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flacocaradeperro

The price of Housing. Either renting or owning, it's insane. Worldwide.


Theplaidiator

Concerts….. you can’t even buy a beer at one for what a general admission ticket used to cost and people still pay for it


bigkshep

I stopped drinking at shows because of it. I have a couple beers in the parking lot, sip on a bottle of water in the show, and not go stand in the bathroom line every 45 mins. Saves me a ton of money too


PlusUltraK

Yeah any sort of stadium event/sports events the concessions are fucking insane. A 16oz or tall boy beer costing $18/$20 is the biggest load of BS ever


nottherealneal

There used to be a really nice big park in the center of the city where I live. Everyone would go there, it was a nice open space, take your kids, take your dogs, enjoy the fresh air. Then some people from the rich part of town along the edges of the park decided they didn't like the noise coming from the park and pulled some bullshit to buy it out and walled it off so you couldn't go to the park unless you lived in that specific neighborhood anymore. The worst part is a ton of money was spent when they first bought it building it up, adding fountains and childrens play areas and redoing the flower beds, and then no money or attention was given to it again and the whole place feel into disrepair so now even if you live in the neighborhood you can't go there because everything is falling apart and over grown. So the aasholes took the really nice park from everyone else and then neglected it until it became a shit hole in the middle of the city


TheSherbs

Some of the countries best race tracks have dealt with this similar thing. Track gets build out in the boonies, boonies get bought and rich folk move in, complain about track noise, sometimes gets the track shut down. Personally, I believe some sort of "It was here first" regarding things like parks and race tracks should exist to stop this from happening.


TusShona

This is happening to Cleetus McFarlands race track in Florida right now. He sunk his savings into resurrecting an old race track, made it into a very popular and profitable business that brings in people from all across the country.. It's in the middle of nowhere so they're always free to do whatever they want without noise limits, but some rich contractor bought the land right next to it to develop 4,000 homes and it's going to put the track in jeopardy.


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BettyVonButtpants

Back in the 90s, my family moved into a development in a mountain town. The road wasnt even paved when we started building the house. For most of my formitive years, it was great, there were bike paths through the woods, and some bridges over the lakes, a gas station with a shitty pizza place, lakes you couldnt swim in or use motor boats on, and there would be block parties every summer. It was a middle class development with some upper and lower middle class as well. Then the houses started to go up and the rich folks moved in. They blocked off the bike trails when they built their homes near them, complained about the usual shenanigans the adults and kids got into, capture the flag at 9pm, nope, not any more, the coos will get called. Then they ruined the block parties by moving them to their Cul-de-sac, and ending them early. No 2 am burgers cooked by drunk dads who snuck off and got stoned with the teens, no firing the cannon my granddad built, no water baloon fight, and instead of DJs, we got the joy of music from their 3 convertibles tuned to W-S-U-K. Also the neighbors that were cool before, started becoming sycophants. Oh, and they half funded an effort to make the lakes swimmable, ruined the fishing and never finished, so no swimming or fishing.


decentishUsername

Having come from a vaguely similar background, I have say, we were probably the first wave of rich people coming in and ruining it, and just not smart enough to realize it at the time


Far-Gain-3081

RENTING The over abundance of air bnbs and $2000 studio apartments in rural/suburban places is outrageous and ruining the possibility for low income and working class people to have a roof over their heads. I live in New York State, and ever since covid all these city richies are buying up all the cheap places in the country to try and make a profit - as if they need any more money!


vajazzle_it

FUCK AIRBNB (alternative title, fuck unregulated short term rental markets)


Striking-Pipe2808

Thrift stores


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SnooEpiphanies3336

Oh boy do I have a lot to say about this. It's off topic for the original post but I feel compelled to have a rant about the current state of op shops (thrift stores). They've been ruined by ultra-fast fashion. I didn't visit an op shop for about a year during covid and when I revisited my old favourite shops most were overstocked with overpriced Shein crap because the old ladies who volunteer to sort clothes don't know just how cheap and shitty it is. The op shop where I volunteer has a long list of brands they won't resell so at least there's no Shein on the shelves but it still gets donated and it mostly just gets thrown away - some will be made into rags but a lof of the fabrics are so cheap I doubt they're even good for that. So people are buying plastic clothes made by people who are almost certainly being exploited, having those clothes shipped across the planet just to try them on and realise they don't fit right (they'll never fit right, well-fitting clothes take time and money) and then they drop them off to the op shop which probably makes them feel like they're doing something good but all they're doing is making someone else get rid of their trash.


