Poverty

~~jwb~~ · 06-21-2022, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

rent has gone up near 50% in Austin

I'm kinda lucky because this once dormitory meets a halfway house situation I live in is now actually half populated by computer programers and corporate telemarketers...even they are finding it hard

my Apt. is near empty right now because these folks just treat the place as a backup while they travel

you are lucky, and im terribly sorry to hear about the plight of telemarketers.

~~jwb~~ · 06-21-2022, 01:05 PM

I dunno why you would wanna live in Texas without a car. You might be able to get around a bit by bus etc, i don't even know, but the **** is too spread out for robust public transit. That's how Florida was too the only good transit was the buses and the train that ran up and down the coast. Because that makes sense.... You can go like 60 miles from West Palm to Miami by train for not much money and it wouldn't take you longer than driving with average traffic. But you can't go just anywhere you really need a car down there.

The Batlord · 06-21-2022, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by rubber soul

Yes, unless you don't want the reptilians vote. It was getting crazy when each minority group was demanding Biden to put several of their particular race in his administration. Maybe, I'm too much of an idealist, but if you just concentrated on the best and the brightest, you'd end up with a diverse administration anyway. Anyway, it's just a gripe on the far left.

Wtf? That's all you NPR zombies who think civil rights is letting rich black people into the big boys club. My side knows it's empty idpol and don't care.

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Originally Posted by jwb

No. She's trying to be. Her and he husband run one but they aren't the owners.

I know they said she didn't have enough experience or whatever but do you think she just didn't have as much money to throw around as a venture capitalist with a business degree?

Ayn Marx · 06-21-2022, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

if you want to live on the outskirts you have to own a car which then negates the lower rent unless you're well off enough to where you'll get an affordable car loan and something other than junk insurance

The US and public transport are too often strangers.

~~jwb~~ · 06-21-2022, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

it's not unfeasible to do public transit here, a rail system between San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin has been talked about forever

it's not like you need to run public transit out into west Texas or something

you can live in the cities here without a car (San Antonio being the real exception)

are you saying Austin already has good public transport?

~~jwb~~ · 06-21-2022, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Wtf? That's all you NPR zombies who think civil rights is letting rich black people into the big boys club. My side knows it's empty idpol and don't care.

I know they said she didn't have enough experience or whatever but do you think she just didn't have as much money to throw around as a venture capitalist with a business degree?

A venture capitalist who is becoming a fast food franchise owner? Lol. Shut the **** up idiot.

The Batlord · 06-22-2022, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

A venture capitalist who is becoming a fast food franchise owner? Lol. Shut the **** up idiot.

You know they're not all railroad tycoons right? The point still stands. A bigger fish than her. I mean it is kind of weird to keep your franchisees to the limited pool of people who have both spent many years at the same restaurant and have also saved up enough to buy a restaurant.

The Batlord · 06-22-2022, 01:48 PM

You're not a student though.

~~jwb~~ · 06-22-2022, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

You know they're not all railroad tycoons right? The point still stands. A bigger fish than her. I mean it is kind of weird to keep your franchisees to the limited pool of people who have both spent many years at the same restaurant and have also saved up enough to buy a restaurant.

I don't know that much about the process but from what I know they expect you to have like 10 or 20k to put in if you're going to start one. It's not about extracting some large cash payment in advance from whoever the highest bidder is, the company doesn't want their franchises to go under or to give their brand a bad name so that's why they're picky. They're intrinsically invested in the success of the franchise. They make more from a successful operation than someone just willing to bribe them to jump the line.

~~jwb~~ · 06-22-2022, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

it's passable and free for students

there are a lot of buses

I mean passable is subjective... Technically you can get around Greensboro pretty cheap riding the bus but it's ghetto af and the routes are super random and don't usually provide a very direct route. That's sorta how it was in west palm as well. Plus In Greensboro the buses only came every half hour some days or every hour Sunday.... ****ing gay af

06-21-2022, 01:05 PM	#102 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I dunno why you would wanna live in Texas without a car. You might be able to get around a bit by bus etc, i don't even know, but the **** is too spread out for robust public transit. That's how Florida was too the only good transit was the buses and the train that ran up and down the coast. Because that makes sense.... You can go like 60 miles from West Palm to Miami by train for not much money and it wouldn't take you longer than driving with average traffic. But you can't go just anywhere you really need a car down there.