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max225 wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:30 pm https://www.yahoo.com/news/chevrolet-br ... 00348.html

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This looks good, kind of a Lexus predator front end with a vulva xc30 back.

I like it ... a fair amount ...
Blazer going to be hecho en mehico :yikes: :flaccid:
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troyguitar wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:13 pm There's no real choice. If she gets an offer, we go. KY turned out to be a bust, zero raises in 3 years and no on-site advancement opportunities plus zero home value increases. We essentially wasted another 3 years of our lives.
OK then, sunshine in ze ars goes like this.

1. Dry heat is real, I lived in the Midwest and 100 degrees with 50% humidity is uninhabitable compared to most of our summer. See Sno's wedding tale.....nobody would be that uncomfortable in shade and dry heat.
2. October-April is pretty much money, December and January you are luxuriating in the best weather in the lower 48 whilst everybody else on this forum is freezing their balls off.
3. The West is better than the East. Open spaces, proximity to real natural wonder....AZ, CO, UT....these are amazing places and should be explored in everyone's lifetime.
4. Phoenix is a real city with every possible amenity.
5. You got your racetrack there.
6. If your wife kicks you to the curb there are more hot MILFS in Scottsdale than anyplace I have ever been.
:notbad:

How's traffic out there? The plant is in Glendale, near the race track in fact, so we could in theory just get a place near there and barely have to drive at all - but it looks like the neighborhoods near there kind of suck. On the other hand, you can actually get a :haus: with a garage and minimal yard for $200k in said neighborhoods... I assume "nice" areas are triple that.
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max225 wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:30 pm https://www.yahoo.com/news/chevrolet-br ... 00348.html

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This looks good, kind of a Lexus predator front end with a vulva xc30 back.

I like it ... a fair amount ...
Blazer going to be hecho en mehico :yikes: :flaccid:
Who's going to work harder. :manuel: trying to pay off the Zetas Cartel so he and his family don't get a Mexican necktie as a present one night, or :mahtroy: who wants to get drunk on malt liquor and smoke a blunt during lunch?
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:26 pm
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OK then, sunshine in ze ars goes like this.

1. Dry heat is real, I lived in the Midwest and 100 degrees with 50% humidity is uninhabitable compared to most of our summer. See Sno's wedding tale.....nobody would be that uncomfortable in shade and dry heat.
2. October-April is pretty much money, December and January you are luxuriating in the best weather in the lower 48 whilst everybody else on this forum is freezing their balls off.
3. The West is better than the East. Open spaces, proximity to real natural wonder....AZ, CO, UT....these are amazing places and should be explored in everyone's lifetime.
4. Phoenix is a real city with every possible amenity.
5. You got your racetrack there.
6. If your wife kicks you to the curb there are more hot MILFS in Scottsdale than anyplace I have ever been.
:notbad:

How's traffic out there? The plant is in Glendale, near the race track in fact, so we could in theory just get a place near there and barely have to drive at all - but it looks like the neighborhoods near there kind of suck. On the other hand, you can actually get a :haus: with a garage and minimal yard for $200k in said neighborhoods... I assume "nice" areas are triple that.
There appears to be a handful of quality eateries in the area, too.
https://goo.gl/maps/z8JrHqxZzt22

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Desertbreh wrote:
troyguitar wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:13 pm There's no real choice. If she gets an offer, we go. KY turned out to be a bust, zero raises in 3 years and no on-site advancement opportunities plus zero home value increases. We essentially wasted another 3 years of our lives.
OK then, sunshine in ze ars goes like this.

1. Dry heat is real, I lived in the Midwest and 100 degrees with 50% humidity is uninhabitable compared to most of our summer. See Sno's wedding tale.....nobody would be that uncomfortable in shade and dry heat.
2. October-April is pretty much money, December and January you are luxuriating in the best weather in the lower 48 whilst everybody else on this forum is freezing their balls off.
3. The West is better than the East. Open spaces, proximity to real natural wonder....AZ, CO, UT....these are amazing places and should be explored in everyone's lifetime.
4. Phoenix is a real city with every possible amenity.
5. You got your racetrack there.
6. If your wife kicks you to the curb there are more hot MILFS in Scottsdale than anyplace I have ever been.
After touring the US for about six years, I totally agree with all of this. There's tons of beautiful places in the East too, with NC being one of the best, but I'd agree the West still wins. If I didn't have a life, future wife, family, friends, everything in NC, I'd go to Phoenix in a heartbeat, truly a top ten place to live in the US unless you really just NEED beach proximity. I'm more a mountains guy so :aintcare: .
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:26 pm :notbad:

