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...in my area  ???:

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A person in Houston only needs to make $125K to reach the same purchasing power as someone making $312K in New York — is it time to move to a cheaper city?


While the country’s largest and wealthiest cities generally have the highest cost of living, how far your money will go in some major cities might surprise you.

In fact, a recent study by consumer finance site SmartAsset found a person needs to earn three times the salary to afford the same lifestyle in the city of New York as they would in Houston, Texas.

The study looked at salaries, taxes and the cost of living in 76 U.S. cities to see how much a resident with a six-figure salary would have to earn to actually have $100K worth of purchasing power.

So while you may bring home a six-figure income, where you live can play a huge role in whether you're able to afford a more luxe livestyle or you end up stuck living paycheck to paycheck.

Is it worth considering a move to a lower-cost city to get more bang for your hard-earned buck?

Getting that “six-figure feel”
SmartAsset’s data revealed that people living in Honolulu, New York and San Francisco must bring in over $300,000 annually to have the same disposable income or live the same lifestyle as someone who makes just over $100,000 in other parts of the country.

These metros cost 82% more to live in than the national average and residents who make around $300,000 in these regions face a tax burden of at least 40.5%.

Second only to Honolulu at $312,400, the average New Yorker needs to make $312,000 to “get that six-figure feel,” according to the report. California is home to five of the most expensive cities with Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego joining San Francisco in making the top 10 of SmartAsset's list.

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...installed on all my vehicles just for reasons like this:

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Watch Texas TV meteorologist get sucker punched in road rage incident


We're not used to hearing stories about meteorologists, certainly not ones that involve death threats and sucker punches, but it's been a trying couple of weeks for forecasters at CBS especially. In mid June, Chris Gloninger with CBS affiliate KCCI in Des Moines quit his broadcast job after 18 years in the business, citing a string of harassing e-mails and a death threat over his climate coverage. Later that month, Avery Tomasco, a meteorologist for CBS Austin News in Austin, Texas, dodged a sucker punch in a road rage incident caught on his dash cam.

Now, this being Autoblog, we've seen our share of anger on the highways and byways. Even so, this incident has got to be one of the silliest to turn into an assault charge. As the footage shows, Tomasco was merging onto one of the feeder roads that run next to Texas highways. The other driver, in a Toyota Prius, pulled into Tomasco's lane. Being totally fair, even if we understand the sentiment, Tomasco could have done a better job of braking as the Prius moved over. But these things happen, oh well.

When the Prius driver didn't stop immediately, Tomasco followed him for a while until the Prius driver pulled into a mall parking lot. Tomasco, who had his young daughter in the car, said he got out to take photos of his car and didn't speak to the man in the Prius. As Tomasco was doing this, the man in the Prius walked up to him and swung. The meteorologist moved his head in time to have only his cheek grazed while his shoulder took the real punch. Recounting the event on Twitter, he wrote, "I yelled for help and got away from him as quickly as I could, and thankfully an off-duty police officer was nearby to help calm the situation and keep the peace."

Road rage never wins. The idea of trying to sucker punch a stranger in Texas and not doing a good job of it, then having the whole thing put on the Internet, has to be one of the all-time ways to lose. Tomasco tweeted, "Because of clear video evidence, I'm able to press charges and he will have an arrest warrant issued soon. He will be taken to jail in the near future. His insurance will also have to fix my bumper and who knows what else." His advice to all, "Ladies and gentlemen, BUY A DASHCAM. Buy. A. Dashcam. And use it religiously."

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...to someone I don't know, my rule of the thumb is "gotta have cash in hand" before I let the potential buyer take it for a spin and yep a copy of his/her license too like at the stealerships.. .

Most of the time, I don't even have to deal with selling it as most of my cars and bikes have been passed down to other relatives/friends/neighbors or donated to a charity of my choice...

If you plan to sell to a complete stranger, use common sense..O0:

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Irish Restaurant Worker Uses Simple Method To Steal Cars

Watch out for this scam…
Criminals seem to always be scheming for new ways to separate you from your car. Fortunately, most of them aren’t all that creative or intelligent, although some incredibly simplistic methods tend to work on the majority of the population. A perfect example of this comes to us via Ireland of all places where car theft is an issue, just like in many other countries like the United States and Canada.

A 26-year-old restaurant worker from Dublin, named Stephen Corbally, is accused of stealing cars while supposedly taking them for test drives, then turning around and selling them to unsuspecting buyers. This is hardly the first time we’ve heard of someone taking a vehicle for a test drive and never returning with it, but we’re shocked he was able to get away with this for any amount of time.

According to a report from Irish Examiner, the man would find private sellers via internet sites like Facebook Marketplace. After meeting up with them and acting interested in buying their vehicle, he would go for a test drive and then just disappear.

