Rat reminds me of the people who only get their news from MSNBC, PBS, NPR, and CNN, and who watch The View, and then complain about people and media with views opposed to theirs.
From the last few strips, it’s looking as if Janis now doesn’t want to move at all, and Arlo is a bit intrigued by the idea of being in the sticks — a reversal of where they were a month or two ago.For retirees with a paid-off home mortgage, it’s not always that difficult to finance. If they started investing in their forties, they now have at least half a million in stocks, in spite of all the market ups and downs. (That’s assuming they were investors, not traders, and assuming they stayed away from the industries that were headed for the dumpster.) If they have a margin account, they can borrow on their stocks for a bridge loan to buy the land and build the house, probably at a much lower interest rate than a bank would charge. No need for a mortgage, and they can pay off the stock loan as soon as their old house sells.
Most of my kids were born during the Seventies. Double-digit inflation is extremely stressful when the cost of living keeps rising and what savings you have are dwindling in value.
True. But I’ve been assuming Id exists during Medieval times, when the Hohenstaufens were a dynasty. Even during the early Renaissance in Italy, the bloodshed between the Guelfs and Ghibbelines was a feud between Guelfs supporting the Pope as civil ruler and the Ghibbelines supporting the Hohenstaufens (whose estate was named Waibling — mispronounced by the Italians).
Andrew Carnegie chose to fund thousands of libraries across the US and Canada. That’s some legacy.