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Affordable And Unaffordable Housing
(WA state required disclosure: I’m a broker at Dalton Realty, Inc. http://whidbeyrealtor.com/). My house’s tax assessment came in today. Yesterday I was part of a group meeting about affordable housing in one of your local tourist towns: Langley. A month … Continue reading
Five Years Later 2016-2021
I missed my cue! Five years and one month ago I wrote a post about what life could be like five years later, September 2021. Let’s have fun tearing apart my own predictions. (Allow me to remind you and me … Continue reading
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Tagged #LearnFromHome, #WorkFromHome, artists, community, commuting, coworks, decentralized, ferry, frugality, Great Recession, Great Resignation, housing, infrastructure, learn from home, personal finance, real estate, remote work, rural distancing, sustainability, tourism, wealth, Whidbey, Whidbey Telecom, work from home
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Charitably Truckless
I felt odd, watching no-longer-my truck be driven away. Today I donated my venerable Chevy pickup to a local charity. Whidbey Island has an impressive organic farm school appropriately named the Organic Farm School. (Fancy, eh? At least it isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Chevrolet, Chevy, community, donations, Jeep, Organic Farm School, organic farming, philanthropy, Pickup, sustainability, Whidbey Island
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Getting Better Slowly
Yay! Good news! Getting the loan on my house means a long string of long-delayed tasks can get done. Ah. What? A loan doesn’t equate to money in my account, which doesn’t translate to immediately paying off lots of bills, … Continue reading
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Tagged community, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, investing, optimism, personal finance, pessimism, stocks, sustainability
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Popular Posts in 2020
Oh, what a year it was. Some of the topics I wrote about where: Politics, a pandemic, wildfires, storms, floods, changes in a social structure (including social media), health care, health insurance, Social Security, tea, writing, science fiction, real estate, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, community, floods, food, frugality, Gig Economy, health care, health insurance, kindness, pandemic, politics, real estate, recovery, rural life, science fiction, shop local, Social Security, storms, sustainability, taxes, tea, wildfires, work from home, writing
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What Did You See
I gave up playing Bridge. Bridge was one of the few card games my family would play as a family, well four of the five of us at a time, of course. We played it as a game. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged community, injustice, personal finance, politics, sustainability
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Challenging A Fundamental Assumption
A common response many have in retrospect; The Soviet Union will live forever. Of course it didn’t. Africa shattered into even more nations after the colonizers left. Naturally. The European Union may no longer be a union. Well, it never … Continue reading
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Tagged Cascadia, coronavirus, personal finance, politics, sustainability, Western States Pact
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Billionaires Taxes And Perspective
A billion dollars is hard to visualize. And that’s a major understatement. Major. Understatement. Yet, billionaires are increasing their influence, increasing their numbers, and accumulating more of the world’s wealth. And then, there are taxes. And a fun idea to … Continue reading
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Tagged billionaire, economy, EvenItUp, finance, income, Income Inequality, Jeff Bezos, Millionaire, sustainability, tax haven, wealth, Wealth Inequality
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Is Whidbey Changing – Spring 2019 – Coupeville
Every place is the same. Every place is different. Supply and demand affect prices. But every place has its supply issues and a demand for that supply. Saturday, May 4th, was the fourth in my series of talks about real … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, community, real estate, sustainability, Whidbey Island
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Is Whidbey Changing – Freeland – Spring 2019
Give a talk three times and every time is different. Why not? Change doesn’t stop. Time and geography change the emphasis and the topics. A few hours ago I finished my third talk about real estate and affordability trends on … Continue reading