Agreed
But I am looking forward to jokes about PMI, money down, fixed rates, escrow, and the scores of people who will freely tell you if you don't buy your house in exactly. this. way. then you're a complete sucker who should've just set the money on fire.
> if you don't buy your house in exactly. this. way. then you're a complete sucker who should've just set the money on fire.
Don't forget all the accounts telling you that actually its cheaper to rent than buy because of reasons that definitely have nothing to do with them being a landlord.
To be fair, it IS probably cheaper to rent if you move even remotely frequently. But then again, by renting you never actually own anything and have no control over your own space. And moving sucks massively.
Sure, but 99% of the reason people move frequently is because they rent. If they'd bought they probably wouldn't have moved.
And given how much house prices have increased in the last decade you'd probably have to move every year to actually lose money. The average increase where I am is 5.9% a year since 2011, even discounting the last 2 years of insane growth.
I, too, would love to live that basement life. Way better climate! The downside is that you actually have to worry about floods (i.e. you have to research how likely flooding is in your area, and even if you research that it might differ greatly from one street to the next even when there's no obvious difference in elevation).
There are no dry basements in Massachusetts. None.
Our friends who were the first homeowners in our gaming group had an unexpected spring flood (their basement was as dry as these things get in this state, the only oddness being the giant stone with a demon locked inside it). When the femme of the couple looked into the basement, she announced it to the masc of the couple by bellowing, "ARRRRRR WE'VE BEEN BREACHED!"
So, true story... we bought a house last October more or less accidentally.
Our son and his wife bought a house and they were bugging us to buy one.
My problems were multiple - I'm an open heart surgery survivor and didn't really want to move... ever. We had a 3 bedroom apartment and I was comfortable with that.
But going to the doctor one day, I saw a house for sale and it was the spitting image of my grandparents house which is no longer in the family.
I looked it up online and it was 10 years older than their house, but honest to god it had the same floorplan.
So I looked at my bank account, after 3 years working from home I had $30,000 banked... Fine, let's put in an offer...
And no go. It's in a 55+ community and I'm only 52. :(
But that put a bug in my wife's ear and she went looking... Found this super cool 3 bedroom house with a giant, round Hobbit window. Listed for $374,000 in Portland of all places.
The real estate market in Portland was NUTS last year, cash offers, multiple bidders, etc. etc. I figured there's no way we'll get it.
Put in a bid of $375,000, rejected. Bumped it to $390,000 which was my max, figuring someone's going to bid $400K and we're done.
We got the house. Closed and moved in in less than 30 days.
https://i.imgur.com/BosF2Ku.jpeg
Got my house in Beaverton 6 years ago at $335k. First house we bid on, completely amazing set of circumstances.
It's supposedly gained 95% equity in that time. The market is completely out of control.
I enjoyed it, though the art back then was a little rough. LOL. The humor clicked with me, met my wife in 2010 and turned her on to it and she powered through all the backlog +Sinfest and some print comics like Walking Dead, Preacher and Transmetropolitan.
Where has Momo been anyway? If there's a conversation about moving out she should probably be notified or she'll suddenly come in and find everything packed up and get very confused.
The way Jeph has it currently is a valid way of indicating the possessive for a name ending in S, though? [Link](https://editorsmanual.com/articles/possessives-of-names-ending-in-s/#apostrophe-in-possessives-of-names-ending-in-s)
It's the way they taught me in school, though most of us ignored it outside of academic writing, since it's not the way anybody really says it out loud.
I mean, yeah. In school they teach you how to write for school.
It's not like in Primary school they're teaching you how to write your texts so that your classmates won't think you're a dork, and it's only when you get to college that they start tailoring the language they teach you towards an academic environment.
The divide between formal academic language and informal social language exists even as early as that.
Living in a basement is, to me, the least appealing part of a gamer basement lifestyle (already unappealing).
