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My family definitely got the short end of most of these factors in the midwest.

* Very few high paying companies in the area and they were less likely to move due to owning.

* They made about 3.3k/year in appreciation for 20 years. That's on the order of a 13 hour per month side gig.

* Any gains definitely erased by the amount of labor they put into things such as mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, having the washing machine hose disconnect and leak water down into the basement. All of these little things added up to many man hours across.

You're doubting what? That there are people doing this?

It's not hard on a bay area L4+ salary to have a spare 40-50k several times a year (20% of a 200-250k property), especially if you are snowballing with profits from multiple other properties.

The problem isn't isolated though. We're at the point where people living in tech hubs are buying houses in Ohio every couple of months, simply because they can.

(owning) housing also isn't necessarily cheap relative to the jobs available in these areas.

I'm also a cmd+l -> n -> enter guy

I'll go ahead and fire off a recommendation to find a muay thai gym that has dedicated conditioning classes and some cool people. I wish I would have discovered it 10 years earlier when I started running cross country.

Running, for me, was the Runescape of sports. Very grindy, with very little room for me to use my mind.

Right. And most people are fully persuaded by much lesser sums.

If we're going to start counting 2nd and 3rd degree connections, why not count people that are home playing video games on a Microsoft console instead of driving somewhere?

I'll opt to ride in the street more often in a downtown area, since traffic is typically slow anyways. At minimum, I'll try to hit up the bike lane.

It does help that my scooter can accelerate up to 20-30mph easily though.

The laws are coming faster in some places than others and the presence of rentals is actually bad in terms of keeping attention on scooters down.

I figured I'd have 1-2 good summers in my current city before the laws caught up. So far they've only kicked us out of the main walking street, which sucks since it's actually perfect for scooters, but whatever. This is one of those moments where I wish I felt like a partner to government rather than a subject.

I haven't been hassled or seen someone hassled for sidewalk riding. I make sure to treat pedestrians like Gods though and opt to get off and walk my scooter before causing chaos, confusion, or even the optics of impatience.

I bought from ehweels and Jason is awesome. They honored the 1 year warranty on my Dualtron Spider.

The nuisance -> regulation flow is precisely why I became an early adopter and dropped ~$2500 on a fast one .

I wanted to have my fun before the hordes ruin it. If everyone had a scooter that could go over 35mph, it would be chaos.

To those that enjoy hooligan style fun, the time to get an electric scooter is now, before the laws catch up to the reality and make e-kick scooters just another point a to b experience. That said, have the hooligan fun in a way that doesn't accelerate the adoption of laws.

How does something like a sound system help you more in India than the US?

I can only wish to not only be so attractive, but to meet these types of women.

I agree that it definitely shouldn't be that way.

It's a cop out for the sales team to point and say "we made the sale, we're itemizing the value as ours when the whole possibility of the sale is made by the team.

This is why I like an RSU component as an engineer. If our value goes up, I expect to see some of it.

If there is no equity upside, engineers should stop working for bankers.