How are you doing in this economy? Poll

Sorry but those poll makes no sense.
In the thread title, your asking the question "how are you doing in this economy?" But poll answers are all based on your opinion of the economy.

But the two are not related. Personally, I'm doing well in this economy, but my opinion of the economy is very negative.

There's no way I can choose one of the answers accurately in your poll.

i travel a shit load for work via airlines---have been doing so for 15 years---seems like there are tons of families still traveling on vacation--even through 2007-12..seriously---wtf???

Being with family and getting by is enough. Fuck keeping up with the joneses so to speak.

I like money. I don't love it.

Me and wife make more than ever. Very secure jobs. Kids gone no college expenses or loans. Just paid off our house. No debt.

But I have prepared. Gold, silver, water, solar, food and "protection".

I know that there is a storm coming. A bad one.

I'm bitter that I missed the real estate window, now every house for sale is over priced.

So, we have been hearing conflicting reports of how bad the economy is.

I'm wondering how John & Jane Q Public are doing across the country.


In your view, is the economy terrible? Is it good? Is it somewhere in between?

Just look around...

Every year my city looks worse. The roads are full of patches and falling apart, vacant buildings and closed businesses with graffiti all over them, beggars and bums everywhere.

The neighborhoods that looked like "Leave it to Beaver" are now just ran down ghetto looking houses with dead grass lawns and faded siding or flaking paint jobs.


It reminds me of "Back to the Future 2", where Biff changes the timeline and changes the present into a world of chaos and disorder.

We need Trump!!!

Trump2016

Don't be bitter at all, nikki. Your opportunity never came just as it was the same for everyone else. It's a housing bubble that will be burst at a later time. You'll be better off than everyone, possibly combined, who partook in the real estate window. It just probably doesn't look nor feel that way for you currently, nikki.

I'm torn about having the cash in the bank or having the house I want. probably better off with the cash in the bank now anyway.

my worry is nuclear fallout, and people migrating and gobbling up property and I'll never have my dream house.
boohoo First World Problems.

i travel a shit load for work via airlines---have been doing so for 15 years---seems like there are tons of families still traveling on vacation--even through 0-12..seriously---wtf???

Laid off two months ago, for the 5th time in the past 10 years. Temp to hire labor work has been my life for almost 20 years. I'm exhausted by the system and making final plans to check out, death is better than slavery.

Laid off two months ago, for the 5th time in the past 10 years. Temp to hire labor work has been my life for almost 20 years. I'm exhausted by the system and making final plans to check out, death is better than slavery.

Good post. I would have thought your question would have attracted more of a response.

I wonder how some of these other people make it.

Around the Houston area, they continue to build houses which start in the upper 280K range and above.

I wonder to my self. Even in some of my best saliery years, a house with a $1600 mortgage payments a month would have been tough.

But it seems like all of these residential districts full up.

I have no idea how they survive living in these sky-high residential districts...

Maybe Im missing something..

^^^ that there^^^

I was in the grocery store this morning looking for cheap food. I saw bacon at 6 dollars a pound! I was remembering when I had a good job and could afford to eat whatever I wanted. I bought a dollars worth of eggs for 2.50 and went over to the dollar store to spend what I had left on canned mackerel. Then I went over to the local job service and the place was packed! I spent all of my resources prepping for a crash! I wish this system would just collapse so we can get back to some sense of normalcy.

Been working with three employment agencies and searching on my own for over two years.

Although due to a back injury I cannot work in my field of experience (construction), until I have recovered, all I have been offered are jobs in call centers that pay between $11.00 and $12.00 per hour.

While I took two jobs in different call centers I did not last long. A horrible, meaningless, soul sucking position IMO.

Currently delivering pizzas, 35 hours a week, averaging $15.00 per hour. After insurance, rent and bills I have about $100.00 extra a month for whatever.

Kinda funny, I never made less then $40,000 and $50,000 a year for decades.

Meh. At least delivering pizzas is no stress and most the time I am on the road listening to audio books and music.

What does dollar store mackerel taste like?