Our realtor has 80 acres for 800K, that has had 8 wells drilled in it with 0 water. Hasn't changed the price one bit. Virtually useless property. There is a distinct disconnect between real value vs percieved value. Because the percieved value is a combination of what people will pay (real spending) and what people want, the actual value keeps climbing as people come up with more and more money to play with. CA is an excellent example, houses that should run 100-200K can go for a million or more.

Rural land requires infrastructure , water , access ,
Sometimes at an unexpected cost. There is also a smaller market to consider. Which reduces liquidity.

Sorry, my wife does not go east of the cascades. Besides, the weather in Oregon is probably the best, no real storms, thunder lightning, wind or flooding, unless you buy into land next to a river or stream, and even then you can engineer it out. While I like a good thunderstorm, my wife does not. Our realto has seen the light and is now adding an addendum to include us needing a suitable replacement for the sale to go thru, so we continue to search. The real problem is finding something that is usable and you can get a loan on, rural land is the hardest thing to finance, yet seemingly constantly goes up in value, so you would think it more secure as an asset than a house alone.

That sounds very frustrating. I can only wish you the best in your endeavor. Nick if you were in the Twin cities I could refer several agents that I know who have integrity.

One more excellent reason to require proficient English of everyone, including prospective immigrants and anyone who is to receive any government support whatsoever. "Spell foodstamp. Fudzdam. Sorry, no foodstamps for you today."

The kind of common sense cause and effect that you do not need a politician to tell you, but the bureaucrats will derail in a heartbeat if they can, just to keep adding more to their pile. Control, control control...

Indeed, the workers will always eventually figure out they are getting screwed, it is the rest of the sheeple, especially those who do not work, but pretend to work (many, many times in cubicles) that never seem to figure it out...

Exactly, programming the masses, so they do not need to think...and when they do, they think the "correct" way.

Plus...socialism creates greed (present day connotation) Prager University has a great video on that...

Teachers used to "teach" critical thinking...then, under willie wilson...we were taught to "learn" instead; as you know.
That's exactly what Preaching does...one "Learns" the preacher's prose.

Yes, there is definitely something going on. People seem to expect you to just take what they want to give you, and you should feel blessed they have deigned to do so. There is an air of arrogance in most connections, business and political where companies feel their customers owe them, and the polticos seem to have the same attitude. I find it is also true in a lot of personal interactions and will fire off when I run into it. I am currently in a issing contest with a realtor, who feels that showing a house 5 or 6 times in 3 months, then when we did get an offer, not one property we had vetted was still available, and what is available is basically double overpriced crap. We are telling her we cannot sell under these circumstances and trade a nice property in for a crappy one with little change in overall debt, as the prices are way too high for what you get. She cannot understand this, and seem to think we should do something crazy like rent or just take what we can find, just so her valuable time isn't wasted. However, had she worked from the get go to help us find a replacement and secure it, there would not be an issue, but that kind of effort is apparently too much to ask for. So, off we go, and will be blacklisted by all the realtors (who al;so blacklisted us when we were trying to sell it ourselves, as we had offered 1% (about 4500) just for a referral, and we had several people call to ask us why their realtor would not give them the info on it.

I sadly agree. it's likely to happen Nickursis. Issues like immigration , defense , terrorism Concerns for our national security. Rather than a reasonable response from our elected officials. What we get is the most unreasonable , ridiculous policy but always expect an even more insane solution to be offered as an alternative , allowing the first to be adopted.
Hard to explain the avoidance of consciousness and intelligence in this Information Age other than
the bullying the labeling the censuring of those who are thoughtfully conscious.
Good evening to you.

Turns out that English has the most words and concepts and easily adds concepts from other languages...in the article I read on the subject they included French (romance languages) to the list of the best languages. As Julian Jaynes observed and has since been accepted, is that it was language that started the whole process of becoming consciously aware of self.
Most of the world has not achieved consciousness to date and perhaps, that's why we can't communicate our concepts with them.

Reminds me of reading that English is a Germanic language.
Gottverdammt is pretty easy to figure out.

Just so.

Yep, a lot of it seemed to be an urban legends, there was some truth to it though.

Indeed so.

I remember

Yea, the site I went to had 4 different spellings for each word...I thought Swedish was Swedish, Period but apparently there is several different ways of saying something.

I could see that some of the Swedish words were kind of a bad pronunciation of English...like the word Get to Goat and Du to You

Of course you have read of Clinton's attempt to loot Whitehouse China and such at the so called end of Slicks terms. Like it was there own private estate sale.

Google translate says it's "Du luktar en get."
Phonetically I've been saying, "Du likta don sawn you vet."
I was a kid when my dad taught me that. So over the long, long years maybe I got off track.

Best I can find: doft lukt fa en bock