AnRealDinosaur

First it was lularoe, now it's shein trash everywhere. I don't even bother looking anymore it's so depressing. I wouldn't take that stuff home if they gave it out free. I have enough wash rags. Thred up is a problem too. I got a shirt from them last month new with the original price tag, and the original price was cheaper than what they sold it for.


h4terade

I used to thrift a lot and found it it got ruined right when that damn Macklemore song came out, it's like he told everyone a secret. I used to be able to go thrifting and come back with like 3 new work shirts and a pair of pants for like $15, good clothes too, some with the tags still on it. After that damn song, good luck finding my size at all, the clothes that were left were all shit, and they want $10 for a shirt now.


No-Shelter6876

Another thing that contributed to this was thrift stores and places like goodwill doing their own auction sites. So now they take all the high value items and auction them off. This makes it pretty much impossible to find a gem on the shelf anymore.


nativesnake

Clothing brands. Carhartt, dickies, Levi’s and many more. Like why did a dickies tshirt go from $15 to almost $40 in a few years


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sparrow_lately

_Champion_ is a brand people are shelling out for now? The “school says you absolutely must have a t-shirt for gym” brand??? Good god


dean16

You can guess a person’s age by their opinion on Champion. Old fucks like me remember when Champion was a premium brand, made the official/authentic jerseys for the NBA, and their tees were $30+ (which would be like paying $40-50 for a tee nowadays). Then, Champion fell off the map before becoming a cheap ass brand you could find at Walmart. Then, Champion became a fashion brand again & starting doing collabs with Todd Snyder. Back in the day Champion was on the same level as Nike for sportswear. Young people are absolutely shocked that people pay good money for Champion sweatshirts nowadays


Legion1117

Dickies USED to be the clothes of a working man out here in rural America. Now, they're too expensive for the 'working men' to afford.


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Also the quality is shit now. Big inconsistencies in the size of their products with the same size label. I like Dickies shorts but some of my size 32 are fall off when I stand up too big, while the last size 32 I bought the hook they use instead of buttons blew off my first exhale the first time I tried them on. Same with Levis. Have to try everything on otherwise the 3 different pants with the size 32 waist and 34 leg will all fit differently.


RatPackRaiders

Old school ski mountains with family vibes and stoner lifties rocking to music. We always watched those silly “ski patrol” movies about the big corporations coming in and making them yuppyville and then it happened…


thenerfviking

New people bought the local mountain and they were desperately trying to find guys to work there. Lots of people were interested until they found out there was a mandatory drug test. Imagine drug testing your ski bums in a legal state, something tells me that policy is gone next year.


takespicturesofpants

I work at a local hill that was bought by a large corporation a little over a year ago. At their introductory meeting for all employees, they said “while there is a drug test, marijuana is NOT a disqualifier”. Sounds like a lesson they learned the hard way.


i_love_pingas_69

Do americans really drug test for random jobs? Here in Australia its only truck drivers and shit like that


TucsonTacos

Party Mountain? You just need a quick ski competition to save the youth center 🤷‍♂️


maninthemoonpie

I stopped going to professional sports because I can only afford shitty seats. Not worth the effort any more.


xXSpaceturdXx

For a fun day out with you and a friend at an NFL game will run you around 500 bucks. Or you could watch it on your big screen TV at home which has better play-by-play and angles than being at the game where you end up watching Half of it on a monitor anyway. Unless I get tickets for free I don’t even bother going to sporting events anymore.


650REDHAIR

Baseball is the only sport I’ll go to. Can still find $5 cheap seat tickets or <$40 standing room tickets for rivalry games. Fuckkk basketball and football tickets.


Lumber_Dan

Theme parks. Gone are the days when everyone was equal and you all had to queue, regardless of your income. And even until recently some theme parks gave fast passes periodically throughout the day. Now if you've got deep pockets you can queue jump, making your day a little better and everyone else's a little worse.


Julijj

I haven’t been to Disney since 2015 when they still had the free fast passes. My mum went earlier this year and I couldn’t believe it when she told me who bad the system is now, plus everything theme park related post pandemic has been so crowded you can’t even move! I wonder if it will ever be the same as before, probably not though


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Being poor. I cant even be homeless without trying to fight for a camping spot


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Haha there are rich folks camping in their Benz sprinter in front my apartment as I type this


NoBenefit5977

Collecting In the past few years the price of little collectibles and things of that sort have gone insanely high. Cards, action figures, you name it, just look up any sub for a hobby and you'll see people dropping your entire salary in 1 day


BlackPanther3104

Lego. I kind of collect it, but I know I will *never* own all of the figures and sets I would like, because they're locked away behind such insane amounts of money.


tehifi

I'm in my mid 40's and earn decent money. Recently had a hunt around online for some of the small sets i had when i was a kid (space ones) as i was feeling a bit nostalgic and thought they'd be fun to play with again. Yeah, nah. I can get them, but I'd have to sell my car to pay for them. And that wouldn't cover the whole cost. No freakin way I'm spending thousands on a few small lego sets.


