45 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

The southwest is very nice, hot but no humidity and that does make a huge difference.

The concern is there's so much nothing. You can get some skiing in here and there, but if you're anywhere near real civilization you're getting taxed for the privilege.

I want somewhere quiet where neighbors are at least arm's length away, but where I can visit a high end lifestyle (good restaurants, museums, maybe a beach though that's more my wife's thing)

6 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

vs hurricanes in FL or drought in the SW? I guess I can deal.

alternative is finding some place in Mexico where the dollar will go far. but that seems pretty dodgy unless things change a lot.

got at least 20 years to figure it out tho.

Lets see.  Of the top 12 cities for murder rate per 100k people in the world, 6 of them are in Mexico.  Los Cabos (1), Acapuico (3), Tijuana (5), La Paz (6), Ciudad Victoria (8) and Caulican (12). 

 

So yeah, you'd be an absolute fool to move to Mexico for that reason unless you are a poor with no skills and\or have nothing going for you.

1 minute ago, Toty said:

I know this is EMB but that's a weird and random thing to say

I don't even know what you're trying to imply....

 

34 minutes ago, NOTW said:

I quit sugary drinks years ago, only on occasion. Other than morning coffee I drink water all day. And alcohol.

I was alluding to a prior discussion on sweet tea but never mind.  Lol

1 minute ago, paco said:

Lets see.  Of the top 12 cities for murder rate per 100k people, 6 of them are in Mexico.  Los Cabos (1), Acapuico (3), Tijuana (5), La Paz (6), Ciudad Victoria (8) and Caulican (12). 

 

So yeah, you'd be an absolute fool to move to Mexico for that reason unless you are a poor with no skills\nothing going for you.

Right, it's more of a joke than anything. Things can change though and I have time so I'm not closing my mind to anything. But I'm not really contemplating mexico outside of a big turnaround.

Was mostly meandering that way mentally as I made my way around the Gulf from Florida to NOLA to Texas to Mexico. The first two are pretty hard "no"s because I can't deal with humidity and excessive heat. Some areas of Texas maybe.

It's too bad Mexico's crime (cartel) issues are so acute, because the climate can be so attractive for retirement years.

8 minutes ago, paco said:

Lets see.  Of the top 12 cities for murder rate per 100k people in the world, 6 of them are in Mexico.  Los Cabos (1), Acapuico (3), Tijuana (5), La Paz (6), Ciudad Victoria (8) and Caulican (12). 

 

So yeah, you'd be an absolute fool to move to Mexico for that reason unless you are a poor with no skills and\or have nothing going for you.

Adios Amigo 

4 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Right, it's more of a joke than anything. Things can change though and I have time so I'm not closing my mind to anything. But I'm not really contemplating mexico outside of a big turnaround.

Was mostly meandering that way mentally as I made my way around the Gulf from Florida to NOLA to Texas to Mexico. The first two are pretty hard "no"s because I can't deal with humidity and excessive heat. Some areas of Texas maybe.

It's too bad Mexico's crime (cartel) issues are so acute, because the climate can be so attractive for retirement years.

Mexico city actually has a great climate

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As he did during the Afghanistan-withdrawal debacle, President Biden has turned to ABC News for a formal sit-down interview to do damage control. And while the president did not indignantly bark, "That was four or five days ago, man!” he didn’t exactly put on a command performance, either:

"Three days before Christmas, if you look out across the country, you see it everywhere, these long lines, people waiting for hours outside in the cold, just to get tested, to be reassured before they spend time with their family,” Muir said. "If you go to the pharmacy, we hear this over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. Is that a failure?”

"I don’t think it’s a failure,” Biden replied. "I think it’s — you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago.”

"I wish I had thought about ordering” 500 million at-home tests "two months ago,” he told Muir.

That statement isn’t just the usual presidential excuse-making; it’s another sign that Biden does not remember what he said, promised, pledged, or announced earlier. Recall that Biden’s vaccine mandate gave companies the option of testing employees once a week — which was going to dramatically increase the need for Covid-19 tests. Back in his big announcement of a vaccine mandate for employers in September, Biden pledged that Americans would find Covid-19 tests plentiful and cheap, if not free:

From the start, America has failed to do enough Covid-19 testing. In order to better detect and control the Delta variant, I’m taking steps tonight to make testing more available, more affordable, and more convenient. I’ll use the Defense Production Act to increase production of rapid tests, including those that you can use at home.

