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Thank you for clearing it up

Since I'm in Europe not much. Not big enough to really change something or set something bigger in motion.

This is what I find interesting: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/investing/michael-burry-stock-market-crash/index.html

We all are. Always have been. That was my point. I don't own my house, the bank does and as long as I pay each month half of my income they allow me to live in it. I will never own it 100%.

The things you're pointing at have always been a problem, nothing new. And each year those problems grow. As do the deficiencies of our governments, our states.

Nobody expects you to do anything. Just don't expect anything in return and you're golden.

BTW, you sound like me in the 80s. And that's not meant as an insult or something, it's just an observation. I'm curious if that says something about the economic & society cycle and where we are in it.

My third even, 100% bank owned. Cannot afford to switch again so I think this is it till the end. All my under 30 colleagues also have their own by the way. It's fucking expensive especially with 3 kids who probably cannot move out the next 10 years.

I know where you're coming from, having older kids myself. It's hard and unfair. But that's how it always been. The unfair part isn't new.

Looking back thinking it was easier in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s is, I'm sorry to say, disillusional. You're just looking at housing (which was also bullshit in the 80s, and 00s by the way) and forget the rest of the shit of those times. 80s wasn't fun, my dad lost his job, we only kept our house because my grand parents died and the inheritance filled the financial hole. 00s also wasn't fun, being a part of the greatest depression since the 30s, I was fortunate to keep my IT job, a lot of mates lost everything. (job, house, marriage, because bad finance kills relations I've learned.) My wife did get fired and still is not at the same level as back then. But we get by, thank you for asking.

Finance is a bitch. Always has been.

Nobody wants that. But getting fucked in life is unfortunately a large part of living it.

Thank you, you're an asshole too! :)

Hahaha, that's not what I'm saying but if you want to take it like that, be my guest.

I'm saying shits fucked y'all. I'm also saying that it always has been.

The grass wasn't greener back then. Just a different shade of brown. Housing was better, a lot else was way worse.

Large cities, big tourist spots? Yes. Go in land and it's game over. I've been in cajarc (beautiful spot, really!) this year, it's on one of the compostela routes so they get a lot of pelgrims from al over the world. 1 waiter spoke good enough English to have a conversation with. 1.

In 7 and vista you already used steam and battle.net. The last time you clicked on an exe really was a long time ago.

Every installer ever since windows 95, made an item in your start menu. No clicking an exe.

unless you pirate your games, but then you're still just clicking an exe and this post doesn't make sense.

But hey, he made fun with his meme, I had fun typing my response, that's all there was to it, no?

You're American. Marketing data says that you like all things French and Italian.

Guess what happens next in this salesforce driven industry?

:)

East of Munich you're best bet is German, but English is also spoken widely. West of Munich you're more or less fine with English. In the northern countries we are used to the fact no one speaks our language so we all speak English, a lot of people French and a lot of German because it's close to our own.

Italians try English. As do most Spanish. Try is the magic word here, it's like your Spanish after high school or my French. :)

French don't try. They speak French. Period. In hotels etc. (tourist spots) English is spoken by few employees. But they are there. :)

In the balkans the situation is mixed. Some parts English, some German, some French, some Russian. I get by with an English/German mix in Croatia. my German is better then my French... But not a lot). Here in the Netherlands my level of German is widely called "steenkolen Duits" (coal German) because it's course, harsh, hard and dirty)

Anyway you'll be fine. Have a great vacation.