It Is A MAD HOUSE In My Town Right Now!! HOLY MOLY!

dude, my home equity rose $110K in the past 12 months.


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There are people who have money. Business owners. People who invested well. Wealthy retirees. Those that just saved money. And yeah those who are putting it on credit. Who cares really. What’s the use of living if you don’t have some fun once in a while.

What you describe makes perfect sense for times of economic distress.

During the great depression, movie theater attendance skyrocketed and cinemas thrived. The reason was when times are tough, people spend on affordable diversions.

You small town is busy because instead of getting on planes and flying to places like NYC or Vegas, families are saving money by driving to smaller, closer, and cheaper vacation spots. It is much, much cheaper for a family to pay double for gas than to buy four tickets, which are then ALSO jacked up due to high gas prices.

It is common sense.

Five years ago my FB feed was filled with pics of families vacationing in Europe, carribbean islands, and other exotic locations. Now all I see are families going camping or going to national parks by car. Literally nobody going to Europe. Even upper middle class people can barely afford that right now.

These are the same reasons why when retailers fail everywhere, Dollar Tree and Dollar General thrive. People downgrade their behaviors. Your town has become the closest they can get to a week at Disney World.

There is no mystery to this if you look at history and just think it through for a minute.

Flying to Europe is easy. It’s getting back into the states that is not. People still have to take a covid test and you can’t get back until you get a negative test. It’s Russian roulette leaving the stars now. So staying here is easier.

I don't think I have ever posted on GLP even though I have been here since 2010.. I do lurk alot, almost every other day.


I live in a small wilderness town around under 10,000 people in the western part of the US.

There are alot of lakes and rivers and other recreational activities in my area.

I have lived in this area for over 31 years. During the summer time it does get a little busy, but not too chaotic. It has been like that since I moved here 31 years ago...

But OMFG, this week has been a mad house!! I know it is Memorial day weekend,but never have I seen so many people traveling to my area. I am talking about a 10x increase in the number of people! 10x from a normal summer vacation crowd. It usually takes me 5 minutes to drive from the supermarket to my house, but yesterday it took 30 minutes!! Even when it was busy in the summer time in the past 31 years, it only took me 10 minutes max!

A while ago I read a thread about this GLPer mentioning that unempIoyed people are always traveling. see thread below

Thread: Unemployed People Are UNSTOPPABLE... Nothing Can Stop These People From Traveling

I have to agree with this guy. I mean, gas prices are skyrocketing, inflation is at historic high, 401k's has taken a huge hit from the stock market crash, and people are all in debt to their heads and they are just traveling around alot?

This makes no sense.. People already had 2 years off from Convid, how much more vacation time do these people need?

Here is an article showing that more people are going out this weekend.. What the heck is going on?

Memorial Day weekend travel: gas prices drop slightly — to $4.59 a gallon — as 34.9 million cars hit the road

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This is what puzzles me...In western Europe most people seem to have forgotten the convid thing happened and there you good folk are in he USA at a point we were at 12 months ago....I don't want to call you retarded but WTF you guys are still wearing masks and afraid of your farts

Maybe most people haven't maxed out their credit cards. Maybe people aren't as broke as you've been hearing.

Things are bad right now, sure, but people like to exaggerate their problems. Just a thought.

Had to go to a big airport yesterday and most people didn’t have masks on. It was good to see. But yeah some are still scared to death. We know who the germaphobes are now.

There are people who have money. Business owners. People who invested well. Wealthy retirees. Those that just saved money. And yeah those who are putting it on credit. Who cares really. What’s the use of living if you don’t have some fun once in a while.

yes, but where do they get the extra money from? im pretty sure they maxxed out all of their cards during covid.

arent the gas prices hurting them? i see them all driving gas guzzler SUVs and trucks like, chevy tahoes, 4runners, ect..

all of these cars get around 10-15 MPG or less.

Or people dont give a shit any more and are maxing them out never intending to repay them.. I had twelve credit card offers in the mail this week, my dog had two

Not going anywhere myself.


Fucking gas is 5.79 here.


Aye aye aye!




Wife has to work Monday -- hospital.


Just hanging out at home.


Probably go to a movie this afternoon. Need to do some grocery shopping sometime.


Church tomorrow.