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More like shrinking it to a third of the playable area, i.e., holes 2 and 3.

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Replacing a full 9 holes with pitch-and-putt is like replacing a tennis court with pickleball, or a baseball field with a wiffleball field, and telling players it's the same sport because they can still swing a racket or a bat.

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Thank you. I am on a five hour ride to TX tomorrow. I’ll shoot some emails out to them, the metro council, and maybe the local state rep.

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Back in October, I made my voice heard and sent an email advocating for keeping the current course footprint during the voting session. Commissioner Polito, who from the start has been pushing for heavy BRAF involvement and a full revamp replied back, proclaimed innocence and asked where I saw that the proposal would involve doing anything to the golf course. I then called out what was obvious among other things, that certain individuals and organizations have wanted to remove or substantially shrink the course for decades now, and letting BRAF solely lead the effort could open the door to excluding any meaningful input from the golfers in the community of which there are many. A different commissioner who voted no to BRAF replied, thanking me for my input.

I'm curious what they reply to you this time.

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There's a USGA limit to this and every driver released in recent history is at that limit.

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To back this up, I bought a Ping G30 back in 2014 that I've been trying to get rid of for the past 5 years now. I'll go to Edwin Watts each year and test it against the new drivers, and the G30 still has similar (or even better in some cases) numbers with a tighter dispersion than the newest models. The simulator says I'm in the 165 range for ball speed no matter which driver I hit, including the G30, which should be plenty to see technology improvements.

There's a case to be made that the face has been broken in making it slightly more springy and that I've become accustomed to the shaft, but I'm not dropping $600 on a driver until I find one that outperforms it.

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Take a look anyway. The worst that can happen is they say no.

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I don't know how we got here, but I'm content with my life at the moment, and it wouldn't be worth it for us to move away from grandparents/family to Huntsville of all places to start a 3rd career at the bottom of the food chain again, especially with kids in the near/immediate future.

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That's not reality. If you get a technical degree, you'll get a good job. My advice would be don't get a shite degree. Or don't a degree at all and become HVAC, Electrician, Plumber. Get some experience, then open your own business.

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I'm mid-30s, graduated with an engineering degree, worked my arse off as a field engineer on drilling rigs for 5 years. Saved money despite only making about $50-$60k per year at the time, but they lowered my pay as work dried up in the mid-late 2010's because of geopolitics out of my control and low crude prices. This then ate into my savings, so I moved in with my grandparents, taught myself how to code with a $13 online bootcamp, and just made 6 years at my company working as a developer.

I've never come close to making $130k, or six-figures for that matter and I certainly don't have a shite degree. I know some, but not all, of my engineering friends make more than that. In fact, my now-wife and I barely make that today combined with her in healthcare. Finally bought a meager 1200 sq/ft house in a safe area a couple years ago, and I have a good, stable, technical job with great benefits/work life balance and kind coworkers so no regrets, but it sure wasn't easy and wasn't a realistic possibility for me anytime in my 20s without going to unreasonably lengths like moving into an unsafe area or a very remote location, which I deemed wasn't worth it. Probably would still be a single guy too if I decided to move somewhere super remote.


So all that to say, it's never that simple.

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Hypothetically, what would the average cost of a 2 bed 1 bath starter home have to get to for your average worker "doing everything right" to not be able to afford a house until they are in their 40s and infertile?

Depend on location. I bet you could move to smaller location, make less money, commute 50 miles to work find a small home and have more disposable income.cThing is you don't want to hear anything other than you are a victim. You're not.

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Say that income completely stagnates (instead of just slows as it is currently) for whatever reason and the 90th percentile and highest earners of 30 year olds "doing everything right" are making $130,000/year.

How much would the cheapest available and very meager 2 bed 1 bath starter house in the country have to cost for you to not put the onus on the individual to work longer hours and harder to make more money if they want a chance at home ownership?

$150,000?
$300,000?
$700,000?
$10,000,000?


I'm trying to figure out if the situation could ever get to a point where you would admit that there's a problem with potential policies and not the individual.

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Always gotta knock the accomplishments of others. When if you said, "That guy can do it, so can I".

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"Congratulations. You found a niche or some extra leverage or whatever. That's great, and I mean that sincerely. I'm also in software and I'm trying to get there someday."
... is clearly not knocking your accomplishments. "You found [through hard work and almost surely some luck as well] a niche or some extra leverage or whatever." I literally said I'm trying to get there someday.


The point is, again, this isn't about specifically you or I. It's a conversation about the average young professional who's doing most everything right. That's who Trump needs to be empowering if he cares about the future of this country.

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That's how the real world works. Prices go up (inflate) as the years go by. EVERYTHING gets more expensive.

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Everything gets more expensive, but median/average salaries should increase at the same rate as well. They haven't, and it's not even close.

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It is up to the individual to increase their value so that their pay goes up as well. If the individual refuses to do that frickem.

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Not everyone can be a CEO or upper management. The world needs people to actually perform the work, and those people will always get paid closer to median incomes.

This thinking is too granular. Zoom out.

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I work with young ins that bring in a crap-a-chino from starbucks every day ( and they likely buy them on the weekend). 300 days of $8 coffees and $20 lunches is $8400.

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There's no way. I work in a young office in tech/marketing with ~30 people where the average age is about 28 and no-one older than 40s, and I might see 2-3 starbucks cups a day at most. Overwhelming majority use the coffee machine, bring in lunches to put in the fridge, or head home for lunch. I know because I help manage the coffee supply and maintenance of the machine. Nicest car in the lot belongs to the owner, which is a $45k car that's a few years old, and most of the rest are cheaper makes and/or older cars.

I'm in my early 30s and also one of only a handful that own a home and aren't renting.