Do you know the way to San José? I've been away so long I may go wrong and lose my way Do you know the way to San José? I'm going back to find Some peace of mind in San José
L.A. is a great big freeway Put a hundred down and buy a car In a week, maybe two They'll make you a star Weeks turn into years, how quck they pass And all the stars that never were Are parking cars and pumping gas
You can really breathe in San José They've got a lot of space There'll be a place where I can stay I was born and raise
Maybe you should think twice about fat shaming now that we know your TRUE identity. Yes, that is right. The affiliate tracking pinpointed you and I have your IP and home address now. It could be very harmful to your health if you are thrown in jail for cyber bullying. Let that one sink in like the veterinarian-sharpened teeth of a guard dog.
In the 1960s, San Jose was mostly orange orchards.
So the song actually made sense when it was written.
I don't remember orange orchards in San Jose. That was Southern California. I do remember apricots orchards and tomato fields in the 1970 and 1980s.
You obviously couldn't remember the 60s Chris since you were born in 1969! Due to your many mental and health issues, you think that you are an old fart but you are still just a kid, especially mentally. Many of us here are much older than you are, I am 72. Your autistic brain is pretty good at remembering and especially repeating all the time. For example, you wrote in your essay that you apparently could remember all the answers of your "Quiz Wiz" toy without even listening to the questions but logic has
C.D. Reimer takes himself very seriously, he told us right here on Slashdot; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But did anybody ever wonder what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall, Creimy Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses And all the king's men Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty Together again.
Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just l
creimer is still arguing with himself on twitter, what an unbelievable stubborn fool! He writes, while still admitting he wasn't born yet:
Were there orange orchards in #SantaClaraCounty in 1960s? I don't think so. OTOH, I was born in 1969. I remember apricots and other orchards feeding the canneries in 1970s and 1980s. Last working orchard in #SiliconValley was apricots. Oranges were common in Southern California.
Here you go creimer: "The Last Orange Tree Orchard Amongst the High Tech of Silicon Valley": https://worldwidepanorama.org/... [worldwidepanorama.org]
Why don't you make a video about orange orchards in San José in the 1960s? Oh! I get it, since you weren't born yet, you would have no stupid anecdotes to report and nothing to brag about!
Will my #Shorts video from yesterday hit the "short shelf" on the #YouTube mobile app in the next hour?
Last one hit the shelf 21 hours after being posted, got 4.1K views and 3 subs.
How many times have I warned you about those hopeless expectations Christopher? I won't quote again what I already posted here several times since you have an amazing photographic memory of what you have seen since you were born but please, at least do yourself a favor; accept the help other people around you can provide and try to discern better and keep yourself away from believing in false prophets. -- Silvia Bunge Psychology Department University of California, Berkeley
CROFLOL! An humble member of The Alliance is a YouTube sysadmin and he suggested pushing Chris video to the "short shelf" since it was less risky for all members of The Alliance than using click-bots to boost Chris' views and watch time.
So, you are correct Silvia, those are "hopeless expectations"! Our humble member can't risk his job repetitively for Chris...
Cloning D drive to spare drive. I keep a spare 2TB drive just in case the D drive stops working for no reason at all. This spare drive was the previous D drive that I pulled out a year ago. It worked flawlessly in a friend's system when his brand new hard drive was DOA and RMA'd.
In would be nicer if you cloned them in real time with RAID 1, mister 2007 Microsoft certified engineer and 3 letter agency renowned expert security consultant!
Why do you mention your niece, you brother and your sister in law in your latest video? I thought you said that you didn't want to implicate your IRL siblings in all your non-sense.
Do they support all your non-sense? If they do, be suspicious. They probably have a family habit of stealing long tail revenue streams and just want to get rid of you by having you put in a mental institution then profit from telling your story without you getting a single cent out of it.
The high cost of living in San Jose is due to the sanctuary policy (for Hispanic illegal aliens) of the local governments. Hispanic illegal aliens boost demand for housing beyond the amount of housing that the private sector can build.
Sanctuary cities are bastions of anti-American sentiment. In such cities, the residents openly defy the laws of the United States and help illegal aliens from Latin America to stay permanently in our nation.
