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Grimscale said:
to be honest I haven't really seen much change in prices.
Gas prices out here haven't changed since Sleepy Joe's reign. Egg prices may be down a few cents, but that's all. Even the non-essentials haven't changed too much, maybe a percent or two more for Lego.
Vehicle prices have been dropping since the covid scam ended and since the "chip shortage" b.s. ended. Dealerships are cutting deep deals (supposedly) to get rid of overstock.
And housing prices in NY have been an issue for far longer than Trump has been in office...either time!

The preferences I have to buy a house would cost, AT MINIMUM, ~$350k. But, due to NY taxes (property+school), I can only afford up to $200k. That'll get me a 2 bed 2 bath 1500 sq. ft. house with no yard and no garage and perpetual monthly payments of almost $1000/mo even after the mortgage is paid off.
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That wasn’t a knock at what Trump has done and I wasn’t saying Trump made prices increase. I agree I have t seen an increase and what I’ve been hearing isn’t new to Trump but just in general. Trump did promise to bring prices down and I hope he’s successful at that and I think that needs to be number one priority along with the budget. I think he realizes that and is focused on those things.
Gas prices are great and I’d be happy if they stayed where they are at. Food prices, cars and houses are too high. Cars and home prices will kill you these days. I’d love to move in a few years but the interest rates and home prices are making that an impossibility. I haven’t seen a house I’d move to for under $600,000 and I just can’t do that. I make good money with my wife but I can’t and won’t be house poor and that would accomplish that.
Housing prices are hard for a president to impact but the vehicle prices are becuase of greed, safety features, and environmental regulations. Add in tariffs possibly and vehicle prices are nuts.
 
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Grimscale said:
to be honest I haven't really seen much change in prices.
Gas prices out here haven't changed since Sleepy Joe's reign. Egg prices may be down a few cents, but that's all. Even the non-essentials haven't changed too much, maybe a percent or two more for Lego.
Vehicle prices have been dropping since the covid scam ended and since the "chip shortage" b.s. ended. Dealerships are cutting deep deals (supposedly) to get rid of overstock.
And housing prices in NY have been an issue for far longer than Trump has been in office...either time!

The preferences I have to buy a house would cost, AT MINIMUM, ~$350k. But, due to NY taxes (property+school), I can only afford up to $200k. That'll get me a 2 bed 2 bath 1500 sq. ft. house with no yard and no garage and perpetual monthly payments of almost $1000/mo even after the mortgage is paid off.
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You are 100% buying a house in the wrong state.

Buy a place out here and you'll have room to put in your own range for that.

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Oh, and taxes will be about $2/year.



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Saltwater60 said:
I haven’t seen a house I’d move to for under $600,000 and I just can’t do that.
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so far I've figured the minimum house I would accept would cost ~$350k in NY. Good luck finding one for that price, and good luck being able to buy it.
There was one quite near me that would have been perfect. It listed for $350k, sold for $365k. Houses and land are getting snapped up faster than you can blink out here (land mostly for developers of solar farms).
 
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spat said:
You are 100% buying a house in the wrong state.

Buy a place out here and you'll have room to put in your own range for that.

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Oh, and taxes will be about $2/year.



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If I were to move to Arizona it would have to be in the mountains where temps are closer to what I see in NY.
I'm also concerned by the rumors that Arizona may be running out of water.

My mom said they've been building new housing tracts like crazy where they are. In the years since my dad died the place went from a respectable sized city to a Phoenix suburb. Traffic is a mess out there now. And they are still building!
 
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"They" are trying as hard as they can on every angle they can to destroy him, his reputation and his efforts to save this country.

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Grimscale said:
If I were to move to Arizona it would have to be in the mountains where temps are closer to what I see in NY.
I'm also concerned by the rumors that Arizona may be running out of water.

My mom said they've been building new housing tracts like crazy where they are. In the years since my dad died the place went from a respectable sized city to a Phoenix suburb. Traffic is a mess out there now. And they are still building!
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Yea, I would not move to Phoenix or the vicinity.

