This guy actually lives there:

I moved to a suburb just north of Tampa back in 2003 and bought this house for $157K…

I know there are more jobs in urban areas, and I know everyone needs a car to live in the suburbs… but the money I saved buying my house more than offsets the cost of owning my USED cars.

I know, real estate prices went nuts, partially because billion dollar hedge funds bought up thousands of homes and now rent those homes out to the rest of y’all.

I’m not sure how my daughters will afford their first homes, I’ll probably help them out when it comes to that. Hopefully the real estate market and interest rates go through a correction and prices stabilize again. A ginormous recession would do that, but it might also fuck up the solar biz and my income could trickle down to nuttin.

But back to city living fer a minute… allow me to rant:

If you have a car you should never have to compete with your neighbor for a parking space. My house has a driveway with room for 2 cars, NO ONE else can park there because I won that driveway.

If you park in my driveway and don’t move your car? I can blow it up with a couple sticks of dynamite, or C4, or thermite… you get the idea.

I grew up and hour south of NYC and every single time I went up to visit or do work stuff I hated it.

Bad roads, insane traffic, super expensive parking…

My younger sister Dani lives in NJ and works in Manhattan in the fashion industry. She takes the train into the city from the suburbs… she’s been working in Manhattan for decades and she tells me it’s just getting worse.

More homeless, more drugs, more crime…

If you have a home OUTSIDE the cities? With water and solar and lotsa guns?

You’ll be better off if the shit hits the fan and things devolve into chaos.

Have a LOVELY Sunday y’all.

Ben Alexander

April 21 / 2024