My family definitely got the short end of most of these factors in the midwest.
* Very few high paying companies in the area and they were less likely to move due to owning.
* They made about 3.3k/year in appreciation for 20 years. That's on the order of a 13 hour per month side gig.
* Any gains definitely erased by the amount of labor they put into things such as mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, having the washing machine hose disconnect and leak water down into the basement. All of these little things added up to many man hours across.
You're doubting what? That there are people doing this?
It's not hard on a bay area L4+ salary to have a spare 40-50k several times a year (20% of a 200-250k property), especially if you are snowballing with profits from multiple other properties.
The problem isn't isolated though. We're at the point where people living in tech hubs are buying houses in Ohio every couple of months, simply because they can.
(owning) housing also isn't necessarily cheap relative to the jobs available in these areas.
I'll go ahead and fire off a recommendation to find a muay thai gym that has dedicated conditioning classes and some cool people. I wish I would have discovered it 10 years earlier when I started running cross country.
Running, for me, was the Runescape of sports. Very grindy, with very little room for me to use my mind.
If we're going to start counting 2nd and 3rd degree connections, why not count people that are home playing video games on a Microsoft console instead of driving somewhere?
The laws are coming faster in some places than others and the presence of rentals is actually bad in terms of keeping attention on scooters down.
I figured I'd have 1-2 good summers in my current city before the laws caught up. So far they've only kicked us out of the main walking street, which sucks since it's actually perfect for scooters, but whatever. This is one of those moments where I wish I felt like a partner to government rather than a subject.
I haven't been hassled or seen someone hassled for sidewalk riding. I make sure to treat pedestrians like Gods though and opt to get off and walk my scooter before causing chaos, confusion, or even the optics of impatience.
Look at the full lineup offered by Dualtron, if you'd like top of the line.
I chose the Dualtron Spider, as it was made to be only 44lb while able to go 38mph, do wheelies, has full suspension for the skate park and so on.
If you are willing to deal with more weight, there are other Dualtron options that are probably built a bit better (44lb was a hard limit for legality in Singapore), but the spider is still an amazing machine.
Browsing the electric scooters subreddit is also useful. They link out to this sheet:
The nuisance -> regulation flow is precisely why I became an early adopter and dropped ~$2500 on a fast one .
I wanted to have my fun before the hordes ruin it. If everyone had a scooter that could go over 35mph, it would be chaos.
To those that enjoy hooligan style fun, the time to get an electric scooter is now, before the laws catch up to the reality and make e-kick scooters just another point a to b experience. That said, have the hooligan fun in a way that doesn't accelerate the adoption of laws.
It's a cop out for the sales team to point and say "we made the sale, we're itemizing the value as ours when the whole possibility of the sale is made by the team.
This is why I like an RSU component as an engineer. If our value goes up, I expect to see some of it.
If there is no equity upside, engineers should stop working for bankers.
Net displacement doesn't matter. Convenience and features do.
We have to fully admit that, all else equal, being responsible for the security and maintenance of a scooter is worse than offloading that to Lime/Lyft/Bird.
The only reason I bought a scooter is because I wanted to go over 30mph with suspension (i.e. new features). I use mine for joyriding and secure it in my apartment.
While I agree the car theft is different, let's not pretend losing your window and several goods (potentially linked to your livelihood) is simple to deal with.
* Very few high paying companies in the area and they were less likely to move due to owning.
* They made about 3.3k/year in appreciation for 20 years. That's on the order of a 13 hour per month side gig.
* Any gains definitely erased by the amount of labor they put into things such as mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, having the washing machine hose disconnect and leak water down into the basement. All of these little things added up to many man hours across.