Who Likes Guns?

Casey Jones wrote:

OneDumbBlonde wrote:Boo!

Come on down to ID. You know you wanna.  

I like guns, kinda - but I LOVE CdA.  Worked out of there, back 24 years ago...and was pleased to take a job a hundred miles away.  

But, alas, CdA...I can't afford to PARK there.

I remember, back in 1970, someone gave my mother a coffee-table photo book on "Ghost Towns of the West" - partly because as young newlyweds, my parents hiked all over Colorado and stretched to some other areas.  That would have been in the early 1950s, before that was hipster-fashionable.

But I remember seeing the photographer's work in a strangely-named town in Idaho.  A "near-ghost" he rated it.

Coeur d'Alene.

Twenty years later, 1990, I was driving through...coming back to Ohio from Alaska, camping out in my Datsun pickup truck (remember those?  Tiny little workhorses) and there at the overpass to I-90 I got rearended.  By a woman maybe a few years older than me, meaning, at the time, fairly young.  Driving a Lincoln.  There was a dead cat on the sidewalk, feet up like a dead cow, and she was rubbernecking and rammed me.

She was a real-estate agent, and obviously rich.  Her insurance wrote my truck off - within four hours of the incident; and the money was enough to get a cutting-torch hillbilly repair (remove the rear bumper which got curled up under the truck bed) and get on my way.  They didn't even want to collect the title; just sign a release that I'd been paid the KBB value of the truck.

But it was still little more than a bump in the highway - albeit with a new four-lane overpass there over the freeway.

Thirty years later, I get a job in Montana...railroading RIGHT THROUGH CdA, on my way to Spokane, the other-end terminal.  Occasionally we'd be shuttled back, or there.  And since I've been retired...been through there.  Beautiful...the way Lake Tahoe is beautiful; and about as affordable.  All new, all spendy.

I feel the way my old man felt about Vail, Colorado...which started as a military mountain-maneuvers training area for WWII, and then Forest Service training, and then the real estate developers came in.

Love to come...but, can't.

Just 5 years back, prices were reasonable here. Now, though? I can't afford to park here either. There is a damn double-wide down the street from me on 5 acres listed for over 800k right now. Given, I highly doubt it'll sell, but that's what's going on here during all this craziness. In sane-world that property is barely worth 250k.

Are you familiar with Jackson Hole, WY? I remember when it wasn't overrun by billionaires. Now, it's ruined for 'normal' people forever. I fear that's the direction Cd'A is headed.

OneDumbBlonde wrote:

Just 5 years back, prices were reasonable here.  Now, though?  I can't afford to park here either.     There is a damn double-wide down the street from me on 5 acres listed for over 800k right now.  Given, I highly doubt it'll sell, but that's what's going on here during all this craziness.  In sane-world that property is barely worth 250k.

Are you familiar with Jackson Hole, WY?  I remember when it wasn't overrun by billionaires.  Now, it's ruined for 'normal' people forever.  I fear that's the direction Cd'A is headed.  

Forever is a long time. There comes the rise; the corruption; the government funneling wealth from working people to cronies...the various crony-millionaires and the towns they favor.

Then the decline and fall. Once upon a time, Detroit was the jewel of the Midwest. You arrived in Detroit from somewhere else, you would have a job within a day. If you had a strong back, it was a great-paying job. If you had actual skills, like a tool-and-die maker, you were industrial royalty.

And then the decline and then the fall. Detroit will come back; the soil is too rich for it not to; but first we have to come to the end of our ruin. The violent (expletives) in there have to be shot down or starved out.

California. That was more-gradual; it was really marginally affordable, even just after WWII. But it was doable. And I remember the 1970s, when San Francisco was a gritty town in decline. Remember the cop show, "Streets of San Francisco"? The streets and neighborhoods were dramatic; but income was down, crime was up. It wasn't until the gay boyos found the town, that it launched up into unaffordable territory.

Denver, and especially Boulder, have gone the same route. Denver was nothing to write home about. Frankly, even when I lived there, it was a gritty town...with costs rising. I liked it for its proximity to national parks, the mountain ranges.