Allowing Hispanic illegal aliens to stay in the United States is unf
HP and Oracle are what we call âoethe walking dead.â They exist, do a service, stopped innovating and are ripe for disruption â"- say oracle â"> by a snowflake, mongo, splunk, aws... shoot, even Vertica.
HP and Oracle are what we call âoethe walking dead.â They exist, do a service, stopped innovating and are ripe for disruption â"- say oracle â"> by a snowflake, mongo, splunk, aws... shoot, even Vertica.
Thinking of Oracle as a database company from the eighties is a common misconception. If you're an international S & P 500 company like Amazon where would you get your business applications other than Oracle or SAP?
I hope tech workers in the valley don't want their kids to live near them when they grow up because their idiot growth policies that don't let anybody build upwards pretty much kill any chance for most of their kids to settle near them when they move out / graduate college.
I hope tech workers in the valley don't want their kids to live near them when they grow up because their idiot growth policies that don't let anybody build upwards pretty much kill any chance for most of their kids to settle near them when they move out / graduate college.
LOL, like the kids will ever move out, well maybe to a tiny home, or pool house in the backyard...
So when you retire and all of a sudden have massive amounts of free time you'll move away from all the relationships you built when you were working and move to a place where the only people you'll likely know are your kids who will probably be busy with their own new families?
That's definitely not for me. Having to make all new friends is not how I'd like to spend my mid 60's.
And even if you had, what year is it? We have this internet thingy that enables us to communicate with whole groups of people at once who are not sharing our physical location, now.
I'm still in touch with the people I like, despite having moved away.
Online communication is hardly a substitute for real life interaction in the context of human relationships. I still keep up with friends who have left my area but the relationships certainly aren't as close and typically fall off after some time
Army Brat too?
Although it seems more and more people grow up going to multiple schools and moving all the time. Usually just because housing is so insecure.
Well I said I'd retire in my mid 60's, not before and I think that is a very obtainable goal as my home is just about paid off and I still have 25 years to go before retirement.
The retirement age to be able to liquidate a pension is currently 67 in most countries, including the USA. It will most likely increase to 70 by the time people born in the 80s get to retire.
Now you could say you don't care about pension funds if you have other sources of income, but that is quite suboptimal financially.
The retirement age to be able to liquidate a pension is currently 67 in most countries, including the USA.
No it isn't. Not in the US anyway. In the US it's 65 for most pensions, and many will allow you to start drawing funds younger than that. You can get Social Security retirement benefits as early as age 62.
Now you could say you don't care about pension funds if you have other sources of income, but that is quite suboptimal financially.
I would certainly call 67 "mid 60's" as it is well within a middle range. As for the age going up, I doubt it. While there are certainly solvency issues with social security in this country raising the age of retirement would be political suicide for the party that does so.
The critical factor for many people in the USA, and also the factor that I think many younger Americans have not considered, is the cost of medical insurance before you hit 65 (when Medicare kicks in).
You think you'll retire before your mid-60s. Cute.
What's "cute" about it? If someone's made good money throughout their career and invested prudently, retirement by mid-60s is entirely doable.
I've been de facto retired for the last year, and I haven't reached 60. I could stay "retired" and not suffer a drop in my standard of living at all, unless there's some catastrophic collapse of the financial system. But in that case, everybody's screwed.
Yes, Austin is taking a total fucking pounding, to the point that frankly it was already at least as bad as the silicon valley when I was there over twenty years ago. During commute times, the freeway is at a standstill, and every parallel route is choked as well. Texans are allergic to those evil "socialist" infrastructure projects, so the situation has simply gotten worse since I was there. I lived across the parking lot from the office in the nearest apartments so I didn't have any commute (I just walked
Continually ruining one city after another cannot be tech's legacy forever. At some point they're going to have to embrace distributed work, and abandon the idea that they have to centralize, because people will eventually figure out that living in a major city is a fool's game.
I'm not sure why you're dumping all the blame on one sector. Jobs mostly came back in urban areas and people like living in or near cities. So popular places with jobs will get crowded. If society wants something else to happen you have to decide that and systematically incentivize it.