How's traffic out there? The plant is in Glendale, near the race track in fact, so we could in theory just get a place near there and barely have to drive at all - but it looks like the neighborhoods near there kind of suck. On the other hand, you can actually get a :haus: with a garage and minimal yard for $200k in said neighborhoods... I assume "nice" areas are triple that.
There appears to be a handful of quality eateries in the area, too.
https://goo.gl/maps/z8JrHqxZzt22

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Better than that: They have a Jets pizza location. LCs is the cheap copy that I get if I'm not near a Jets.
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Desertbreh wrote: OK then, sunshine in ze ars goes like this.

1. Dry heat is real, I lived in the Midwest and 100 degrees with 50% humidity is uninhabitable compared to most of our summer. See Sno's wedding tale.....nobody would be that uncomfortable in shade and dry heat.
2. October-April is pretty much money, December and January you are luxuriating in the best weather in the lower 48 whilst everybody else on this forum is freezing their balls off.
3. The West is better than the East. Open spaces, proximity to real natural wonder....AZ, CO, UT....these are amazing places and should be explored in everyone's lifetime.
4. Phoenix is a real city with every possible amenity.
5. You got your racetrack there.
6. If your wife kicks you to the curb there are more hot MILFS in Scottsdale than anyplace I have ever been.
After touring the US for about six years, I totally agree with all of this. There's tons of beautiful places in the East too, with NC being one of the best, but I'd agree the West still wins. If I didn't have a life, future wife, family, friends, everything in NC, I'd go to Phoenix in a heartbeat, truly a top ten place to live in the US unless you really just NEED beach proximity. I'm more a mountains guy so :aintcare: .
Different strokes I guess, I'd take the beach 5 times out of 7. Chilling with a beverage and a breeze, with no ticks or mosquitoes, and plenty of bikinis is the way to relax. Living near that is :waxer: :doe: and usually means high traffic and no garage space.
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max225 wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:41 pm
Davestr wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:37 pm Nikki Haley is a first rate tool - this is so fkn hilarious. Thank god the Swede's called her out. She would look great in a cage separated from her family LOL - https://jalopnik.com/when-volvos-south- ... 1826995276
Why would a plant in America be worried about Steel and aluminum tariffs we got plenty. Also, this political bs is getting old dave, we get it, you hate president cheeto.
Speaking just about aluminum, this is simply :wrong: . We don't have plenty here. Virtually all the domestic mills' non-automotive production is closed through the end of this year. These tariffs are wreaking absolute havoc on the metal service center industry. My own little company is currently 2 million pounds short on metal purchases from where we should be and it's ALL because of the tariffs. Foreign mills are too expensive and have stopped importing and domestic mills are nowhere near able to take up the slack. It's :mindblown: stupid policy.
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max225 wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:59 pm
Davestr wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:54 pm

He aint good for biz. Biz and politics are always connected and this was about cars. Wahhhhhhhhhhh
He is just fine for now. Time will tell. :oops:
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wap wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:09 pm
max225 wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:41 pm

Why would a plant in America be worried about Steel and aluminum tariffs we got plenty. Also, this political bs is getting old dave, we get it, you hate president cheeto.
Speaking just about aluminum, this is simply :wrong: . We don't have plenty here. Virtually all the domestic mills' non-automotive production is closed through the end of this year. These tariffs are wreaking absolute havoc on the metal service center industry. My own little company is currently 2 million pounds short on metal purchases from where we should be and it's ALL because of the tariffs. Foreign mills are too expensive and have stopped importing and domestic mills are nowhere near able to take up the slack. It's :mindblown: stupid policy.
Fucking deep state libtard, you just don't get it.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:18 pm
wap wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:09 pm

Speaking just about aluminum, this is simply :wrong: . We don't have plenty here. Virtually all the domestic mills' non-automotive production is closed through the end of this year. These tariffs are wreaking absolute havoc on the metal service center industry. My own little company is currently 2 million pounds short on metal purchases from where we should be and it's ALL because of the tariffs. Foreign mills are too expensive and have stopped importing and domestic mills are nowhere near able to take up the slack. It's :mindblown: stupid policy.
Fucking deep state libtard, you just don't get it.
:dat:
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Guess we'll have to just die without metal then.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:26 pm
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OK then, sunshine in ze ars goes like this.