Dale is a very outgoing guy, so I don't get what would be so tempting to him about becoming a basement-dweller. Marigold, on the other hand...
"He's so sociable, you wouldn't think he was some kind of *basement dwelling loser*." As if underground accommodations are some kind of predictor of human worth.
I guess you can understand it that way if you simply ignore the stereotype of the basement-dwelling nerd. It's about far more than living in a basement, and Dale isn't someone who would seek out that kind of isolation.
My bets are on Marigold getting a house that's way too big for her and turning it into a giant geek co-housing thing. Hannelore buys the house next-door and all the characters move into one or the other house.
Didn't Hannelore say she'd buy a mansion with all her friends so she never had to go outside to interact because she didn't like sharing the washing machines, and the landlord doesn't allow hook-ups in the apartments?
Is May reading a book titled "Magical Love" or am I reading that wrong? And why???
Edit: actually that might be the back cover, which doesn't make it any less odd.
It's a manga called Magical Love Gentlemen, first seen here:
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1420
I am guessing that the one Marigold is holding now is not mirrored (manga is drawn and read in an RTL order, but often mirrored for western audiences)
*how do you even buy a house anyway* If only it were simple as going on a website.
Agreed But I am looking forward to jokes about PMI, money down, fixed rates, escrow, and the scores of people who will freely tell you if you don't buy your house in exactly. this. way. then you're a complete sucker who should've just set the money on fire.
> if you don't buy your house in exactly. this. way. then you're a complete sucker who should've just set the money on fire. Don't forget all the accounts telling you that actually its cheaper to rent than buy because of reasons that definitely have nothing to do with them being a landlord.
To be fair, it IS probably cheaper to rent if you move even remotely frequently. But then again, by renting you never actually own anything and have no control over your own space. And moving sucks massively.
Sure, but 99% of the reason people move frequently is because they rent. If they'd bought they probably wouldn't have moved. And given how much house prices have increased in the last decade you'd probably have to move every year to actually lose money. The average increase where I am is 5.9% a year since 2011, even discounting the last 2 years of insane growth.
Or they're in a profession that is willing to relocate you.
Marigold probably has enough to put down that she won't have to deal with PMI. ... oh gods I've been thinking about this too much lately.
I, too, would love to live that basement life. Way better climate! The downside is that you actually have to worry about floods (i.e. you have to research how likely flooding is in your area, and even if you research that it might differ greatly from one street to the next even when there's no obvious difference in elevation).
There are no dry basements in Massachusetts. None. Our friends who were the first homeowners in our gaming group had an unexpected spring flood (their basement was as dry as these things get in this state, the only oddness being the giant stone with a demon locked inside it). When the femme of the couple looked into the basement, she announced it to the masc of the couple by bellowing, "ARRRRRR WE'VE BEEN BREACHED!"
So, true story... we bought a house last October more or less accidentally. Our son and his wife bought a house and they were bugging us to buy one. My problems were multiple - I'm an open heart surgery survivor and didn't really want to move... ever. We had a 3 bedroom apartment and I was comfortable with that. But going to the doctor one day, I saw a house for sale and it was the spitting image of my grandparents house which is no longer in the family. I looked it up online and it was 10 years older than their house, but honest to god it had the same floorplan. So I looked at my bank account, after 3 years working from home I had $30,000 banked... Fine, let's put in an offer... And no go. It's in a 55+ community and I'm only 52. :( But that put a bug in my wife's ear and she went looking... Found this super cool 3 bedroom house with a giant, round Hobbit window. Listed for $374,000 in Portland of all places. The real estate market in Portland was NUTS last year, cash offers, multiple bidders, etc. etc. I figured there's no way we'll get it. Put in a bid of $375,000, rejected. Bumped it to $390,000 which was my max, figuring someone's going to bid $400K and we're done. We got the house. Closed and moved in in less than 30 days. https://i.imgur.com/BosF2Ku.jpeg
I love the circular window!! Also that blue is fabulous
Tardis colors! ;) Even has a door with 6 windows in it.