Or maybe Americans will one day come to accept public transportation again
Developing meaningful public transportation also requires large scale regional planning. There aren't many large US infrastructure projects you can name from the last forty years.
Yes, Austin is taking a total fucking pounding, to the point that frankly it was already at least as bad as the silicon valley when I was there over twenty years ago. During commute times, the freeway is at a standstill, and every parallel route is choked as well. Texans are allergic to those evil "socialist" infrastructure projects, so the situation has simply gotten worse since I was there. I lived across the parking lot from the office in the nearest apartments so I didn't have any commute (I just walked unless I planned to drive somewhere after work, and even then usually) so it was just basically bearable, but I hear the traffic stays bad for hours now.
Commute times in Austin are lower than LA, [bestplaces.net] lower than San Francisco, [bestplaces.net] Lower than San Jose, [bestplaces.net] lower than Oakland, [bestplaces.net] lower than Sacramento, [bestplaces.net] etc, etc, etc. - all while growing at a faster rate than any of those CA cities.
Texans are NOT allergic to those evil "socialist" infrastructure projects, especially when it comes to roads and freeways. California [usatoday.com] is among [usnews.com] the worst states [businessinsider.com] in the nation [forbes.com] for road and freeway [reason.org] infrastructure, ranking significantly below Texas in almost every measure. Texas spends 40% more per [taxpolicycenter.org]
SMH. Sorry, unless you have thousands of friends scattered about Austin who are systematically logging their commute times and reporting them to you year after year, anecdotes from your friends don't say much about the average Austin commute.
Here is the data [stlouisfed.org] on the reality of Austin commutes compared with major metros in California for the last decade. If you want to deny the facts and live in an alternate reality supported by your cherry picked anecdotes, more power to you I guess.
Not a chance. Maybe if you are two hr employees working at tech firms.
My guess they only looked at tech salaries, but total income is much higher. When you include stock, itâ(TM)s more like 300k-400k for a typical 2 tech income family.
Which means a frugal couple can bank 100k a year, and easily have a down payment for a million dollar home in a few years. And if your stock appreciated well while your saving, you may be in an even better position. Thatâ(TM)s whatâ(TM)s driving the housing mark
Ah yes. I read that wrong. That makes much more sense. Yes. A single average tech income salary is getting hard to afford a house here, but can still easily buy a condo. Maybe just not as close to work as you want.
If CA didnâ(TM)t have prop 13 and didnâ(TM)t have so many NIMBYs, both the Bay and SoCal would have urbanized long ago, but as result prices would be cheaper. Now weâ(TM)re in a situation weâ(TM)re the owners are afraid change, because they still donâ(TM)t want the area to
If CA didnâ(TM)t have prop 13 and didnâ(TM)t have so many NIMBYs, both the Bay and SoCal would have urbanized long ago, but as result prices would be cheaper. Now weâ(TM)re in a situation weâ(TM)re the owners are afraid change, because they still donâ(TM)t want the area to urbanize and they donâ(TM)t want their prop values to drop.
I don't know if that's better. I live in a shoebox-sized apartment in the Bay Area and it sucks. As a result I live a minimalist lifestyle and that sucks too.
At his point, it's way simpler just to abandon the pretense San Francisco is a real city - just wall it off ala Escape from New York, and any homeless person you find just dump them inside (lots of them already there), with obvious daily airlifts of food and heroin for humanitarian reasons.
NOI (net operating income) is income minus expenses. NOI, what is left of your income after expenses, is the number that determines how you live, based on the local prices of housing, goods, and services.
High income can be easily decimated by high expenses.
I’m a Seattle Tech Whore, and I’ve only been to San Jose once. I remember I kept looking for it, and someone finally said “we’re here”.
“We’re where?”
“San Jose”.
“Really? This is San Jose? It looks like Burbank. Or Glendale. Or San Bernardino. Or Rancho Cucamongo where my cousin Day-Day lives. See, once me and Day-Day decided to rob our neighbors of... it’s not important. Okay, seriously, where’s San Jose?”
