully for a profit.

But as far as providing secure home ownership, never go there, eh.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 08:35:52 PM
Quote from: JOE on November 03, 2023, 08:19:27 PMActually Zetsu, I'm planning to get out of Vancouver.

The more I think about it, it's the only way to avoid becoming like those poor people on the street.

Y'know, I spoke with a very well-known wealthy local radio broadcaster when I drove limo. He said exactly the same thing to me. He bought a house, cuz he doesn't trust Condos and the fragility of that form of home ownership.

I figger the only reason a person would ever buy a condo is to rent it out hopefully at an exhorbitant monthly rate and make their money bock on those shit boxes as fast as they can. then sell the damn thing hopefully for a profit.

But as far as providing secure home ownership, never go there, eh.

Yea I get your point Joe, but if you want affordability ya gotta give up some of the convenience and luxury and move to the countryside.

Having a dad and seeing him buying properly no difference from groceries, all I can say is it's extremely heavily monitored and driven by supply and demand, simply to say you get what you pay for in 99.9% of the cases, but if you have no kids you have the advantage of not having to look for a quality school in the area, which will save you a few hundred grands already from the Asian competition.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 03, 2023, 08:42:43 PM
Quote from: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 08:35:52 PMYea I get your point Joe, but if you want affordability ya gotta give up some of the convenience and luxury and move to the countryside.

Having a dad and seeing him buying properly no difference from groceries, all I can say is it's extremely heavily monitored and driven by supply and demand, simply to say you get what you pay for in 99.9% of the cases, but if you have no kids you have the advantage of not having to look for a quality school in the area, which will save you a few hundred grands already from the Asian competition.

Yeah, I got friends who've got kids, and they're essentially grounded fer life primarily cuz they started families too late.

OK if ya like that kinda lifestyle, but unless a person is in it for the long haul, it's a tough grind.

From what I've seen, a kid will cost you every penny you have.
And your health too. Cripes I know a guy who's 75 and he still has 15 year old son to support and I know he hates it. He's a single Dad and divorced from that woman who bore his son. And at 75 he's still doing menial jobs for not that great a pay. But he can't stop so he'll probably have to support his son til he goes to the grave.

So if a person wants to go there, they had really wanna go there & really love their kids.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 08:49:23 PM
Quote from: JOE on November 03, 2023, 08:42:43 PMYeah, I got friends who've got kids, and they're essentially grounded fer life primarily cuz they started families too late.

OK if ya like that kinda lifestyle, but unless a person is in it for the long haul, it's a tough grind from what I've seen.

From what I've seen, a kid will cost you every penny you have.
And your health too. Cripes I know a guy who's 75 and he still has 15 year old son to support and I know he hates it. He's a single Dad and divorced from that woman who bore his son. And at 75 he's still doing menial jobs for not that great a pay.

So if a person wants to go there, they had really wanna go there & really love their kids.

A bit off topic but this is why I'll never vote for Liberals, they want more people to have kids but there's not enough, so they import immigrants, immigrants drive up housing prices and demand, increase in housing prices drives up living cost, increase living cost no one wants or could afford to raise kids, sprinkle some sky high taxes, etc etc, and the cycle continues.  :Doh2:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 03, 2023, 08:53:07 PM
Quote from: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 08:49:23 PMA bit off topic but this is why I'll never vote for Liberals, they want more people to have kids but there's not enough, so they import immigrants, immigrants drive up housing prices and demand, increase in housing prices drives up living cost, increase living cost no one wants or could afford to raise kids, sprinkle some sky high taxes, etc etc, and the cycle continues.  :Doh2:

I agree. The Liberals have to go. They've lost their focus.

And Trudeau seems really clueless and confused, particularly since his separation from his Ex.

Tho I'll probably sit out the election or vote for some Indepedent, I don't care if they lose the next election.

If they other party thinks they can do a better job, then by all means give them a a shot/chance.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Oerdin on November 04, 2023, 12:51:39 AM
I made a mistake exactly one time.  You buy a new BMW for $50,000 then eight years later you sell it for $7500.  Fuck German cars.  Oh, and they are money pits besides.

Buy Japanese and be happy
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Herman on November 04, 2023, 02:48:44 AM
Quote from: Zetsu on November 03, 2023, 08:49:23 PMA bit off topic but this is why I'll never vote for Liberals, they want more people to have kids but there's not enough, so they import immigrants, immigrants drive up housing prices and demand, increase in housing prices drives up living cost, increase living cost no one wants or could afford to raise kids, sprinkle some sky high taxes, etc etc, and the cycle continues.  :Doh2:
Mass immigration is another way Justine is making life unaffordable for Canadians. The number of immigrants we admit each year has doubled on his irresponsible watch.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 04, 2023, 10:03:23 AM
Quote from: Herman on November 04, 2023, 02:48:44 AMMass immigration is another way Justine is making life unaffordable for Canadians. The number of immigrants we admit each year has doubled on his irresponsible watch.