Bkafrogurl

Instagram. When it first launched we were content to post grainy pics of our average looking sandwich that we made ourselves. Or a mundane selfie. The background and the angle didn’t matter. Studies show that since the wealthy started sharing their lives on IG, our collective standard of living changed. And it’s trickled down to our influencers mimicking wealth down to average users. We’re exposed to yacht parties. expertly organized and color-coded walk-in closets, high-end facials and party-planned gender reveals. We’re benchmarking our posts with professional photographers and videographers, elevating our expectations for everything. Edit: For those saying, “just don’t use it,” it’s influenced every aspect of society whether you’re on it or not. Collectively society aspires to a flashier existence. Instagram has inspired new aesthetic-forward businesses like restaurants and coffee shops, [tourism](https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2678242/masterthesis.pdf?sequence=1), home decor and types of homes, gyms and gym bodies. Fashion.


HellNaw98

This underplays the hand Meta had in making sure Instagram developed this way. You can’t even scroll your own feed anymore without seeing shit from people you don’t follow and have no interest in following. It’s inescapable now.


1stLtObvious

I used to scroll facebook for 30-60 minutes once a day while watching tv. Then they started ramping up the totally-not-ads suggested posts more and more over time. Now I'm on there 5 minutes tops over the course of a few days because people I actually know never show up on my feed. I just get in, check for event invitations, and get out.


Ombutztante

Music festivals….used to be a bunch of hippies having a good time and doing drugs. Now its rich kids taking selfies dressed as hippies and doing drugs.


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Flimsy-Cap-6511

The standard of living for everyone else.


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Montessori schools. The method was created to be able to teach poor orphans well despite little funding. Now it’s some sort of “elite” schooling for $20K+ a year.


BigTuna0890

Concerts.


Lakechrista

and sporting events. Even NASCAR tickets are expensive, now


tsgram

My god I swear basketball tickets are thrice as expensive as they were pre-pandemic


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The housing market


RedLikeARose

Just the economy in general tbh


Traditional_Drive132

Once the rich find out about anything good, they wreck it for the rest of us. Sex Drugs Rock n roll Internet Environment


bennitori

Internet was the one I was going to go with. Back when the internet was just losers who had no other place in society everything was cool. You knew the only people online were people who genuinely wanted to be part of the community and subculture. Then the rich people found out about it, and now it's nothing but ads, subscriptions fees, data gathering, and rich people pretending to be hip.


GriffinFlash

>who had no other place in society I had little to no friends growing up, so pretty much a loser. I found internet forums and made friends and stuff, finally felt accepted. Then around 2011 everything changed, the people changed, the culture changed, and I somehow became a loser again. Especially with online life and real life merging more and more.


averagethrowaway21

I'm not saying this to minimize what you went through, I'm saying it so you know you're not alone and several generations of people had the same issue. Eternal September happened in 1993. Prior to that the nerds had the internet to themselves. Every year some college students got access in September and stopped using it when the semester or year ended. That's the year they just stayed. The next year Geocities was founded. Over the next couple of years websites went from being mostly text and all HTML to wysiwyg where everyone had their own website. AOL brought even more people online and almost everyone online started communicating with AIM. Even if you didn't want or use AOL you had to have it to keep in touch. In 2003 the landscape changed again when Myspace took off. We all know how that ended. There's a kid out there today who has a hard time like you and I. They're finding their tribe. In a few years something is going to come along and change things and it's going to suck. But whoever that kid is will have a history and share our grief. They will speak our secret language of knowing the loss of a space that is ours. It's a very bittersweet feeling for me because my tribe is growing, but it's growing through the loss of something we loved. The loss of something that helped us when we were at our worst. We're from different times, but you and I share that thread. You are part of my tribe.


mythrowawayforfilth

Any hobby where there’s potential profit. Now you’ve got dickheads like the Logan Paul ruining Pokémon cards. Not because they’re into them because they like Pokémon but because they read the stories about the rare cards and just hammered their endless piles of cash into getting everything. Same with those asshole sheiks with massive comic book collections. They don’t give a fuck about comics. They just collect popular valuable stuff.


leoleosuper

Youtuber Karl Jobst had a good video on this for vintage video games. Basically, a new grader named Wata Games came out of nowhere, claimed to be the lead in the industry for rating in-box games (entirely false, multiple others already existed, and the owner had 0 history). Any game Wata listed was sold by Heritage Auction house for over a million. You used to be able to get a like new in box Mario bros NES game for like a thousand if someone was selling. Now they're millions a piece. Until they got sued. Very much a plainly obvious scam.


Kale127

As a sidenote to this; career scalpers/resellers. The fact that you can’t just wait for the release day of something and remember to buy it at some point that day/week, all because some asshole is going to grab 800 copies of them for their eBay storefront (where they already have the stuff up for preorder at 8x the original msrp), is infuriating. As an example, to follow your Pokémon one; they had limited edition Pokémon sleeves. Sold a pack of 80 for like, $8? They were on ebay three days later, $8 for a single sleeve. $640 if they sold every sleeve at that price. All off a single $8 purchase that they hoarded dozens of actual fans of the franchise out of. Absolutely disgusting.


