dewster

Well home construction isn't really lighting the world on fire, so what's causing this? Did we build too many apartments or corporate owned neighborhoods that price gouged, and now it's finally correcting?

Seems like it is very location specific, like all things real estate.

And that probably means that the stable communities that avoided the most extreme trends in real estate (good or bad) are also probably the most stable in weathering this too.

There's 40 people in this country that can do what I do and I know all of them. I'm paid very well (unless you are my employer....then I am paid poorly and I'm about to leave any moment).

I've sort of made it my trademark to build out this particular solution, and I've been doing it as a consultant for 10+ years all over the globe. I only just last year moved to a massive company to make it work there in a way that nobody has seen before - not even me.

In 6 years I'm probably going to do the same thing at another company in this industry, then 6 years later start looking at slowing down significantly. I'll be approaching my mid 50s by then, and should have upwards of about $4m retirement savings and $5,500/month in passive income if I can stay healthy enough to adhere to my plan. By then I want to be able to be very, very involved in my kid's and family life and hopefully a few healthy hobbies I can do alone since I have zero friends.

Me deviating from my plan or accelerating an exit from my current project (I actually enjoy it because it's never been done before)......that would need to come with another $100K/year or so minimum, and a signing bonus pretty close to that. I know the exact company that would do this, but they may not be ready for another 2 years.

I suspect that Ford spent a lot of cash on building their employee's skillset to handle maintenance and repairs of that Lightning EV model like that is rumored to be canceled due to poor sales.

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Out towards New Roads or St Francisville

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Correct but the locals would prefer you never mention this.

Supposedly he still personally has put options PLTR and NVDA. I honestly don’t think he’s wrong about overvaluation. He’s just too early.

Generally I think there is too much cash out there looking desperately for value in anything AI or AI adjacent.

25+ year flashback time for me.

My older brother got me into a festival downtown (called Bonne Fete maybe?) around 1999 where Better than Ezra was playing. I was 14 or 15 years old and my brother was at LSU. The concert was at the parking lot by the water tower where the LSU Art Museum/Tsunami is now on Lafayette Street. I remember that experience vividly. My first real concert, and BTE was still huge at the time.

In those days downtown Baton Rouge was absolutely dead after dark. I think the Hilton was still an abandoned building.

We had an excuse made up and everything for our parents since Mom was not letting me do anything in those days. My brother was going to help me with Calculus homework at the library, but we went to the concert instead. He also took me to get chicken fingers from a restaurant near campus called Raising Canes - In those days Cane’s had maybe two or three stores and I had never heard of them.

A couple of years later that same brother snuck me into The Varsity. I was still in high school and I my brother (at the time a Junior at LSU) and his girlfriend (now wife) got me into The Varsity for free to see Cowboy Mouth.

The opening band for Cowboy Mouth that night wasn’t bad. It was none other than Maroon 5, who was largely unknown at the time.

My first Caterie experience was around 2005. Some local bands and I probably had the best time there with my undergrad buddies that I can remember.

Other vivid and random memories

Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. One that stuck with me was driving some friends (whose house and cars flooded in Metairie) to every car dealer in town so they can buy a vehicle - a Chevy Trailblazer or GMC Envoy. Literally every dealer after the storm was sold out of all of those, new or used.

Walk On’s in 2006 when the Men’s Basketball team beat Duke in the elite 8. Absolute blast. Maybe top 5 experience in Baton Rouge ever. Oddly enough I hate Walk On’s now. But in those days it was a great place near campus for away games. Hard to believe now since it feels so different.

Using Tiger Cash to buy Mr Gatti’s Pizza as a freshmen with my roommates after skipping meals all day. .

Going to the Mall of La on opening week in the mid/late 1990s. That was absolutely nuts. A real game changer for Baton Rouge. We didn’t know it at the time but that was probably in the last handful of brand new, traditional indoor shopping malls to be built from the ground up in this country.

Kirby Smith, McVoy Hall, and the shitty apartments off Burbank. All good memories since they were my first experience away from home.

The streaker incident of 2003 at Tiger Stadium. So much rain. So many cops tried to catch him but slipped.

Chelsea’s being at the north gates. Awesome place then.

I remember when Whole Foods opened on Jefferson. It was head and shoulders nicer than every other grocery around. Like shopping at Disney world.

1990s-2005 or so - Multiple serial killers roaming the area….every female student had mace and many had firearms on them by 2002. They linked an abduction next door to where I lived to Derek Todd Lee eventually. Lee also abducted women in Pollard Place (much nicer area down Perkins) in addition to the LSU area. But they were also finding bodies all over from the other killer whose name escapes me.

Maybe the early 1990s remember my aunt taking me to go swimming at the Bocage Racquet Club. At the time they had a taller diving board but I was too afraid to try it.

Oh and who can forget the Exxon explosion in 1989?

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since women/girls are generally ignored

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Wait where was I when this happened? Oh probably being ignored….my natural instincts being considered toxic.

Landry meddled.

He was always unlikely to get my vote, but now that will definitely not happen.

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$75k for single and I think 100k for couple according to something I saw.

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In 2025 that is not high earning. That’s barely middle class even in LCOL areas. .

It makes total sense if you know the USD will collapse very soon.

Otherwise it makes no sense whatsoever.