How bad is your economy?

[OddBeMe]

Not stats from your fave political site. Your personal economy. Your area.

Maybe I'm just not seeing the hellscape i keep hearing about.

[MisterWack]

No Hellscape Here On My End.

A few stores increased prices though not overall, you can go to a different town and the prices will be low on the same product with more variety so not an issue whatsoever. I’ve seen people driving Tesla Cybertrucks so….. Clearly people are getting by just fine.

[Anonymous]

many businesses in my area closed down including the job I worked at

haven't been the restaurants, movies, arcade, parties, nightclubs for a while

unsubscribed from all my major entertainment like Netflix, NBA season tickets

shower time has been cut in half, only flushing the toilet whenever I take a shit

any money I make that's not being used is immediately put into stocks

[OddBeMe]

I’m sorry for that. I hope it gets better. Are you able to move?

[Anonymous]

I love in california. It's pretty bad. We have all these socialist policies and politicians yet there are so many on the street, ordinary people can't afford to live, property taxes are through the roof, wages are low, taxes are high. It's a state for those with money, my boyfriend and I are moving to texas next year.

[OddBeMe]

I live in Texas and its laissez faire economy produced 10x the poverty. there's seems like a middle ground…

[Opinion Owner]

So why is everyone I know leaving for texas, nevada, colarado etc? California is losing people while texas is gaining.

[OddBeMe]

Because it’s good for people not in poverty.

[Opinion Owner]

No. Everyone is in poverty. It's not good for anyone. California is only for those with money.

[OddBeMe]

It may feel like that but there are actual poverty levels.

[Opinion Owner]

No it's actually true.

[douride2]

Its pretty close to being in the crapper here.

[goaded]

The price of my favourite crisps (potato chips) went up a lot, but only to the old price of the brand names. Fuel's been up and down, seemingly at random. Oil prices are way down from 2022, though. Things are more expensive, but prices have pretty much stopped changing.

[888theGreat]

Trump is killing Louisville area /Kentucky. Farmers losing their asses with crops. Soybean sales way down. Bourbon companies are freezing workers and not making bourbon because Canada won;t buy it or sell it over Tariffs. Louisville Slugger getting smashed because Tariffs with Canada. Higher feed prices for cattle and Hogs. Also Kentucky getting slammed by health care costs as Trump taking Medicaid away and also Snap. No way Kentucky will vote Red in November. Trump also attacking Rand Paul and Thomas Massie which are popular in Kentucky. I am near Louisville and I see no Help Wanted signs anywhere here. Food prices continue up.

[Levin]

Pretty shit. House prices have gone up about 50% in the last 3 years.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah right? Oh that’s bad for you.

[Anonymous]

Joe Biden is doing a good job fixing up Trump's mess and it's looking good. Hopefully, he doesn't come back to ruin it again.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah I think it’s easier to campaign on a shit economy but despite some issues, it’s not bad.

[Opinion Owner]

It's bad because Trump cut taxes without thinking about how he's going to pay for everything he cut. So the inflation went because of his dumb ass. Joe Biden step into office and the economy starting going to shit and that is because of what Trump did.

[Opinion Owner]

It's no way Joe Biden will ruin the economy in 2 months. It's the same as how Donald Trump didn't improve the economy Obama had to deal with George Bushes Iraq war and him ruining the economy. The 2008 financial collapse was bad, but Obama helped fix it. Trump was in a good economy because of Obama's hard work.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah. I do think historians will place hundreds of thousands of Covid deaths by ignoring the issue.

[Alexandrubaschet08]

In UK where i imigrate in 2018 GRATE!
In Romania before and even in visits CATASLISMICAL! (some basic stuffs can be even 3x or 6x time more expensive) Houses, food and bills are to much for the national average people salary.

[OddBeMe]

Dam immigrants! Lol

[Alexandrubaschet08]

No problem comrades, we can go back to our wagons, we don't die of hunger there (we do some tricks to survive).
But find Americans or Englishmen who will work your fields and drive the cars and wash the toilets and who will operate for you in hospitals and who will be willing to work extra.
If you don't have a place to work because of us and we are the cause of your unemployment, please fire us. Let's see if you have that much work force. UK I see that it doesn't have, slowly but surely the Titanic is sinking.

[Levin]

Most people don't have an in issue with 'controlled' immigration. Then it was decided by the powers that be that Western countries would be effectively suicided. In the UK 700k net migration which is just insane. Mass immigration is the issue. Not immigration.

[Alexandrubaschet08]

@Levin there is no problem at all, the administration is shit, there is not a properly service to help you get your right job in the right place.
If all the jobs will had been ocupied then UK or any other country can declare, there are no more jobs and the imigration will slowly turn in to migration.
Migration and imigration is a natural proces in the development of humanity, had alwase hapened and will forever hapen, can't be controled if we/you don't turn in to N. Korea

[msc545]

it is ok but restaurant and home prices are ridiculous.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah I’m tempted to sell but we’d have to buy another house. So wtf? Lol

[msc545]

you can always move to some shithole flyover state like Iowa or West Virginia where is the median home price is < 200 K.

[OddBeMe]

I would rather die than live in shit…shopping at Walmart…. being…proletariat!

[msc545]

exactly.

[genericname85]

it's so bad, that within a span of 4 years, prices in the store have effectively more than doubled. meanwhile the wages have maybe gone up by 10% or so.

[OddBeMe]

Funny how your personal economy corresponds to presidential terms.

[genericname85]

i think the corona time and the ukraine conflict are the more likely coincidence to alter the prices.

[OddBeMe]

Because…they were directly exasperated by Trump?

[genericname85]

you mean by biden. trump was explicitly against the corona measures which were taken anyway. the usa is a democracy, not a dictatorship by the way.

[genericname85]

isn't it funny how putin only starts war with ukraine, when democrats are in power? last time with obama, now with biden?

[OddBeMe]

And that made Covid even worse. Literally Australia and other countries had safe live events after Covid measures.

[genericname85]

he tried to not have covid measures. he wasn't the one who decided that.

[genericname85]

dude in australia they even had "camps" that the infected were sent to there was really no place worse than that. you really don't know what you're talking about.

[OddBeMe]

Sigh... camps for potentially infected on an island. It ain't kids in cages. You guys just dont get this

[exitseven]

After 4 years of Bidenomics my retirement account is finally back where it was when President Trump was in office. The problem is that the million dollars I had is only worth 750,000 today.

[Sevenpointfive]

you ever see that one toilet flush backwards in australia? that's north carolina. that's the economy too

[Juxtapose]

What was previously $5 is now $13. The economy is pretty shit.

[OddBeMe]

Talk to subway.

[Juxtapose]

Food & energy prices have skyrocketed. Inflation is absurd.

[OddBeMe]

Inflation is lower that 3% thanks to Biden’s Fed policies. can't imagine what Trump woulda done. Put tariffs on Canada?
www.ft.com/.../db05703d-13ca-4304-b1b3-f101ca538ea5

[Juxtapose]

The government numbers on inflation are bullshit because they don't count energy or food.

[Juxtapose]

And you mean 3% lower compared to last year's increase which is still incredibly high and still incredibly unhealthy? You know they changed how they calculate inflation so it looks better for them, right?

[NathanDavis]

I'm fortunate enough

[Anonymous]

Great, which usually means pretty fucked for everyone else

[Anonymous]

The country I live in has one of the worst economies in the world. I can't wait to move away and never return.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

In degrowth, but choosen lol

[Agape93]

Pretty good