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So who’s the rider that can’t buckle there helmet
Suppose you are right. Where we live we do not have big fluctuations in home values.
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If I had the opportunity to buy a Ford Super Duty for 23K and a 2000 sg ft house for 73K, I wouldn't act the way you guys act.
If you want a truck with 1990 capability you can find it for much less than 20k and here's a house for you. That life you long for is there for the taking!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1313-Proctor-St-Rocky-Mount-NC-27801…
Hell yeah tell your father in-law to hook me up the same as you and I'm down.
Even modest houses have significantly increased in price. Here's a house in Erie, sold in 2021 for $65k, now 5 years later they are asking over $150k for it with no significant improvements. Are people making 2x what they were making 5 years ago? Sure this is a relatively cheap house but the trend stands for all houses.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2716-Raspberry-St-Erie-PA-16508/52586070_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
Went to Vital to figure out who can't buckle their helmet, getting career and home-buying advice instead.
Some guys take major offense when we discuss houses, dirt bikes, and truck were cheaper back in the day.
Truck will be here soon with a link.
Buying a 150k house in 2026 is easier than buying a 65k house in 2023 if I understand his logic correctly.
Put the iPad down and pull up the bootstraps LIBRUL
Yeah it’s nuts , in 98 I looked at a cute doll house with a 1 car garage separated with a 1+ acer backyard on the bay with your own beach. House sold in 24 for 200k. I was paid .85 a week for working 7 days a week on a dairy farm in 76. 2 yrs later 85.00 a week, I bailed hay for a few farmers 60 bucks a day. Bought my own cow at 12 yrs old for 400 bucks. Had the cash to buy a new RM80 at 12. My mom wouldn’t let me buy it. And I buckle my own helmet . I started working 7 days a week at 3 yrs old on the farm.
This thread sucks
Don't buy that house, it is in the hood.
Not so much advice as basically being told unless you're sacrificing every waking moment of your life to work and hustle you are a loser. The "I had to suffer, so you have to suffer too" mentality is pretty strong in here. There is nothing wrong with living with your family at any age/stage of your life. If you have a great relationship with your family, are contributing to the household, and its mutually beneficial then who cares? In every other part of the world kids stay in the house until they are married or they have multigenerational households where everyone takes care of each other. I'll never be a dick head who shames people for their living situation.
Some guys take major offense when they find out owning a home and a nice vehicle isn't an entitlement and it isn't owed to anybody. It is reserved for the ambitious and intelligent.
Probably waiting for his Dave Ramsey rice and beans to finish cooking. Or maybe its beans and rice day today instead of rice and beans?
Pit Row
Yeah it looks like it, any house under $200k today has something wrong with it. Here's a possibly non-ghetto example $170k in 2020, $290k now. Could you imagine paying $300k to come home to a house this ugly?!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4911-Amy-Ave-Erie-PA-16504/9502937_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
I wasn’t a good student by any stretch and I barely graduated high school on time. My family is all blue collar and nobody had a degree or was helping pay for anything. I was to concerned with chasing tail, riding moto and drinking beer in my twenties. I did concrete and raced as much as possible. I got offered a good job with good insurance and went after it to support racing. After a while I began to realize I fell into a good job through racing. When my back couldn’t handle it anymore and I was always an asshole. I decided to go back to school and got a mechanical engineering degree in the evenings. I worked full time and did school at night. My wife and I had two kids and school took my 8 years since I was part time. ( just graduated at 40). I’ve owned multiple homes including a rental which was my first home. Just wanted to point out a hobby you love will push you to greener pastures and make you realize things are good. There is still time to kick some ass in life and just because they are enjoying themselves now doesn’t mean they won’t figure it out when the time comes.
In 98 that doll house was 35k.
So he can blame the mechanic when it goes wrong...
I'm not telling anyone what they should do, what they should value, where they should live, or anything of the sort. Do what you want to do, but don't bitch about not being able to afford things when your life is full of "necessities" and conveniences that didn't even exist in the time you point to as it being so easy, and stop comparing apples to whatever imported organic designer fruit you're having door dash bring you today. Plenty of people still "get it" and manage to find a way and they don't waste much energy blaming everyone else along the way. The reason many of you are bothered by this discussion is because you know damn well that I'm right but you also don't want to sacrifice. So yeah..... not going to get much sympathy from those who have in order to get the things they set out to get.
I guess E-start has eliminated the whole, " if you can't start it, you can't ride it" thing.
"If you cant fasten your helmet, you can't ride".
We're here wasting a work day online, talking about how other people should be working harder to match our achievements.
Round of applause for everyone involved
I took my first loan on a bike in 2004, when used wisely borrowing money is a great way to get big purchase items. Really if you have the money to pay cash you're an idiot for spending it instead of investing in the market.
FYI, I've said it before but adjusted for inflation modern 450's are within a few hundred dollars of a top 250 2 stroke going back to the 70's. Bikes haven't gotten more expensive, it's all the other shit like trucks, trailers, rv's, phones...
Holy shit. Boomer central in here. Yall checking out the white New Balances and C5 too? Only 40 make in green, manual and white interior, young guns.
I understand the down votes. Younger fellas need it easier than they have it now, it is just to hard now, right? Shame. The dudes that fought Vietnam and Desert storm have no idea how easy they had it.
lol...maybe. I never liked the C5. I dig the C7 ZO6...wish I never would have sold mine. The new C8 ZO6 is sweetness though.
Screw the Mathess/Keefer life swap....Kris needs to do a life swap with the father of the kid who cant buckle his own helmet.
I bet Heather would straighten that guy out also.
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