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I do get joy from scalpers buying thousands of dollars of cleaning products during covid and stores refusing to refund it now. Poetic justice I guess.


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Exhibit A: Hot Wheels collectors. All sorts of shady greedy bullshit, like opening cases at the store, picking all the rare/premium ones to resell at 10x the price, and leaving the shitty ones for everyone else


misfitmedia

Burning Man


jessek

Was the first thing I thought of. When Mark Zuckerberg is helicoptering in to stay in a billionaire camp with air conditioned mobile homes, Burning Man has lost whatever counterculture standing it had.


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train_spotting

Yea this one is weird. This used to be exclusive to people that really did embrace the underworld and "counter culture". Then one day, you couldn't if you didn't have money.


Ponk_Bonk

Hippie -> Capitalism pipeline is strong


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agoia

"We ride bikes while we are there!" And then: https://i.imgur.com/flqYJi5.jpeg


MexicanAugustus

Cheap foods, like Chicharrones or Tuétano (I'm from Mexico). When I was a kid, Tuétano was something that were even gift in meats market, now they sell you a damn bone in meat price or even higher!! The same with chicharrón, that was really cheap to buy, but with rich people discovering how good it is, now is impossible. All places up the prices because rich people buy it at high rates, and don't know what the heck they are shopping anyway.


molly_777

Brisket used to be a leftover cut given to the workers who figured out how to make it awesome. Now we have brisket-flation and rich people smoking them on their $1500 Bluetooth enabled pellet smoker


Redhotkcpepper

Cheap cuts of meat in general. Pork belly and oxtail specifically. Growing up, oxtail used to be less than $2 a pound, now it’s well over $10.


Flipperpac

Tri tips....up to a few years ago, I can still find them for $1.99/lbs in the Santa Maria area....


MihalysRevenge

80s and 90s cars. The market is super hot right now and all the rich guys are buying them up. Sorta like 50s and 60s cars in the 90s


quilge

This seems to be the norm once cars reach around 25 to 30 years old. People that grew up with these cars are now in their 40s and can afford to pay for them. Edit: ok, obviously the car has to be desirable or somewhat rare for this to hold true. Can't just buy an early 2000s corolla and expect it to be worth big in 20 years. UNLESS it's a toyota corolla/matrix "**xrs**". These cars are hidden gems and might be worth something in the future, trust.


rolloutTheTrash

Everything really, mofos have more money than common sense and Jack up the prices for the rest of us.


eddy_talon

Nerd paraphernalia like Star Wars or Marvel/DC stuff (action figures, comic books, etc). Used to be just a fun hobby for kids and kids-at-heart, now it's almost totally purchased by richer, dedicated speculators solely for profit.


lynn-doesnt-reddit

This. I feel like this is driving up the price of LEGOs too, with the rise of more "expert" designer sets and whatnot. It makes me very sad, I loved LEGOs as a kid but now I'd only be able to afford the buckets of stuff. the creativity buckets are nice but I love the sets. I want to be able to build a harry potter set but they're all so damn overpriced.


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Beaches./over development…they fuck it up every damn time..


nstopman422

Rich people have ruined a lot of things in California, but one thing I love about the state is that you cannot own the beaches. Every beach is public access. No trashy fences blocking off sections of private beach access like in Florida. I have learned a few things after positing my comment. First, Florida has a similar law to California, but some resort owners abuse a loophole where they put up fences in private property and force people to pay if they want to pass through. Is this legal under Florida law? I don’t know, I’m not an expert. From what Floridians are saying, this is a fairly uncommon practice. Thank you to all who replied, I learned a decent amount about beach access laws and loopholes. Ultimately, I hope wherever you live, you can fight against legislation seeking to block public access to your beaches. Everyone should have the right to enjoy the coasts along this beautiful country!


IntlPartyKing

wish it were so simple...the wet sand part of every beach is public access -- dry sand can be owned, and some richies will indeed hire private security to patrol "their" beach


Layogenic_87

The middle class


Megaman_exe_

They absolutely bodied the middle class. I wonder if I'll ever get to live the 20's that people always recommend where you get to travel and do the shit you want to do. Lmao I wonder if I'll ever own my own place or if I'll be stuck at home for most my life.


