Yes, a real-life demonstration of Inflation...its wonderful effects on the average, or sub-average, Joe.
This, after how for over ten years, we heard that inflation was GOOD - first, two-percent inflation was to be WORKED TOWARDS, and then, how inflation HELPS the Working Stiff. And how horrible is DEflation.
One year ago, to the day, I went on my first, now probably only, long-term RV vacation in Florida. Had a fine time, allowing for lower Senior-Citizen standards. Met some people I knew only online. Ate at several fine casual restaurants, recommended by my hosts. Saw the Panhandle beaches, NOT swarmed with people - it was chilly; mid-fifties.
Saw how popular Florida had become...and where was good and affordable. The Panhandle was expensive. The whole area was so busy with "Snowbirds" that free-camping or stealth-camping was a true project.
But then I found an RV site in the Kissimmee region, affordable, immaculately maintained, filled with sociable old coots like me. Had three weeks of fine living, coffee in the commons in the morning, the sun, summer temperatures, an airboat tour. More to do, but I never got to it.
So. I'm making plans. And adding things up, since now that my food budget is doubled, pennies count. The $800/month lot-rent rate there is now $1300 a month. The gasoline cost would be over 50 percent higher.
My $1500 winter getaway - justifiable in my budget - has become a potential $2600 expense. Which is not justifiable.
I stay home.
Closer to home: Arizona was the "other" place I was going to go RVing in. Well, now, with the nation's border erased, vacationing in Arizona would be like a pleasure trip in the DMZ. Las Vegas is the fallback, and there are many RV parks there.
What, I want to find out that homeless Central-American bums passed out on the sidewalks of the Strip, are the new entertainment? I remember Vegas from 35 years ago, when it was kewel, and fun, and novel, and filled with beautiful people from elsewhere. Now it's none of those things, and the Beautiful People are fatted, tatted, transvestites suffering from the mental illness of Wokeness and Karenism.
I stay home.
The trailer stays parked...in a storage lot that's costing me money. Now I have to decide if I should sell it, or hang on, against the possibility of my own homelessness.
Two competing dynamics, here. Rents and land prices are exploding - rents, especially, and probably to get worse, now that FedGov is gonna forever subsidize and house our invaders.
Balance that against their contradictive policy, Malthusian Depopulation. They say 70 percent have taken the Jab. "Excess Death" is now at six-sigma levels. THAT is gonna show, with time - as those who would be Florida Snowbirds or RVers criss-crossing...are instead, assuming ambient temperature.
So. Do I keep or do I sell? Any money I get, is of secondary concern. It's about cutting future losses and not losing more from declining market and depreciation. That, versus the reality that I DO have it, and it's ready to go, if somehow I again wind up in housing trouble.
This, after how for over ten years, we heard that inflation was GOOD - first, two-percent inflation was to be WORKED TOWARDS, and then, how inflation HELPS the Working Stiff. And how horrible is DEflation.
One year ago, to the day, I went on my first, now probably only, long-term RV vacation in Florida. Had a fine time, allowing for lower Senior-Citizen standards. Met some people I knew only online. Ate at several fine casual restaurants, recommended by my hosts. Saw the Panhandle beaches, NOT swarmed with people - it was chilly; mid-fifties.
Saw how popular Florida had become...and where was good and affordable. The Panhandle was expensive. The whole area was so busy with "Snowbirds" that free-camping or stealth-camping was a true project.
But then I found an RV site in the Kissimmee region, affordable, immaculately maintained, filled with sociable old coots like me. Had three weeks of fine living, coffee in the commons in the morning, the sun, summer temperatures, an airboat tour. More to do, but I never got to it.
So. I'm making plans. And adding things up, since now that my food budget is doubled, pennies count. The $800/month lot-rent rate there is now $1300 a month. The gasoline cost would be over 50 percent higher.
My $1500 winter getaway - justifiable in my budget - has become a potential $2600 expense. Which is not justifiable.
I stay home.
Closer to home: Arizona was the "other" place I was going to go RVing in. Well, now, with the nation's border erased, vacationing in Arizona would be like a pleasure trip in the DMZ. Las Vegas is the fallback, and there are many RV parks there.
What, I want to find out that homeless Central-American bums passed out on the sidewalks of the Strip, are the new entertainment? I remember Vegas from 35 years ago, when it was kewel, and fun, and novel, and filled with beautiful people from elsewhere. Now it's none of those things, and the Beautiful People are fatted, tatted, transvestites suffering from the mental illness of Wokeness and Karenism.
I stay home.
The trailer stays parked...in a storage lot that's costing me money. Now I have to decide if I should sell it, or hang on, against the possibility of my own homelessness.
Two competing dynamics, here. Rents and land prices are exploding - rents, especially, and probably to get worse, now that FedGov is gonna forever subsidize and house our invaders.
Balance that against their contradictive policy, Malthusian Depopulation. They say 70 percent have taken the Jab. "Excess Death" is now at six-sigma levels. THAT is gonna show, with time - as those who would be Florida Snowbirds or RVers criss-crossing...are instead, assuming ambient temperature.
So. Do I keep or do I sell? Any money I get, is of secondary concern. It's about cutting future losses and not losing more from declining market and depreciation. That, versus the reality that I DO have it, and it's ready to go, if somehow I again wind up in housing trouble.