MIKEY TAYLOR GENTRIFYING NEIGHBOURHOODS.

[TITANIUM NIPPLES]

It's somewhat difficult to get into dental school, you have to be smart enough to handle the pre-requisite courses.

Mikey Taylor would be the owner of a few cryotherapy/reiki massage joints.

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It's somewhat difficult to get into dental school, you have to be smart enough to handle the pre-requisite courses.

Mikey Taylor would be the owner of a few cryotherapy/reiki massage joints.

Stable boy

[ChronicBluntSlider]

I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

[Monkey_Mcpott]

I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

[jakeumms]

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I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

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South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

Same thing is still happening in Culver City. Heavy development in a hood that was family owned 5 years ago. I'll check out that insta. I love kicking back at real estate investors.

[Francis Xavier]

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I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

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South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

I'm foreseeing a 'straight outta Compton' yoga studio or coffee shop that beefs with the Lennox competition

[IanBZHD]

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I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

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South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

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Same thing is still happening in Culver City. Heavy development in a hood that was family owned 5 years ago. I'll check out that insta. I love kicking back at real estate investors.

Living in Culver now..
It's insane to see $3500 a month studios, but a block down Venice I would be scared to walk alone at night.
It's getting impossible to find anything affordable west of downtown now days, and downtown is just as bad.

That being said, I would love to invest in Mikey's company if that meant I can make money from not doing anything.

[TheLurper]

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I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

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South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

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Same thing is still happening in Culver City. Heavy development in a hood that was family owned 5 years ago. I'll check out that insta. I love kicking back at real estate investors.

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Living in Culver now..
It's insane to see $3500 a month studios, but a block down Venice I would be scared to walk alone at night.
It's getting impossible to find anything affordable west of downtown now days, and downtown is just as bad.

That being said, I would love to invest in Mikey's company if that meant I can make money from not doing anything.

Something has to give here. I feel there has to be a massive debt crash coming in the next 20 years. I don't understand how the real estate market has climbed to such insane heights when wages still suck and we are being saddled with more and more student loan debt. The median household income for California is 64K per year (household is such a weird term since it could mean a single person, two married people, a whole family, a retired person, etc.). Shit even more amazingly, the median household income for LA county is 57K per year. How in the fuck is a household paying 3K for rent when they can't be taking home more than $3,300 each month? How are they paying for a car, which AAA estimates at an average monthly cost of $700 each month?

I honestly don't get it. I got lucky and I have a decent job, but I live in a shithole, I walk from point A to point B in a city "where you need a car," and I can barely put a few dollars in the bank each month. How are other people affording 3K for rent, a car, going out for drinks, new clothing, the doctor, dentist, etc.? What am I missing here?

[ChronicBluntSlider]

I'm in the northeast and it's happening here as much as anywhere else. From what I've heard the Boyle Heights protestors are particularly confrontational bc of what they've already seen happen to other neighborhoods on the eastside.
https://www.instagram.com/defendboyleheights/

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I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

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South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

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Same thing is still happening in Culver City. Heavy development in a hood that was family owned 5 years ago. I'll check out that insta. I love kicking back at real estate investors.

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Living in Culver now..
It's insane to see $3500 a month studios, but a block down Venice I would be scared to walk alone at night.
It's getting impossible to find anything affordable west of downtown now days, and downtown is just as bad.

That being said, I would love to invest in Mikey's company if that meant I can make money from not doing anything.

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Something has to give here. I feel there has to be a massive debt crash coming in the next 20 years. I don't understand how the real estate market has climbed to such insane heights when wages still suck and we are being saddled with more and more student loan debt. The median household income for California is 64K per year (household is such a weird term since it could mean a single person, two married people, a whole family, a retired person, etc.). Shit even more amazingly, the median household income for LA county is 57K per year. How in the fuck is a household paying 3K for rent when they can't be taking home more than $3,300 each month? How are they paying for a car, which AAA estimates at an average monthly cost of $700 each month?

