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ColourofFire said:
From the pictures I've seen it looks mostly like the types that beat the shit out of each other after football games looking for good fight. While it is the direct cause of the government's all over the place reaction to covid, I think attaching any sort of meaning or purpose to these riots would be giving them too much credit. Basically morons being morons. The far deeper problem is these types of morons having been there forever and nobody ever doing much about what causes it, holding them responsible for their actions or doing anything about their rather bleak perspective in life. It looked like mostly 20 to 35 year olds that especially with the covid situation lasting for a year now have very little to give a shit about. Basically the "voting cattle" that goes to work in a job they don't give a shit about 5 days a week, drink with mates on Friday and Saturday and go to the football on Sunday. The parties that delude them with law and order bullshit rhetoric have been in power for 15 years now, so they've been voting them in power over and over, while said parties have steadily created a society where only corporate life has benefited, these people's prospects have slowly gotten bleaker and the only parties that give a shit about their well being have had no chance to do anything cause they use words and concepts too difficult for them to understand and completely failed to explain the increasingly complex situation of the world around them. They don't trust authority because authority hasn't done anything good for them in ages and has only been making them jump through more and more hoops when they happened to lose their jobs.

All in all, sad sacks of shit being sad sacks of shit that aren't being helped and don't help themselves because they're too thick to figure out that you can find some sense of purpose in life yourself. Put a bunch of them together after a year like this and the result is predictable. It's pretty grim all around, but I can't say I'm very surprised about it.
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that's a pretty accurate description. Pretty much exactly what my friend said. I know these people have existed for a long time, but I have not lived in Holland for over 20 years, so my knowledge is not so up to date :embarrassed:
 
ColourofFire said:
Had a phone meeting with a bank today about a mortgage :embarrassed: Never thought I'd be doing adult shit like this in my life ever.
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Weird how now and again you catch yourself adulting isn't it? :grin: I still feel like I'm 18.

I've been meaning to move money around and get ours paid off since last January :facepalm:
 
jbj said:
Weird how now and again you catch yourself adulting isn't it? :grin: I still feel like I'm 18.

I've been meaning to move money around and get ours paid off since last January :facepalm:
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With the both of us being artists with irregular income it was never an option. Now we're getting fed up with the small shit in our apartment that we'd fix if we'd own the place. My GF got an inheritance from both her grandma's that we don't want to let rot away in taxes and daily bullshit expenses and both our parents are in a position to support us and surprisingly 2020 was a financially pretty good year for us, so it's basically a "now or never".

I'm still quite shocked by the notion, but it's going to be very nice to not yeet 900 euro's rent into the abyss every month anymore.
 
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Yeah if nothing else, knowing that massive chunk of cash going out each month is toward an asset you'll eventually own as opposed to buying said asset for someone else is pretty nice.
 
Speaking of massive chunks of cash going out for vaguely adult related things - I've just spent £250 on a new hot tub cover because my current one has taken a few too many Prosecco corks to the bow and is falling to bits. :mad:
 
We went to look at an apartment around the corner on Saturday. We mainly gave it a shot because it's close anyway. It's a place from the 50's and the original inhabitant lived their since, so it needs quite a lot of maintenance/renovation. But we kind of fell in love with it. It's gonna be quite some work, but then we can make the place "ours" instead of living in someone else's overdesigned stuff.

So now we're figuring out all the financial stuff so we can make an offer...
 
ColourofFire said:
We went to look at an apartment around the corner on Saturday. We mainly gave it a shot because it's close anyway. It's a place from the 50's and the original inhabitant lived their since, so it needs quite a lot of maintenance/renovation. But we kind of fell in love with it. It's gonna be quite some work, but then we can make the place "ours" instead of living in someone else's overdesigned stuff.

So now we're figuring out all the financial stuff so we can make an offer...
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Good on you man.

We've got loads of great older properties around here and I always loved the idea of staying in one until I started getting home reports - damp, roofs, electrical would always crop up and the idea that it could be anything from £100 for a new fuse box to £20-30k + for a new roof or damp proofing was a deal breaker. Obvious point as well if it's an apartment - make sure the other flats aren't occupied by arseholes.

We ended up going with a "nearly" new build, 10ish years old so no snagged to worry about and no major issues to consider for the time being - I can't be arsed with the mess and upheaval work like that brings (stares at staircase I've been demolishing and rebuilding for the past month :embarrassed: )

My best pal bought a house that was similar to yours, hadn't been touched from the 70s at all, even decor wise so he got it cheap and sunk a lot of money into it, turned it into a great house that, as you say, is his.


BTW hi monsoon :embarrassed:
 
jbj said:
Good on you man.

We've got loads of great older properties around here and I always loved the idea of staying in one until I started getting home reports - damp, roofs, electrical would always crop up and the idea that it could be anything from £100 for a new fuse box to £20-30k + for a new roof or damp proofing was a deal breaker. Obvious point as well if it's an apartment - make sure the other flats aren't occupied by arseholes.

We ended up going with a "nearly" new build, 10ish years old so no snagged to worry about and no major issues to consider for the time being - I can't be arsed with the mess and upheaval work like that brings (stares at staircase I've been demolishing and rebuilding for the past month :embarrassed: )

My best pal bought a house that was similar to yours, hadn't been touched from the 70s at all, even decor wise so he got it cheap and sunk a lot of money into it, turned it into a great house that, as you say, is his.


BTW hi monsoon :embarrassed:
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I'd never want a proper house house. Apartments are fine and dandy with me. The fuse box was replaced a few years ago (that was one of my main concerns). Other than that, our neighbourhood is mostly old people and some young families, and this is Finland, so unless you win the arsehole-lottery, even the arseholes are not very loud. And houses from before the mid-60's here are built like fucking bunkers. The building we live in now is one street down and pretty much the same era and style, never had any trouble, nor caused any, even when being loud. We were looking at some cool buildings from the 30's as well (they have some awesome art-deco apartment buildings from that era here), but everyone there renovated their apartment in this nordic minimal style. And people below 50 here don't cook properly, so all the kitchens are fancy as fuck but tiny and with only 2 spots on the stove :facepalm: I'd rather slowly change someone's 50's crap (some of which is actually awesome, the original kitchen cupboards need some love, but they're cool as fuck), than pay more for something I like less and wouldn't really change because it's too new.
 
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Well here's hoping you get it mate and don't stress if you don't, there's tonnes of good houses out there.
 
jbj said:
Well here's hoping you get it mate and don't stress if you don't, there's tonnes of good houses out there.
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Yeah, something else will definitely come around if we don't get this. I'd be a bit miffed for half a day and then move on :)
 
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