San Jose is like the 8th largest city in the USA, and there’s no THERE there. It looks like any of a thousand California suburbs. Yeah,I get that’s where a ton of tech companies are, I just don’t understand why. The must have really wanted no distractions for the workers.
You have to pay through the nose to live in arguably the most generic place on earth. Okay, I obviously don’t know the place. Maybe it’s a hotbed of entertaining awesomeness and I’m not in the know. Maybe they have ‘Free Blowjob from a Supermodel Wednesdays” or something.
Aside from the nearby employers, I don’t personally get the appeal, though.
Doesn’t mean there’s not one. I just haven’t seen it. Maybe they just really don’t want me to move there and keep the fun out of sight when I visit.
Probably because you were in the suburb part? I don't understand the utter hatred and contempt some people have for suburbs, like it's so much worse than the dank urban core that some people prefer. I'm from a tiny rural town, and suburbs still seem like big city to me.
Also, just go to downtown San Jose, most of the tech isn't there, but it looks more like a city there. Skyscrapers aren't massive, but so what? Tech is outside of downtown because... why be downtown? More space elsewhere, easier commute
IME you are 100% correct. I was fortunate enough to be born in Santa Cruz prior to the '89 Quake so I know what a town with personality actually looks like. For us, San Jose (and the valley in general) was a place to shop. We'd go "over the hill" (on CA Hwy. 17) to go to Fry's or Virtual World or whatever. Then we'd fuck off outta there before it got too hot.
San Jose is not a city with a proper appeal. You live in San Jose to be in the Bay Area. It's not like you'll go to San Jose city center for a walk.
San Jose is actually the cheapest place in the south bay and you can afford a house there with an average tech worker salary. Not everywhere in San Jose, but there are definitely cheap places and even places where you might not want to live.
I'm not sure what the 12% means. Like, 200k is 12% of the house price ? That ha
"can afford just 12 percent of the homes for sale in the San Jose metro area." I'd argue that's that wrong number to look at. To me, it's obvious that homes in San Jose are by far the most affordable in the South Bay. Yes, there are plenty of expensive homes in San Jose, but more importantly, most of the "affordable" homes are in San Jose. The "affordable" homes in San Jose are east of CA-87 and away from the hills. San Jose is so large that it also includes the very expensive west San Jose area near C
The high cost of living in San Jose is due to the sanctuary policy (for Hispanic illegal aliens) of the local governments. Hispanic illegal aliens boost demand for housing beyond the amount of housing that the private sector can build.
Sanctuary cities are bastions of anti-American sentiment. In such cities, the residents openly defy the laws of the United States and help illegal aliens from Latin America to stay permanently in our nation.
Allowing Hispanic illegal aliens to stay in the United States is unf
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Do you know the way to San José? (Score:2, Interesting)
Do you know the way to San José?
I've been away so long
I may go wrong and lose my way
Do you know the way to San José?
I'm going back to find
Some peace of mind in San José
L.A. is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two
They'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years, how quck they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas
You can really breathe in San José
They've got a lot of space
There'll be a place where I can stay
I was born and raise
Re:Do you know the way to San José? (Score:5, Insightful)
In the 1960s, San Jose was mostly orange orchards.
So the song actually made sense when it was written.
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Re:Do you know the way to San Jose? (Score:-1)
I don't remember orange orchards in San Jose.
Were you there in the 1960s, you fat dipshit?? Do we need to update your resume online?
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Of course you wouldn't, you blocked out any traumatic memories of fresh fruits and vegetables!
You fat moron.
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Maybe you should think twice about fat shaming now that we know your TRUE identity. Yes, that is right. The affiliate tracking pinpointed you and I have your IP and home address now. It could be very harmful to your health if you are thrown in jail for cyber bullying. Let that one sink in like the veterinarian-sharpened teeth of a guard dog.
The. Management.
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In the 1960s, San Jose was mostly orange orchards.
So the song actually made sense when it was written.
I don't remember orange orchards in San Jose. That was Southern California. I do remember apricots orchards and tomato fields in the 1970 and 1980s.