Boulder, was 40 square miles, surrounded by reality. Now, with legal dope, Leftists' fantasies about Open Borders (the King Sooper shooter was Syrian) and resultant decline in quality of life, I expect Boulder is going to go the way Los Angeles' pocket suburbs have gone. Straight down.

Missoula is really growing, and its standard of living in decline. Gang graffiti now. That was unheard of. The Leftist Calistan transplants, they just LUUUV them some black skin. So we gotta get moar and moar, and we're getting to a tipping point.

That, and the insane traffic - very heavy, but dazed, doped-up drivers who can't remember what the green light means when it switches. MORONS. Half the speed limit. Weaving all over the road. Openly smoking pot while driving. How do I know? Vape pens. And because nobody here smokes cigarettes anymore. Just pot. Get stoned and go for a drive.

CdA collapsed once, with the implosion of silver prices. The next time, in a year or so, it will be when the bubble-stock market implodes, and the Fed, stepping in with the Plunge Protection Team, crashes the dollar with its thousands of trillions of made-up fiat.

I don't think these communities, Lake Tahoe, or Jackson Hole or CdA or Whitefish, are going to survive what's coming.

Look on the bright side, when Sleepy has fucked the economy, prices should come on par with those in Mexico

vege57 wrote:Look on the bright side, when Sleepy has fucked the economy, prices should come on par with those in Mexico  

Nope. If there's still a dollar, our prices will be on a level with Venezuela's.

And inflation as rampant. And neither Dumbass nor Kameltoe nor Botox Nan, know a GOD-DAMNED THING about economics. They really BELIEVE this MMT (Modern Monetary Theory, aka Magic Money Tree) garbage. They're gonna print us all rich. It didn't work in Venezuela or Germany or Zimbabwe, but it'll work THIS time, because we're on MAGIC DIRT.

Casey Jones wrote:

OneDumbBlonde wrote:

Just 5 years back, prices were reasonable here.  Now, though?  I can't afford to park here either.     There is a damn double-wide down the street from me on 5 acres listed for over 800k right now.  Given, I highly doubt it'll sell, but that's what's going on here during all this craziness.  In sane-world that property is barely worth 250k.

Are you familiar with Jackson Hole, WY?  I remember when it wasn't overrun by billionaires.  Now, it's ruined for 'normal' people forever.  I fear that's the direction Cd'A is headed.  

Forever is a long time.  There comes the rise; the corruption; the government funneling wealth from working people to cronies...the various crony-millionaires and the towns they favor.

Then the decline and fall.  Once upon a time, Detroit was the jewel of the Midwest.  You arrived in Detroit from somewhere else, you would have a job within a day.  If you had a strong back, it was a great-paying job.  If you had actual skills, like a tool-and-die maker, you were industrial royalty.

And then the decline and then the fall.  Detroit will come back; the soil is too rich for it not to; but first we have to come to the end of our ruin.  The violent (expletives) in there have to be shot down or starved out.

California.  That was more-gradual; it was really marginally affordable, even just after WWII.  But it was doable.  And I remember the 1970s, when San Francisco was a gritty town in decline.  Remember the cop show, "Streets of San Francisco"?  The streets and neighborhoods were dramatic; but income was down, crime was up.  It wasn't until the gay boyos found the town, that it launched up into unaffordable territory.

Denver, and especially Boulder, have gone the same route.  Denver was nothing to write home about.  Frankly, even when I lived there, it was a gritty town...with costs rising.  I liked it for its proximity to national parks, the mountain ranges.

Boulder, was 40 square miles, surrounded by reality.  Now, with legal dope, Leftists' fantasies about Open Borders (the King Sooper shooter was Syrian) and resultant decline in quality of life, I expect Boulder is going to go the way Los Angeles' pocket suburbs have gone.  Straight down.

Missoula is really growing, and its standard of living in decline.  Gang graffiti now.  That was unheard of.  The Leftist Calistan transplants, they just LUUUV them some black skin.  So we gotta get moar and moar, and we're getting to a tipping point.

