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I thought about this, but I actually believe my odds of death are higher in New York City. Suppose P( dying ) = P( dying | medical emergency ) + P( dying | city pollution ). I think the P( dying | medical emergency ) is substantially less than P( dying | city pollution ), and can be ignored as...

I thought about this. If the NAU comes out to seize guns, they'd head to the cities first. Remote and rural Canada is not a place to concentrate and exercise authoritarian strength. It's as forbidding to them as it would be to me, making a practical solution there all that much more...

What they do to offset the "free" is come up with models to fill you outside of the spread so they can take a profit. Your execution price will end up costing you the dollars you were going to pay in commission. There's no such thing as a free lunch in the broker business.

First of all, American citizens aren't the hardcore polluters. Second, if you look at some of the property in Canada, a lot of foreign companies are stripping the trees and doing some mining. You should be encouraging people to come in and use the land for something other than chopping down...

The oil economy is the problem. The people are getting fat paychecks that are driving up the cost of real-estate in those parts of Canada. They're abusing credit and leverage to pump up the prices. I call these real estate agents and none of the properties actually sit on the market for very...

It seems to me that the markets are going to put more demand on land that is for the lazy humans. If I can solve the problem of existence in the freezing wastelands of Canada, I would do quite well in terms of wealth and income. Insane wind is good, because it means I can come up with some...

Then you probably should go long on wanking-supplies companies.

I'm on the west side at Columbia Univ. I'll meet up with you on campus sometime, if you'd like. I was looking into whether the university had a way to form a gambling club or trading club, but it seems there's a great deal of bureaucracy involved.

God gave us masturbation for a reason. He then waited until the US financed the DARPA projects to give us the internet, on which he then enabled us to download porn. The sexual aspect of this problem is not an important one, unless you're drunk on the excess sexuality that happens to be in the...

The problem with this approach is that the Canadian wilderness flat out has no employment. Meaning, if I went out there, I'd have no way to generate income. I'd like to finance the acquisition of properties while also building a stash of gold/silver coins. The idea is that if there are...

Ok, what about the more remote areas of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia? The issue with the US and real estate here is that we're still tied to the dollar. I went to the Virgin Islands looking for real-estate and realized that a dollar collapse and a commodities price-shock would create total...

If Mitt Romney can hire illegals, so can I. I'm so fed up with the US, I want to live in the middle of nowhere and force myself to either: 1) appreciate what I have now, 2) find peaceful retirement on subsistence living, or 3) just lose a lot of weight trying to hack it on no income. Maybe...

I live in New York City, and I am bored out of my mind. I don't see how one can get bored of nature, fishing, water, snowmobiles, and fresh air. .... and the security of knowing your currency won't plummet into the abyss tomorrow, or that your government won't seize gold in a crisis because...

I've been entertaining some thoughts about moving into the boonies of Canada. If not permanently, then just by buying land in some place like the Northwest Territories and living in a cabin and fishing. So I did my research, started looking at real estate, and I find that I can buy land on...

IB does snapshot updates -- meaning, they don't give out quote for quote information from ITCH, SIAC, ARCA, etc. Does that matter? Send me a PM.

Yes, I looked into these energy cost issues. Once the home is paid for, I can construct models for hedging against rising energy costs. But if I have an expensive home, there's no way to offset anything with additional cash flow.

No one will hire me for that much out there. Here, I can get a high salary and then work out clever ways of not spending money. If I lose my job, there's always some other opportunity popping up in NYC. Even in crap markets, there's room to maneuver in NYC.

Are you a trader around here? I'd like to meet some successful traders and brainstorm. I met one guy from ET over in the financial district. I think his name was 'Eagle' something. So he said AIG wasn't going past $70 or so because he had some inside knowledge about a former insider. Then...

They're nice, but what I love even more is those Tex-Mex-Chinese restaurants that let you order an egg-roll and a burrito at the same time. Is that innovation or what!?

This was really helpful man. Thanks. I moved from UWS to Inwood/Wash Hts. My train ride to fin district is 55min. I got a lot of space and I like the neighborhood. However, co-op in my building for 1bed/1bath = $329,000. I'm just a renter.