You obviously couldn't remember the 60s Chris since you were born in 1969! Due to your many mental and health issues, you think that you are an old fart but you are still just a kid, especially mentally. Many of us here are much older than you are, I am 72. Your autistic brain is pretty good at remembering and especially repeating all the time. For example, you wrote in your essay that you apparently could remember all the answers of your "Quiz Wiz" toy without even listening to the questions but logic has
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C.D. Reimer takes himself very seriously, he told us right here on Slashdot; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But did anybody ever wonder what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just l
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creimer is still arguing with himself on twitter, what an unbelievable stubborn fool! He writes, while still admitting he wasn't born yet:
Were there orange orchards in #SantaClaraCounty in 1960s? I don't think so. OTOH, I was born in 1969. I remember apricots and other orchards feeding the canneries in 1970s and 1980s. Last working orchard in #SiliconValley was apricots. Oranges were common in Southern California.
Here you go creimer: "The Last Orange Tree Orchard Amongst the High Tech of Silicon Valley" :
https://worldwidepanorama.org/... [worldwidepanorama.org]
Why don't you make a video about orange orchards in San José in the 1960s? Oh! I get it, since you weren't born yet, you would have no stupid anecdotes to report and nothing to brag about!
Tragic, so tragically tragic!
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He remembers the Twinkies orchards of his youth, and being a twink for his sick uncle with the bucket of lard!
COBOL!!! CROFLOL!!!
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Will my #Shorts video from yesterday hit the "short shelf" on the #YouTube mobile app in the next hour?
Last one hit the shelf 21 hours after being posted, got 4.1K views and 3 subs.
How many times have I warned you about those hopeless expectations Christopher? I won't quote again what I already posted here several times since you have an amazing photographic memory of what you have seen since you were born but please, at least do yourself a favor; accept the help other people around you can provide and try to discern better and keep yourself away from believing in false prophets.
--
Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley
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CROFLOL! An humble member of The Alliance is a YouTube sysadmin and he suggested pushing Chris video to the "short shelf" since it was less risky for all members of The Alliance than using click-bots to boost Chris' views and watch time.
So, you are correct Silvia, those are "hopeless expectations"! Our humble member can't risk his job repetitively for Chris...
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Cloning D drive to spare drive. I keep a spare 2TB drive just in case the D drive stops working for no reason at all. This spare drive was the previous D drive that I pulled out a year ago. It worked flawlessly in a friend's system when his brand new hard drive was DOA and RMA'd.
In would be nicer if you cloned them in real time with RAID 1, mister 2007 Microsoft certified engineer and 3 letter agency renowned expert security consultant!
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Hey Chris!
Why do you mention your niece, you brother and your sister in law in your latest video? I thought you said that you didn't want to implicate your IRL siblings in all your non-sense.
Do they support all your non-sense? If they do, be suspicious. They probably have a family habit of stealing long tail revenue streams and just want to get rid of you by having you put in a mental institution then profit from telling your story without you getting a single cent out of it.
How about your former girlfriend
Re:Do you know the way to San Jose? (Score:0)
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Gotta be a star just to pay the entry fee now.
Hispanic Illegal Aliens (Score:0)
The high cost of living in San Jose is due to the sanctuary policy (for Hispanic illegal aliens) of the local governments. Hispanic illegal aliens boost demand for housing beyond the amount of housing that the private sector can build.
Sanctuary cities are bastions of anti-American sentiment. In such cities, the residents openly defy the laws of the United States and help illegal aliens from Latin America to stay permanently in our nation.
Allowing Hispanic illegal aliens to stay in the United States is unf
Tech heavyweights? (Score:1)
Re: Tech heavyweights? (Score:2)
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And if they move to Canada, they'll be able to rename themselves HPEh.
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HP and Oracle are what we call âoethe walking dead.â They exist, do a service, stopped innovating and are ripe for disruption â"- say oracle â"> by a snowflake, mongo, splunk, aws... shoot, even Vertica.
Thinking of Oracle as a database company from the eighties is a common misconception. If you're an international S & P 500 company like Amazon where would you get your business applications other than Oracle or SAP?
