What's the worst thing happening where you live... BESIDES the pandemic...

The person in charge of the security of our elections tampered with the voting machines and leaked information from those machines online.

Also forgot to add she forgot to count a ballot box right outside her office for months. Which, at best, means she is terrible at her job and at worst, purposefully didnt't count those ballots. The worst part about it all is that a decent amount of people here still support her. ?

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We have 1.5 million cruise passengers a summer in about 5 years, in a town of 30,000 people. The city cannot handle the sheer amount of people, and our downtown is inundated with tourists. They doing nothing to slow/control the growth of the industry in our small mountain/seaside town.
 
I live on an island and the ferry workers are striking over the vaccine mandate. Sometimes there are no ferries, often there is just one running so it's once/hour sailings with a several hour long lineup of cars.
 
Rising costs of living plus wage growth that is not keeping up. Once I wrap up school I'm leaving this trendy town for a job in a less fashionable and less favorably located town in the state. The resources here aren't enough of an incentive to stay and spend so much on rent or have to live with roommates as I start a career.
 
Probably the homeless/mental health/opiate crises? So intertwined and seemingly hopeless. The solutions are so complex and difficult to implement.
 
There's an LDS temple thats being proposed for the valley I live in and everyone's pissed because its going to ruin the views.

Also tons of housing shortages, employee shortages, and high living costs. My area blew up during the pandemic and I can't find shit cheaper than $1k/month and just straight-up sketchy listings for bedrooms. Oh well.
 
14331724:DeebieSkeebies said:
There's an LDS temple thats being proposed for the valley I live in and everyone's pissed because its going to ruin the views.

Also tons of housing shortages, employee shortages, and high living costs. My area blew up during the pandemic and I can't find shit cheaper than $1k/month and just straight-up sketchy listings for bedrooms. Oh well.
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see that stinks if it’s blocking views but they’re always super well designed and pretty dang cool lookin so hopefully it doesn’t mess any of em up too bad
 
14331726:SlitherySnake said:
see that stinks if it’s blocking views but they’re always super well designed and pretty dang cool lookin so hopefully it doesn’t mess any of em up too bad
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I really don't give too much of a shit not being a homeowner myself but I kinda see what people mean by the views being ruined. There are a lot of huge farms in the area with tons of open space they're selling off to developers and temples aren't the only things being built too. They're going to develop full-on townhouses, condos, apartments, shopping centers all over the place. Its a pretty small area honestly, not much bigger than it's neighboring town of park city and that's whole different shitshow of local champagne problems. If the housing market eventually chills out and there are more options as far as housing inventory goes, I might consider sticking around but I'm probably gonna head out somewhere else in the spring

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All the housing where im living is getting demoed in the next 2 years. There will be housing available just 20 min drive away and no more walking to work and snowboarding right to the door .

Is what it is but that's the worst thing for where i live i guess
 
I got jumped like a week ago, my girl of 2+ years and I broke up, I moved back to my parents, housing is expensive, Portland is getting fucked, halfway dropped out of college, kids are getting extra stupid/disrespectful since covid, Tik Tok is fucking people's attention spans, the media is just bad, so many people angry at each other rather than being angry at the government, extreme groups getting more and more pissed off.

This year has been mad fucked. I am thankful no one close to me has passed away though. Sure feels like I lost a lot of people in a less permanent sense though.

Excited to ski though
 
14331653:AlaskaDogfart said:
We have 1.5 million cruise passengers a summer in about 5 years, in a town of 30,000 people. The city cannot handle the sheer amount of people, and our downtown is inundated with tourists. They doing nothing to slow/control the growth of the industry in our small mountain/seaside town.
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Is your town dependent on tourism though?

14331679:mystery3 said:
Probably the homeless/mental health/opiate crises? So intertwined and seemingly hopeless. The solutions are so complex and difficult to implement.
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This. Probably one of the biggest issues in cities. They're all related. Don't forget what lengths junkies will go to get cash if they're out; adds to the crime already plaguing our cities.

14331788:byubound said:
Lol I feel like everybody who lives in any desirable market says this rn
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It's fucking insane people are dropping 50% of their monthly income on housing. I just had a friend in NYC say $600k was "cheap" and $800k was a bit high but affordable for the right place. Like fuck me we make the same and I was annoyed at having to pay $230k ($111/sq ft) for my home two years ago. Not on this planet would I drop that money on a house unless it was a beautiful beast that imma die in.
 
A couple years ago, a crazy fucker stabbed a cop in broad day light, in the middle of the main road, without reason. Cop died later in hospital.

