The Eternal Thread: 2016 is dead! Long live 2017!

[Lady Scylla]

http://i.imgur.com/BZi8WBy.mp4

Raccoons are terrifying.

Well.... they're terrifying because they have no conception of time beyond the current and knowing that someone's dumping food just above them, but never actually being able to reach the person doing so to kill them for hiding so much of the goodies from them.

Raccoons are legit terrifying. I had an amazing camping experience with them when I was younger. They don't care if you're there -- they will waltz up, take your loaf of bread from the table and run off.

[Sungai Pusat]

But it is considered a low price where I live.

Money is different for everyone.

Here, housing to buy can be $250K up. To rent is usually $800 in the projects, and around $1-1.5K in the nicer parts of town.

Projects? Like public housing?
We just got our first public housing building where I live, like ten apartments beside an old middle school.

Well, it's just public housing here/HDB because 90% of us live in it and it's nicer than the average "projects" in the US.

It's 800 sq feet... that doesn't help.

Again, that's what you get by being an international city tbf; NYC, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo; all of those places are marked right now by a similar process of gentrification. At this rate, all the local shops will start closing down here in Singapore and up will be hipster-y junctions that probably can't fucking afford the prices themselves.

At least we're not Hong Kong; fucking PRADA has to close a store there, apparently, because the rents are so atypically high.

Jesus... I've never been anywhere with more than a million people so like this is alot of culture shock for me.

Ah, I think that explains it... sort of.

I mean, it's not really meant to be any sort of ill will towards those people and places (The comment about the gentrification happening here); it's more that I'm sort of invested in the local stuff and apparently a LOT of that doesn't make any money because it's both too expensive and the expectation is that it's to be eaten because it's cheap, not "It's to be eaten because I like eating it"

Hell, I carry that expectation myself and I was raised on really Western stuff in general before, albeit with plenty of local flourishes, so fucking glasshouses.



Also, fucking stupid fucking shti fuck internet connection cut off as I was posting this, so I lost it; THANKFULLY I realised what was coming and copied the message over, like I didn't the first time around.

[Sungai Pusat]

Well.... they're terrifying because they have no conception of time beyond the current and knowing that someone's dumping food just above them, but never actually being able to reach the person doing so to kill them for hiding so much of the goodies from them.

Raccoons are legit terrifying. I had an amazing camping experience with them when I was younger. They don't care if you're there -- they will waltz up, take your loaf of bread from the table and run off.

Monkeys too.

Raccoons don't have a monopoly on being terrifying with human-fed food, though I suppose they have a local monopoly regardless.

[Gallade]

Eh, I mean $5 where I live is not very cheap at least in the eyes of people who live here.

But it is considered a low price where I live.

Aye, I think they're 11€ now back in Ireland for a pack of 20. I'd scoff at the price now if I didn't use to smoke, but they raise the price so slowly I don't think it's a good deterrent when you're hooked. 20 cent increments per year isn't that high a shift. Throw a frog in a pot of boiling water etc etc.

[Sungai Pusat]

But it is considered a low price where I live.

Aye, I think they're 11€ now back in Ireland for a pack of 20. I'd scoff at the price now if I didn't use to smoke, but they raise the price so slowly I don't think it's a good deterrent when you're hooked. 20 cent increments per year isn't that high a shift. Throw a frog in a pot of boiling water etc etc.

To be fair, the frog doesn't stay put.

Though to be fair, maybe the rate of boiling is too slow, who knows?

[Hurdergaryp]

http://i.imgur.com/BZi8WBy.mp4

Raccoons are terrifying.

They just want to live under your house, grabbing all the morsels you happen to drop on your porch.

[Crato]

Bzzzzzzzt
ACCORDING TO ALL KNOWN LAWS OF AVIATION,
THERE IS NO WAY A BEE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FL-zZzzZzZZzZzZz pop

[FelrikTheDeleted]

Happy New Years!

[Lady Scylla]

Here, housing to buy can be $250K up. To rent is usually $800 in the projects, and around $1-1.5K in the nicer parts of town.

Projects? Like public housing?
We just got our first public housing building where I live, like ten apartments beside an old middle school.