No shit? (Score:1)
Who would have thought! Iâ(TM)m absolutely blown away! It just doesnâ(TM)t make sense. I mean, how can this be?
In other news... (Score:2)
water is wet.
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By the very definition of the word “wet,” water physically cannot be wet.
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I have the best tips (Score:1)
Captain Obvious told me that the cheapest place is a shack in Sticksville.
I hope... (Score:2)
I hope tech workers in the valley don't want their kids to live near them when they grow up because their idiot growth policies that don't let anybody build upwards pretty much kill any chance for most of their kids to settle near them when they move out / graduate college.
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I hope tech workers in the valley don't want their kids to live near them when they grow up because their idiot growth policies that don't let anybody build upwards pretty much kill any chance for most of their kids to settle near them when they move out / graduate college.
LOL, like the kids will ever move out, well maybe to a tiny home, or pool house in the backyard...
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I live in SJ.
When I retire, I plan to sell my house and move somewhere else.
My kids will be settled by then, so I will move to wherever they live.
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So when you retire and all of a sudden have massive amounts of free time you'll move away from all the relationships you built when you were working and move to a place where the only people you'll likely know are your kids who will probably be busy with their own new families?
That's definitely not for me. Having to make all new friends is not how I'd like to spend my mid 60's.
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you'll move away from all the relationships you built
I am way ahead of you. I haven't actually built any relationships.
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And even if you had, what year is it? We have this internet thingy that enables us to communicate with whole groups of people at once who are not sharing our physical location, now.
I'm still in touch with the people I like, despite having moved away.
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Online communication is hardly a substitute for real life interaction in the context of human relationships. I still keep up with friends who have left my area but the relationships certainly aren't as close and typically fall off after some time
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Relationships? I’ve moved so many times in 64 years, I gave up on any long term friends when I was 12.
Our plan is to sell our expensive house and move to a lower cost of living area in a few years. And then make new acquaintances.
[John]
Re: I hope... (Score:2)
You think you'll retire before your mid-60s. Cute.
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Well I said I'd retire in my mid 60's, not before and I think that is a very obtainable goal as my home is just about paid off and I still have 25 years to go before retirement.
Re: I hope... (Score:2)
The retirement age to be able to liquidate a pension is currently 67 in most countries, including the USA.
It will most likely increase to 70 by the time people born in the 80s get to retire.
Now you could say you don't care about pension funds if you have other sources of income, but that is quite suboptimal financially.
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The retirement age to be able to liquidate a pension is currently 67 in most countries, including the USA.
No it isn't. Not in the US anyway. In the US it's 65 for most pensions, and many will allow you to start drawing funds younger than that. You can get Social Security retirement benefits as early as age 62.
Now you could say you don't care about pension funds if you have other sources of income, but that is quite suboptimal financially.
LOL, it's financially suboptimal to ever retire.
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I would certainly call 67 "mid 60's" as it is well within a middle range. As for the age going up, I doubt it. While there are certainly solvency issues with social security in this country raising the age of retirement would be political suicide for the party that does so.
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The critical factor for many people in the USA, and also the factor that I think many younger Americans have not considered, is the cost of medical insurance before you hit 65 (when Medicare kicks in).
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You think you'll retire before your mid-60s. Cute.
What's "cute" about it? If someone's made good money throughout their career and invested prudently, retirement by mid-60s is entirely doable.
I've been de facto retired for the last year, and I haven't reached 60. I could stay "retired" and not suffer a drop in my standard of living at all, unless there's some catastrophic collapse of the financial system. But in that case, everybody's screwed.
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Among the families I know, the kids all make more than their parents and are helping to pay off their parents mortgages in addition to their own.
Good riddance (Score:1)
Tech heavyweights HPE and Oracle have announced moves of their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas.
I'm sorry Texas, but California is better off losing these beasts.