A homeless dude killed another homeless guy over a panhandling spot outside the pharmacy.

Every couple of years, charred remains of people show up in burned out cars on side side of the highway. They are usually drug/gang related.

Most municipal officials dont even live in their district. They are Vancouverites or Calgarians that bought a 2 million dollar cottage in the area, ran for office and won. Not the worst, but fucked up.

This is a town of 30,000 people.
 
14331788:byubound said:
Lol I feel like everybody who lives in any desirable market says this rn
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Desirable is such a relative term though. There are literal shitboxes in towns that reek of horseshit all summer going for well over their asking prices and the renter game is atrocious. Big-city prices for towns with one main street. Get fucked out-of-staters haha
 
some white bitch high school teacher dressed up in a stereotypical "Indian" halloween costume to teach about Native American history
 
14331972:CrunnchyVanMan said:
some white bitch high school teacher dressed up in a stereotypical "Indian" halloween costume to teach about Native American history
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You're in northern Wisconsin right? Checks out.
 
14331974:r00kie said:
You're in northern Wisconsin right? Checks out.
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yea , not surprising that this happened but a lot of people including myself are pissed, kicker is she was even teaching incorrect info about Ojibe/Anishinaabe culture
 
14331972:CrunnchyVanMan said:
some white bitch high school teacher dressed up in a stereotypical "Indian" halloween costume to teach about Native American history
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How fucking dumb do you have to be to do this in todays hyper-PC climate? Jesus
 
Idk but here’s two pretty bad things that happened in my area in the past week. Well not terrible but like come on people. The hospital my moms works for held a “Chinese auction” and a lunch monitor at my school got fired or moved for calling kids retards and fags repetitively. He was also like 80 but still not right. Rly nice dude otherwise kinda disappointing. Edit: oh also a teacher in my school dropped the NWord hard r while reading a book without hesitation and got in trouble for it and had to explain to the class why it isn’t appropriate and apologized to the class.

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I fucked my wrist up at work and haven't been able to play the guitar the last 2 weeks. Played for an hour or two today. Wasn't too painful and made me smile. I need music in my life. Hoping its not too fucked. I'd get it xrayed if i could afford that.
 
14332717:WoFlowz said:
Idk but here’s two pretty bad things that happened in my area in the past week. Well not terrible but like come on people. The hospital my moms works for held a “Chinese auction” and a lunch monitor at my school got fired or moved for calling kids retards and fags repetitively. He was also like 80 but still not right. Rly nice dude otherwise kinda disappointing. Edit: oh also a teacher in my school dropped the NWord hard r while reading a book without hesitation and got in trouble for it and had to explain to the class why it isn’t appropriate and apologized to the class.

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TF is a Chinese auction
 
Local politician (here in the Uk) has just been stabbed and killed in full daylight in a politically- charged act of terrorism. 69years old with 5 children and a wife. Wasn’t even high-up in terms of power or influence, such a pointless and horrible act.
 
14331970:VTshredder69 said:
People think that mandating a vaccine will make covid disappear.
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Nobody thinks that.. It's not going to disappear.

They think if people stop being idiots and get the damn thing, that we will be able to continue re-opening things, and getting back to normal.

We wouldnt even be as far as we are right now if it were not for vaccines... theyre saving our asses.
 
Got exposed to covid by a paitent at work. They are these alternate medical clinics in my little town and they are giving people looking for monoclonal (sp) infusions. And giving them a fucking cocktail of stuff that would make hunter Thompson cringe. And it's fucking them up
 
Cost of living continues to rise at a very fast rate, but wages never seem to change. Metal/lumber costs are skyrocketing. Housing costs are straight up laughable at this point. The industries/government complain about labor shortages but do fuck all to address the housing crisis. How are workers supposed to keep this shit hole city running for the rich if we can't even afford to live here lol....

We pay income tax every paycheck. Then pay taxes on every item we buy. I bought a bag of bagels for $7 the other day. What the fuck man. All I can do is laugh at how ridiculous things are getting now haha

Sooo move to a small town where housing is cheaper = less jobs

or stay in the city where there's tons of work = live in someone's attic in a closet and eat ramen noodles for the rest of my life

???
 
