somewhere

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/11/23/u-s-finally-legalizes-modern-european-style-train-cars/ Man, the thick BS in this article grinds my gears.

What I don't understand is why these Millenial kids didn't take advantage of te housing market crash of 2007-2011 and buy in then when the prices were in the cellar?!

"But FRA rules had required significant design changes. Most important, American train cars had to be built to withstand 800,000 pounds of frontal impact. Former Amtrak CEO David Gunn complained U.S. trains had to be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults.” Rather than just bulk up, European and Asian trains instead are designed to absorb impacts and avoid collisions in the first place. And they have better safety records."

If the European trains are "designed to absorb impacts", does that not count as "withstanding" those impacts?

it seems to me that... either they withstand the same impacts specified for U.S. trainsets or they do not

because they fucked their credit scores by taking an unpayable amount of college debt in their gender studies classes that made then unemployable @Mr.McKinley

from someone at the upper range of the millenial age range

Man, I've made mistakes in my life

I don't blame others for this shit

Yeah, but after the crash, loans became irrelevant. I purchased a house formerly valued at $95,000 for WELL under $10,000.

I paid cash.

It's not that difficult. You can't even GET a home loan for that low an amount.

can't get a loan from a bank that wouldn't trust you to make coffee

congrats

where'd you find a home for $10k?

I live in the Rust Belt.

mmhm

OH? MI?

decent homes around me are 30k atm, large plots in the country are 100k

https://apnews.com/83a7e797f6eb48399bbe9530e4bce9a3

AP is running the story that Corsi will, indeed, be indicted

Man, lesson not to let weak little shits do business with you

their mere association with you will be a burden

Mhmm....sure, but I now own a Victorian home that has regained it's former value and in the interrim, I put an additional $27,000 in value into with reno....Still at a cost under $30,000 total, including historic feature reinstallation and custom work.

cool

@Mr.McKinley serious on that though. When your credit score is a dumpster fire, you have a quarter million debt that garnishes any future wages you may get, you have no social skills beyond screaming nazi at random people and you couldn't hold a job at gunpoint without having a sjw breakdown from all the stuff offending you... banks really don't want to loan them anything

There are some places which have grants for moving

I think there's a program in Tulsa right now

I could get a plot and put something simple on it

I want something basically cabin sized, to live the next five to seven years

So trash the Rust Belt all you want, it just sounds silly to me. People trash me for my region of origin all the time (Apparently being Southern means "ignorant, inbred hillbilly", online too regardless of educational and professional achievements

is somebody trashing the rust belt here?

the rust belt handed Trump the white house

I view that as a positive development

you mean... they voted for him?

yes

nobody hands anyone the white house

ohio went almost 100% red

lol

yeah