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Sounds like the neighborhood is becoming low-rent, so I'd move on. Sell now and get a good price while you can, before the place declines more.

Definitely agree. The Star Trek I grew up with was The Next Generation, and I loved it. I can appreciate the original series, but I'm firmly in the Picard and NCC-1701-D camp. To me, Data ranks as one of the best character development arcs I've seen in a TV series. I also have to say, I...

I never learned to swim because of Jaws. As a kid, I begged my parents to take me to see Jaws, and I was enjoying it, right up to the point where the guy goes in the water to investigate the boat, and the severed head floats by. That did it. Never had a desire to go in the water or learn to...

If anybody ever told me that (and they were serious), they'd be out of my life forever. Relationship over. Immediately. No chance of reconciliation. I know it's far more difficult than that when you're married, living in the same house, have kids, etc. But there's no way I could deal with...

Sounds like a good plan! I'm 48, never been married, and probably never will, although I wouldn't rule it out. I'm a VERY independent person, so pursuing relationships and having a family has never been high on my priority list, but if I ever met the right person, who knows. But I would never...

Not sure if the list is supposed to be our "holy grail" of cars, but if so, mine would be: Ferrari: La Ferrari Lamborghini: Aventador Porsche: 911 GT3RS Jaguar: F-Type SVR (not available yet, but is coming) I've driven an Aventador around a track in Las Vegas...would definitely be worth the...

I remember running across some videos on YouTube from a company that makes large shredders. They have some very interesting ones. Their channel is at: https://www.youtube.com/user/ssishredders/videos Their most popular video is one of a VW Bug getting shredded. It's at: WOdZkSdNKSM

Yes. As a Gen-X'er, I've never believed SS would be around for me, so I just don't trust it. I'm also not a believer in any kind of "forced participation" type system that takes MY money (and yes, I consider it MY money) away from me with promises to return it at a future date. So, yes, I'd...

I'm a Gen X'er who has never put any faith in SS, so I'm going to file as soon as I can. I don't care what the future projections look like, or whether the fun might, or might not, be around, etc. As somebody else wrote, a bird in the hand...

Assuming I can (semi?) FIRE next year, I plan on taking a year off with no commitments to anybody else, and figuring out if/what I want to do next. And whatever it might be, will have nothing to do with the IT field, which I've grown to hate after doing it for 25 years. The film and...

In the 25 years (give or take) I've been living on my own after college, I've only owned homes for about 8 of those years. The rest have been rentals. In all that time, I figured out that I will always want to own a single-family home if it's an area I really want to live in. If not, I'll...

I'd tell my brother to f*** off. And no, I'm not joking. I have zero tolerance for family members who act like they're king of the world. If that meant a sibling of mine never talked to me again, so be it.

Any dream about work after retirement isn't a dream, that's a nightmare!

I worked at a friend's father's fast-food restaurant when I was in high school, and that's one thing we had to know how to do - count back change. We didn't have registers with buttons for each items, so we also had to memorize each item's price.

Very interesting thread - thanks for starting this one. I'm in my late 40's, never married, no kids, and no plans for either. Although that could always change, I'm pretty set in my ways and love my freedom and independence, so it's doubtful I'll ever have to worry about leaving something to a...

Very interesting topic. Got me to doing some searches, and I ran across a YouTube video where a lady mortician (with a very interesting personality, lol) talks about a Viking type funeral. She also shows a friend of hers casting off a little boat with some ashes on it in a local lake (starts...

I faced the same thing as a kid, and hated it. I grew up in a neighborhood of mostly older people and retirees, and the neighbors loved to stop me and chat as I was coming or going from the house. We didn't have a garage, either, but an open carport, so it was impossible to dodge them. As a...

1980-something Ford Escort - My first car that my parents made me buy myself, and have my own insurance policy (I wasn't on their policy). 1982 Ford Mustang Ghia - This was my Dad's car. When he died, I took over driving it as my car. 1986 Chrysler Laser XE - Fun little car. Had the 2.2...

I'm 48, and in the past few years, I've really grown to hate my career (I'm in IT), the jobs I've had recently, all the BS that goes along with working for other people, sitting in a cube all day, staring at a computer all day, etc, etc, etc. I've also grown to realize that in reality, all the...

When I lived in Colorado, I had what I called the Wall of Shame which was a collection of all the useless trinkets and crap accumulated from work. The jewel of my collection was a clear plastic piece of junk from when I worked at a megacorp that had spun off a division into a separate company...

That's what they want you to think. In reality, as many have already posted, a lot of people don't even take advantage of it. Plus, there's a bigger advantage to the company that many people don't realize at first. When there's no accrued vacation, there's nothing they have to cash out when...

After taxes. Before tax means nothing, at least to me. All that matters is how much I can walk away with after paying the tax man. I've seen a few episodes of that show, and think it's bogus. Not every person in tech is flush with cash. Far from it. Statistics are something like 95% of all...

More for the one year's paycheck, but not to pad myself with cash so to speak. It's more to keep from dipping into my secondary grant at my old company to live on while I wait to make sure they're going to increase in market cap as they hit profitability early next year. I'd rather live on the...

The past couple days, I did start to ignore some of his "suggestions" and do things the way I thought they should be done. So far, he hasn't objected. He's also getting some additional responsibilities dumped on him by higher management, things I'd have nothing to do with. So I'm hoping he...

LOL - Not yet. I have some of my own, but they're not fit to print here :) It's a pretty small team, and I'm still learning some of the dynamics. There are a couple people I'm still feeling out how they work (besides boss). It's funny because I got really spoiled by working for a manager a...