The east end actually is considered rural, at least according to ups/postal deliveries lol

Yes, people from cities moving to rural towns does impact housing prices which should be a net benefit for the town as it bring in income from outside. It could be a negative when the volume of outsiders is high enough to displace long term residents, but in a vacuum people moving into an area that isn’t overpopulated already should be a good thing.

It’s absolutely a negative for those in the area. I’m literally priced out of the entirety of long Island now. There is literally nowhere I can afford that isn’t in an uninsurable flood zone and I’m too “worthless” to move. Anywhere with work for someone like me is just a shithole city so I just move from renting to renting in a worse environment. :/

Absolutely. We can thank the fucking Koch brothers for that nonsense… That shit got way out of control. :/

I get roasted for this every time I mention it because I think people on sites like this generally fit in this category and feel personally attacked, but I honestly believe a large part of it is from WFH becoming more widespread during COVID. People were able to leave the large cities where their jobs were all located and could move wherever they wanted to so that competition for housing drives prices way way up. The few friends I do have all work in software development and all moved during COVID away from their offices and into houses. They all had a similar story “the realtor told me any house that’s on the market for more than 5 days (that’s crazy crazy short) has a major issue, stay away from those.”

Tie that into the expansion of investment companies buying houses with the intent of renting them forever and the NIMBYism that keeps new construction from being made because “My PrOpErTy VaLuE!” and it’s just a recipe for disaster…

I hate that I’m going to be stuck renting someone’s garage or basement and paying their mortgage in rent prices for the rest of my life…

Believe it or not Trump is actually not the villain of this specific story. He’s a villain in his own right, but the Heritage Foundation is a fucking cancer on society and are the actual danger here. Even more so than they have been in previous decades, choosing judges for the GOP to pick. The article is horrifying… :(

He’s just going to say “I’m the smartest person ever to be president, the doctor I paid said so. I took the test already: person, woman, man, camera, TV!”

Someone needs to remind her that the GOP died when MAGA took over. I think the history books will show this period as the change from GOP to MAGA…

What a “wonderful” time to be alive… :/

I kept wondering how the absolute scumbags of Congress keep getting reelected and then this comes along… Of course. She would normally get kicked out of Congress but she keeps moving so she can continue to be a piece of shit that never goes away…

No no no, they’re saying buy more NTFs! They just need to be different apes so you can have a broad index of them!

:P

I was never going to “find myself” and so I should have just gone to college with my friends for computer science and made the good money when jobs were easier to get even though I had no interest at all in it. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that jazz. Now I’m a worthless schmuck in a factory living in someone’s garage paying their mortgage in rent prices.

All my interests are hobbies, some of them even too expensive for me to do lol they’re nothing you can monetize.

Imagine having to even respond to that…

“Yeah he means it and I’m voting for all that shit!”

Or

“He doesn’t mean that, he just lies to us to get our votes and I’m voting for him!”

Either way you’re a fucking moron… Those dumb fucking people are going to set us back so much further than we already have been…

Just another reason to hate the piece of shit.

“Trump isn’t a fascist. We need to dial down the rhetoric. Also, Biden is weaponizing the DOJ.”

…Get fucked corrupt asshole

I’m still waiting for Fox news to be flipping the fuck out about a social media platform being completely biased in favor of a candidate and using their platform to promote them while hindering the other… I guess they can only do that one time

We don’t get to have nice things.

Not only is he going to win, by ratfuckery or otherwise, he’s going to jail people like Kamala and Schiff for made up nonsense… We sat through almost a decade of bullshit delays and everybody treating Trump like a king, but he’s going to have his sycophants lay the hammer down immediately on his opponents…

I really really really really hope I get proven wrong…

Oh you mean US officials that are in office during the Biden administration?

Yeah, Magoos are really going to believe that one. They might as well have said it was Santa…

Reality doesn’t matter. It’s really a fucking shame these fucking asshole propagandists know this, the only thing that matters is saying a thing happened, that’s it. They say it happened then it happened, it doesn’t matter what official says what after. The thing was said and so it’s “real.” Any evidence to refute after is just a “lie.”

:(

I meant convicted, but I’m sure people understood.

Well as long as the likes of fox news and newsmax exist that will never happen. Fox was literally created for that purpose as Roger Ailes, who helped create it, has said of Watergate: if we had a friendly media outlet Nixon would never have had to resign.

He was right. Trump should have been impeached, but Fox gives Republicans all the cover they need.

AKA: we’re fucked

:(

A-fucking-men…

I’m so fucking disgusted at the conversation around immigration.

If people are “border hopping” because of expenses and the 10 fuckin year wait then mayyyyyyybbbbeeeee we fix that?

No no no no, then they have to admit they’re just fucking racist and don’t want more brown people in America…

spirit of that law

The SCOTUS only cares about that when it enables them to pull some serious bullshit out of their ass. Otherwise they’re strict textualists and will say “It WaS a PeTiTiOn, FulLy LeGal AnD cOoL!” So they’ll be sure to step in and stop any action from being taken.