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Evilhomer said:
If you're really wealthy, I'm guessing there are lots of better places than the US. Give me a couple of hundred million and a big US (or Canadian) city is just about the last place I would live.
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Well no new York, LA or Toronto for sure, Malibu, Honolulu, Vancouver would be great.
 
Evilhomer said:
Nothing that happens in the next 3.5 years will change my opinion that the US affords far greater career opportunities than Canada. I'm not sure how that could possibly be debated. Salaries in the US for professions have always been higher than Canada. The gap has simply continued to widen since I worked there. No government can change that.
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If all you care about is career opportunities then sure, choose the US.
 
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Evilhomer said:
The circuit breakers will be working overtime tomorrow. If you're young and invested, this is no big deal to wait out. But if you are retired or near retirement, this is ugly.
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I'm recently retired, but none of this will greatly effect my financial situation (I mean unless all hell breaks out).
 
Confucius said:
Well no new York, LA or Toronto for sure, Malibu, Honolulu, Vancouver would be great.
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It's an interesting question.

I was born and raised in the state of NY. There are two things about NYC i am confident about: 1) someone born and raised in NYC is never going to take the New Yorker out of themselves for the rest of their life; and 2) those that love living in NYC absolutely can't live anywhere else because it's not a cookie cutter city that can be duplicated anywhere else. NYC is not replaceable.

As for me, NY and California are unbearable financially due to the extreme tax burden and in California's case they have WAY more problems than just taxes. Weather is also a dicey subject. NY and TO share similar issues but Toronto's probably worse. LA has big smog, fire and water issues, among many other things but the weather is obviously better than the East coast. I live in MA and this is actually a great place to live IF you've got the money. We have better weather than Toronto and a way smaller tax burden than NY. Nowhere near the same magnitude in terms of prestige, size or things to do when compared to NYC though.

If money were no object, if we are just talking North America I might have one place in the Pacific NW (WA?) and one place in Miami, like Star Island or Fisher Island (these areas aren't the 1%, it's more like the 0.1%)? But hard to know. I like Minnesota but the winters are rough. I like Colorado as well. Not a fan of super arid areas like Phoenix or Las Vegas. I'll take rain over snow because you don't have to shovel rain.

Tough to say.
 
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Confucius said:
60 percent of our electricity is hydro now. Only 15% from nukes. Nuclear is the shiny new toy.
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If your country is anything like mine (New Zealand) a lot of that infrastructure was built years ago

We've got plenty of water but when you start talking about putting large hydroelectric dams In now it's a nightmare

It's ridiculously expensive and the amount of hoops you have to jump through is mind blowing, even the government has given up trying
Evilhomer said:
If you're really wealthy, I'm guessing there are lots of better places than the US. Give me a couple of hundred million and a big US (or Canadian) city is just about the last place I would live.
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I'm a kiwi but the gold or sunshine coast in Australia would be pretty attractive
 
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Evilhomer said:
It's an interesting question. Northern BC would be near the top of my list.
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Somewhere hot and dry is my choice simply for weather, every time I’m in the desert my joins feel twenty years younger, added bonus if there’s no snakes, spiders, or scorpions……….
 
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rumman said:
Somewhere hot and dry is my choice simply for weather, every time I’m in the desert my joins feel twenty years younger, added bonus if there’s no snakes, spiders, or scorpions……….
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No snakes, spiders or scorpions in the desert is...not realistic.
 
Mr_Fun said:
So then what in your opinion is a good source for news. politics, and world events?
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Preferably ones that aren't partially or wholly subsidized by the very institution they're supposed to scrutinize. So, the countless independent and citizen journalists who use some of the largest platforms on the planet (e.g. YouTube) to inform the public on those issues that get completely ignored by legacy media.
 
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Evilhomer said:
Market wiping out our parades anyway.
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Not if you don’t sell, been there done that, hold fast the market usually recovers. I only hold mining stocks now and they’ve taken a beating since the pandemic. I started liquidating my portfolio years ago, paid the taxes and converted assets into precious metals. At my age I don’t want volatility……….
 
rumman said:
Not if you don’t sell, been there done that, hold fast the market usually recovers. I only hold mining stocks now and they’ve taken a beating since the pandemic. I started liquidating my portfolio years ago, paid the taxes and converted assets into precious metals. At my age I don’t want volatility……….
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Precious metals don’t pay dividends. I don’t care that much about share price fluctuations, a solid company has little fluctuation in dividends. Love the cheques coming in every 3 months
 
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