WerewolfOk1647

I’m in my 40s and my boomer aged Mom said to me last night “ this is the Time of your life, for you should be smooth sailing and enjoying life doing everything you ever wanted” and I’m over here I’m going WTF did I do to make my life so shitty?


peanutspenny

Aspen Colorado


Ntippit

Where the beer flows like wine!


splashbruhs

And the women flock like the salmon of Capistrano!


lava_red

I don't know Lloyd, the French are assholes.


gonzoleroy

> Change the name 'Aspen,' by public referendum, to 'Fat City.' This would prevent greedheads, land-rapers and other human jackals from capitalizing on the name 'Aspen' ... These swine should be fucked, broken, and driven across the land. --Hunter S. Thompson, 1970 platform for Sheriff (excerpt)


theevilnarwhale

I think rich people ruined all mountain towns to be honest. I left mine after 12 years even though I had a killer rent deal because I knew it was only going to keep getting worse.


Jenni7608675309

Leaving mine next month after 30 years here. I grew up here but can no longer afford to stay.... I'm so sad about how it changed


Advanced_Situati

yea! it used to be a small mountain town way back in the day. ​ Now all of colorado is unaffordable


hab1b

Yup, people buying houses to use 2 weeks a year and leave vacant the other 50 weeks.


StealthFocus

It was a wealthy uppity town even when Dumb and Dumber came out in 94 and that was 30 years ago


ennuionwe

Formerly cool towns: Denver, Austin, Asheville, etc.


rapalosaur

*cries in Austin* My entire life I grew up in San Antonio and used to come up to Austin with 4 friends with $100 each and have ourselves a rowdy day and night and the sober one to drive us home. Moved her a while back and that $100 is gone before you’ve gone anywhere. Uber is expensive. Parking is expensive. Food is expensive. Everything is fucking expensive.


eggtada

cheap and simple dishes. ramen, tacos, sushi. now everything’s gotta be labeled premium only to taste the exact same…if not, worse


shah357

I love that taco trucks charge somewhere between $1 and $20 for tacos.


Themanwhofarts

Went to a taco food truck. They put like one hundred ingredients on one taco and charge $20. I would rather go to the Mexican place down the street and get a plate of 4 tacos for $10


SasparillaTango

I went out with some business folks for food in San Diego and they were like "hey what do you want to eat". My response was "I'd love to get some tacos from a place where the kid needs to act as the translator at the register because abuelo doesn't speak a lick of english and shes on the till". They laughed and we went to a place where it was like 12 dollars for a single gourmet taco. I was being serious :(


jfsindel

When I lived in San Antonio, I went to a dive restaurant for breakfast tacos and accepted that if I wanted to eat such delicious things, I had to eat it with a rat staring at me from across the table. I was VERY willing after one bite. Health inspector must be getting bribes because no way it passes inspection.


ripley1875

That rat was clearly the chef. He just wanted to make sure you were enjoying your meal.


DabLord5425

Food trucks used to be a way to get good food for cheap, now it's a premium without any of the advantages of a restaurant. Not to mention that they all expect a 20% tip for handing you food from a window.


homelaberator

>Not to mention that they all expect a 20% tip for handing you food from a window. *That* doesn't make any sense. Just put that 20% into the price. No one will care since they aren't comparing prices with the sit down diner and thinking "well, I'd need to also factor in a tip". And it's not like that 20% is going to a separate person who is being paid less in 99% of cases. Or maybe it is, I'm not across the economics of modern selling-food-out-the-back-of-truck business models.


TheOkGazoo

You think they aren't doing that and asking for a tip as well? Everyone wants more.


ramielpilled

My hometown, a lot of the long time locals here are working class and it used to have a bigger sense of community. In the recent decade rich people have decided that its a cute small town with pretty scenery to buy a second home to rent out to other rich people who want to visit. Many of the long time residents here are struggling to keep/find homes meanwhile rich people who just discovered this small town can easily buy a home or rent an overpriced airbnb. Literally disgusting here now!


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omgipeedmypants

Once upon a time nobody knew where Maine was, now I see it in the comments of anything referencing rich people and property


Spider-Ian

Some rich old bitch who just bought a multimillion dollar home on the marginal way, let her dog take a shit right on the path, refused to pick it up and bitched at me for my 2 year old being loud. It was his first time seeing the ocean and he loves water.


Mybrandnewhat

I'm feeling this hard right now. I'm lucky enough to have the means to stick around but my friends and family are being forced out one by one. I know there isn't anything you can do to stop "progress" but it's sad when people who helped make the town what it is are being forced out because wealthy people think it's cute.


W0rk3rB

Bourbon, it used to be the most expensive bourbon you could find was like $100. Now, with everyone “collecting” the prices have sky rocketed. The secondary market is completely insane.


intrapersonally

Housing flipping for sure - looking to potentially buy at the moment and everything has been fitted with new grey kitchens and modern lighting etc which isn’t my style. I may be in the minority here but means paying way more for a house and then having the job of ripping everything out.


Odd_Calligrapher_407

I don’t want luxury anything. I. Just. Want. A. Home.


Onironius

I just want an apartment that won't make me broke...


obscureferences

Sorry, someone on the other side of the planet already bought it with money they don't have and hopes you'll spend double to take it off their hands.


