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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You think those homes in the frozen north are selling for less than $200,000?

I wish...

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago

Actually, the car that's being towed is the affordable home, not the houses in the background. There is even a subreddit about this, r/priusdwellers (idk if there's a comparable community on lemmy).

[–] Cornfed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] shua_too@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

I’m an NDSU grad, so I’m a little biased, but Fargo is a really cool town. The downtown is especially awesome. Pretty good food, good bar scene, a few museums and such. If you can handle a winter you’re golden, because the summers are not bad at all.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Michigan is cheap and has wicked winters, so yeah.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No snow, not hot, nothing rural, not conservative? You've just cut out more than 99% of the country. There's barely any snow on that road. That means basically nothing north of, like, Oklahoma.

"Nothing is affordable in the .5% of the country I deem worthy of living in!"

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

as someone in that country, 0% of it is worthy of living in

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like it pretty well here, we have all things that are good.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Assuming you have employable skills, get a work visa and go live in a country that is "worthy" of you then. Life is short.

[–] canine_teeth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree life is short, but also you cannot expect me and thousands of other people to just drop everything to follow the vague goal of "get a work visa". Not only does that require a ton of planning (picking a country, finding a job, interviewing, being on waitlists, finding a place to stay, etc), but you have to be financially stable too. What am I supposed to do about my lease that isn't up for several months? What about my pets? My car? My bank accounts? How would I get my medications on whatever new health insurance I'd be on (since every country has different laws for what is over-the-counter VS prescription)? I'd have to leave behind all my friends and family. I'd possibly have to learn a new language, and convert all my money into a new currency. I'd definitely have to learn new labor laws. When my work visa expires would I want to stay in the new country or move back? If I'm staying then I'd have to get citizenship, which is a whole can of worms in itself. The whole "get a work visa" advice sounds awfully similar to the "just get a better job" advice you hear countless times, as if that too isn't insanely difficult unless you Know A Guy and have connections. I would love to work abroad and such, but myself and many others just do not have the energy or financial means to do so, so we're stuck here.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry to hear that.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, don’t let the door hit you on the way out

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The snow pic admittedly isn't that bad, but most places aren't as chronically hot as the other pics imply. Many people would have to be straight up suicidal to try and live around such open bigots. I don't have a choice; I have to live away from that shit for my own safety. The worst part is that I hate cities. The extremism from the right has literally ruined rural living for people like me.

Also, if being a treasonous bigot is considered simply "conservative," then we're in deep shit.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're hyperbolic images. "Winter" is too cold, a heat wave in Arizona is too hot, the house that treason built is too conservative, the house that is falling down with no visible community around it is too rural.

My point is simply that if one's criteria is "can't be: hot, cold, conservative, or rural," you're discounting the overwhelming majority of the country. If you'd like to debate the finer, literal details of each individual photograph, that's fine. I was responding to what they seem to connote rather than strictly what they denote.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, we need to teach ourselves and our children that owning a house isn’t all that great and dandy since we’ll just be torturing ourselves about not having one. Just go with having to pay a landlord and/or a studio apartment, just whatever to get everyone to live with the times.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're full of great arguments. But I don't think any of them top "you got preferences? That's stupid"

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I said something more like "if you make your preferences so limited that you discount 99.5% of your possibilities, you're going to find yourself with very few options." Which is, more or less, a truism.

Sorry I hurt you.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The more common viewpoint which actually deserves criticism is "I was born here and that makes it the best place so I would never travel or live anywhere else. I prefer exactly one 200 mile radius, forever".

This viewpoint is very common in the "99.5%" of the world I'm "missing out on"

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

? Yes, I suppose that would deserve criticism. There are innumerable common viewpoints about all kinds of things that probably deserve criticism, but I don't think we have the space or time to litigate them all here...again, this is a comment thread responding to the original post...

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's like a few inches!? As a Canadian, there's no where that doesn't get that. I live in the mildest city in the country, and we get more than that most years.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I miss snow. :(

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Around here 2 inches will shut down every business and school in the state and cause huge pileups regularly at intersections and on highways. It's not always about the amount of snow but about how prepared the community is to handle it. Plus when warmer climates do get winter weather it can be worse on the roads than colder locations because the snow will often partially melt then refreeze as a smooth slab of ice.

I think that's actually what this meme is intending. All of these are indicative of the US south.

[–] djmarcone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why beach front property isn't super cheap because sea levels are gonna rise like 10' any day now.

Aquaman has promised really good prices

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I love driving in the snow but most people where I live suck at it. We have so many accidents each winter

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Snow will seem like a luxury, the way the climate is going…

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Here in Germany you get a garage for 200k. If you're lucky. Small houses you can live in start at half a million! They press you into paying till you're old, and they're doing it for decades. I worked hard and creatively to never get caught in this, I'm in my mind 40s now and slowly I could buy or build a house. But now my children are adults and we don't really need one. So what, let's waste the money. Creatively ;)

[–] shua_too@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Minneapolis will definitely get snow, but there isn’t towing in that depth of snow. That’s child’s play.

It’s a truly lovely place to live though. Yeah winters are a chore, but we go hard in summer. And there’s some excellent camping within less than an hour’s drive.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twin Cities for $200k? Fuckin where?

[–] shua_too@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Alright I forgot about that one. But I think the East Side of Saint Paul and North Minneapolis both have some cheap housing. Not great neighborhoods, but they’re on the up.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ain't nothing like the sound of the leaves, when the breeze penetrates these southside trees.

Leanin' up against one, watchin the vibe, forgettin' all about the stress, thanking god I'm alive.

phoenix is not an affordable place to live