I'm Sick Of This Middle-Class Bullcrap - This Isn't Freedom.

PS: Thats why London is the way it is, because your government is fucked

I havent bothered seeing how thise rates compare to the rest of the world, but london would have to be near the top of the list, thats bullshit and just artificially inflates property prices, and at a guess, more than foreign investors do

 

To Karen J.

Whereas being upper middle class may be a comfortable fit in terms of reward to effort within this particular system that figure I would presume applies only to the u.s.. If you have to be sellable to have decent being in life, I would say all of our relationships have become hyped with snake oil, diminished by breach of contract, and depreciated a matter of course rather than from usual wear.

May not have to sell your soul to the devil but everyone is a whoe. I know we don't have to sell ourselves to make appreciable contributions to the welfare of our community and the competition for attention in being a marketer causes some to lose out and all to be pressured to do things that all things being equal, they wouldn't do. For example "I would give you my wares friend but I have to make a living, you understand. Sad affair I know, but I'm a prudent person and this is necessary."

Bull shit!

The fractional reserve banking system is a Ponzi scheme. We have all been skewered up the proverbial but,( it has to be this way.)

 

Sounds like you may be suffering from exhaustion/burn out.
I've been quite driven and do need to take breaks from my work. Someone once said to me "taking a break isn't part of being lazy, its part of being focussed and determined".

You're going on a (nominally!) hippy site enquiring what people think about business. You're gonna get alot of "stick it to the man" replies. Even tho there ARE people here with a passion for business.

Much of the issue here is about business management, potential business modification our exit. Bankruptcy corp or personal needs expert advice if you are thinking of doing it. And risk management is relevant regardless of what you do.

Life might look great for your friends in the guitar shop, but is it really YOU? What IS you?

Me personally, I'd hate to live a normal working class life, even tho I have w/c friends. I'd hate to live a typical middle class life like a lawyer/banker etc, even tho I have m/c friends. My choice was different again. But thats a different topic. Wasnt an easy choice early on, infact it was pretty gruelling. But its what I am.

I'm outta the forums for a while, but send me a message if I can possibly help. Good luck!

 

Buy a new weed pipe and take a trip to Vegas..

 

"it not the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy"

 

Seriously though, honorable mention to Vanilla G. Not that you can judge a book by its cover, but let's just say that your usual posting habits don't give away that you are well versed in macroeconomics. I feel like you are forgetting something when you are compounding all of this though: The fact that while I am flipping a house/renting out a house, their mortgages are getting paid off. So yes, if you compare the property value itself to inflation, profits aren't that big, but the bottom line is I end up having more liquidity and opportunity to make plays elsewhere... Am I making sense?

You seem to think real estate investments are bad all together, and that's new for me. My understanding is that the thing that's good about real estate is that even though profits are slow and steady, at least the market is stable. It would need to get pretty bad (detroit style) before you lose everything. It isn't like buying volatile stock somewhere hoping to fall on one of those get rich quick one in a million opportunities... profits are slow and steady, but they are steady... you know what I mean?

I never said I didn't make those choices freely. I said that those choices I made took away my freedom. I created this situation for myself, but it is what it is.