CA is the 5th worst state in getting value for your money (college, quality of life)

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by StanfordGrad12

Whatever makes him happy...again his whole goal in life seems to be owning a McMansion. I bet you can buy a even bigger lake house in Mississippi.

So only people in San Francisco have life fulfilling careers with meaning? Doctors, social workers and teachers are wasting their time in Mississippi?

Ok I bit and got a sour taste. I deserve it. Thanks for trolling

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by StanfordGrad12

Whatever makes him happy...again his whole goal in life seems to be owning a McMansion. I bet you can buy a even bigger lake house in Mississippi.

And I bet many can and are mature enough to do so without the need to identify themselves by where they went to school in their youth. But I guess for some, snob value trumps character.

Relative cost of living is just that.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

What about Atlanta, Miami, Austin, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Houston, Dallas, OKC, Charlotte?.

What about them?

(Btw: rhetorical question.)

[goodgirl49]

[quote=NoMoreSnowForMe;38531478]Your sister might want to come and rent in a senior apt bldg. Owning isn't necessary. There are a lot of affordable senior housing options in CA. It's huge business now - tax properties. Some have market rate units, and other types of units mixed in. They all have to pass inspections by the different funding agencies, and my experience so far in two of them (Redding and Crescent City) is that they are very nice and very well-maintained. Just a thought.


Thanks for the suggestions. I think at the moment she is going to stay where she is and snowbird in FL in the winter. She has more friends on the east coast, and really doesn't know many others in CA, other than myself. She lived in Monterey, CA for a few years in the early 90's when her husband was stationed at Ft. Ord, which is now a CSU. She loved that area, and she does prefer smaller cities to real huge ones. She lives outside of Pittsburgh now, and likes it except for the winters. She took a recent fall on ice, and has to have some physical therapy, which put her in a bad mood. She may change her mind in the future, who knows. She is only 60, but sadly she has been widowed for 11 years. She has a grown son living in VA.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

What about them?

(Btw: rhetorical question.)

You don't think someone can live a quality life there or is it all McMansions there too?

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

Oh c'mon like there are no generalizations of millenials? There's an article coming out everyday on yahoo about how my generation sucks at work, can't manage money and are just plain lost.

I know of course not all boomers act like what I described but I've noticed the main subscribers to the Fox News punditry and Alex jones type conspiracies are aging baby boomers who think our troubles are due to infiltrating forces like a powerful corporatist elite or a band of cultural Marxists.

So, radio, maybe this would be a good time and place to explain how other persons' vacuous, shallow "generalizations about millenials" makes your generalizations about boomers somehow correct and appropriate?

Do you think that the majority of FOX News and Alex Jones watchers / listeners being "aging baby boomers" translates to all boomers being that particular brand of bonehead? Correlation equals causation?

You went to college. Take any Logic 101? Higher crime in black communities means blacks are genetically predisposed to criminal behavior?

I mentioned a ways back that I had enjoyed some of your earlier posts. You are rapidly dismantling my opinion of your intellect here. And simple, over zealous, youthful idealism isn't the factor I'm talkin about.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

You don't think someone can live a quality life there or is it all McMansions there too?

I grew up in a small, very tired second floor duplex in St. Paul, MN. After leaving there I lived in a canvas rack deep inside a tiny, stuffy, smelly compartment with 20 other guys, shoulder to shoulder, in a WWII vintage aircraft carrier. Then in a narrow, rough bunk in a bunker in a "third world" country at war. Now I live on a small boat. No house.

I know that people can live quality lives anywhere. Even in prisons.

What people DON'T need, for a quality life, is a McMansion at all. Anywhere.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

So, radio, maybe this would be a good time and place to explain how other persons' vacuous, shallow "generalizations about millenials" makes your generalizations about boomers somehow correct and appropriate?

Do you think that the majority of FOX News and Alex Jones watchers / listeners being "aging baby boomers" translates to all boomers being that particular brand of bonehead? Correlation equals causation?

You went to college. Take any Logic 101? Higher crime in black communities means blacks are genetically predisposed to criminal behavior?

I mentioned a ways back that I had enjoyed some of your earlier posts. You are rapidly dismantling my opinion of your intellect here. And simple, over zealous, youthful idealism isn't the factor I'm talkin about.

Dude, if you want it spelled out simpler. Not all baby boomers are fox news right wing tea partiers but most Fox News tea partiers are aging baby boomer types. Look at the demographics that constitute the fan base of Fox news, the tea party and such.

The generalizations of millenials in vacuous articles on yahoo tend to talk about ambiguous work ethic, not politics which are largely polled and studied.

Seriously, what is your beef with this? The Cold War fear of socialism taking over the US if there's any newly enacted program is largely a problem with past generations.


I think you're taking this way too personally.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

I grew up in a small, very tired second floor duplex in St. Paul, MN. After leaving there I lived in a canvas rack deep inside a tiny, stuffy, smelly compartment with 20 other guys, shoulder to shoulder, in a WWII vintage aircraft carrier. Then in a narrow, rough bunk in a bunker in a "third world" country at war. Now I live on a small boat. No house.

I know that people can live quality lives anywhere. Even in prisons.

What people DON'T need, for a quality life, is a McMansion at all. Anywhere.

I think my point was that its different strokes for different folks.

[goodgirl49]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

I grew up in a small, very tired second floor duplex in St. Paul, MN. After leaving there I lived in a canvas rack deep inside a tiny, stuffy, smelly compartment with 20 other guys, shoulder to shoulder, in a WWII vintage aircraft carrier. Then in a narrow, rough bunk in a bunker in a "third world" country at war. Now I live on a small boat. No house.

I know that people can live quality lives anywhere. Even in prisons.

What people DON'T need, for a quality life, is a McMansion at all. Anywhere.

You do make a good point, but people with a larger family to raise might want more living space.