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  1. 17 hours ago, cmontexas said:

    Mamdani won basically using Bernie Sanders platform. Young males by 40 percent. 

    That's it. That's the lesson

    Let's be honest. If he was white, it would've been 50+ percent.

  2. 16 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

    I am into this. What do I search for on the real estate sites? I want to sit on a pile of invested equity and rent or own a place with such good paid flr maintenance that when I die it's 18 months before anybody notices my dessicated corpse.

     I have found it difficult to search for them on many of the listing sites.  Some terms are "over 55", "patio community", "patio home", "gated", etc.  Usually, I found them by accident.  If you could search by HOA fee, that would probably flag them since their monthly fee is usually $250+.  Maybe a realtor can chime in if their MLS search tools are better than the public facing ones.

  3. There was a thread where y’all were lamenting the difficulty in finding inside skirt for fajitas. A cursory search didn’t find that thread so I’m putting this here.  
     
    Costco/Bunker Hill in Houston. 

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    I buy that all the time. It’s really good but it does need a bit more seasoning when you grill it.
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  4. 13 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    You've gotta be a little more realistic with your comparison.  Your home value will vary wildly between each of these sites.  800K house might get you 700 sq ft in one state, and 3500 sq ft in another.  Utility costs, fuel costs, insurance costs, etc.  Comparing your 800 sq ft loft in Portland with a Prius vs a 3000 sq ft house in Leander with a Ram 1500 is not exactly apples to apples.

    Those are all choices and lifestyle dependent.  You may need 3500 sq ft in Texas because it fucking sucks to be outside in 100F+ 6 months of the year but only 1,500 sq ft in Colorado because you're out of the house all of the time. There's no way to realistically compare those types of choices.  What I did was just compare the baseline. That's good enough for my situation. 

     

     

     

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  5. Comparing property taxes of a Texas city to other cities is comparing apples to lizards. Most other states have income taxes, so property taxes carry a LOT more of the load here.

    Just compare total per capita local tax burdens, that’s much more accurate.

    Here’s a comparison I did for retirement.
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  6. The Comptroller’s Office runs the Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUB) program for the state. The HUB team was on the way to Houston this week to run a procurement workshop. They got a call to turn around. HUB has been eliminated and its existence has been scrubbed from the website.

    Fuck y’all’s small businesses!

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  7. Lord Huron was awesome. I had no idea what to expect. They seem to be between venue sizes at this point and playing arenas for the first time. Since they aren’t selling out arenas yet, there will be cheap tickets available day of the show if you’re on the fence about going. After NIN, this was my next favorite show of the year so far.

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  8. If they want to go all in, they should ban public state universities from giving athletic scholarships to foreign athletes.  Hell, ban non-Texans from athletic scholarships also if you really want to take the stance that public funds should only support Texans.

     

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