Unless you are a creator, you don't understand. We get so much hate, even death threats.
I does take a special kind of person to be able to ignore this onslaught literally daily. This is why so many Youtube creater have to either quit or they take a break for "mental wellbeing".
The death threats are strange to me, I could almost understand it (not excuse it) if the content were highly controversial, but for technical stuff? That's just crazy. Must be a lot of mentally unwell people out there in the world and it only takes a few.
Unless you are a creator, you don't understand. We get so much hate, even death threats.
Unless you are a creator, you don't understand. We get so much hate, even death threats.
I does take a special kind of person to be able to ignore this onslaught literally daily. This is why so many Youtube creater have to either quit or they take a break for "mental wellbeing".
The death threats are strange to me, I could almost understand it (not excuse it) if the content were highly controversial, but for technical stuff? That's just crazy. Must be a lot of mentally unwell people out there in the world and it only takes a few.
You have to have thick skin on the internet.
Of course there are crazies out there and I also suspect that any IRL threats that Dave receives are not for the technical part of his content.
Didn't like the opinions about his fav multimeter?
It strikes me as ludicrous how can someone fear "abuse" with comments on a platform.
Unless you are a creator, you don't understand. We get so much hate, even death threats.
I does take a special kind of person to be able to ignore this onslaught literally daily. This is why so many Youtube creater have to either quit or they take a break for "mental wellbeing".
Well the problem is that the cheapest home you can buy anywhere in the south of England for instance would be around £200,000. That is, in terms of a house that you could live in. It would not be big and would probably be in a rough area, but it's a place to live.
To buy that you would need a min. downpayment of £10,000 (if you have excellent credit score to get a 95% mortgage) plus around another £5,000 for solicitors and other costs. So say £15k plus you really should have an emergency fund on top of that. And you need an income of at least £44k at the maximum loan to salary ratio of 4.5x, but most banks like 4x, so assume £50k (~$60k).
So the 'cheap' house now requires a salary almost twice as high as the median income in this country (~£33k). A job a lot of people cannot expect to achieve as it requires skills they don't have and probably never will. The ironic thing is, the mortgage over 30 years would probably cost about the same as the rent, but it's not available without meeting the downpayment or loan to salary calculations. You can add cash to the purchase of the house, which is how a lot of people on lower incomes buy homes (usually inherited or given to them by parents) but if you're not lucky enough to have that, tough.
People get trapped renting. It's very easy to end up in this situation. I'm sure similar calculations apply for the US. Just think about an example $20/hour worker and think what kind of home they could buy on that wage, even if they were very frugal. OK, engineers on top salaries are doing fine but a society is going to struggle when some of the most essential workers are struggling to pay the rent and have nowhere to call home.
Sorry - I realise there has been much conversation on the thread since this post but 100% agree, for various reasons looking for a basic 2/3 bed property in the Midlands and £200k is right on the mark, nothing cheaper unless you want a renovation project and you're on the nail with necessary financial resources and salary - which is just out of reach of anyone without a dual income. The UK property market is nearly as nuts as US healthcare (apologies to US posters, but, guys, you know I'm right on that one )
Sorry - I realise there has been much conversation on the thread since this post but 100% agree, for various reasons looking for a basic 2/3 bed property in the Midlands and £200k is right on the mark, nothing cheaper unless you want a renovation project and you're on the nail with necessary financial resources and salary - which is just out of reach of anyone without a dual income. The UK property market is nearly as nuts as US healthcare (apologies to US posters, but, guys, you know I'm right on that one )
The US is a very different market, there are literally unlimited very affordable places available, even within Fran's state of Pennsylvania, and even within downtown Philly itself. You just have to be willing to live there. I've posted links to many such property listings.
Fran has said in the past that she can afford to buy a property instead of rent, the problem is that she can't get a loan. And of course, the big elephant in the room, she refuses to consider anywhere apart from certain sections of downtown philly.
