Wall Street/Gov'mnt, Real Estate

[heyzeus]

We all could use a good fat trust fund.

The trust fund babies flew here to screw me out of the life I want (I'm not really that ungrateful). I hope whatever city is the next Portland picks up the goddam pace.

Keep Austin Portland.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

We all could use a good fat trust fund.

No joke - the time I lived around Portland convinced me its the trust fund baby capital of the world. So many posers living in an expensive town with no visible source of income.

But do note, they're mostly not from here.

Oh no - exactly right. I agree with you.

[thrill]

We all could use a good fat trust fund.

The trust fund babies flew here to screw me out of the life I want (I'm not really that ungrateful). I hope whatever city is the next Portland picks up the goddam pace.

Keep Austin Portland.

Just paste flyers all over Portland for Ojai. "It's like LA meets Austin but cheap." Mmk. Enjoy.


The upside of living in a bland, mediocre city is that I can afford things.

[slide_into_first]

You moved to Ojai? I missed that. If you are in Orange County, pm me and I'll let you buy me a drink while I share some soccer strategies with you.

[IMADreamer]

We have friends that have a "tiny house." You know what's better than a tiny house? A normal house. If someone farts there is no escaping it in a tiny house. No bathroom privacy, no privacy at all. I get people shouldn't be materialistic and stuff but I like my stuff. I don't have a lot of it but it fits in my normal house just fine and I like it.

[Popeye_Card]

First, I'm fortunate to live in a small city that's very affordable, allowing me to own a larger than normal space for storage and hobbies, of which I have plenty. But I'm still drawn to the concept of tiny houses. If I could go back to my years just out of college, I think I could have done it for a few years. Heck, I lived in a trailer with two roommates for a couple of years--that was pretty close anyway. You can save up a lot of money in a hurry when you don't have space to put anything you buy.

[thrill]

You moved to Ojai? I missed that. If you are in Orange County, pm me and I'll let you buy me a drink while I share some soccer strategies with you.

No I live in Phoenix. I've just been seeing a lot of heat for Ojai in internet hipster circles. It's the next Portland/Austin.

[lukethedrifter]

I'm thinking I like the idea of multiple tiny houses. A mini compound.

[MrSaigon]

Meanwhile some prick is going to use his AIG bonus to give up the rat race and buy another superfluous house, this time in SE Portland:

“With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

I'll figure out how this supports my hipster/trust fund baby narrative later.

This is interesting:
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

[Arthur Dent]

Meanwhile some prick is going to use his AIG bonus to give up the rat race and buy another superfluous house, this time in SE Portland:

“With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

I'll figure out how this supports my hipster/trust fund baby narrative later.

This is interesting:
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

Where did Taibbi come up with the $13 trillion figure? As your link shows, that's way, way off.