Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "World According To Briggs" channel.

  1. Growth ruins dreams because growth only benefits developers, so I chose an area with very slow growth and zoned agricultural. My taxes are low, traffic is light and I have few neighbors. That let me retire affordably and I am loving it!
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  2. Huntsville has techies who are why it's different. Aerospace investment pays off.
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  3. It's no accident most of those states really are educationally therefore culturally backward. Centuries of adult choices by the voters are not accidents, they're INTENTIONAL. Another problem is importing even more helpless people. When the lifeboat is full the choice is row away or founder. New York is an interesting case because people really can leave the metro area but everyone seems to think they're the proverbial "temporarily embarrassed millionaire". Being wise than them I left decades ago. Not everyone should want to live where their situation WILL NOT get better. BTW you make good points on trade schools! My comfortable life is thanks to learning multiple trades (the more technical the better). The US neglecting trades education is why trades pay off, and seniority in trades is a major edge because experience is irreplaceable!
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  4. Cities exist for economic reasons and when those reasons cease to exist the city becomes surplus to requirements. There is no fix which is why most of the positive verbiage in this video is vague. The individual fix is to leave even if you have to start walking because the humans whose presence IN the community keeps crime down wisely fled. Wise businesses have enormous choice near east coast seaports with superior everything compared to flyover country so they locate accordingly. Businesses desperately need a literate socially functional workforce so they choose accordingly.
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  5. Unless you're rich or never went anywhere else moving to NY economically foolish and incredibly expensive. It's ALWAYS been corrupt, crowded and limiting. No, the state does NOT have something for everyone. That's just being nice for Youtube views. Here's an example: My NY metro area bro lives in a small house built in 1951 on a tiny lot and pays over ten thousand dollars in property tax alone. I pay less than 900 on six acres with two homes, a two bay garage, a two bay shop I build and other shop space I fabbed using shipping containers. He can't make noise. I can shoot rifle practice on my own land. The east coast if full. Crowd it if you want to because I made sure that won't confront me.
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  6. I hauled ass in 1981 because the future was obvious. Crowding, taxes and high cost of living. There is no reason to live there unless you are VERY rich. I can easily afford ten acres in NC (only 800 bucks in property tax) so I do. Bonus, I get rational vehicle and firearms laws.
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  7.  @emlmm88  It was much more classism which UNlike racism is logical and justified. People who can escape poverty have had residences away from the city at least since ancient Romans bough villas to get some time away from Rome. No one sane wants to live among poors, especially other poors so when people succeed economically they escape. For example there is nothing in NYC that isn't much better in a suburb of quality so since the 1800s when light rail transport enabled escape the New Jersey and other suburbs grew as fast as Americans could afford to move there. City life is inherently EXPENSIVE, LIMITING and stressful. One must be rich to afford decent urban property.
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  8. I escaped New Jersey decades ago and am delighted every day that I did.
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  9. People who move to good places RUIN them by changing them to what those people tried to escape. If you don't fit, GO AWAY. Small towns don't need urban invaders who already ruined their Blue cities and run from the consequences.
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  10. Visit in winter before deciding. Don't just look for a home during good weather if you plan to live there all year.
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  11.  @henkholdingastate  Right wing states work for me but as a military retiree everything is about LOCATION not "state" which is far too general, except for New Jersey which I left long ago due to horrific taxes. Only INDIVIDUAL situations matter, not the group I'm not part of.
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  12. If you want to relocate wisely, avoid poor people because they didn't get that way being intelligent, responsible or capable. Cities exist for economic reasons and when those end they are disposable. Don't live there. Choose growing TOWNS instead where the growth rate is driven by nearby areas but those areas haven't ruined them. NEVER buy in expecting to live there for the rest of your life unless you can manage a semi-rural area with inexorable but SLOW growth so what you bought in for isn't ruined while you're still alive.
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  13. "Shocking"???? It's an effing DESERT. That's fine for the right folks and those it does not suit should not defile it with their presence.
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  14. Cities exist for economic reasons and when they rely on industrial MONOCULTURES that makes them vulnerable after those disappeared. Efficient manufacturing reduces job count and one CNC machining center can replace a floor of manual tools, so it did. "The only people who stay in bad cities are the people who can't afford to move, or they are one of the few with a good job that makes it worth it to stay. " is spot on. The solution is not to live in one and when you had a lifetime to FORESEE urban decline there is no excuse for being there in 2023. Do remember that a bad city in no way means there are no good surrounding areas. An obsolete urban core doesn't always take adjacent areas with it.
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