Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Life is Getting Better" video.

Don't be fooled. She's warning you that things won't go well when she's off script.
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@spicycracker7828 You might want to read more than one Forbes article before coming to a conclusion. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/04/solved-why-poor-states-are-red-and-rich-states-are-blue/#67c8b4701d60) Just because California, for example, may have a higher average annual income than a place like Alabama doesn't mean much unless you're a very high income earner. You pretty much have to earn a high income in California to live a decent life. In Alabama, your income might be lower, but you can buy more with that lower income than you can in California with a higher income. That's one reason I can walk around town here and not see block after block of tents on the sidewalks and not be confronted with drug crazed psychotic panhandlers.
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@garybuck6535 What do I mean about what? My first post is a warning that otherwise attractive women who think purple hair looks good may have some psychological problems that will make your life miserable. See Anita Sarkeesian as an example. My second was implying that she's not 300 pounds yet. Purple hair and morbid obesity tend to go together.
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@khalilali2450 You mean *yet*...
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Airplanes and moving vans leave everyday. The money you earn in a place like that costs too much. I got out of California in 2005 because I could see where things were headed. The real estate bubble has maybe two more years to run. Get out while you can. You'll be amazed at how much more pleasant it is to live in a city that's not an open air insane asylum.
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Jesus H Christ on a Skateboard. The women with purple hair have even invaded Stossel TV...
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@homewall744 Sure. That explains why the ten fastest growing cities are are all blue like these, right? Boise City, Idaho Greeley, Colorado The Villages, Florida Odessa, Texas Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida St. George, Utah Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina-North Carolina. Midland, Texas Provo-Orem, Utah Unless you are also among the richest people living in Seattle or Silicon Valley, having all these millionaires around is a positive detriment to your quality of life. If you're even upper middle class, you have to run ever faster in the hamster wheel just to stay in the same place.
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@JamesSmith-dn8lb Yep and there are still lots of values still around in real estate now. A six bedroom, five bath 5,000 sq ft house down the street from me just sold for $299k, and that's an expensive house here. YOu can buy a nice 2,000 sq ft house in a nice neighborhood for $100k or less, and that's in town. As you say, country property goes for even less.
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@filipelimartins So Joker didn't take place in crime and chaos ridden Gotham City? Justice League wasn't based in crime ridden Central City?
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@filipelimartins I understand how mathematics works. I see you're from Brazil, so your understanding of a large city is different than those in the US. Nevertheless, the fastest growing large city is Phoenix AZ, currently at 1.66 million. Second is San Antonio TX at 1.53 million. None of the rest of the fastest growing cities exceed a million, although Fort Worth TX and Charlotte NC are close. Rounding out the top five large cities is Seattle, the only red city, at 746,000, and that experienced a paltry growth of 2%, almost all of which came from annexations. No city outside of Texas or Arizona with a population of a million or more experienced even a small population growth, and many are losing population.
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@filipelimartins Maybe because there are 17 cities over a million in Brazil while the US has ten, even though we have about 120 million more people? Maybe because every one of those 17 has a growth rate of over 9% and many are growing at 20%? Maybe because we have only one large city outside Texas or Arizona with a growth rate of more than 5%? It is more than rocket science if you understood the American economy and housing market. Places like New York City have rent and price controls on most real estate that artificially inflates the cost of housing. Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco have "growth control" ordinances that makes it nearly impossible to build more homes in the city limits. This artificially increases demand and prices for the existing housing stock by people already living there, not from people emigrating to those cities. These aren't organic price increases, they are created by the government. Name me a single city in Brazil with those kinds of laws. I wouldn't try to school you about the housing market in Brazil, or the economy there. I suggest you stop trying it with me.
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@filipelimartins lol no, what offends me is someone from another country feeling like they need to explain supply and demand in the US to me, and then ending with a snarky comment about me needing to get out of my bubble. You came into this discussion setting up a strawman about superheros, and you have proceeded to set up and knock down a new strawman with each reply. My mistake for not recognizing it sooner. I'm done with you.
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@gergc4871 She is attractive, but my experience is that purple hair is hiding something in her brain that's not so attractive.
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@gergc4871 I endured three of the worst years of my life by letting an attractive face and nice smile override my creep alarm. As the Jews say, Never Again!
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@filipelimartins Decades ago? Like the lastest Death Wish from last year? Like the Bad Ass series? Almost everyone living in and being subject to the bad side of urban life has a secret fantasy to become an urban vigilante. The problem with these ambitious young people is they wake up one day and find out they're not young but they are still arricted the money they think they can't live without.
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@filipelimartins Maybe you'd better restate you point then. I thought it was about superheroes and those problematic cities.
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