@fiago7 You should look up Newport Rhode Island or a high end beach town like spring lake NJ. If Atlantic City is crime and filth, these are the exact opposite utopias
my brother in law bought a brand new range rover last year. put it on finance, payments are like $1,200 a month
he makes decent money but not range rover money, everyone in the family knows this but nobody says it
my sister mentioned once they’d had to dip into savings a couple times recently for regular bills
last month he showed up to my parents house talking about how he’s “building wealth” and gave my younger cousin a whole speech about investing and financial discipline
i had to leave the room
bc this is the thing nobody talks about
there’s a whole generation of people who are completely underwater privately but absolutely immaculate publicly
the car is leased or financed to the limit. the vacations are on credit. the apartment is half the paycheck. the watch is a payment plan
but the instagram is pristine and the advice at family dinners is confident and the younger cousins are taking notes
and the ones who are actually quiet about money, saving consistently, not buying things they can’t afford, they look like they’re behind bc they don’t have the car
we’ve completely flipped what wealth actually looks like
and now an entire generation is going broke trying to look like someone who’s also going broke
i just think someone needed to say it out loud
I just spent 2 incredible weeks in Italy and it is so frustrating to come back to the U.S…
How is it possible @RobertKennedyJr that the Italian food supply is so vastly superior.
I literally ate bread at every meal, dessert multiple times per day, and generally ate way more than I do in the U.S.
Not once did I have acid reflux. Not one headache, no digestive problems, and I didn’t gain any weight.
If I ate the same way in the U.S. (I used to at times) I would have gone through a full bottle of Tums and Advil just to get through the day…
WHY does the U.S. allow glyphosate in wheat, high fructose corn syrup in food and who knows what in our milk products?
The difference in quality of life in Italy vs the U.S. is staggering from their common sense (anti corporate) food regulation.
WHY aren’t more people upset about this?
The U.S. is the richest country in the world and we eat like one of the poorest.