Both of those places I posted are over 3500' elevation. Temps are much more reasonable.

And water is local. The fact that the supply on the Colorado River is stretched thin doesn't affect another source.

I have a well, it produces 25gpm of good quality water. I am also the top house on the mountain, so my source is the rain that falls on it. Basically physics and hydrology give me first dibs.
 
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Grimscale said:
so far I've figured the minimum house I would accept would cost ~$350k in NY. Good luck finding one for that price, and good luck being able to buy it.
There was one quite near me that would have been perfect. It listed for $350k, sold for $365k. Houses and land are getting snapped up faster than you can blink out here (land mostly for developers of solar farms).
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Same here. I’m not really looking at this point and time because I’d move farther out to the country and my kids go to college in two opposite directions so it would likely make both or one a very long drive. I do t want to do that right now. Not sure it will make sense to move in 5+ years but we will see. My back and neck are not doing well either so not sure it makes sense to move to have more land and more work. Plus if I bought o would only want to take a small mortgage so that would mean coming up with $400,000-$450,000 cash and not sure how feasible that is but it is possible for us to do if we really wanted to.
Then again I could consider the right house with less acreage than I desire with more than I have now and get something for $150-$200 less and that solves a lot of issue except not seeing neighbors. A lot will depend on what happens with the house across the street and next to me between now and my kids college graduation. Then I would need 4-5 years to save enough cash for a down payment. At 50 I’m not mortgaging $400,000. Along stay where I’m at within reason I can have any toy I want and take pretty regular vacations when the kids are done with college.
 
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SomeSoldier said:

This country is done.
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And I'm sure whoever they are protecting is also the reason the "epstein files" will never see the light of day, and no arrests will come. DC is and always has been nothing but theatrics, everybody is involved, I am of the belief that Trump is nothing more than another actor. And if he's not, he's the only one and hanging our hopes on one man changing things is just plain stupid. I am done with "just be patient, justice is coming, these things take time". The system cant be changed using the system to try and effect such deep changes. Its over, we lost a long time ago.
 
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I don’t click on NPR articles so you’ll have to deal with just the headline and research for yourselves but this could be great.
 

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Grimscale said:
If I were to move to Arizona it would have to be in the mountains where temps are closer to what I see in NY.
I'm also concerned by the rumors that Arizona may be running out of water.

My mom said they've been building new housing tracts like crazy where they are. In the years since my dad died the place went from a respectable sized city to a Phoenix suburb. Traffic is a mesut there now. And they are still building!
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The sun has an unnatural hatred for the Phoenix area, otherwise known as the valley of the sun. Lol

Northern Arizona is actually quite a bit different because you are up on the plateau with much of the area being well over a mile high in elevation you get actual winters, snow, etc. It's a super cool area.

I went to the grand canyon last March/April and there was snow.

Flagstaff AZ gets almost as much snow as western NY

Northern az is pretty interesting.


I think @spat has a really interesting location because he is pretty far south but at enough elevation to moderate his little micro climate.

I've heard Prescott AZ isn't terrible either.

Anything out west the most important question to ask, is what's the elevation. On my adventure last year, we were at Bryce canyon UT elevation about 7500 ft with heavy deep snow, 2 hours later we had driven back to our air BNB in st. George UT and it was 70 degrees and the kids went swimming in the pool.
 
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H.R.3432 - To direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct or support research to advance the understanding of Trump Derangement Syndrome​

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3432​



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SomeSoldier said:

This country is done.
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Well, this caused me to go back to my thought's when this whole thing started, which was, show me some proof that he is actually dead in the first place! I am sure his CIA, NSA, and Mossad connections make his evaporation from the front page a piece of cake.
So, is he really dead? Prove it. Oh right, we have to trust life long government employees to feed us the truth. Would that be like, the patriot's truth!
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