Trudeau gotta go when he doesn't realize how much garbage he's bringing into the country.  No offense to new recent immigrants, but as an immigrant myself, I'm fully honestly aware of the current quality and integrity of our own ppl.   :musicboohoo:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 04, 2023, 10:24:31 AM
Quote from: Oerdin on November 04, 2023, 12:51:39 AMI made a mistake exactly one time.  You buy a new BMW for $50,000 then eight years later you sell it for $7500.  Fuck German cars.  Oh, and they are money pits besides.

Buy Japanese and be happy

My dad says German cars used to be good in quality until China developed and Chinese started buying/demanding them, along with too much adding more and more electronic components it kind of went down hill from there.

A Toyota Corrola is not only good in QC and their innovative assembly line/management, but from what I've heard it lacks all the bell and whistles, nothing complex to break, lol.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Shen Li on November 04, 2023, 11:55:26 AM
Quote from: Zetsu on November 04, 2023, 10:03:23 AMTrudeau gotta go when he doesn't realize how much garbage he's bringing into the country.  No offense to new recent immigrants, but as an immigrant myself, I'm fully honestly aware of the current quality and integrity of our own ppl.   :musicboohoo:
Our immigration levels are totally unsustainable.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Zetsu on November 04, 2023, 12:10:47 PM
Quote from: Shen Li on November 04, 2023, 11:55:26 AMOur immigration levels are totally unsustainable.

Exactly, meanwhile Canadians are thrown under the bus, it's just a matter of time before the immigrants end up thrown under too.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 04, 2023, 10:06:03 PM
Quote from: Shen Li on November 04, 2023, 11:55:26 AMOur immigration levels are totally unsustainable.

Plus there's no real strategy to integrate them.

And they're importing the wrong kind of immigrants.

Can't just have a bunch of poor people coming in.

There should be fewer but better qualified and hopefully monied immigrants who can create jobs here.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Thiel on November 06, 2023, 06:22:37 PM
Quote from: Frood on November 02, 2023, 11:40:25 PMShouldn't you be giving T a full body massage with exotic essential oils from around the globe, Joe?

Your comic books, coins, stamps, and Happy Meals will be lucky to pay the basic bills beyond your first year of retirement in your 80's...  :dontknow:
When he moves in with me, we can give each full body massages.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on November 07, 2023, 03:00:26 AM
Quote from: Thiel on November 06, 2023, 06:22:37 PMWhen he moves in with me, we can give each full body massages.

You've got a big heart, Thiel... taking in an aging broke stray like Joe.  :thumbup2:
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 07, 2023, 10:37:41 PM
Quote from: Oerdin on November 03, 2023, 05:25:55 PMJoe, have you or are you actually buying any land outside the city to build a house on?

I'm thinking about it, Oerdin.

What are the pitfalls of doing it?

Maybe it's too expensive?

too much infrastructure to lay down?

I was thinking of a plot of land where I could do what Dove did, and put a trailer on it. something portable.

But I don't know if this is viable.

this guy talks about the pitfalls of actually owning raw land:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseVEa2PfsY

Still, when a piece of land can be bought for as low as $30,000 USD as opposed to a condo $300,000 and up, I don't know how viable it is to purchase a condo either.

My uncle has a condo, and he's draining his equity all the time by taking out reverse mortgages. the condo association asks him for $10,000 for this $20,000 for that. Reverse mortgageis the only way he can afford to remain there. so he gets nickel and dimed ta death. I suppose at the end of his life, eh will have no equity left from that condo.

seeing what he's gone through, I'd rather avoid his fate.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: TheProwler on November 07, 2023, 11:35:41 PM
Joe is not capable of buying land and turning it into a place to live other than in a tent.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: JOE on November 08, 2023, 02:29:13 AM
Quote from: TheProwler on November 07, 2023, 11:35:41 PMJoe is not capable of buying land and turning it into a place to live other than in a tent.

and you live in the middle of nowhere and can't afford a place in Florida, Prowler.
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Frood on November 08, 2023, 02:42:45 AM
Joe is going to get a lot of tips at Thiel's place....

In Joe's bum hole and mouth hole...

(Sometimes simultaneously, if it's a party)
Title: Re: I gave money to a female beggar today
Post by: Shen Li on November 08, 2023, 10:25:32 AM
Fuck there's a lot more homelessness in Canada. Greenie federal, provincial and municipal rules are making Canadians destitute.