Was watching "house hunters" last night for the Mrs and a couple bought a very nice double story house for $140k on a river near a beach. We remarked that there is not a single house in all of Australia for that price, at least not anything decent. America is filled with so many large cities and towns that places like this are in abundance. Hard to move if you have kids and/or tied to a job etc, but if you don't have such issues then there is an abundance of choice.
I'm not quite sure. Recently I went to the US and visited some family members in the process. Their home was crazy expensive even for Dutch standards while it was somewhere in the mountains and not exactly in the city center. The problem with the US is that everything is much further apart as well. Walking a few blocks in a suburb means walking along large plots of land and crossing insanely wide streets that add to the distance considerably. I really had to adjust the scaling of the maps in my mind; what is a short walk in a typical European city, is twice as far where I was in the US. IOW: I think the cheap places are cheap because anywhere you want/need to go takes a lot of time to travel.
I'm not quite sure. Recently I went to the US and visited some family members in the process. Their home was crazy expensive even for Dutch standards while it was somewhere in the mountains and not exactly in the city center. The problem with the US is that everything is much further apart as well. Walking a few blocks in a suburb means walking along large plots of land and crossing insanely wide streets that add to the distance considerably. I really had to adjust the scaling of the maps in my mind; what is a short walk in a typical European city, is twice as far where I was in the US. IOW: I think the cheap places are cheap because anywhere you want/need to go takes a lot of time to travel.
Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone so I buy a lot of my food in bulk from Costco, frozen stuff that keeps a long time. I mostly only go to the grocery store for vegetables and dairy, maybe once a week or so and usually on my way home from going somewhere else. If I want to visit a friend I need to get in my car anyway, I don't know anybody that lives closer than a few miles from me, it can be faster go go 15 miles away on the highway than 3 miles through town and highway driving is usually less stressful. I can walk to shops downtown but in practice I rarely do except to exercise. I don't want to carry home bags of groceries or whatever. I don't really buy very much in general and have little use for local shops. If there was an electronics hobby store or surplus shop nearby I would go to that but there isn't.
Graphtreon put some recommended channel down the bottom of the page, Physics Girl was one, wow, what a boost! Went from 1k to 12k Patron in a matter of weeks.
Just checked, and this is the video, she's in a bad way
I'm not quite sure. Recently I went to the US and visited some family members in the process. Their home was crazy expensive even for Dutch standards while it was somewhere in the mountains and not exactly in the city center. The problem with the US is that everything is much further apart as well. Walking a few blocks in a suburb means walking along large plots of land and crossing insanely wide streets that add to the distance considerably. I really had to adjust the scaling of the maps in my mind; what is a short walk in a typical European city, is twice as far where I was in the US. IOW: I think the cheap places are cheap because anywhere you want/need to go takes a lot of time to travel.Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone so I buy a lot of my food in bulk from Costco, frozen stuff that keeps a long time. I mostly only go to the grocery store for vegetables and dairy, maybe once a week or so and usually on my way home from going somewhere else. If I want to visit a friend I need to get in my car anyway, I don't know anybody that lives closer than a few miles from me, it can be faster go go 15 miles away on the highway than 3 miles through town and highway driving is usually less stressful. I can walk to shops downtown but in practice I rarely do except to exercise. I don't want to carry home bags of groceries or whatever. I don't really buy very much in general and have little use for local shops. If there was an electronics hobby store or surplus shop nearby I would go to that but there isn't.
she refuses to consider anywhere apart from certain sections of downtown philly.
Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone ... <snip>.
Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone ... <snip>.That is because you do not have a wife, she would want concerts, art and cat shows, a park nearby, perhaps a good restaurant and all that. As mine said, if a women does not have a female friend to talk to, she will get sick.
Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone ... <snip>.That is because you do not have a wife, she would want concerts, art and cat shows, a park nearby, perhaps a good restaurant and all that. As mine said, if a women does not have a female friend to talk to, she will get sick.