That, and the insane traffic - very heavy, but dazed, doped-up drivers who can't remember what the green light means when it switches.  MORONS.  Half the speed limit.  Weaving all over the road.  Openly smoking pot while driving.  How do I know?  Vape pens.  And because nobody here smokes cigarettes anymore.  Just pot.  Get stoned and go for a drive.

CdA collapsed once, with the implosion of silver prices.  The next time, in a year or so, it will be when the bubble-stock market implodes, and the Fed, stepping in with the Plunge Protection Team, crashes the dollar with its thousands of trillions of made-up fiat.

I don't think these communities, Lake Tahoe, or Jackson Hole or CdA or Whitefish, are going to survive what's coming.

You should read "The storm before the storm' by Michael Duncan it chronicles the events leading up to the fall of the Roman empire and all the social stratas and groups involved. The parallels to what's happening in America today are pretty shocking. The more things change, the more they stay the same it would seem.

El G wrote:

Casey Jones wrote:

OneDumbBlonde wrote:

Just 5 years back, prices were reasonable here.  Now, though?  I can't afford to park here either.     There is a damn double-wide down the street from me on 5 acres listed for over 800k right now.  Given, I highly doubt it'll sell, but that's what's going on here during all this craziness.  In sane-world that property is barely worth 250k.

Are you familiar with Jackson Hole, WY?  I remember when it wasn't overrun by billionaires.  Now, it's ruined for 'normal' people forever.  I fear that's the direction Cd'A is headed.  

Forever is a long time.  There comes the rise; the corruption; the government funneling wealth from working people to cronies...the various crony-millionaires and the towns they favor.

Then the decline and fall.  Once upon a time, Detroit was the jewel of the Midwest.  You arrived in Detroit from somewhere else, you would have a job within a day.  If you had a strong back, it was a great-paying job.  If you had actual skills, like a tool-and-die maker, you were industrial royalty.

And then the decline and then the fall.  Detroit will come back; the soil is too rich for it not to; but first we have to come to the end of our ruin.  The violent (expletives) in there have to be shot down or starved out.

California.  That was more-gradual; it was really marginally affordable, even just after WWII.  But it was doable.  And I remember the 1970s, when San Francisco was a gritty town in decline.  Remember the cop show, "Streets of San Francisco"?  The streets and neighborhoods were dramatic; but income was down, crime was up.  It wasn't until the gay boyos found the town, that it launched up into unaffordable territory.

Denver, and especially Boulder, have gone the same route.  Denver was nothing to write home about.  Frankly, even when I lived there, it was a gritty town...with costs rising.  I liked it for its proximity to national parks, the mountain ranges.

Boulder, was 40 square miles, surrounded by reality.  Now, with legal dope, Leftists' fantasies about Open Borders (the King Sooper shooter was Syrian) and resultant decline in quality of life, I expect Boulder is going to go the way Los Angeles' pocket suburbs have gone.  Straight down.

Missoula is really growing, and its standard of living in decline.  Gang graffiti now.  That was unheard of.  The Leftist Calistan transplants, they just LUUUV them some black skin.  So we gotta get moar and moar, and we're getting to a tipping point.

That, and the insane traffic - very heavy, but dazed, doped-up drivers who can't remember what the green light means when it switches.  MORONS.  Half the speed limit.  Weaving all over the road.  Openly smoking pot while driving.  How do I know?  Vape pens.  And because nobody here smokes cigarettes anymore.  Just pot.  Get stoned and go for a drive.

CdA collapsed once, with the implosion of silver prices.  The next time, in a year or so, it will be when the bubble-stock market implodes, and the Fed, stepping in with the Plunge Protection Team, crashes the dollar with its thousands of trillions of made-up fiat.

I don't think these communities, Lake Tahoe, or Jackson Hole or CdA or Whitefish, are going to survive what's coming.

 
You should read "The storm before the storm' by Michael Duncan  it chronicles the events leading up to the fall of the Roman empire and all the social stratas and groups involved. The parallels to what's happening in America today are pretty shocking. The more things change, the more they stay the same it would seem.

""he parallels to what's happening in America today are pretty shocking.""

You are drawing a long bow there ALeGy lol

El G wrote:You know yer making me feel inadequate here, right?  

Im sure its not the first time you have experienced it lol