Korhaka @ Korhaka @sopuli.xyz

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Surely it depends how you live though. A guy spending just £15 a week on food and living in a tent is not wealthy just because they have £2k in the bank which will cover them for a few years.

I used to rent a single bedroom in an overcrowded house share, didn't learn to drive because I couldn't afford it.

Had over a year of expenses saved, hardly makes you rich.

1-2 years before I need to look at selling the house, although hoping that the mortgage will drop when our 2 year fix ends which could push that time up a bit as that is by far my largest expense.

Honestly not noticed that because I just don't give a shit. It's a pride flag, surely it isn't going to hurt even the most delicate snowflake.

I could support a few of these

If your audience will disappear because you go away for 5 minutes you were probably not providing anything of value in the first place

Oh my house was way below the median, in my region of the country the median house price was £385k when I bought. If anything bungalows are often seen as a retirement option as well because no stairs to climb. At the same price range we could have got a terrace house, but they were in worse areas of town and the gardens much smaller. This is small (60m²) but its enough, after that I would like to have some outside space too. Which is also fairly small but its still something, the entire property is about 150m².

We need more places to apply similar taxes to discourage houses being left empty. It won't fix the problem but its a step in the right direction. Rentals being left empty for long periods of time is also a problem, for both residential and commercial property.

Still working remote, not sure how long I will be able to keep that but I have had to refuse orders to start commuting more than once. Compromise agreement is offered and everyone forgets about it while we continue not going into the office more than a handful of times a year. They moved the office over 50 miles away which I am using as my (quite reasonable!) justification to not go in on a regular basis. If it remained local I could cycle in more often quite happily. Yeah in my area there are not the best job opportunities, but there is at least work to be done if you want to just take any job and its not like the pay makes much difference. In the UK we have comparably good minimum wage. I am on £26k (~£13.33/h) and minimum wage gets you £12.21/hour. So even if I just switched to literally any job I wouldn't be taking much of a pay cut and its actually cheaper than taking the train each day would be as rail is really expensive here.

£230k which is on the cheaper end, got a small bungalow.

A fair few people here already dislike Londoners buying property and driving up prices because they earn more than the local population can. Tourist destinations get it particularly bad. I think a few parts of Wales have increased council tax (similar to property tax) for second homes that are left empty. An empty house doesn't contribute to the local economy.

I replaced the microwave with an air fryer, still have the microwave but it lives in a cupboard and only gets used a couple of times a year.

As the air fryer cools for a few seconds before it finishes I usually don't stop it early. I will often open it early to check on the food though.

I kinda like flatpaks being an option, not sure when they are the only option though.

I moved to a larger town with shit public transport and felt this at first. Getting a bike helped a lot. Now I can easily cycle to the beach in my lunch break if I want to.

I live in the UK, but our economy seems to generally follow the US except without any increase in productivity for over a decade and wages are trending towards minimum wage.

I'm a younger millennial and bought just under 2 years ago. At like peak interest rates... Other than cost of houses what would a crash mean to the economy anyway?

I got shadow of mordor on a huge discount and it still barely felt worth it.

no idea who he is, should I care?

Godot being woke? Wtf?

Are the results anything that would cause any pressure for change though?

Seems like you would want a lot of organisation too or its just a few people and maybe a 0.1% drop in the fertility rate.

I thought subscriptions were enshittification, you mean it gets even worse?

You can also just not eat meat very often to help keep costs down. For the 2 of us this week we have a single pack of 600g which is above average for us.

Sometimes get tinned mackerel which is much less total meat, but it's got a stronger flavour than chicken or pork so it can go further in a meal. I would look at catching crabs from the harbour but my partner refuses to eat them.