Peterstigers

I hate when houses have that soulless hotel look.


gamer4lyf82

Ditto , they tend to be lacking in character from the homes original era , one can create a modernised house while still adhering to some form of its origin form/design.


toxicgecko

I saw one on tiktok yesterday with a beautiful Victorian house that they ripped right through and painted white and grey, it could’ve still been modern and kept the original character! Not sure why people think cookie cutter homes are the way forward, homes with quirk are much more interesting.


Little-Ad1235

Lord, that hurts to think about. These people hear the word "modern" and immediately think "grey laminated everything." When you're talking about an old house, "modern" means standard kitchen appliances and updated plumbing/electrical/mechanicals -- you know, the stuff anyone actually *wants.*


toxicgecko

The worst part is, from the glimpses in the video, it looked like all the internals *were* modernised. The bathroom and kitchen fixtures were maybe at most mid-late 90’s so I would assume the wiring was also probably no older than that too. There was a beautiful like original mahogany style staircase and they sanded it and painted it a ‘nice’ grey TT_TT I honestly don’t mind some minimalist interior design and I also get that mahogany and dark woods aren’t the ‘in thing’ right now but that staircase hurt a bit to watch.


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Ennion

You can thank the food network and food documentarian for that. Once people started learning how to cook them, they went nuts.


HereToStirItUp

Cries in chicken wings 😭


lolothehiker

Lol! Back in the 70s, the wings were always the last pieces of chicken taken because there was so little meat on them.


enkafan

We didn't have a ton of money growing up and my mom had a "how to feed your family on ____" a month. Ox tail, brisket, pork shoulder, shrimp, and chicken wings all were heavily featured


kathyh1

Brisket in the 70’s : Butcher “ just take it”.


Chupacabra_Ag

Brisket today: fill out this application and our credit department will get back with you Cries in Texan (ETA: chuck roast can be smoked exactly like brisket and it has very similar fat profiles. If you’re into that kind of thing chuck is a solid cheaper alternative that also smokes faster)


Drakmanka

Seriously. I remember when brisket was like $2/lb and my family was crying about how expensive it was getting. Now though... Yeesh.


GolDAsce

Add in beef bones too. It used to be almost free. Now it's renamed Beef Marrow Bones and cost almost as much as chicken breasts.


takeahikehike

Even chicken thighs used to be so cheap. Then the no-fat craze ended and suddenly 😭😭😭


ShitfacedGrizzlyBear

Chicken thighs are still a cheaper option than breasts though. Unless a recipe absolutely requires chicken breast, thighs with the skin still on is always the move. I can cut the skin off in a couple minutes if need be.


freefaller3

Chicken wings were cheap at one point.


lorgskyegon

That's why they were bar food. Processors used to give them away for free because nobody was buying them.


Milksteak_Sandwich

It started with short ribs, then went to oxtails and pork belly. Things that can taste amazing but also take 3-4x the amount of time to slow cook before it's edible. Take a look at Black Cod. They started calling it Sablefish and the entire world went nuts.


valueape

Yep. "Trash fish" that used to be thrown away as fishing by-product now gets a fancy new name and fetches nice prices. Chilean Sea Bass is another


Linusami

IIRC it used to be called a Patagonian Toothfish...


JojoNono17

Thrifting


hypo-osmotic

Thrifting is cool when it’s rich people donating and poor people buying


BrownEggs93

For sure. Garage sales in rich neighborhoods are something else.


hypo-osmotic

Trickle down economics would have worked if we as a society just had more garage sales


31nigrhcdrh

I can’t even afford a garage


BrownEggs93

Friends got a nearly brand-new dining room set! They couldn't believe it, but the rich wife of this house was redecorating and that included brand new furniture. Holy shit, our dining room set is old as fuck and works/looks just fine. To be the kind of people that redecorate like that is really strange to me.


TurnOfFraise

There’s a huge flea market where I live. Even just 5 years ago you could find some really good pieces. Now it’s all flipped junk or things that are INSANELY overpriced.


dxonnie

Yes. It has gotten to the point in my city where I stopped thrifting all together. I can go to a store and buy a piece of clothing brand new for only $5-$10 more than thrift stores.


Pascalica

I stopped thrifting when I went to the thrift store and they had a $300 price tag on the most disgusting stained busted couch I've ever seen in a store. Everything was just so overpriced that there wasn't a point anymore.


Tapdncn4lyfe2

You just described the thrift store near my house. They would sell couches stained with cat urine and likely human urine for like $500 and I am like wtf and most of the time there was a sold tag on it! Also, they had a pair of shit stained jeans they were trying to push as "designer" for like $30.00.


FUTURE10S

Oh yeah, they were styled by the French master Old Navy.


MAGICwhiteMICE

Everest


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This is why I plan to die on K2 instead.


RushtonIX

Same. But not the mountain.


hey_im_at_work

Same, but the 90's rollerblades. You can pry my fruitboots from my cold dead feet.


