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2026-09-25 -Great Cultural Revolution

Everything Is Expensive Because Civil Rights Made the Commons Illegal. Now you need a $600k mortgage and a private park for kids to play in.

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Posted by Clyde Thaviling6482 2026-09-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [168 views ] Top

1 Thanks for the comic relief, clyde.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-25 01:01|| 2026-09-25 01:01|| Front Page Top

2 They didn't have school shooter drills when anyone was in school. They do today.
The house at the link is $321,000.
There was a thing a while back when they asked older people to guess how much a house was and they guessed not just wrong but wildly wrong.
They all bought their houses decades ago and have no idea what it's out there now for the young.
Higher property values HELP them. They don't want lower prices.

Posted by Clyde Thaviling6482 2026-09-25 03:57|| 2026-09-25 03:57|| Front Page Top

3 The housing game is 'rigged': Real estate star exposes the hidden traps locking up buyers past 7% rates

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-25 06:41|| 2026-09-25 06:41|| Front Page Top

4 Skimming the article, it's about how the 'common' townhouses, parks, transport, pools, and schools became less safe because of restricted enforcement - Soros DAs, reduced police, lawsuits, no-go zones. So people moved out to the suburbs, wanted a big backyard., with their own pool, and a safer private school.

Of course, the younger generation wants to start off at 22 at the level their parents achieved when they were 52. I remember that feeling from when I was 22.

Posted by Bobby 2026-09-25 07:46|| 2026-09-25 07:46|| Front Page Top

5 They didn't have school shooter drills when anyone was in school. They do today.

Back in those days we didn't tolerate feral youths. Today we have a catch and release (if they even bother to catch) program for juvenile justice for adult crimes. The release programs encourage a growing escalation of destructiveness till there is mass carnage. Then the people in the process wipe their hands and say 'who could have seen it coming'. Hammer them early as an encouragement for others.

Back in 'those' days, we had 'duck and cover' drills.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-09-25 11:56|| 2026-09-25 11:56|| Front Page Top

6 ...I read all the comments here, and decided to check to see what my humble abode ($110,000 in 2009) was now worth.

To put this in context, I kept telling my darling bride that the next time I get a spam from one of these clowns who want to know if I'll sell, I'm gonna tell 'em $200k, and I want it in 72 hours.

Zillow says $189. For $1300 square feet.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2026-09-25 12:15|| 2026-09-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

7 We didn’t have school shooter drills in the 1960s and ‘70s. We had nuclear bomb drills, when we moved into inner hallways, sat down with our heads between our legs, and practiced waiting to see if the entire world ended, leaving us blind, sterile, and with our skin falling off. School shooters are more survivable.

And we still had it better than my parents — my elderly grandfather and some relatives scurrying to the tiny secret room over the rafters behind the toilet in the fraternity house bathroom while my Jewish grandmother, who looked like the blond, blue-eyed German former farm girl that she was, chattered at the SS to delay them for a few extra minutes; across the country my mother’s poorly forged papers claimed she was a Catholic housemaid, but did not mention that she was a nice Jewish girl running messages for the anti-Nazi Underground, with no idea whether her parents were still alive. On the other side of the world was my father, at the age of fifteen having to support himself in a foreign country as a high school dropout with no skills except an excess of languages and biathlon during the Great Depression.

Yes, the current situation stinks, although it is already significantly better than it was eighteen months ago. But you are comparing an idealized past to a very real present.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-25 16:24|| 2026-09-25 16:24|| Front Page Top

8 See Google partners with veterans groups to help 25,000 enter skilled trades careers amid worker shortage

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-25 16:25|| 2026-09-25 16:25|| Front Page Top

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