14331732:DeebieSkeebies said:
I really don't give too much of a shit not being a homeowner myself but I kinda see what people mean by the views being ruined. There are a lot of huge farms in the area with tons of open space they're selling off to developers and temples aren't the only things being built too. They're going to develop full-on townhouses, condos, apartments, shopping centers all over the place. Its a pretty small area honestly, not much bigger than it's neighboring town of park city and that's whole different shitshow of local champagne problems. If the housing market eventually chills out and there are more options as far as housing inventory goes, I might consider sticking around but I'm probably gonna head out somewhere else in the spring

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People get mad that housing is getting built then in the same breath complain about housing prices
 
14333030:twinkle_toes said:
Cost of living continues to rise at a very fast rate, but wages never seem to change. Metal/lumber costs are skyrocketing. Housing costs are straight up laughable at this point. The industries/government complain about labor shortages but do fuck all to address the housing crisis. How are workers supposed to keep this shit hole city running for the rich if we can't even afford to live here lol....

We pay income tax every paycheck. Then pay taxes on every item we buy. I bought a bag of bagels for $7 the other day. What the fuck man. All I can do is laugh at how ridiculous things are getting now haha

Sooo move to a small town where housing is cheaper = less jobs

or stay in the city where there's tons of work = live in someone's attic in a closet and eat ramen noodles for the rest of my life

???
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"And that's a good!"

You'll be fine, by 2030 Lary Fink's Blackrock will have a nice free home for you with 2,000 cameras and 10,000 bio-sensors to bet on you through impact/value markets.
 
14331732:DeebieSkeebies said:
I really don't give too much of a shit not being a homeowner myself but I kinda see what people mean by the views being ruined. There are a lot of huge farms in the area with tons of open space they're selling off to developers and temples aren't the only things being built too. They're going to develop full-on townhouses, condos, apartments, shopping centers all over the place. Its a pretty small area honestly, not much bigger than it's neighboring town of park city and that's whole different shitshow of local champagne problems. If the housing market eventually chills out and there are more options as far as housing inventory goes, I might consider sticking around but I'm probably gonna head out somewhere else in the spring

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A major deflationary crisis is the only way the housing market might come back to reasonable price levels.
 
14332933:hoodratz47 said:
Got exposed to covid by a paitent at work. They are these alternate medical clinics in my little town and they are giving people looking for monoclonal (sp) infusions. And giving them a fucking cocktail of stuff that would make hunter Thompson cringe. And it's fucking them up
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God damnit what the fuck is going on over there where people are so convinced that the vaccine will hurt them

this shit is INSANE
 
14332851:DingoSean said:
Nobody thinks that.. It's not going to disappear.

They think if people stop being idiots and get the damn thing, that we will be able to continue re-opening things, and getting back to normal.

We wouldnt even be as far as we are right now if it were not for vaccines... theyre saving our asses.
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Lol. Last time I checked my measles vaccine actually worked and I didn’t get measles.
 
14333202:VTshredder69 said:
Lol. Last time I checked my measles vaccine actually worked and I didn’t get measles.
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It was only 2019 the last time there was a large measles outbreak, no doubt mostly amongst people who were unvaccinated, but it also had several breakthrough cases amongst those with the vaccine... over 1000 people in 31 states ended up with it, and the phillipines had it even worse.

So yeah, even with the MMR/MMRV vaccine there have been breakthrough cases... the difference is, most people just get the MMR vaccine instead of shouting 'tyranny' into the wind, refusing to get it, so there are more people who are protected and therefore less cases of the virus flowing around. The only times that there are outbreaks are when a population decides not to vaccinate, and all you need is one highly contagious virus like Measels or SarsCoV2 and youll end up with a whole outbreak.

MMR/MMRV has been mandated for years for people to attend schools, both private and state... I actually had missed one of mine and didnt realize it until I was trying to transfer into an out of state university and my vaccine card didnt show a 2nd MMR jab.

Nobody bitched about MMR mandates because it wasn't politicized by the right wing propaganda networks.
 
14333133:qazwsxedc34 said:
A major deflationary crisis is the only way the housing market might come back to reasonable price levels.
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Yeah, at this point I don't really see much of a chance for it to drop again without some catastrophic economic situation happening.

And if that happens, I feel like it will only exacerbate the problem. By the time it rebounds, so many people will have lost their houses that it could be a situation where the majority of people actually owning houses will be investor types are free to keep raising rental prices yearly. It would possibly be an even less equitable situation than what we are currently in.
 
Rural Eastern Oregon... That's what's up.

14333200:DingoSean said:
God damnit what the fuck is going on over there where people are so convinced that the vaccine will hurt them

this shit is INSANE
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14333114:Notaskibum said:
People get mad that housing is getting built then in the same breath complain about housing prices
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Knowing how old a lot of houses are in Salt Lake along with apartment buildings, duplexes, etc., I personally wouldn't have an issue with newly-built things popping up. If you're gonna overpay for housing, would you like to do it in some shitbox built post-WWII or something a bit more updated?
 
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