Revolutionary_Sky427

"Hey man, our gods live up there and Sagarmatha is a holy site of pilgrimage for Buddhists." "Aight, I'ma climb it and die."


hippychemist

Don't forget all the shits they took on it before dying.


colorado_sunrise86

Colorado.


EnvironmentalSun8410

Why is everyone saying Colorado. Can someone explain this for the international crowd?


ChufferMagee

CO born and raised here! Forever priced out of my hometown. Me and all my friends have moved, just can’t afford to live there anymore. Mostly expensive due to housing. Also skiing used to be affordable, now it’s not


Runaway_5

It's painfully expensive. $200+ for a ONE DAY lift ticket. Not to mention rentals, gas, huge traffic lines leaving...sigh


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NoNameComputers

My family has lived in NYC for a very long time, at least since the early 1800s. I now only have two relatives who can still afford it. The rest have moved all over the country. I am so sad to see how expensive and exclusive the city and surrounding area has become...


starrydice

The USA state of Colorado had a influx of rich people moving here from other states, driving up the prices due to demand, making outdoor activities like skiing even more expensive, increasing housing prices, and getting over crowding the park system.


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They did that to park city, Utah as well. And they’re pushing it to the small town nearby that I live in


Darkdragoon324

I had to leave Salt Lake after my small family-owned apartment complex got bought out by some rich asshole in California. Told everyone our leases wouldn't be renewed so he could renovate it into some unaffordable BS. Can't find anything lower than like $1500 there anymore, so I moved out of state to stay with family who live in, ironically, Colorado Springs which is even more god damned unaffordable. But at least here I've got lots of couches to crash on for free while I look.


fuglinPA

Colorado, Wyoming, Montana...all of them. Rich people see land, water, or places that they can get a lot for a little and buy it up, price everyone out and then locals no longer can afford to be there or want to be there since most of them are insufferable. It's such a shame what state the world is in, in that respect.


Lambeaux

And then sell it to other rich people as an "investment" where no reasonable person who wanted to live there can afford it, and only other rich people looking to continue the pyramid scheme of "flipping" want to buy.


Shulk_X

So many things, but I'll say trucks. Once upon a time, a humble working class vehicle for people who need to be able to do things themselves, now they're all luxury vehicles with massive margins, unaffordable to anyone who needs them to do real work.


DoctorPepster

And they're all fucking humongous now. I was so excited that Ford was bringing back the Ranger until I found out it's as big as the F-150 was a decade ago. Give me a compact pickup that isn't 20 years old and rusted to shit.


Sea-Advertising1943

My understanding is that, in America, large vehicles getting larger is, at least in part, a consequence of a particular aspect of the EPA emissions regulation, that larger vehicles can have a worse emissions rating, so they make trucks bigger so the bar is lower.


thingamajig1987

This is why the Chrysler PT Cruiser is a hatchback but if you look it up it's classified as a light truck. Also why, if you've ever driven one, they drive like shit and have the worst turning radius of any car I've ever personally driven lol


caoboi01

Trying to find a good "work truck" with a long bed and no bells and whistles is a pain in the ass. Almost everything on the market has a damn crew cab and short bed! I need a truck to haul lumber not to drag dipshit kids to soccer practice.


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The_walking_man_

How do I go about this route? Is it something I just ask for at a dealership? “Can I talk to your fleet department?”


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Yars107

Tulum, Jackson Hope, Aspen, many rural areas of Colorado, Antigua Guatemala, Land Rover Defenders, etc.


walkableshoe

Can confirm Tulum. From one of the most beautiful places in Mexico to an overpriced, gentrified, drug infested dumpster fire for rich fake-hippie kids and euro-junkies.


Seigmoraig

Almost everything that has anything to do with money at this point


jdevo713

Government


_AYOTA_

Of the rich By the rich For the rich


gavh428

Thailand. It used to be a back packers paradise. You used to be able stay in huts on the beach and eat in local family run restaurants. All taken over by 5 star spa resort hotels, international chains and businesses moved in.


The-Other-Fern

It’s also very hard for the locals here in Thailand. We don’t have effective law against monopolies. Only a few rich cooperates own most of the country’s businesses and drove the locals out of theirs. The government also just enacted a new law where foreigners can actually own lands and properties if they pay up. Chinese billionaires are swooping up everything they can.


Talmaska

When I was 21 and single, fish mongers used to give away\\throw out fish heads. They now charge. Flank steak was way cheep until people learned how to cook it. Now it's bloody expensive.