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Yes, Austin is taking a total fucking pounding, to the point that frankly it was already at least as bad as the silicon valley when I was there over twenty years ago. During commute times, the freeway is at a standstill, and every parallel route is choked as well. Texans are allergic to those evil "socialist" infrastructure projects, so the situation has simply gotten worse since I was there. I lived across the parking lot from the office in the nearest apartments so I didn't have any commute (I just walked
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Continually ruining one city after another cannot be tech's legacy forever. At some point they're going to have to embrace distributed work, and abandon the idea that they have to centralize, because people will eventually figure out that living in a major city is a fool's game.
I'm not sure why you're dumping all the blame on one sector. Jobs mostly came back in urban areas and people like living in or near cities. So popular places with jobs will get crowded. If society wants something else to happen you have to decide that and systematically incentivize it.
Or maybe Americans will one day come to accept public transportation again
Developing meaningful public transportation also requires large scale regional planning. There aren't many large US infrastructure projects you can name from the last forty years.
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Yes, Austin is taking a total fucking pounding, to the point that frankly it was already at least as bad as the silicon valley when I was there over twenty years ago. During commute times, the freeway is at a standstill, and every parallel route is choked as well. Texans are allergic to those evil "socialist" infrastructure projects, so the situation has simply gotten worse since I was there. I lived across the parking lot from the office in the nearest apartments so I didn't have any commute (I just walked unless I planned to drive somewhere after work, and even then usually) so it was just basically bearable, but I hear the traffic stays bad for hours now.
Commute times in Austin are lower than LA, [bestplaces.net] lower than San Francisco, [bestplaces.net] Lower than San Jose, [bestplaces.net] lower than Oakland, [bestplaces.net] lower than Sacramento, [bestplaces.net] etc, etc, etc. - all while growing at a faster rate than any of those CA cities.
Texans are NOT allergic to those evil "socialist" infrastructure projects, especially when it comes to roads and freeways. California [usatoday.com] is among [usnews.com] the worst states [businessinsider.com] in the nation [forbes.com] for road and freeway [reason.org] infrastructure, ranking significantly below Texas in almost every measure. Texas spends 40% more per [taxpolicycenter.org]
Re: Good riddance (Score:2)
"Your personal experience of Austin over twenty years ago where you didn't even have a work commute says nothing about Austin right now,"
No, the reports of people I know who still live there telling me it's even worse now do that.
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SMH. Sorry, unless you have thousands of friends scattered about Austin who are systematically logging their commute times and reporting them to you year after year, anecdotes from your friends don't say much about the average Austin commute.
Here is the data [stlouisfed.org] on the reality of Austin commutes compared with major metros in California for the last decade. If you want to deny the facts and live in an alternate reality supported by your cherry picked anecdotes, more power to you I guess.
2 tech incomes = 200k? (Score:1)
Not a chance. Maybe if you are two hr employees working at tech firms.
My guess they only looked at tech salaries, but total income is much higher. When you include stock, itâ(TM)s more like 300k-400k for a typical 2 tech income family.
Which means a frugal couple can bank 100k a year, and easily have a down payment for a million dollar home in a few years. And if your stock appreciated well while your saving, you may be in an even better position. Thatâ(TM)s whatâ(TM)s driving the housing mark
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A tech worker and partner...I'd guess in most cases the partner is not a tech worker.
Re: 2 tech incomes = 200k? (Score:1)
Ah yes. I read that wrong. That makes much more sense. Yes. A single average tech income salary is getting hard to afford a house here, but can still easily buy a condo. Maybe just not as close to work as you want.
If CA didnâ(TM)t have prop 13 and didnâ(TM)t have so many NIMBYs, both the Bay and SoCal would have urbanized long ago, but as result prices would be cheaper. Now weâ(TM)re in a situation weâ(TM)re the owners are afraid change, because they still donâ(TM)t want the area to
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If CA didnâ(TM)t have prop 13 and didnâ(TM)t have so many NIMBYs, both the Bay and SoCal would have urbanized long ago, but as result prices would be cheaper. Now weâ(TM)re in a situation weâ(TM)re the owners are afraid change, because they still donâ(TM)t want the area to urbanize and they donâ(TM)t want their prop values to drop.
I don't know if that's better. I live in a shoebox-sized apartment in the Bay Area and it sucks. As a result I live a minimalist lifestyle and that sucks too.
