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[Hilltop366]

All seem to have one thing in common, they have no clue to provide for "one's self" when everything has been service provided to them for as long as they can remember.  They think there is garbage service at the curb, roads cleared of snow, tree services to remove those pesky downed trees across the road, etc. etc.    

The modern day Mr. Haney hears opportunity knocking. 

[KEC]

The people who move out to the (former) "country" talk like they are doing us a favor by pushing up home values. My home is my place to live, less so an investment. When home values rise, so rises the tax asessmant. Then they want the school to spend megabucks and we have to pay higher school taxes to pay for it. I have been told that our school district is reputed to have a great special education program. People who are fairly well off move to this school district to get their handicapped child in this school. The per child cost to the school is very high for handicapped children. A few years ago they wanted to build a big sports stadium, complete with astroturf at the high school. I better shut up.

[moodnacreek]

All the above happened here years ago. Where those houses are now we used to cut hay. This development would stop and start back in the 60's. It got a little crazy in the 80's but would still stall. After the attacks they bought homes sight unseen/ not built yet. This areas is about finished, hard to believe I once ran hounds. To drive a tractor on the road is dangerous. We are 60 mi. north of nyc.   Now they are going to the Catskill mountains. They well vote a new school built and when it drops dead [ the economy ] they move away. The last recession they abandoned there golf club. I got a kick out of that, bunch of quitters. I better stop to.

[PJS]

From my little corner of the world, hay prices are absurd - seen kijiji ads for $10cad for a small square - $100cad for a 4x5 round (I'm not paying that much lol) , was talking with a friend who said cull ewes are the highest he's ever seen. 

Work at a steel service centre, hot rolled structural - angles channels tubes etc - we buy from the North American mills and sell to manufacturers - hydro transformers, hydro line hardware, caterpillar parts, Deere parts, Raymond reach, sky jacks, just to name a few. 

Boss told me last week that price of tubes is up $51cad/ton since September 2020, over a dollar per pound! The flat rolled mills can't get steel, so the tube mills can't make steel, therefore they have no stock and have orders booked out 3-6months in advance so the price is only going to keep going up for the foreseeable future. So expect the price of everything to double in the next 6-8 months.

 I figure once the mills start putting inventory in stock the crash will happen faster than it's gone up. But it's hard to say with the billions and trillions of dollars every government has injected into the system. 

[Nebraska]

 


Just for kicks.
Price of a 2x4x8 local box store I was in this evening.  I should've taken a picture of the picked over pile of junk that was in the bin for sale. Wife and I added a big addition on to our house in 09/10. I bought a lift of 1/2 in osb sheeting for around $ 8.00 and studs were $ 1.88.

[Walnut Beast]

Looks like Menards 😂

[Walnut Beast]

These prices are insane 

[SwampDonkey]

Won't get it from me, especially since the local mill is stuffed with wood. We always overproduce up here anyway, way more than we can use because it's an export market for them. The local mill isn't even interested in selling direct to the local consumer anymore. They used to do local delivery out of the mill. Not anymore, you gotta go through the middle man. Modernization. :

I did hear in the news a couple weeks ago that 6 workers got COVID at a mill. They worked in a separate area from others. But still, one thinks in their mind they must mingle with others at some point on their breaks. Never heard a word since. I know for awhile after Christmas that the restrictions were elevated for a few weeks, but has since been less so. We've never had huge numbers of infections at any time here in NB. I mean the total active cases here has never reached new cases that were reported in one day in any US state or provinces west of here. I like to keep NB as rural as possible, but we are seeing some folks filter in here. We won't see a monsoon of folks though. Some day most of those folks will wake up and see what they left behind including that job. :D How long are they going to be allowed to work out in no man's land where the spot their house is, is 100 miles from anything that comes close to being a city, and a darn small one at that. Someone is going to be called into work some day, and their ain't no plane service in this region at the moment unless it's charter. No via passenger rail service and a broken bus service that ain't coming to your door step, but to a small gas station 10 to 30 miles away. And your internet sux to. :D

[moodnacreek]

The less conveniences people have, the nicer they are.

[Skip]

Boy, ain't that the truth ! :( 

The less conveniences people have, the nicer they are.

[SwampDonkey]

The less conveniences people have, the nicer they are.

For certain. But don't try to cross us. :D :D