RL Peeves
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We spent the first half of the year, for various reasons, trying to find a house. We could afford places but nothing like what I believe we should be able to get with our financial situation. Ultimately, for various other reasons, we decided to keep renting in the city for at least another year. Prices have dropped some in the semi-rural target area we are looking at but have not really moved in the urban zone we currently live in despite talk about the mortgage rates dropping or other things that are supposedly going to fix the issue. We’re exceptionally lucky that we can both reliably WFH and expect to indefinitely, and that makes the more rural/exurban options available to us. If you have to work on-site and therefore live in a place where you can commute, I just don’t see a way forward unless the next decade of housing is constructed under completely different zoning laws than we have. (Narrator: It won’t be.)
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@shit-piss-love What bugs me is that while I suspect there’s a real estate bubble that’s going to burst in the future… lots of people thought that, and for many years.
The other thing is, if we’re headed into a depression then all bets are off. Sure, should things really go to hell and people start to default on their mortgages then yes, there will be more houses on the market (and probably at a lower price) but… is that something to really look forward to?
And even then, assuming one is enough of a cynic, all bets are off when society as a whole is under extreme duress. For example we have jobs today, but if things are bad enough are we still going to feel quite as secure about a 15 year mortgage even at better terms?
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The only reason why we have a house in the area we do is because we bought over 20 years ago, in the cheaper unincorporated area. If we were buying now even with current income I am not sure we could find something even within an hour of where we are, and it would probably be a fixer upper. It’s been hard seeing my kids realize that they won’t be able to even rent a single room apartment anywhere near here. Not that it’s bad to share housemates in your early adult life especially but I think that is likely how its going to be, even in family situations, for the foreseeable future. Not just bc of investors, though that’s taking away a lot of “old fixer uppers or starter homes” that people used to rely on. It’s really depressing.
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It’s still Internet based vs meatspace, but it’s not mu*-based or -adjacent so I’ll put the peeve here.
I made the mistake of joining a sub about a popular television show I’m watching and I’m peeved that I can still be remotely surprised by how fucking stupid people are, in general.
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@eye8urcake Having that issue with a band and also a show right now!
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Major DDOS attacks right as I’m trying to sign off for the night.
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Who would have thought that unhinged “we have the best nuclears” rant was actually a sales pitch.
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@shit-piss-love said in RL Peeves:
Who would have thought that unhinged “we have the best nuclears” rant was actually a sales pitch.
No. Stop. Don’t.
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Got Covid
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@junipersky Oh no!
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I heard someone comment downstairs about no fudgesicles in the box in the freezer, and yet still the box has not yet made it into recycling. Sigh. I gave up and am now going to get rid of it. Alas, trolling fail.
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@mietze Fill it with rocks and leave it
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I’ve had the same cough since June. Since June.
No, it’s not COVID. I’ve tested negative multiple times. I’ve also been sent for a chest X-ray, which looks completely clear. I’m now on antibiotics to see if that will knock it out and while they don’t seem to be helping, they have done a fantastic job of giving me horrible stomach cramps since Wednesday.
I apparently have Schrodinger’s fucking cough, and my doctor’s brilliant response at this point is “Have you tried cough drops?”
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@Aria If I get a cold, I always end up coughing for a good 6-8 weeks after the fact. It’s apparently A Thing (post-viral cough) and it’s stupid and bodies are just dumb.
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@Aria so this might be a long shot, but a friend of mine noticed their son was always coughing every few hours for months. Wasn’t sick, doctors were a bit baffled, cough didn’t seem to be bothering him, but mom is a scientist and started keeping track of various things and it turned out…to be gluten. Once she put him on a gluten free diet he was fine. Cough never returned.
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Another potential cause of a cough is if you take an ACE inhibitor for high blood pressure. I’d think a doctor would have warned about this but it’s best to never assume. So if anyone out there takes one and is always coughing, that could be it.
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@Aria Any chance you’ve been to California’s central valley recently?
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If you were ever curious, manic phases are a lot less fun than they sound.
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@Aria Any chance you’ve been to California’s central valley recently?
Nope. I am, however, going to contact the pulmonary specialist that I ultimately badgered my doctor into recommending to me.
I’ve been given inhalers before, once for what-is-this-horrible-wheezing-sound-this-person-is-making back before they had COVID tests available in hospital ERs, once for bronchitis, and once for “Holy shit, someone who is allergic to mold had major mold exposure and now their lungs are doing a big-big mad.”
They marked it down in my chart as asthma in the first and last cases because they didn’t really have medical codes to use for that. But now I’m pretty much sitting here like, “Uhh, guys. Do you think, y’know, maybe I straight up have always had mild, intermittent asthma and now it’s not so mild? That those were asthma attacks brought on by various forms of ick and I just didn’t know what was happening because no one had ever told me I had asthma before?”
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Before civilization collapsed I quite enjoyed going to FanExpo (the biggest comic book etc convention in Canada).
This year they are opening their non-virtual doors again, and of course my mailbox is blown up… The question is, do I want to go, given all the various plagues that still linger? Thousands of nerds, not exactly known for hygiene to begin with, all in close proximity and indoors seems like a not so great idea.
On the other hand… there will be so much merch and stuff there.