Ehh. It means more of the poor, crime-ridden, and run-down side of town. I live in the middle of the projects in my city -- two meth-lab busts (one across the street at the neighbours), gangs, et cetera. I've seen everything from police, to US Marshals, to DHS, and the FBI here. Lovely neighbourhood, you should visit.

People here often live together though. Our neighbour's house has four families living in it, as an example. They all split the rent and voila.

[Lady Scylla]

http://i.imgur.com/BZi8WBy.mp4

Raccoons are terrifying.

They just want to live under your house, grabbing all the morsels you happen to drop on your porch.

If I saw that under my porch, I'd never come outside again.

[Sungai Pusat]

Funny how countries both considered generally developed can have varying GDP per capita...

[Sungai Pusat]

Bzzzzzzzt
ACCORDING TO ALL KNOWN LAWS OF AVIATION,
THERE IS NO WAY A BEE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FL-zZzzZzZZzZzZz pop

The bee doesn't care, etc etc etc bee fucks human lawsuit Larry King the end.

[Gallade]

Funny how countries both considered generally developed can have varying GDP per capita...

You have to factor in cost of living.

[Hurdergaryp]

Well.... they're terrifying because they have no conception of time beyond the current and knowing that someone's dumping food just above them, but never actually being able to reach the person doing so to kill them for hiding so much of the goodies from them.

Raccoons are legit terrifying. I had an amazing camping experience with them when I was younger. They don't care if you're there -- they will waltz up, take your loaf of bread from the table and run off.

That's how raccoons roll. Once you're in their neighbourhood, your food is theirs.

[Gurori]

Funny how countries both considered generally developed can have varying GDP per capita...

You have to factor in cost of living.

Funny how your name is Gallade but your nation has nothing to do with the Pokémon.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Japanese pancakes look so frigging good and fluffy.

[Gallade]

You have to factor in cost of living.

Funny how your name is Gallade but your nation has nothing to do with the Pokémon.

You have to factor in people not being all that into pokemon.

[Gurori]

Funny how your name is Gallade but your nation has nothing to do with the Pokémon.

You have to factor in people not being all that into pokemon.

I know, it's a strange coincidence that I've always pondered about.

[Hetalia Dakota 2 II]

Funny how your name is Gallade but your nation has nothing to do with the Pokémon.

You have to factor in people not being all that into pokemon.

You monster.
I'm sure you've heard that with your name before though, I appologize

[Sungai Pusat]

Funny how countries both considered generally developed can have varying GDP per capita...

You have to factor in cost of living.

I think that still varies quite heavily amongst generally considered developed countries: The Netherlands and New Zealand are still about 10k apart in the regard of GDP PPP per capita.

[Lady Scylla]

You have to factor in people not being all that into pokemon.

I know, it's a strange coincidence that I've always pondered about.

I thought it seemed familiar, but didn't think anything of it. Then again, I've not done anything with pokemon since I was a kid.

[Hurdergaryp]

Funny how your name is Gallade but your nation has nothing to do with the Pokémon.

You have to factor in people not being all that into pokemon.

Which is not a factor at all in the Pokémon thread, come to think of it.

[Gallade]

You have to factor in cost of living.

I think that still varies quite heavily amongst generally considered developed countries: The Netherlands and New Zealand are still about 10k apart in the regard of GDP PPP per capita.

You should try ordering a beer in Amsterdam, that'll explain it.

[Gallade]

You have to factor in people not being all that into pokemon.

Which is not a factor at all in the Pokémon thread, come to think of it.

Oh, I embraced Pokémon Go with a great fervour, and I'm getting Pokémon Moon soon. I was young once, shockingly! o/

I have played Red, Crystal, Yellow, Emerald and X. Found out about the pokemon Gallade long after the fact.

[Sungai Pusat]

I think that still varies quite heavily amongst generally considered developed countries: The Netherlands and New Zealand are still about 10k apart in the regard of GDP PPP per capita.

You should try ordering a beer in Amsterdam, that'll explain it.

Well, I can definitely look up what the average cost of a beer is online, so hah!

On that note, a beer costs less in Singapore, yet out GDP per capita is more I believe.

But yeah, I do get what you mean by the cost of living and the like; a lot of things seem to become more expensive when the economy does well. Sometimes a paradoxical thing, like how the more housing become affordable in a desirable place, the more expensive it can eventually become.