• ivanafterall@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Trump’s based in Florida, Bezos is going there. If we can convince Musk to move there, we can just saw Florida off and let it drift off to sea.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can’t blame him, I moved to Miami proper about 2.5 weeks ago and I absolutely love it. It’s a million times better than Manhattan/NYC that I lived in for 5 years.

    Edit: Everyone always focuses purely on politics, which isn’t everything. DeSantis is a fucking moron, but South Florida is largely liberal. Half the people I meet down here are from New York, New Jersey or Philly. My friend’s friend came down from Manhattan to Orlando with us back in August after not being here for 20 years, the first thing she said after stepping out of the airport and getting on the highway was “Wow, it’s so beautiful here!” and then later when we went shopping “Wow, everything is so cheap!”. We’ve all lulled ourselves into thinking that living in NYC is great and nothing can beat it, when in reality the quality of life sucks for a lot of people unless you’re well off.

    Saying “NYC is great because there is a lot of things to do” is the same as saying “Florida sucks because it’s hot and DeSantis is the governor” is ignoring a lot of things.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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    1 year ago

    He spent 75 million for the house next to one he already owned. He’s worth $156 billion.

    Let’s say you have 100k in the bank. The equivalent purchase for you would be something costing roughly $50. He bought a mansion worth more than I’ll ever see for proportionally less than what I would spend on an AAA video game.

    Oh and it’ll either hold value or appreciate, so he will likely just make more money on it. Or at the very least pay relatively a lot less once he decides to sell.

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    1 year ago

    For the cost of his one property just purchased, I could establish free good healthcare, education, housing and food * for myself, my kid and my entire country for generations.

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