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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Skinny]
#4101116
03/14/24 04:38 PM
03/14/24 04:38 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 13,063
Montgomery, Alabama
jaredhunts
Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 13,063
Montgomery, Alabama
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A lot of really bad choices were made by everybody during Covid because we were all being fed lies. Its impossible to make correct decisions when the only information you have to work with is false. Plus, everybody was distracted from Covid by trying to keep their jobs and play meet your new office mate or make a handshake deal through a computer screen in your kitchen. Now the commercial real estate market is going to pop. Probably already has, it’s just now being talked about. Housing has flopped already but it’s not being mentioned yet.
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Andalusia]
#4101130
03/14/24 05:20 PM
03/14/24 05:20 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 10,376
coffee county
goodman_hunter
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 10,376
coffee county
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Not really. The traffic back then was pretty nice. Didn't have to worry about the road pirates either.
For without victory, there is no survival
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: jaredhunts]
#4101137
03/14/24 05:33 PM
03/14/24 05:33 PM
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Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 64,027
Luverne, AL
Skinny
GUVNER
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GUVNER
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 64,027
Luverne, AL
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A lot of really bad choices were made by everybody during Covid because we were all being fed lies. Its impossible to make correct decisions when the only information you have to work with is false. Plus, everybody was distracted from Covid by trying to keep their jobs and play meet your new office mate or make a handshake deal through a computer screen in your kitchen. Now the commercial real estate market is going to pop. Probably already has, it’s just now being talked about. Housing has flopped already but it’s not being mentioned yet. Commercial is already underwater in the big liberal cities nobody can do business in anymore. But I do think those cities will eventually take ownership of those really large properties because they are too big to ignore. Kinda like how Montgomery Mall was done with the city. The taxpayers bought the mall because the mall went out of business cause the city's policies let crime get out of control in and around the mall. The mall died and all the neighborhoods around it turned to crap within 3 years of a democrat getting elected.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Skinny]
#4101139
03/14/24 05:35 PM
03/14/24 05:35 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 13,063
Montgomery, Alabama
jaredhunts
Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 13,063
Montgomery, Alabama
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A lot of really bad choices were made by everybody during Covid because we were all being fed lies. Its impossible to make correct decisions when the only information you have to work with is false. Plus, everybody was distracted from Covid by trying to keep their jobs and play meet your new office mate or make a handshake deal through a computer screen in your kitchen. Now the commercial real estate market is going to pop. Probably already has, it’s just now being talked about. Housing has flopped already but it’s not being mentioned yet. Commercial is already underwater in the big liberal cities nobody can do business in anymore. But I do think those cities will eventually take ownership of those really large properties because they are too big to ignore. Kinda like how Montgomery Mall was done with the city. The taxpayers bought the mall because the mall went out of business cause the city's policies let crime get out of control in and around the mall. The mall died and all the neighborhoods around it turned to crap within 3 years of a democrat getting elected. Yes but working from home has killed these huge office buildings.
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: kodiak06]
#4101143
03/14/24 05:39 PM
03/14/24 05:39 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 25,808
Fayetteville TN Via Selma
jawbone
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 25,808
Fayetteville TN Via Selma
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You are probably an illegal alien!! That's a false statement lol. I'm better off than I was 4yrs ago and I don't have to go to work  Same for me. It took a lot of hard work to make that happen though.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: jaredhunts]
#4101148
03/14/24 05:45 PM
03/14/24 05:45 PM
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Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 64,027
Luverne, AL
Skinny
GUVNER
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GUVNER
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 64,027
Luverne, AL
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A lot of really bad choices were made by everybody during Covid because we were all being fed lies. Its impossible to make correct decisions when the only information you have to work with is false. Plus, everybody was distracted from Covid by trying to keep their jobs and play meet your new office mate or make a handshake deal through a computer screen in your kitchen. Now the commercial real estate market is going to pop. Probably already has, it’s just now being talked about. Housing has flopped already but it’s not being mentioned yet. Commercial is already underwater in the big liberal cities nobody can do business in anymore. But I do think those cities will eventually take ownership of those really large properties because they are too big to ignore. Kinda like how Montgomery Mall was done with the city. The taxpayers bought the mall because the mall went out of business cause the city's policies let crime get out of control in and around the mall. The mall died and all the neighborhoods around it turned to crap within 3 years of a democrat getting elected. Yes but working from home has killed these huge office buildings. Absolutely. Commercial will never go back to those buildings. Nobody really needs that much office anymore. The cities will have to buy them and turn them into something like they did with Montgomery mall. Now its a police station, a public school, and some other city services. The damndest thing is that they put the police station in the old mall and crime went way up right around the mall.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Andalusia]
#4101268
03/14/24 08:48 PM
03/14/24 08:48 PM
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Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 19,095
Chelsea, AL
straycat
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 19,095
Chelsea, AL
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Rhetorically, what's the applicable definition of "better off"?