I honestly don't get it. I got lucky and I have a decent job, but I live in a shithole, I walk from point A to point B in a city "where you need a car," and I can barely put a few dollars in the bank each month. How are other people affording 3K for rent, a car, going out for drinks, new clothing, the doctor, dentist, etc.? What am I missing here?

Credit cards

[TheLurper]

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I honestly don't get it. I got lucky and I have a decent job, but I live in a shithole, I walk from point A to point B in a city "where you need a car," and I can barely put a few dollars in the bank each month. How are other people affording 3K for rent, a car, going out for drinks, new clothing, the doctor, dentist, etc.? What am I missing here?

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That is a scary thought.

It seems that our grandparents were born in poverty but died in wealth, and we were born into wealth but we will die in poverty.

To some extent it has already started (https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/senior-citizens-bankruptcy-austerity-social-security).

[KoRnholio8]

in that video mikey sounds like grade-a socal clueless jerk that would with right in with the hills

[Monkey_Mcpott]

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I'm a bitch and don't want to get personally involved in this but would be kinda funny if someone alerted the anti-gentrification groups of this.

https://www.instagram.com/latenants/

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South Central right now is pretty gnarly with this. Literally every corner there's "We'll buy your house for cash" signs. Plenty of people have bit and sold now everyone is moving out and people that are renting have slowly been forced to move more east. It has however made the neighborhood a bit less dangerous it seems. Its bittersweet to say the least.

[close]

Same thing is still happening in Culver City. Heavy development in a hood that was family owned 5 years ago. I'll check out that insta. I love kicking back at real estate investors.

[close]

Living in Culver now..
It's insane to see $3500 a month studios, but a block down Venice I would be scared to walk alone at night.
It's getting impossible to find anything affordable west of downtown now days, and downtown is just as bad.

That being said, I would love to invest in Mikey's company if that meant I can make money from not doing anything.

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Something has to give here. I feel there has to be a massive debt crash coming in the next 20 years. I don't understand how the real estate market has climbed to such insane heights when wages still suck and we are being saddled with more and more student loan debt. The median household income for California is 64K per year (household is such a weird term since it could mean a single person, two married people, a whole family, a retired person, etc.). Shit even more amazingly, the median household income for LA county is 57K per year. How in the fuck is a household paying 3K for rent when they can't be taking home more than $3,300 each month? How are they paying for a car, which AAA estimates at an average monthly cost of $700 each month?

I honestly don't get it. I got lucky and I have a decent job, but I live in a shithole, I walk from point A to point B in a city "where you need a car," and I can barely put a few dollars in the bank each month. How are other people affording 3K for rent, a car, going out for drinks, new clothing, the doctor, dentist, etc.? What am I missing here?

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The thing with gentrification in south central right now is sellers are getting greedy. They only want to buy low and quickly sell as high as they can which right now the average 3 bedroom normal house that’s been remodeled is going for between 500-650k. There’s a couple of listings that are going beyond that but are staying on the market for a lot longer or they eventually drop the price because the area isn’t technically gentrified yet, it’s still the hood.

Also I’m married which makes just normal living in LA a lot more doable with a second income. I still have friends that stay with their parents because they simply can’t get a job on their own that pays enough for a place, plus bills, and transportation. It’s honestly insane, at this point you need to make pretty much over 100k to live a normal comfortable life with kids here. It’s unfortunately inevitable, you have to adapt or get lost.

[MaddAddam]

I think we're all not addressing the elephant in the room... why is prod out skating with a hawk head topped silver walking cane?

About 1 minute 40 seconds in to that video

[KoRnholio8]

^^ prod can turn an injury into a business opportunity:

[Francis Xavier]

I live in Orange County,cities all over me that used to be shit are getting gentrified or have been. Downtown Santa Ana has been a major one the last ten years,but theres still one of largest homeless communities right down from all the hip and chic.

