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  1. Apparently this happened years ago and the vegan is having a shit life all these years later. The victim had probably been feeling guilty and continued to follow the vegan on Facebook culminating in her reddit post to justify her actions and get rid of her guilt. Story was picked due to the post on "Am I an asshole" reddit.

     

    Really it's the uncle who was the asshole. The 2 girls were just stupid as shit. 

  2. 1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

    @UTGrad98, out of curiosity, where in Mexico are your in-laws?  And are they American ex-pats or Mexican nationals?

    I have definitely fantasized about making the move to San Carlos, MX.  Large expat community, 5 hr drive from Tucson, and 2 marinas. This would work just fine.

    https://www.seaside-realty.net/post/16-villas-california

    They are Mexican nationals and live in a small town/suburb about 30 miles outside mexico city. There are some really nice places in Mexico with large ex pat communities. San Miguel de Allende comes to mind and is one of our options we are currently looking at. My wife wants to buy a beach property too but she isn't quite sure where or if she wants just the land or something already built. 

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    My number is $10 million in liquid assets (not including real estate equity).  Once I'm there, I'm out.  Hopefully we're 2-3 years away from that.  

    My brothers goal is in this range. He is starting to build his dental practices and will sell in about 5 years and his wife is an MD. The thing is we have our youngest brother and he could care less about any of it. Bought a 5 acre property in between the airport and Bastrop for about 100k last year and is the happiest of all of us. All my wife, me, my brother and his wife do is bitch about how stressful our lives are. Meanwhile our youngest brother just built an outdoor movie theater and honestly living the dream in my eyes. I can't wait to join him. His retirement plan is building a hobbit house and renting it out on air b and b. 

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  4. On 1/2/2022 at 1:13 PM, Newdoc said:

    We are getting a ton of false negatives on the rapid antigen. Recommend PCR for confirmation of negative especially if exposed and symptomatic.

    I suspect it is a combination of less test sensitivity to Omicron and lower viral loads with immunized and/or natural previous infections.

    Well both nasal swab and throat swab pcr came back negative. I am going to assume I am ok now. 

  5. 11 hours ago, tequila said:

    Jesus Christ, I guess most of y’all never want to have fun once you’re done working?


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    Reading some of yalls posts I'm on the other side of this discussion it seems. Before covid we went on 1 or 2 week long vacations a year to various all inclusive resorts around Mexico at the tune of 3500 or so per trip. Our other 2 weeks of pto was visiting my wife's family which is basically a resort itself. What else is there? I think we will remodel out master bath this year and are looking at 13k or so. What else?

     

    All I value anymore is time, memories and quality of life years. I could give 2 shits about most material things with the exception of splurging on a new desk top computer every few years to play the latest video games. I genuinely don't care about the other stuff. In retirement I can see us going on probably 4 or 5 vacations instead of 2. And? 15k a year on that is nothing if house is paid. And if we move to Mexico in a few years we will need half our estimated retirement. 

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  6. I was exposed to someone at work Tuesday who later tested positive. Also exposed to someone who just felt bad that day but didn't get tested.  I felt chills,  had night sweats, a bad headache amd overall malaise Thursday night. No fever. Friday afternoon and since  felt right as rain. No symptoms at all.  Tested negative Friday morning after my bad night and then negative again this morning with 2 rapid antigen tests. I took a pcr today as well and will know tomorrow if I had it I guess. Strange course for me. Literally 1 bad night and then nothing. I'm thinking I didn't have covid but it sure felt like I  got something. I never ever get sick and especially like that.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Nonbryan said:

    I imagine the highest cost associated with retiring early is high health insurance coverage costs, right?

    Yes that is the only issue stopping most people.  I would think after a year though your yearly income level would be at point where Obama care wouldn't be to high. My hope is they lower Medicare age to 50. I'd imagine there would be a retirement boom that would dwarf what's happening this past year.

  8. 2 hours ago, Horns99 said:

    You guys that are retiring early, what’s your target asset # ? Mid 7 figures or 8 figs, to make sure it last as long as you need it? The significant other & I debate this. Especially with younger kids, what the hell else are you going to do.


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    We spend at most 60k a year and 25k of that is the mortgage. Our situation is different than most because my wife is from Mexico and there is a real chance we move there sooner rather than later. As long as there is no funny business with inflation our social security will cover most of our expenses when we hit 65 so its getting there that is the real issue. We could easily easily retire with 1.2m if mortgage is paid. But I'm a miser. Wife wants 2m. The debate is ongoing. The thing is it's not black and white. My job allows me to go part time as I'm in healthcare so I will most likely work like 1 day a week when I decide to quit if I some extra cash. But that gives me time to start other ventures. My wife can work for her dad in Mexico as well so for us it's not all or nothing. My personal FIRE will be when I decide to exit the rat race full time because the stress I have isn't good for me long term.

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  9. 3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    So, this may be unpopular, but I think the juvenile justice system is designed for this person. Clearly disturbed, emotional issues, acting out, asshole parents who ignored everything. He basically painted “I’m a potential school shooter” on his forehead and these people bought him a gun. “Didn’t have a chance” applies.

    In a sane world, the parents would be facing 1st degree murder and terrorism and the kid involuntary manslaughter as a juvy. 

    We tried this for a few decades. Didn't work. Needs to be tried as an adult.  I do agree with your assessment on the parents. 

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