I have a mortgage on a house that in today’s market I wouldn’t have a snowball in Hell’s chance of selling. Moving isn’t an option for me, and I guess a lot of other people in the same situation.
This kind of goes back to the thread about how much ready cash should a person have on hand, and why my answer to that in these economic times was “two years”. Moving can be a bitch, no doubt. Sometimes circumstance doesn’t allow it. But location alone has to be way down the list of priorities when you need to put bread on the table.
You are seriously out of touch of you think the average person has anywhere close to two years cash - or any hope of having it.
Yeah, and my answer to the question, “who should I be in a loving relationship with?” is Natalie Portman. Nice dreams, both our answers.
Just quoted this because it was the point i was going to make, and i wanted to reiterate it.
The OP is a flaming retard if s/he thinks a willingness to move to Wyoming or Nebraska or North Dakota would have any appreciable effect at all on the unemployment rate.
Fuck you! You’re unemployed! You take unemployment so I get to decide everything about your fucking life since you a loser and obviously can’t make decisions.
Why the fuck do you spend money on the internet? If you’re so poor you should do noting but look for work and take the first fucking job offered you so I don’t have to pay your unemployment again.
You think you should decide where the fuck you live? You are completely incapable of making good life decisions so I’ll make them for you. BTW, I totally believe in small government.
(this is what we unemployed people hear just about every day. Fuck all of y’all)
Two years worth of cash on hand?
Excuse me while I laugh hysterically. Pahleeze.
Maybe if you had opposable thumbs I’d feel sorry for you.
And I’d like to add that many of us country folk carry guns around during hunting season. They might go off and kill you. Far better to stay where the gang-bangers only sometimes do drive-bys. Much safer.
I didn’t say it was easy; in fact, it can take years to have that much put away a bit at a time. But the peace of mind it brings is worth the effort.
And your reading skills suck ass.
I’m not sure they do.
You said that, in these economic times, two years is “how much ready cash should a person have on hand.” I don’t know about you, but when i make a statement about what “a person” (talking generically) “should” have, i’m usually talking about an average or typical person.
Full employment corresponded to an unemployment rate somewhere south of 5.5% before the Little Depression. Here are the states with unemployment less than 6.0%:
Vermont 5.4
Oklahoma 5.3
New Hampshire 4.8
South Dakota 4.8
Nebraska 4.1
North Dakota 3.2
Those are not high population states, either individually or collectively. Most (not all) people gain employment via networking, and most (not all) people have networks local to their region and perhaps one other. Also, it looks like the boom centers are focused on agriculture and mining: those are notoriously volatile economic sectors.
Hey I’m all for geographic mobility, but that won’t get us out of this mess. We’re in a depression: we know how to cure depressions – better than most other policy challenges. But Obama lacks the will and the Republicans are pushing policies to make things worse. Very unfortunate.
You have to live beneath your supposed means in order to do it, but I agree, it can be done.
Pot, kettle. At least he’s an adult quadruped.
Please point out what I misread in your post in this thread.
Wanna bet?
Assuming you’re not already living paycheque to paycheque, which many middle class families still are.
And no, that is nothing to do with “living within your means” or even below it. It just means that modern life is very expensive.
While it is heartening to know that Steinbeck is still being read, methinks to OP might have missed the point of TGoW.
CMC fnord!
I like my snow storms in January, not June, thankyouverymuch.
(Seriously, though, the point the OP makes is not stupid for individuals with a certain skillset, but it is not the best advice for the unemployed population as a whole. But I don’t know what the best advice would be.)