While that production is ramping up, my administration has worked with top retailers, like Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger’s and tonight we’re announcing that, no later than next week, each of these outlets will start to sell at-home rapid test kits at cost for the next three months. This is an immediate price reduction for at-home test kits for up to 35 percent reduction.

We’ll also expand — expand free testing at 10,000 pharmacies around the country. And we’ll commit — we’re committing $2 billion to purchase nearly 300 million rapid tests for distribution to community health centers, food banks, schools, so that every American, no matter their income, can access free and convenient tests. This is important to everyone, particularly for a parent or a child — with a child not old enough to be vaccinated. You’ll be able to test them at home and test those around them.

And then at the beginning of this month, Biden boasted:

This winter, we are going to make free at-home tests more available to Americans than ever before. To better detect and control the Delta variant, I made testing more available, affordable, and convenient. I used the Defense Production Act to increase production of rapid tests, including at-home tests. . . for those not covered by private insurance, we’re going to make available free tests at thousands of convenient locations — locations for folks to pick them up and take a test kit home. . . .

The bottom line: This winter, you’ll be able to test for free in the comfort of your home and have some peace of mind.

But the number of test results reported nationally Tuesday was just over 1.6 million — which was about the same number of test results as earlier in the month, and about the same number of test results as in September when the Delta variant wave was hitting, and fewer than testing stretches running from December 2020 to the end of January 2021.

Demand for testing is way up, but the number of test results being reported isn’t up much at all — which suggests that the overall number of tests available hasn’t increased significantly. Some of that might reflect people taking at-home tests and not reporting those results, but . . . you would think the long lines outside public testing sites we’re seeing would cause the total number of test results to jump.

If you look at local news this morning, it’s the same story all over — people can’t find tests on the shelves of stores, and open appointments for those free tests are few and far between — from Houston, Texas, to Cleveland, Ohio, to Santa Cruz, Calif., to Stamford and Waterford, Conn.

As for Biden’s pledge this week that 500 million new Covid-19 tests are on the way and will start arriving in January, today’s New York Times suggests that’s the most optimistic timetable:

Mr. Biden’s administration has not yet signed a contract to buy the tests, and the website to order them will not be up until January. Officials have not said how many tests people will be able to order or how quickly they will be shipped once they begin to be available next month. Manufacturers say they are already producing tests as fast as they can. . . . Whether testing manufacturers can now ramp up to produce an extra 500 million at-home tests — and how soon — is unclear.”

(When you post about an inability to find tests in your area on social media, there’s always some schmo who will respond, "They’re easy to find in my area!” Well, that’s great for you. Maybe your corner of the country has low demand, or your neck of the woods just had a shipment arrive. That doesn’t change the fact that large swaths of America’s densely populated areas can’t find any tests. It’s not that people aren’t looking hard enough, and this is not a vast media conspiracy to make President Biden look bad. Sheesh.)

 

 

9 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I was alluding to a prior discussion on sweet tea but never mind.  Lol

I can't think of anything more gross than sweet tea, even in the south. 

3 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Mexico city actually has a great climate

I love Mexico, but I don't think I'd want to live there.

Personally I'd be fine staying in PA, maybe buying a joint somewhere south in a place that doesn't suck as a place to head for the winter, but the wife has a say so we'll see where the negotiations land. And what the tax laws look like in 20ish years. 

13 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Mexico city actually has a great climate

I think the word you are searching for is smog

20 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Mexico city actually has a great climate

6 minutes ago, paco said:

I think the word you are searching for is smog

At least he is finally thinking positive! You see the atmosphere as half smog, while Joe sees it as half air.

31 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I was alluding to a prior discussion on sweet tea but never mind.  Lol

I don't recall other than you were wrong about something as usual. 

11 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

At least he is finally thinking positive! You see the atmosphere as half smog, while Joe sees it as half air.

Positively!! I can still see the buildings. 