I'm knocking on wood paying my cheapish rent,at least for the area. Yet with all the concerns you have and pointed out Monkey I feep the same,it's a bitch keeping up with the Jones' and even if you don't want to, it's how one basically survives out here.

I have a good chunk of family in South Central, they either live in the ghetto acting the same, but put on a front for the  cousins that live with their parents,yet have a glamorus lifestyle with a newer car and trendy ass clothes. Some of them have kids and they're still mysteriously living this awesome life,  while I'm cashing in change to gas. Hence why I said credit cards Lurper. If you can swipe it you can't front it...for a little bit haha.

It sucks to believe all those articles saying 'Millenials don't have retirement' but judging by how I see people getting by it's true for the most part. I have only a few friends with jobs that include a pension or 401k type plan. Everyone else just spends til' they're dead,and that used to be me but now Im saving,finally.

[SneakySecrets]

Definitely one of those guys that I can’t even look at.  I just hate his face.  Ranks just below John Hill on overall slappablility.

[ChronicBluntSlider]

Also there is reverse white flight where for half a century America was this anomaly where rich people were moving out of big cities to the provinces—or suburbs—out of pretty overt racism considering minirities synonymous w crime. I also think the book “capital in the 21 century” elucidates some of this showing pretty clearly that capital consistently grows faster then income and so basically if you come from inherited wealth and just keep collecting capital as if life was monopoly you basically have to be regular to blow it, while if you earn an income for a living the vast majority of people are just going to scrape by unless you are Lebron James or the Uber guy or something. The meritocracy is all but dead right now. Like 4 of the 10 richest people in the country are wal mart heirs who haven’t worked a day in their life. Also I’ll just add I think that downtown is the most disgusting. I imagine many of the yuppies down there rent but the confluence of extreme wealth and extreme poverty is just gross. I guess Venice has kinda become the same way. I was born there in like a 40 k 900 square foot house that is now 1.7 mil. Unfortunately my parents sold it when I was a kid to get a bigger house in the suburbs away from minirities.

[GeorgeCostanza]

[Made In China]

I'm sorry, this dude is actually making a living off gentrifying entire neighborhoods? I never had much respect for Mikey but he can go to hell for all I care now.

[urbneathme]

could you imagine referring to displacing lower income families as "on some skate shit" for profit you don't in any way need

[Szechuan]

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

God you suck, nobody said any of that bullshit you're going on about. And why is anything about being a decent human to other people immediatly marked as a shitty libtard? Being a good homie shouldn't be bipartisan.

[Mr.Jenkins]

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

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God you suck, nobody said any of that bullshit you're going on about. And why is anything about being a decent human to other people immediatly marked as a shitty libtard? Being a good homie shouldn't be bipartisan.

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A "decent human being"? By what? Not getting a job and making money? Fuck those slums who can't pay rent because the neighborhood got nicer and more drug and crime free. Fucking leeches. Like move to a cheaper area if your rent goes up. That's called capitalism and why people came to this country in the first place. Made this Country great until all these so called "humanitarians" *cough communists* giving people shit for making money for working.

Capitalism making your country great? right.. I laugh everytime I see this. There is so much wrong with your country.

Just look at the examples in this thread. Neighborhoods that have extreme rent, and then just few blocks away is a ghetto thats dangerous to walk trough. 

Pure capitalism have created you a country that is extremely class seperated, with run downed cities and so much homeless people and crime. I live in Sweden, which has been built with a democratic reform-socialism (not the revolutionary kind that never worked) - and yes, we have somewhat high taxes. I make around $5000 month and I get out $3530 after taxes are payed, thats a deduction of 29.6%.

What do I get for this? For one, all our cities are very clean, and you wont ever see any run down houses. That doesnt exist here. We have rent control. I own an apartment, about 90m2 and I pay about $800 for the loan for it, and that would be somewhat in the more expensive segment. And I live downtown in one of the major cities here (Gothenburg). Its a very safe place to live as well, and I have never, ever seen a gun, except on a cop of course or in other countries.

