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Old Canadian Guy
Squier Talker
Agreed. Nothing to appreciably thwart me from my NGD or GAS.
Robbmonster
Squier-holic
Here in Australia we overpay for everything. $15 for 4 lamb chops, average house price over $1million in my city, and if you think the price of fuel is high in the US...
For starters, we have a GST, which automatically adds 15% to the price of most things. Other tariffs, import duties, so on I'm not aware of, but yeah, everything here is just expensive. Has been for a while, but getting steadily worse.
58Bassman
Squier Talker
They, what shouldn't be mentioned, have made buying and selling personal items taxable, including yard and estate sales. The State/local sales tax was paid when it was new and they want us to pay again, but now a Federal tax has been created. Wisconsin has said that privately sold items are taxable for a long time, but nobody pays it. I looked for Lamb Chops on two websites for local stores and neither has them in stock. That's odd, for this time of year. The price seems similar to what we would pay.
65refinyellow
Squier-holic
SONIC SERIES!
I hear you, Australia.
Houses in my whole county (Monterey County California) near ocean are quickly reaching 1 million USD for cheapest possible beach or near beach (3 miles) house. Rents are similarly atrocious.
Things like Squier affinity strikes my fancy because the locals here have to cut back on everything. Small boutique grocery and hardware stores are disappearing and giving way to cheaper big box stores as an increasing amount of paycheck goes to simply owning and renting here.
I never seriously looked at cheaper gear in the past but in recent years that’s all I do.
Luckily cheaper gear is better than cheaper gear a couple of decades ago.
The small town, small store dynamic for the few who can afford it has given way to pricey organic markets, hardware stores carrying European woodworking tools, and small music stores carrying Fender custom shop gear but those types of establishments leave local born folks buying Costco food, Sears Craftsman tools, and Epiphone and Squiers for playing and recording.
One outlet for working musicians has been Sweetwater and Reverb and I HOPE SONIC SERIES COMES TO OUR COUNTRY!
I hear you, Australia.
Houses in my whole county (Monterey County California) near ocean are quickly reaching 1 million USD for cheapest possible beach or near beach (3 miles) house. Rents are similarly atrocious.
Things like Squier affinity strikes my fancy because the locals here have to cut back on everything. Small boutique grocery and hardware stores are disappearing and giving way to cheaper big box stores as an increasing amount of paycheck goes to simply owning and renting here.
I never seriously looked at cheaper gear in the past but in recent years that’s all I do.
Luckily cheaper gear is better than cheaper gear a couple of decades ago.
The small town, small store dynamic for the few who can afford it has given way to pricey organic markets, hardware stores carrying European woodworking tools, and small music stores carrying Fender custom shop gear but those types of establishments leave local born folks buying Costco food, Sears Craftsman tools, and Epiphone and Squiers for playing and recording.
One outlet for working musicians has been Sweetwater and Reverb and I HOPE SONIC SERIES COMES TO OUR COUNTRY!
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58Bassman
Squier Talker
Are you sure about that?
Some goods are brought into the US at artificially low prices, mostly from China. Because Congress is gutless, the cost to bring in goods isn't jacked up too much because higher prices will kill demand.
People want low prices and that has killed B&M stores in the US. Also, the pay doesn't attract good sales people- aside from Beast Buy, there's a small number of mid-fi dealers, Big Box stores and custom integrators, who generally don't have a showroom. Some do, but they tend to be higher end dealers who also install or part of a larger company that allows them to operate at a slightly lower margin, but they still need to make a profit. I worked for a small independent dealer when it was still fun to do, then went to a larger independent before heading to a Wisconsin-based big box company. All three eventually failed, but the second one was bought by a furniture/appliance company and they're still operating.
I know the feeling bro, Hawai'i is in the top 3 most expensive state in the country in almost any category ye may wanna consider.
"Affordable" housing is pegged at around 600-750k$US (like I can afford even THAT) and the median price for an average house is at or higher than 1 million USD. Rent costs more than paying monthly on yer house purchase, but the available housing for rent OR purchase is so limited that demand is FAR greater than supply.
Gas prices is above 5$/gallon. Altho, tis my understanding that our gas prices is lower than much of the world due to the USA being a domestic gas refiner AND a domestic crude producer, even tho we import much of the crude we DO use, much of the crude we produce goes into the national stockpiles. From there, the government releases those stockpile as needed to keep domestic prices low and have a standing supply JIC something happens to our imports.
DougMen
Squier-Axpert
If I didn't own my place, with no mortgage, I'd be homeless, or living in Kalihi with 12 roommates. These tiny 300 sq. ft. one room studios rent for $1400 a month, more than my SS check, which is my only income. And, they sell for close to $300k! The one good thing we have is that we have the lowest property taxes in the country.
Robbmonster
Squier-holic
Without meaning to hijack this thread, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me in many parts if the USA, the cost to OWN a house is proportionately much cheaper than renting?
Here - even though there is a rental shortage and prices are high - renting is still a fair way cheaper than trying to buy using a mortgage.
Here - even though there is a rental shortage and prices are high - renting is still a fair way cheaper than trying to buy using a mortgage.
DougMen
Squier-Axpert
In places that have low cost homes for sale the cost of rent is also low. The problem in those places is often availability of decent paying jobs, or often any available jobs. There's often other disadvantages too.
The main thing to remember is that in Hawai'i there's only so much land on an island that's available for buildings, much of the interior of the islands (in the upper slopes of the mountains) are protected watershed land to safeguard our water supply.
Ergo, there's only so many housing available. When demand is FAR greater than supply, prices goes up. Another thing to consider is that we have a high percentage of transient population, people who lives in Hawai'i for a short term; travelling business people, military, travelling nurse and doctors, and tourists. This put a much higher demand for rentals, especially for short to medium term rentals. There's far many more landlords who specialize in just medium to short term rentals (daily or weekly) because they're much more profitable than a long term rental (monthly or longer) when ye compare them on a price per day basis.
Ergo, there's only so many housing available. When demand is FAR greater than supply, prices goes up. Another thing to consider is that we have a high percentage of transient population, people who lives in Hawai'i for a short term; travelling business people, military, travelling nurse and doctors, and tourists. This put a much higher demand for rentals, especially for short to medium term rentals. There's far many more landlords who specialize in just medium to short term rentals (daily or weekly) because they're much more profitable than a long term rental (monthly or longer) when ye compare them on a price per day basis.