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Tech worker != developer or engineer. There's plenty of business folks and pencil pushers working at tech companies.
Escape From SF (Score:0)
At his point, it's way simpler just to abandon the pretense San Francisco is a real city - just wall it off ala Escape from New York, and any homeless person you find just dump them inside (lots of them already there), with obvious daily airlifts of food and heroin for humanitarian reasons.
Learn about NOI (Score:2)
NOI (net operating income) is income minus expenses. NOI, what is left of your income after expenses, is the number that determines how you live, based on the local prices of housing, goods, and services.
High income can be easily decimated by high expenses.
What’s The Appeal? (Score:3)
I’m a Seattle Tech Whore, and I’ve only been to San Jose once. I remember I kept looking for it, and someone finally said “we’re here”.
“We’re where?”
“San Jose”.
“Really? This is San Jose? It looks like Burbank. Or Glendale. Or San Bernardino. Or Rancho Cucamongo where my cousin Day-Day lives. See, once me and Day-Day decided to rob our neighbors of ... it’s not important. Okay, seriously, where’s San Jose?”
San Jose is like the 8th largest city in the USA, and there’s no THERE there. It looks like any of a thousand California suburbs. Yeah,I get that’s where a ton of tech companies are, I just don’t understand why. The must have really wanted no distractions for the workers.
You have to pay through the nose to live in arguably the most generic place on earth. Okay, I obviously don’t know the place. Maybe it’s a hotbed of entertaining awesomeness and I’m not in the know. Maybe they have ‘Free Blowjob from a Supermodel Wednesdays” or something.
Aside from the nearby employers, I don’t personally get the appeal, though.
Doesn’t mean there’s not one. I just haven’t seen it. Maybe they just really don’t want me to move there and keep the fun out of sight when I visit.
Who would blame them?
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Probably because you were in the suburb part? I don't understand the utter hatred and contempt some people have for suburbs, like it's so much worse than the dank urban core that some people prefer. I'm from a tiny rural town, and suburbs still seem like big city to me.
Also, just go to downtown San Jose, most of the tech isn't there, but it looks more like a city there. Skyscrapers aren't massive, but so what? Tech is outside of downtown because... why be downtown? More space elsewhere, easier commute
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IME you are 100% correct. I was fortunate enough to be born in Santa Cruz prior to the '89 Quake so I know what a town with personality actually looks like. For us, San Jose (and the valley in general) was a place to shop. We'd go "over the hill" (on CA Hwy. 17) to go to Fry's or Virtual World or whatever. Then we'd fuck off outta there before it got too hot.
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Not wrong, yet the article is ridiculous.
San Jose is not a city with a proper appeal. You live in San Jose to be in the Bay Area. It's not like you'll go to San Jose city center for a walk.
San Jose is actually the cheapest place in the south bay and you can afford a house there with an average tech worker salary. Not everywhere in San Jose, but there are definitely cheap places and even places where you might not want to live.
I'm not sure what the 12% means. Like, 200k is 12% of the house price ? That ha
Averages are the wrong number (Score:2)
"can afford just 12 percent of the homes for sale in the San Jose metro area." I'd argue that's that wrong number to look at. To me, it's obvious that homes in San Jose are by far the most affordable in the South Bay. Yes, there are plenty of expensive homes in San Jose, but more importantly, most of the "affordable" homes are in San Jose. The "affordable" homes in San Jose are east of CA-87 and away from the hills. San Jose is so large that it also includes the very expensive west San Jose area near C
Meanwhile in London... (Score:2)
With 200k USD yearly income (145k GBP) you can probably acquire a two-bedroom apartment at best.
Hispanic Illegal Aliens (Score:0)
The high cost of living in San Jose is due to the sanctuary policy (for Hispanic illegal aliens) of the local governments. Hispanic illegal aliens boost demand for housing beyond the amount of housing that the private sector can build.
Sanctuary cities are bastions of anti-American sentiment. In such cities, the residents openly defy the laws of the United States and help illegal aliens from Latin America to stay permanently in our nation.
Allowing Hispanic illegal aliens to stay in the United States is unf