We have free healthcare, so I dont need to pay for an insurance. you do have to pay some - a visit to the hospital would cost you about $30 - and this includes anything. A birth, broken leg, helicopter transport etc. Once you, in a year, payed up to $123, everything will be free. Medicine etc. Thats if you over 18, if your a minor its free.

If I have a child, me and my partner will get 10 days of, payed. Just for the birth. When the child is born, you will get 480 days off payed. You can divided this as you want, or dont use them, except 90 days thats reserved to each parent.

We also have 5 weeks payed vacation, by law. And a minimum wage, that never forces anyone to work more then one job to get by, if you work full-time.

If you get layed off, we have a social security net that will help you out until you get a new job. Daycare cost about $120, but gets subsidized so its basically free. Also, university is free. Actually, when entering university you get a loan from the goverment that you pay back once you have an income (4% per year of total income), so you dont need to work on the side if you dont want to when you study.

There is so much more, great public transportation, strong, independent media, transparent politics, equality, workers right.

I have absolutely no education, but still have a great job.

My costs would be apartment - car loan payment - internet - home insurance. This equals about $1400, and leaves me with $2130 left after taxes and fixed expenses, and I then have all the fruits of a socialists society.   


We have our challenges and faults like any other country, but the capitalist way of the USA you give so hight appraisals of, is nothing I would ever want.   


 

[GeorgeCostanza]

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

please everyone ignore this idiot's posts

[jonnysheen]

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

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please everyone ignore this idiot's posts

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how am I an idiot?

If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you.

[playemright]

Its funny, basically a switcheroo. People in the hood get section 8 out in the suburbs, and kids from the suburbs move into the hood cause its cheaper. Its a good deal for everyone exept normal people, people in the hood without section 8 are fucked due to rising prices and people in the suburbs are fucked due to hood niggas bringing the values down. I just stay up in the woods and laugh.. Mikey taylor helping the destruction of america lol. 

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could you imagine referring to displacing lower income families as "on some skate shit" for profit you don't in any way need

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

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God you suck, nobody said any of that bullshit you're going on about. And why is anything about being a decent human to other people immediatly marked as a shitty libtard? Being a good homie shouldn't be bipartisan.

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A "decent human being"? By what? Not getting a job and making money? Fuck those slums who can't pay rent because the neighborhood got nicer and more drug and crime free. Fucking leeches. Like move to a cheaper area if your rent goes up. That's called capitalism and why people came to this country in the first place. Made this Country great until all these so called "humanitarians" *cough communists* giving people shit for making money for working.

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Capitalism making your country great? right.. I laugh everytime I see this. There is so much wrong with your country.

Just look at the examples in this thread. Neighborhoods that have extreme rent, and then just few blocks away is a ghetto thats dangerous to walk trough. 

Pure capitalism have created you a country that is extremely class seperated, with run downed cities and so much homeless people and crime. I live in Sweden, which has been built with a democratic reform-socialism (not the revolutionary kind that never worked) - and yes, we have somewhat high taxes. I make around $5000 month and I get out $3530 after taxes are payed, thats a deduction of 29.6%.

What do I get for this? For one, all our cities are very clean, and you wont ever see any run down houses. That doesnt exist here. We have rent control. I own an apartment, about 90m2 and I pay about $800 for the loan for it, and that would be somewhat in the more expensive segment. And I live downtown in one of the major cities here (Gothenburg). Its a very safe place to live as well, and I have never, ever seen a gun, except on a cop of course or in other countries.

We have free healthcare, so I dont need to pay for an insurance. you do have to pay some - a visit to the hospital would cost you about $30 - and this includes anything. A birth, broken leg, helicopter transport etc. Once you, in a year, payed up to $123, everything will be free. Medicine etc. Thats if you over 18, if your a minor its free.