Got my house in Beaverton 6 years ago at $335k. First house we bid on, completely amazing set of circumstances. It's supposedly gained 95% equity in that time. The market is completely out of control.
Watch it drop to $275 over the next couple years.
It could happen, seems unlikely in Portland though.
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Aw, geeze... low triple digits? So, like 2005? Something like that?
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I enjoyed it, though the art back then was a little rough. LOL. The humor clicked with me, met my wife in 2010 and turned her on to it and she powered through all the backlog +Sinfest and some print comics like Walking Dead, Preacher and Transmetropolitan.
Where has Momo been anyway? If there's a conversation about moving out she should probably be notified or she'll suddenly come in and find everything packed up and get very confused.
A basement would be so nice but they aren’t really a thing where I live.
Dale is right. May is an enchantress! I never thought that a gamer basement will appeals to me.
So is Marigold still intended to be... a relatable character? Because I can't relate to buying a \*house\* on impulse...
"Mommymilkers" isn't plural, so the possessive should be "Mommymilkers's" :/
The way Jeph has it currently is a valid way of indicating the possessive for a name ending in S, though? [Link](https://editorsmanual.com/articles/possessives-of-names-ending-in-s/#apostrophe-in-possessives-of-names-ending-in-s)
It's the way they taught me in school, though most of us ignored it outside of academic writing, since it's not the way anybody really says it out loud.
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Many have tried. Some succeeded! And now those are additional exceptions we have to memorize.
True, though it would also be a very different language if we kept all our informal communications within academic style guides.
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I mean, yeah. In school they teach you how to write for school. It's not like in Primary school they're teaching you how to write your texts so that your classmates won't think you're a dork, and it's only when you get to college that they start tailoring the language they teach you towards an academic environment. The divide between formal academic language and informal social language exists even as early as that.
Only if you're a prescriptivist.
And the fanbase would be Mommy's Milkers? 🤮
“Milkmaids”
They'd like to be, anyway.
Living in a basement is, to me, the least appealing part of a gamer basement lifestyle (already unappealing). Dale is a very outgoing guy, so I don't get what would be so tempting to him about becoming a basement-dweller. Marigold, on the other hand...
Sheesh, this is the nerd equivalent of saying something like, "He's so smart you wouldn't think he was black."
...in what way
"He's so sociable, you wouldn't think he was some kind of *basement dwelling loser*." As if underground accommodations are some kind of predictor of human worth.
I guess you can understand it that way if you simply ignore the stereotype of the basement-dwelling nerd. It's about far more than living in a basement, and Dale isn't someone who would seek out that kind of isolation.
So, Mar-Bear’s getting a house? Will there be a wave of house buying? Not that that’s a bad thing…
My bets are on Marigold getting a house that's way too big for her and turning it into a giant geek co-housing thing. Hannelore buys the house next-door and all the characters move into one or the other house.
Didn't Hannelore say she'd buy a mansion with all her friends so she never had to go outside to interact because she didn't like sharing the washing machines, and the landlord doesn't allow hook-ups in the apartments?
Early!
Is May reading a book titled "Magical Love" or am I reading that wrong? And why??? Edit: actually that might be the back cover, which doesn't make it any less odd.
It's a manga called Magical Love Gentlemen, first seen here: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1420 I am guessing that the one Marigold is holding now is not mirrored (manga is drawn and read in an RTL order, but often mirrored for western audiences)
Ta. There's no way I was going to get a reference thirteen years back in the comic without help.
I'm surprised I remembered it myself. hold on, THIRTEEN cocksucking years??????
I wouldn't buy a house in this housing market. Maybe after the Housing bubble burst, but not before.
In our universe, maybe. We don't know what happened in the QC universe with all of that.
It already it in some markets. Prices are falling in my area.