Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

[donaldtoo]

I wanted to shoot some nice words yours and Mikes way, but was afraid y'all hated my guts. Where'd ya go after our last cornbread munchin' sports talkin' good time at the Old Mill??? Miss you guys, and if I annoyed the heck out of you that last visit (which I am prone to being annoying as an art), I do apologize. Hope all is going well for you and family.

Edit: And to all the new faces and folks not mentioned earlier... CHEERS and happy 2025.

Thanks, and CHEERS to you, as well, regarding the New Year wishes…!!!

 

[JenniferS]

I know it's tough, but your job wasn't to supply things indefinitely. There comes a time to launch and by doing so you are doing him a favor. He may not see it that way, but no one ever said that parenting is an easy job. It is pretty well known that babies are a lot of work, but the hard work comes many years later when it becomes clear how difficult it is to cut the umbilical cord.

And like you said, that struck me as something I might have said, so I knew it wasn't said to harm you.

The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.

I feel your pain. Pretty much the same here. Average house price is north of £500 k and rental is very high.

 

[donaldtoo]

No sad faces. He was joking. He has my sense of humour. Gallows humour.

I read one post ahead for a reason…!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.

Oh friggin’ my…!!!
Our old house payment never even went nearly over 1K/month before we paid it off, even with crazily rising property values/taxes, and that was for 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and 1,625 sq. ft.
Things have really gotten outta’ hand, especially in Austin, although we’re now well outside of that nuthouse.
Before we moved my MIL in with us, we were paying $1,295/month for her to live in a 1-bedroom, 1-bath apartment.
Carolyn and I lived in that same complex before, and directly after we got married, and paid $325/month for a 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartment.
Granted, that was quite a few years ago, but good grief…!!!

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

 

[FutureCEO]

The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.

The other day my dad was talking.

He's like I never really made more than $60K a year (as a police officer too!), bought a house and had 3 kids. My mom didn't work for a long time either. And the interest rate at the time was 12%.

Like it must be nice. (except for the interest rate)

 

[donaldtoo]

Sunrise this morning from the 7-Eleven where I was gassing up…!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

The other day my dad was talking.

He's like I never really made more than $60K a year (as a police officer too!), bought a house and had 3 kids. My mom didn't work for a long time either. And the interest rate at the time was 12%.

Like it must be nice. (except for the interest rate)

It’s crazy.
I’m pretty sure my Pop never made over about 50K/year base salary (not incl. benefits), working for IBM for 27 years. He retired 30 years ago.
The only job our Mom had, outside of the house, was working in the lunch room at the middle school across the street, in northwest Austin, once my 12-year-younger sis started going there. She actually still collects a small pension check from that job every month. They raised 4 of us on 1 salary, and I don’t remember us ever really wanting for anything.

My folks bought our second home in No Cal for 27K in 1971, and sold it for 57K when we moved back to Texas in 1976. They paid 57K for the much larger home here in Texas that they still live in.
Craziest thing is, that No Cal home they sold for 57K is now estimated at a value of $1.43 million…!!!!!