If I have a child, me and my partner will get 10 days of, payed. Just for the birth. When the child is born, you will get 480 days off payed. You can divided this as you want, or dont use them, except 90 days thats reserved to each parent.

We also have 5 weeks payed vacation, by law. And a minimum wage, that never forces anyone to work more then one job to get by, if you work full-time.

If you get layed off, we have a social security net that will help you out until you get a new job. Daycare cost about $120, but gets subsidized so its basically free. Also, university is free. Actually, when entering university you get a loan from the goverment that you pay back once you have an income (4% per year of total income), so you dont need to work on the side if you dont want to when you study.

There is so much more, great public transportation, strong, independent media, transparent politics, equality, workers right.

I have absolutely no education, but still have a great job.

My costs would be apartment - car loan payment - internet - home insurance. This equals about $1400, and leaves me with $2130 left after taxes and fixed expenses, and I then have all the fruits of a socialists society.   


We have our challenges and faults like any other country, but the capitalist way of the USA you give so hight appraisals of, is nothing I would ever want.   


 

Hey Jenkins, this unrelated, but I'm curious about Gothenburg. I see it stays rather warm through the winter, so I was wondering if you can skate all winter. Does much snow accumulate? Do you have indoor skate parks, or do you have to skate parking lots/underground?

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could you imagine referring to displacing lower income families as "on some skate shit" for profit you don't in any way need

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

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God you suck, nobody said any of that bullshit you're going on about. And why is anything about being a decent human to other people immediatly marked as a shitty libtard? Being a good homie shouldn't be bipartisan.

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A "decent human being"? By what? Not getting a job and making money? Fuck those slums who can't pay rent because the neighborhood got nicer and more drug and crime free. Fucking leeches. Like move to a cheaper area if your rent goes up. That's called capitalism and why people came to this country in the first place. Made this Country great until all these so called "humanitarians" *cough communists* giving people shit for making money for working.

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Capitalism making your country great? right.. I laugh everytime I see this. There is so much wrong with your country.

Just look at the examples in this thread. Neighborhoods that have extreme rent, and then just few blocks away is a ghetto thats dangerous to walk trough. 

Pure capitalism have created you a country that is extremely class seperated, with run downed cities and so much homeless people and crime. I live in Sweden, which has been built with a democratic reform-socialism (not the revolutionary kind that never worked) - and yes, we have somewhat high taxes. I make around $5000 month and I get out $3530 after taxes are payed, thats a deduction of 29.6%.

What do I get for this? For one, all our cities are very clean, and you wont ever see any run down houses. That doesnt exist here. We have rent control. I own an apartment, about 90m2 and I pay about $800 for the loan for it, and that would be somewhat in the more expensive segment. And I live downtown in one of the major cities here (Gothenburg). Its a very safe place to live as well, and I have never, ever seen a gun, except on a cop of course or in other countries.

We have free healthcare, so I dont need to pay for an insurance. you do have to pay some - a visit to the hospital would cost you about $30 - and this includes anything. A birth, broken leg, helicopter transport etc. Once you, in a year, payed up to $123, everything will be free. Medicine etc. Thats if you over 18, if your a minor its free.

If I have a child, me and my partner will get 10 days of, payed. Just for the birth. When the child is born, you will get 480 days off payed. You can divided this as you want, or dont use them, except 90 days thats reserved to each parent.

We also have 5 weeks payed vacation, by law. And a minimum wage, that never forces anyone to work more then one job to get by, if you work full-time.

If you get layed off, we have a social security net that will help you out until you get a new job. Daycare cost about $120, but gets subsidized so its basically free. Also, university is free. Actually, when entering university you get a loan from the goverment that you pay back once you have an income (4% per year of total income), so you dont need to work on the side if you dont want to when you study.

There is so much more, great public transportation, strong, independent media, transparent politics, equality, workers right.

I have absolutely no education, but still have a great job.

My costs would be apartment - car loan payment - internet - home insurance. This equals about $1400, and leaves me with $2130 left after taxes and fixed expenses, and I then have all the fruits of a socialists society.   