For me, I'm much better off in some ways:
Better than ever financially but that has everything to do me owning the business outright starting in 2021 and sadly getting some inheritances. I've been blessed with an abundance of work and I've been successful.
Solid financial planning also has greatly contributed.
I've grown in my relationship with Jesus.
I'm far worse off in many other ways:
My father in law/business partner passed away from Covid January 2021.
My mother died December 2021.
My oldest son developed epilepsy in 2020 that is medication resistant. Pot helps his seizures but it's illegal and he's been in front of a judge twice.
My middle son has some mental health issues that started 3-4 years ago and it's been very difficult to deal with.
Lots of stress.
I'm feeling my age.
So "better off" to me kinda depends on the base line of comparison. I'd certainly trade my financial increases to undo some things that is for certain.
Last edited by straycat; 03/14/24 08:49 PM.
"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever." Isaiah 40:8
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.� Samuel Adams
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Skinny]
#4101730
03/15/24 02:37 PM
03/15/24 02:37 PM
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Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 413
Kims Corner, Al.
1955Retiree
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 413
Kims Corner, Al.
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They were crap before the mall went under. Montgomery was a crap hole way before that
It's not how much money you make, but how much you can keep.
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: 1955Retiree]
#4101739
03/15/24 03:06 PM
03/15/24 03:06 PM
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Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 64,027
Luverne, AL
Skinny
GUVNER
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GUVNER
Joined: Aug 2001
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Luverne, AL
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They were crap before the mall went under. Montgomery was a crap hole way before that
Yup. It started to turn bad after I moved out. Sorry about that.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Andalusia]
#4101743
03/15/24 03:23 PM
03/15/24 03:23 PM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,711
Henry county
coldtrail
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,711
Henry county
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I'm better off. My net worth and bank account is way up. I left my job in 2021, I've been working part time for myself since. I'm better off but its nothing in particular I've done, The Lord has chosen to bless me.
"And the days that I keep my gratitude
Higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Andalusia]
#4101786
03/15/24 04:38 PM
03/15/24 04:38 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,220
alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,220
alabama
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I don't know if I'm better off or not, no one has told me yet!!!
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: JohnG]
#4101793
03/15/24 04:50 PM
03/15/24 04:50 PM
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Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 3,561
Lower Alabama
Andalusia
OP
10 point
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OP
10 point
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 3,561
Lower Alabama
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So Andalusia, how many of us are illegal aliens? Tough to say how many illegals are here now.....seems like the number ranges between 7 -20 million depending on who you believe since Biden took over from Trump. Posted this as a joke but since folks answered with a more serious response that's fine with me. My more serious response is my net worth has gone up even though I retired 3 years ago and I haven't altered my lifestyle. So I could say I am better off, however, I know that everything is more expensive and my dollar has less value now than 4 years ago and I have little confidence in our current government to do anything that would improve our country and I have great confidence they will do everything to ruin it....so there is that!
"If you are the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room"
"How you do Anything, is how you do Everything"
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Irishguy]
#4101871
03/15/24 07:28 PM
03/15/24 07:28 PM
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Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,931
Montgomery,al,usa
Davyalabama
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,931
Montgomery,al,usa
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I'm better off than I was 4 years ago, but it ain't because of some politician. It's because of hard work and solid financial decisions by Mrs. Irish and I. Agreed, same with my wife and I, we’ve been very blessed.
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Napoleon Hill
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Thoreau
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Re: If you are better off now than you were 4 yrs ago,
[Re: Andalusia]
#4102034
03/16/24 06:21 AM
03/16/24 06:21 AM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 34,535
Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 34,535
Boxes Cove
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I am , retired and living comfortably in '22.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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