Rick- you need to get the hell out of Indiana and move to the Northeast. The opportunities to make a lot of money are vast.
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My mother went to Hunter also (as did my wife).
I think Rick is going to be miserable where ever he lives. And his constant ranting can’t be good for his mental health.
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My wife says exactly this. She also refuses to move because she says nothing will change. I believe she is wrong, I have never had a chance to prove it though.
I don’t remember anymore what the issue was but my dad was contemplating a major move. My mom said where you go I go. Whatever it was he never did it but still sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. I think it might have been after being laid off or on strike for about six months to continue on with the new job or go back to the old job.
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I think your wife is correct, @Old-Days-Rick
If you won’t and/or can’t relocate, then make the best out of what’s available to you
Better yet . . . Set realistic goals and work to attain them, instead of whining
That’s what I did
It took me DECADES to reach some of my goals, but I kept working at it and playing the long game and I finally succeeded
You should do the same 
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That’s why my wife and I moved from Syracuse to NH. Both worked in high-tech. When we left Syracuse in the early 80’s, Syracuse had double digit unemployment due to 3 major companies moving out (GM, Carrier and GE television). Tens of thousands of jobs lost. The Boston area (which Southern NH is actually part of) was the place to be for engineers on the East Coast - and still is. Cost of living is higher here then Syracuse, but the tech job market is vast and strong.
As a retired software engineer with almost 50 years of experience - I had to change my skillsets several times to make myself marketable. The technology has changed so much from when I first started. If I didn’t change with the technology I wouldn’t be working. I worked with several engineers who graduated from excellent institutions and had great work experience, but they didn’t change with the times. They found themselves out of work when the market stumbled. By the time the market rebounded they were YEARS behind and didn’t want to play catchup and left the field completely.
You have to be the FIRST person to help yourself. No one else. Don’t depend on others.
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My parents met at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, MD near the end of WWII. She was from Western PA and he was from NW SC. After getting married, they moved to his home town in SC where he got a job working in the offices of the Southern RR. They shut that office down and they moved to Charlotte, NC. They shut that down and they moved to DC with the railroad. When Southern shut that office down, my father got a job as a bookkeeper at the NNMC, where they met a few years earlier. No children until a few years after moving the DC. I like it when a family sticks together despite tough times as you do, @bing.
Other people are catching on and buying old cars for daily drivers. People are sick of new vehicles that are too complex and unreliable.
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Give it a rest
Stop whining
Do something to improve your situation
Seek professional help
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Yeah! 
Only 16 million people bought new cars and light trucks in 2024.
Here are total sales of new vehicles in the United States from 2005 through 2024:
- 2005: 16,997,203
- 2006: 16,560,989
- 2007: 16,154,064
- 2008: 13,245,718
- 2009: 10,431,510
- 2010: 11,589,844
- 2011: 12,778,885
- 2012: 14,492,398
- 2013: 15,582,136
- 2014: 16,531,070
- 2015: 17,470,659
- 2016: 17,547,028
- 2017: 17,241,387
- 2018: 17,274,250
- 2019: 17,053,566
- 2020: 14,575,347
- 2021: 14,954,805
- 2022: 13,688,732
- 2023: 15,144,180
- 2024: 16,034,759
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16 million new cars sold does not equate to 16 million people buying new cars. A few million of those cars were bought by car-rental agencies and corporations for their fleet.
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Don’t you have to also take in to consideration population growth??
I don’t know, asking for a friend… 
I watched a few minutes of his video and I agree with him. But the 35 minute video could have been done in 15 minutes. I’ll go back and watch the rest later.
I have a friend who has been saying for years “Just give me a car with a carburetor and points and condenser”. The problem is they’re all rusted away and gone.
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You could buy a Simca at your local Chrysler Plymoth deal;er
Bull? You haven’t a clue. I’m sure there are SOME buying older cars - but NOT for reliability, but instead for nostalgia or a classic car. The skill to fix their own car gets less and less each generation. Most people under 40 have no idea how to even change their oil. Buying an older car will cost a hell of a lot more to fix up and maintain then a newer vehicle.
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You cannot rely on secondhand memories for facts. People remember the good and ignore the bad. The people who tell you these stories play fast and loose with the truth.
My wife’s dad was a tool and die maker in Detroit and a very good one in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It was feast or famine type of job and pay. He worked tons of overtime when it was available so they could make it through times where there was little to no work. He took truck driving jobs in between the boom and bust of the auto industry.
My wife’s experience working as an hourly assembly worker for GM in the late 70s was similar. Low seniority employees worked layoff to layoff with no union benefits since they had less than 90 days of employment. It generally took 5 years in and out of work to get enough seniority to stay employed.
The good ole days were not as good as people remember.
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Speaking with authority on a topic with no first-hand knowledge, or any serious research, is, well, a waste of hot air.
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In the “good old days” back.in the late 1950s through the 1970s, I could change the generator or alternator in about half an hour. I could replace the water pump in a couple of hours. I could easily replace the fuel pump as the gas tank didn’t have to be dropped. When my tube type television or high fidelity amplifier had a problem, I could get out my trusty vacuum tube voltmeter, follow the schematic diagram and trace down the problem.
Do I long for the “good old days”? NO!!
I like my fuel injected micro-processor controlled vehicles that run smoothly from the.moment they are started no matter how cold the weather. I wouldn’t trade my flat screen television for the old cathode ray television. I used to overhaul my two stroke LawnBoy mower after two seasons of use–new piston rings, new points, condenser and spark plug, new needle and seat in the carburetor. I really like my battery powered mower. I charge the battery while I eat breakfast and I am ready to mow.
When I first started using a computer 56 years ago, I had to go to a keypunch and punch cards to be fed into a card reader. The turn around time on the mainframe for the user was 8 hours. My laptop has more power than the old mainframe of the 1970s.
When I was in 2nd grade in 1948, the incandescent light fixtures in the classrooms were replaced with flourescent lights. In 2016, I rewired the light fixtures in the church I attend so the flourescent tubes could be replaced with LED tubes. The electric company gave us $6 for each flourescent tube we removed. I purchased LED tubes to replace the flourescent tubes for $6.95 each. We replaced about 250 flourescent tubes in the building. Just as the flourescent lighting saved energy over the incandescent lighting, the LED lighting saves electrical energy over the flourescent lighting. As an added bonus, my energy is saved. I was having to go out and replace burned out. Flourescent tubes once a month and sometimes I would have to replace the ballast transformer. In 9 years, we haven’t had a single LED tube go out.
I get much better gas mileage on my 2017 Toyota Sienna than I did on my 1965 Rambler Classic 550. The automatic climate control on the Sienna makes for more comfortable driving than the stripped down Rambler which had no air conditioning. I could never transport 6 musicians and their instruments in the Rambler that I often do in the Toyota Sienna.
Take it from an old geezer in his 80s, you don’t want to go back to the old days.
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Or, their tales from The Good Old Days often aggrandize their own exploits. You know… the people who, as children, “walked 2 1/2 miles to and from school during a blizzard, uphill in both directions”.
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