We have our challenges and faults like any other country, but the capitalist way of the USA you give so hight appraisals of, is nothing I would ever want.   


 

Shut up man. About 90% of the posters here are graphic designers in the USA. You think they wanna hear this shit?

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

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please everyone ignore this idiot's posts

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how am I an idiot?

You know. Deep down. You know,

[Hobochilli]

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could you imagine referring to displacing lower income families as "on some skate shit" for profit you don't in any way need

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fuck you. Make America nicer and greater. We're not fucking slums or a free handout here. Fucking liberal fucktards. Keep providing for your family and chase that American dream Mikey. Fuck these sore ass losers leaching on looking for a free handout. Fuck them.

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God you suck, nobody said any of that bullshit you're going on about. And why is anything about being a decent human to other people immediatly marked as a shitty libtard? Being a good homie shouldn't be bipartisan.

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A "decent human being"? By what? Not getting a job and making money? Fuck those slums who can't pay rent because the neighborhood got nicer and more drug and crime free. Fucking leeches. Like move to a cheaper area if your rent goes up. That's called capitalism and why people came to this country in the first place. Made this Country great until all these so called "humanitarians" *cough communists* giving people shit for making money for working.

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Capitalism making your country great? right.. I laugh everytime I see this. There is so much wrong with your country.

Just look at the examples in this thread. Neighborhoods that have extreme rent, and then just few blocks away is a ghetto thats dangerous to walk trough. 

Pure capitalism have created you a country that is extremely class seperated, with run downed cities and so much homeless people and crime. I live in Sweden, which has been built with a democratic reform-socialism (not the revolutionary kind that never worked) - and yes, we have somewhat high taxes. I make around $5000 month and I get out $3530 after taxes are payed, thats a deduction of 29.6%.

What do I get for this? For one, all our cities are very clean, and you wont ever see any run down houses. That doesnt exist here. We have rent control. I own an apartment, about 90m2 and I pay about $800 for the loan for it, and that would be somewhat in the more expensive segment. And I live downtown in one of the major cities here (Gothenburg). Its a very safe place to live as well, and I have never, ever seen a gun, except on a cop of course or in other countries.

We have free healthcare, so I dont need to pay for an insurance. you do have to pay some - a visit to the hospital would cost you about $30 - and this includes anything. A birth, broken leg, helicopter transport etc. Once you, in a year, payed up to $123, everything will be free. Medicine etc. Thats if you over 18, if your a minor its free.

If I have a child, me and my partner will get 10 days of, payed. Just for the birth. When the child is born, you will get 480 days off payed. You can divided this as you want, or dont use them, except 90 days thats reserved to each parent.

We also have 5 weeks payed vacation, by law. And a minimum wage, that never forces anyone to work more then one job to get by, if you work full-time.

If you get layed off, we have a social security net that will help you out until you get a new job. Daycare cost about $120, but gets subsidized so its basically free. Also, university is free. Actually, when entering university you get a loan from the goverment that you pay back once you have an income (4% per year of total income), so you dont need to work on the side if you dont want to when you study.

There is so much more, great public transportation, strong, independent media, transparent politics, equality, workers right.

I have absolutely no education, but still have a great job.

My costs would be apartment - car loan payment - internet - home insurance. This equals about $1400, and leaves me with $2130 left after taxes and fixed expenses, and I then have all the fruits of a socialists society.   


We have our challenges and faults like any other country, but the capitalist way of the USA you give so hight appraisals of, is nothing I would ever want.   


 

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Hey Jenkins, this unrelated, but I'm curious about Gothenburg. I see it stays rather warm through the winter, so I was wondering if you can skate all winter. Does much snow accumulate? Do you have indoor skate parks, or do you have to skate parking lots/underground?

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Gothenburg is rainy but rather warm during winter.
There are 2 indoor parks, ive been to Bunkeberget, its pretty cool.