1. Dry heat is real, I lived in the Midwest and 100 degrees with 50% humidity is uninhabitable compared to most of our summer. See Sno's wedding tale.....nobody would be that uncomfortable in shade and dry heat.
2. October-April is pretty much money, December and January you are luxuriating in the best weather in the lower 48 whilst everybody else on this forum is freezing their balls off.
3. The West is better than the East. Open spaces, proximity to real natural wonder....AZ, CO, UT....these are amazing places and should be explored in everyone's lifetime.
4. Phoenix is a real city with every possible amenity.
5. You got your racetrack there.
6. If your wife kicks you to the curb there are more hot MILFS in Scottsdale than anyplace I have ever been.
:notbad:

How's traffic out there? The plant is in Glendale, near the race track in fact, so we could in theory just get a place near there and barely have to drive at all - but it looks like the neighborhoods near there kind of suck. On the other hand, you can actually get a :haus: with a garage and minimal yard for $200k in said neighborhoods... I assume "nice" areas are triple that.
I know dick about the Phoenix real estate market right now, other than I'm sure it's up like everywhere else. Let me know when you plan to close on a house so I can sell my stocks and get into cash and sell my house and rent.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:26 pm
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OK then, sunshine in ze ars goes like this.

1. Dry heat is real, I lived in the Midwest and 100 degrees with 50% humidity is uninhabitable compared to most of our summer. See Sno's wedding tale.....nobody would be that uncomfortable in shade and dry heat.
2. October-April is pretty much money, December and January you are luxuriating in the best weather in the lower 48 whilst everybody else on this forum is freezing their balls off.
3. The West is better than the East. Open spaces, proximity to real natural wonder....AZ, CO, UT....these are amazing places and should be explored in everyone's lifetime.
4. Phoenix is a real city with every possible amenity.
5. You got your racetrack there.
6. If your wife kicks you to the curb there are more hot MILFS in Scottsdale than anyplace I have ever been.
:notbad:

How's traffic out there? The plant is in Glendale, near the race track in fact, so we could in theory just get a place near there and barely have to drive at all - but it looks like the neighborhoods near there kind of suck. On the other hand, you can actually get a :haus: with a garage and minimal yard for $200k in said neighborhoods... I assume "nice" areas are triple that.
To answer your question I don't know Phoenix traffic. My desert is 4 hours away.
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Johnny_P wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:26 pm :notbad:

How's traffic out there? The plant is in Glendale, near the race track in fact, so we could in theory just get a place near there and barely have to drive at all - but it looks like the neighborhoods near there kind of suck. On the other hand, you can actually get a :haus: with a garage and minimal yard for $200k in said neighborhoods... I assume "nice" areas are triple that.
To answer your question I don't know Phoenix traffic. My desert is 4 hours away.
Oh dang. For some reason I thought you were in AZ. :disappoint:
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:43 pm
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To answer your question I don't know Phoenix traffic. My desert is 4 hours away.
Oh dang. For some reason I thought you were in AZ. :disappoint:
Negative, I am a Land of Fruits and Nuts bro.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:43 pm Oh dang. For some reason I thought you were in AZ. :disappoint:
Negative, I am a Land of Fruits and Nuts bro.
Lawyer money FTW.

I hope to move out of Trumpistan someday.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:50 pm
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Negative, I am a Land of Fruits and Nuts bro.
Lawyer money FTW.

I hope to move out of Trumpistan someday.
We gave a relatively humble abode here that will be paid off in 2 years. Right now it's worth about $500K. Then you will buy in Phoenix, precipitate a market crash, and it'll be worth $350K.
Detroit wrote:Buy 911s instead of diamonds.
Johnny_P wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:50 pm Lawyer money FTW.

I hope to move out of Trumpistan someday.
We gave a relatively humble abode here that will be paid off in 2 years. Right now it's worth about $500K. Then you will buy in Phoenix, precipitate a market crash, and it'll be worth $350K.
:thanksobama:

I already ruined the stock market earlier this year, total money-weighted return so far is -0.4%. Real estate is next.
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troyguitar wrote: Fri Jun 22, 2018 8:02 pm
Desertbreh wrote:
We gave a relatively humble abode here that will be paid off in 2 years. Right now it's worth about $500K. Then you will buy in Phoenix, precipitate a market crash, and it'll be worth $350K.
:thanksobama:

I already ruined the stock market earlier this year, total money-weighted return so far is -0.4%. Real estate is next.
This year has been shit for me too. Every non tech stock has fucked me. I sold GE, lockhead is down 10% after I got it. ATT down, verizon doing pretty bad too.
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