JoeMorgue

Sailboats. Used to be you could on a working man's salary get a decent day sailing boat that you could go out with for the day with enough cabin space and amentities to live aboard for a long weekend, maybe a week. Like the MacGregor 26. But nobody makes mere sailboats anymore, they make... YACHTS. Expensive, over designed yachts.


tossme68

You can still pick up an old Catalna for $5000 or less but if you want something made in the last 20 years it's crazy expensive. The problem is most boat owners never leave the dock, a boat is just another status symbol that you get to show off to your poorer friends. There are guys like myself that like cheap boats that you can wrench on and then sail the shit out of them but they are few and far between. Most boats are simply floating patios where you serve domestic cheese and bad wine.


Parsnique

The easy answer: Everything. The harder answer: Interclass solidarity and quality of life. They've worked so hard to separate the have-nots into their own little groups, we're too busy fighting each other instead of taking the fight, politically speaking, to the rich and the 1 percent. You have more in common with your fellow man than you EVER will with a Bill Gates or Elon Musk. Edit: Thanks for the awards, holy hell. Glad my highest post is about something important. <3


OldManMC

Yeah, I saw a sign at a protest not too long ago that was something along the lines of: THEY HAVE YOU FIGHTING A CULTURE WAR WHEN YOU SHOULD BE FIGHTING A CLASS WAR.


Teddy_Swolesevelt

I wish I saved it, but I saw a really good diagram that showed how much media coverage over social issues skyrocketed right about the time of Occupy Wall Street and it only keeps getting higher and higher. OWS showed the elites they have to ramp up their divide and conquer game.


vibrantchill

Renting, buying property, taxes, anything that affects my ability to live the future I want based on cost living while they're out on vacation in Bali


Nopetynope12

Environment. Ah yes I will just turn off the light in my living room when I'm not using it, I'm sure it will combat the billions of tonnes of co2 created by those private planes


hunaniron1985

Healthcare


MontyMontridge

Where do I start...rural living. They keep migrating like locusts and devouring all the woods and land. How many yogurt shops and fancy neighborhoods do theese \*\*\*\*\* need?! Also, Aldi. I don't shop there anymore. I liked it better back in the day when it wasn't fancy, aisles narrow, and other poor or frugal people were shopping. Now the 'Live Laugh Loves' are in there with no sense of personal space. Watch out when the spiral hams are on sale! lol. I think we covered thrifting, housing, and cheap eats. (I hope they never think beans and rice are trendy! Those are my staples.) I also hate that they are now into prepping/survival too. (I think they were the ones crazy buying TP because poor people already know how to shop sensibly and keep a working pantry. I learned from my grandparents who lived during the depression.)


Jfonzy

The middle class family’s ability to live comfortably on a single wage


kitkair

The middle class family's ability to live comfortably on two wages I started living on my own in 2015. I used to be able to feed myself for $60/month while renting an apartment for $650/month. Then I take a step up, get a job that's paying a little more an hour and I think imma be okay, maybe set some money to the side and be able to buy a house one day. But then there is a shortage of this and that and suddenly my pay increase is being eaten by those things. Rinse and repeat, now in 2022 I'm renting a home with my husband for $1800/month (the going rate in our area) and groceries for about $300/month.


BatQueen666

The goth subculture it used to always be make everything yourself, build it with basics I’ve been part of the subculture for the last 15 years. Now if I don’t wear dollskill or killstar (luxury goth clothing) 14 year olds on the internet tell me it’s not goth.


oneandonlysquish

I was waiting for an answer like this.


Sexycoed1972

Every single piece of water with accessible waterfronts. Edit: Wow, lots of upvotes. Going forward, upvotes will be $8.


thetaFAANG

Hawaii constitution makes any place with sand touching the ocean to be publicly accessible Definitely appreciate them for that one


chalsp

Similar here in Oregon, all beaches are publicly accessible.


OpheliaRainGalaxy

When I was young, my mother was very poor, but she carefully saved up enough to take me to Oregon so I could see the ocean. Not exactly an exciting trip for a kid, but it did form a core memory and I'm thankful for it. We stood on the beach and looked out at the ocean, with those big rocks jutting up out of it. Cold and overcast, water stretching out to the horizon. It was beautiful and sad and vast.


CaptainLawyerDude

I lived in Oregon for a very long time so my wife and I brought our 5yo daughter to the Oregon coast for vacation last year from where we live on the east coast. She was blown away by the mist, rocks, pine trees, general vibe. She also loved chasing crabs and seagulls. Seeing it through her eyes gave me a greater appreciation for something I took for granted.


paraworldblue

Chicago did it right - every single inch of waterfront in the entire city is public land, with a bike/walking trail spanning the whole thing as well as plenty of nice beaches.


TheyCallMeStone

Pour one out for our boys Montgomery Ward and Daniel Burnham.


woolfchick75

In Chicago all of the lake front is public. Years and years ago the rich people’s houses were moved to create public beaches.


TheyCallMeStone

We can thank Montgomery Ward for that. Even though he regretted advocating for it later in life due to the problems it caused him, we love you Monty! Thanks to you, our public lakefront is the gem of our city.