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Yes, but we would really prefer it if the Federal Govt. could bail us out. In California the budget problem is actually simple: Republicans won't allow property taxs to be increased. Democrats won't allow spending to be curtailed. The state is ungovernable and would be better off if...

Even a blind pig stumbles across a truffle occasionally. :D

+1 I didn't want to hammer the OP but was thinking that Pattaya is the last place in Thailand I would live. I, like you, would head up north to Chiang Mai or perhaps Koh Samui in the gulf or I might shack up with some Isan princess in her village and become some kind of half-assed...

I'm one of them. I mean, the whole country seems to regard conservative white middle-aged men who earn upper-middle-class wages as the enemy. We have a target painted on our asses (and our checkbooks). Why not take a couple of hundred k per year in federal salary to pay all those extra...

Absolutely true. People are negotiating or getting the referral through a friend in the same firm who kicks back half the commission. Nobody is paying full pop, at least not around here. I also agree about the internet. Finding a home online is actually pretty fun because of how many listings...

But where do you put the 3 cars, truck, boat, toyhauler, motorcycles, dogs, shoptools, compressor, grinder bench, lathe, welders, surfboards, skiis, scuba gear, home theater, library, shaving den, pool, sauna, pond(s), barbeque, gym equipment, guns, 4 bicycles, coffee roaster, observatory, and...

9% was a good mortgage back in the Carter days.

+1 1 x Silver Maple = 1 Chicken 25 x .22LR = 1 Chicken 6 x .308 = 1 Chicken 10 x 12ga. = 1 Chicken Well, something like that (in SHTF). :D Gold coins etc would probably be used to buy property etc, big things. Still need silver for the small stuff. I've got a couple of cases of...

Dr. Z, you are sparing with dolts who don't likely own s.cal property. Both kiwi_trader and bylowsellhi are known pikers. Don't waste your time. Eventually bylowsellhi will start blathering about female anatomy if you push him far enough. I've found your RE posts to be knowledgeble and...

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The modern outlook on alcohol is all wrong. Churchill greeted each day of his adult life with a Johnny Walker Red and water. I myself am old enough to remember the 2 martini lunch. It was kinda fun actually. :D When my paternal grandparents traveled one of their pieces of luggage was a...

Not only do I tip but I tip heavily. New nightclub? I usually shake hands with the doorman and floor host with a 20 folded up in my hand. I have always subsequently gotten excellent "beyond the call of duty" service and have never had anyone react negatively. Usually the owner is told and...

I voted for Arnold. He has clearly failed. I regret that vote. Dems won't cut spending and contend that Prop-13 is the root of all evil (they can't raise property tax more than 2% of assessed value per year. My home in chicago cost me 19k per year in property tax. My home in california of...

She is pretty hot, I guess I would vote for her. :D

"Many speak of my drinking but none speak of my great thirst." Winston Churchill

Yeah, I have a garage full of porsches including one that ran in LeMans in 1970. Got a 2009 shelby convertible. Got a truck the size of the navy. It means nothing. Cars are not even status symbols in s.cal anymore. What is important is having FUN. I respect the guys that use their money to...

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lol. I used to look for oil. Lost my job in the glut in '81 and changed fields. The smaller domestic oil and oil related companies got hurt and many failed.

I'm stunned. This is what people want? So we're going to let china pump out carbon from all their coal plants while we put the American economy in neutral to cap our emissions? Its Treason. I don't think a revolution is outside the realm of possibility. Hopefully it will be a political...

Yeah and we really need the money so we can keep paying out welfare to illegal aliens and the entire city of Oakland. Somebody has to pay for the bullet-train from Disneyland to Las Vegas. It is vital for our, well, junkets lol. Red folks won't allow the property taxes to be increased...