General Discussion

I'm going to make more than six figures this year probably for the first time in my life.. But I certainly don't feel well off. I bought a house this past year because I couldn't wait anymore.. I have a daughter that is 3 now and going to be getting into school soon. I wanted her to have a nice big backyard to play in and a nice school in a nice area to go to. I ended up paying 226k for a house that sold for 149k in 2018. Really felt like I got taken to the cleaners. And my mortgage is insane too because I didn't put a whole lot down but I still got approved because my credit score is 800. I'm making it but I have to work a lot of hours to make it happen. I really felt like I was better off pre-pandemic when I made 75 to 80k a year vs the probably around 110k that im going to make this year. Just felt like my money went further. I think at the end of the Harris campaign she did a good job of explaning how she was going to help the economy. But it was too little too late at that point and most people had already made up their mind. The original mistake that cost us a lot of votes was around the time of the end of Biden's candidacy before Harris took over. When they were telling everyone that things were great basically and made people feel like something was wrong with them if they didn't agree. That was a wrong strategy to go with imo.