47 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

The concern is there's so much nothing. You can get some skiing in here and there, but if you're anywhere near real civilization you're getting taxed for the privilege.

I want somewhere quiet where neighbors are at least arm's length away, but where I can visit a high end lifestyle (good restaurants, museums, maybe a beach though that's more my wife's thing)

This is kinda why I like Rhode Island.  You can get some solid plots but also get into Providence and some cool towns (East Greenwich, Warren, Bristol, Newport, Little Compton etc) easily. Brown/RISD/Johnson and Wales brings in a really cool arts/food scene for the size. Coast/Bay keeps the weather pretty moderate all year round. Easy train to NYC.

Only real downside are the Pats fans. 

1 minute ago, DEagle7 said:

This is kinda why I like Rhode Island.  You can get some solid plots but also get into Providence and some cool towns (East Greenwich, Warren, Bristol, Newport, Little Compton etc) easily. Brown/RISD/Johnson and Wales brings in a really cool arts/food scene for the size. Coast/Bay keeps the weather pretty moderate all year round. Easy train to NYC.

Only real downside are the Pats fans. 

Work sent me to Newport for a week.  Really a beautiful town 

15 minutes ago, paco said:

Work sent me to Newport for a week.  Really a beautiful town 

Cool town to visit and beautiful, but a lot of tourists in the summer. All of the costal towns are fun though and love being near the water. Here's the view out the back of my family's rental for the holidays

 

23 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

This is kinda why I like Rhode Island.  You can get some solid plots but also get into Providence and some cool towns (East Greenwich, Warren, Bristol, Newport, Little Compton etc) easily. Brown/RISD/Johnson and Wales brings in a really cool arts/food scene for the size. Coast/Bay keeps the weather pretty moderate all year round. Easy train to NYC.

Only real downside are the Pats fans. 

I only know that I can apparently score some pretty good heroin in Providence, if that's what you're into.

27 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I only know that I can apparently score some pretty good heroin in Providence, if that's what you're into.

Vegan croissants, Korean fusion cuisine, Broadway shows and yellow tops! It's a great town!

2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Right, it's more of a joke than anything. Things can change though and I have time so I'm not closing my mind to anything. But I'm not really contemplating mexico outside of a big turnaround.

Was mostly meandering that way mentally as I made my way around the Gulf from Florida to NOLA to Texas to Mexico. The first two are pretty hard "no"s because I can't deal with humidity and excessive heat. Some areas of Texas maybe.

It's too bad Mexico's crime (cartel) issues are so acute, because the climate can be so attractive for retirement years.

If you have a pension of say… $4,000 a month you can go to a safe and beautiful place (barra de navidad for example) and live on the beach and live like a baller all month and not have to do anything to make extra cash. Here you would be struggling to keep a roof and eat on that.
 

 
 

RFJ Jr.’s allegations. Not saying they’re true, but the questions should certainly be asked.

• Fauci tested harsh chemotherapy drugs on orphan children in order to determine its use for AIDS treatments in the 1980s
• Fauci got control of foster homes in 7 states
• Children were tortured to death
• Children were denied guardians and any kind of legal protector
• Children who refused to take Fauci’s drugs had feeding tubes installed so drug companies could administer the drugs even when the kids fought back
• Most of the children did not have HIV/AIDS, they were just used as guinea pigs to see if they could survive the harsh drug regimen
• At least 85 kids died as part of these experiments

11 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

RFJ Jr.’s allegations. Not saying they’re true, but the questions should certainly be asked.

 

 

Do you mean RFK Jr? The lunatic? That guy?

23 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

RFJ Jr.’s allegations. Not saying they’re true, but the questions should certainly be asked.

 

 

Here is the answer RFK JR is nuts

35 minutes ago, SNOORDA said:

If you have a pension of say… $4,000 a month you can go to a safe and beautiful place (barra de navidad for example) and live on the beach and live like a baller all month and not have to do anything to make extra cash. Here you would be struggling to keep a roof and eat on that.
 

 
 

What is the cause of high prices? demand, government regulations? something else?

6 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Here is the answer RFK JR is nuts

He’s legitimately mentally ill. He needs professional help, most likely of the in patient variety