How is your part of the world doing (both current and future prospects) compared to how it was 30/40 years ago? Please say where you are in the world....
cant speak for the greater country but my part of it is pretty good though not so much for me personally. America, PNW.
there’s a lot more jobs here - mid 1980s was when the tech boom hit our area, but real estate prices are very high as well, ~$600k for the area, ~$800k for where I live. it’s basically unaffordable to live here unless you make 6 figures - anything less than that is struggling.
I’m working on a van build so I can move to a more favorable state as I do not make anywhere near 6 figures. got about $40k in it now and probably another $25k to go, roughly.
I was wondering who is going to pay for the reconstruction of all the razed apartment buildings, schools and hospitals in Gaza? Are the US and Europe going to do that, or is Israel going to do at least this?...
oh Israel will do it. there’s probably enough space there for 5 or 6 settlements. over time it will grow, organically, into a thriving city full of happy and productive citizens, far from the den of squalor and poverty that it is now.
the most scared I’ve ever been was when I almost died at 8 years old.
growing up I was rather accident prone - the summer between 1st and 2nd grade I was at a friend’s birthday party & he had a fun idea that we should all ride our bikes to the lake. I had recently gotten a new bike and it had hand brakes, previously I had only used backpedal brakes & in retrospect I probably shouldnt have been riding it yet. on the ride to the lake I took a wrong turn and the bike landed in a rut on the side of the road which launched me into a barbed wire fence (back peddling fast af but, eh, no brakes there). got a really nice concussion (mid-80s, no helmets) but when I fell onto the barbed wire, it ended up ripping a good bit through the top and outside of my leg, through the fat layer and into the muscle (which was fortunate because the major artery is on the inside of the leg). the wound was only about 3 1/2 inches deep and 6 inches across but when you’re 8 years old your legs arent that big to begin with.
when I came to my friend’s mother was understandably losing her shit, driving at rally racing speeds to the local doctor, ~10 miles away. my blood was splattered everywhere on the passenger side of the car and she was screaming at me to apply pressure outside of the giant fucking hole in my leg. honestly thought I was going to die - the memories are pretty hazy after that but mind-shattering trauma will do that.
modern medicine and 150 intramuscular and about the same in dermal stitches saved my life. 35 years later and I still have 100% nerve damage on the outside of my leg above the knee to about mid-thigh. never been that scared since - once you’re forced to confront your own mortality everything else is really tame in comparison.
SF is a pricy place to live in, but here’s a picture of their menu - I wouldnt pay $57/person for four courses (and you know they werent large portions) in 2019. and that was before food prices went crazy - 2019 was the last year their restaurant was open. my bet is that the restaurant had financial issues.
unless they can grow the things that arent in season - you know, the stuff that people are used to eating when they’re eating out, then cancelling out CO2 emissions means nothing, food imports from other countries will continue apace. if all you can get at an upscale restaurant is in-season ingredients then you can just cook at home for half the price.
How is your part of the world doing?
How is your part of the world doing (both current and future prospects) compared to how it was 30/40 years ago? Please say where you are in the world....
Who's going to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza
I was wondering who is going to pay for the reconstruction of all the razed apartment buildings, schools and hospitals in Gaza? Are the US and Europe going to do that, or is Israel going to do at least this?...
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