There are ways to guard against this risk, something anyone selling a car privately should consider. For starters, having a tracker or multiple trackers in your car before handing the keys over to a stranger would be abundantly wise. Also, take a photo of the person’s driver’s license before you let them have the keys, just in case. After all, someone can fake a Facebook profile easier than a license.

Riding along for a test drive is something we have mixed feelings about. While it allows you to keep track of what’s happening to your car, the person supposedly interested in buying it could transport you somewhere remote. As many security experts caution, never let a stranger drag you into a vehicle, because it might be the last time anyone sees you alive. If that sounds paranoid, it is, but more and more car thieves are becoming downright violent to steal from regular people.



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90 Day Fiance’s Ella Johnson and Johnny Chao Finally Meet in Person for the First Time: ‘I Made It’


Finally together! 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days stars Ella Johnson and Johnny Chao have officially met in person.

Johnny traveled from China to Idaho on Wednesday, July 5, to be with Ella. He posted photos from the Boise Airport on his Instagram. “After 12 hour flights I made it,” he captioned the carousel.

Ella and Johnny took a long-awaited selfie together after his arrival, which many fans reposted on social media. Ella shared a few reposts on her Instagram Stories, writing, “I am so happy too!”

Johnny, a divorced father from Jinan, China, and Ella, a livestock rancher from Idaho Falls, Idaho, shared the story of their romance on 90 Day Fiancé season 5, which aired from December 2021 to April 2022. The two met on a dating site for white women seeking Asian men. They quickly fell in love, but coronavirus pandemic restrictions and travel bans kept Johnny and Ella from visiting each other in person.

When travel bans were lifted in 2021, Johnny planned to move to the U.S. to be with Ella, leaving his older parents and his son, Stoney, in China. However, he hesitated to make the big move when coronavirus cases began to spike again.

Ella became frustrated with Johnny’s hesitation. She had previously been in a long-distance relationship with an Indian man, but they ended things after meeting in person in Thailand because he did not want a “sexual relationship” with her. Ella feared Johnny would also change his mind if he waited any longer to meet her in person. She told Johnny that he could either meet her halfway in Dubai or have an open relationship with her so that she could see other men in her area.

Johnny wanted the relationship to stay monogamous, but he postponed his Dubai trip until February. This led Ella to reveal that she had cheated on him with a friend, as seen on a March 2022 episode of Before the 90 Days.

“I don’t think you understand how hard this has been on me. I need attention, I need physical attention and when you have been going back and forth with this, I called over a friend and talked with him and cuddled with him and we ended up having sex,” she told Johnny over a video call.

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PUBG: India-Pakistan gaming love story ends in jail


The love story of a Pakistani woman and an Indian man who met through popular online game PUBG has been making headlines in India after the couple landed up in jail.

Seema Ghulam Haider, 27, met Sachin Meena, 22, through the virtual gaming platform a couple of years ago and recently travelled to India so that she could live with him.

She entered India illegally in May along with her four young children and they were staying with Mr Meena in Greater Noida - a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh - for over a month, police said.

On Tuesday, the couple was arrested. A court has remanded them in jail for 14 days. The woman's children are with their mother. The couple have told reporters that they want to get married and live together. Police say they are carrying out a detailed investigation into the case.

The India-Pakistan love story has sparked conversations around the role the virtual world plays in fostering real-life relationships across geographical borders.

Sparks fly on PUBG
Ms Haider married Ghulam Haider, a resident of Pakistan's Sindh province, in February 2014. The couple had four children - three daughters and a son - together.

Five years after their marriage, her husband moved to Saudi Arabia for work. Ms Haider began playing PUBG to keep herself occupied.

"I used to play PUBG for two to three hours a day and I got to know Sachin while playing the game," she told BBC Hindi. The two exchanged phone numbers and began speaking regularly.

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The rented room where the couple stayed
After their relationship had progressed over three years, Ms Haider decided to move to India to marry Mr Meena.

She has accused her husband of beating her and has told police that she had divorced him. Mr Haider has denied the domestic violence allegations and the divorce.

He has accused Ms Haider of selling their house in Pakistan and running away with their children and jewellery.

How the couple met
Police said that Ms Haider and Mr Meena first met in Nepal in March and stayed in a hotel for a couple of days before they returned to their respective countries.

In May, Ms Haider travelled to Nepal again on a tourist visa, this time with her four children. From there she took a bus to Delhi, senior police official in Greater Noida Saad Miya Khan told the BBC.

Police said she told them that she did not sell her husband's house but a plot of land that belonged to her parents to gather money for the trip and got the idea of entering India via Nepal from a YouTube video.

Mr Meena, who lives in Rabupura town in Greater Noida and works in a grocery shop, rented a room to stay with Ms Haider and her children.

His landlord, Girish Kumar, told the BBC that he never suspected anything illegal as Mr Meena had provided necessary government documents while renting the house and that his parents too had come to visit the couple.

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The couple's landlord Girish Kumar said he didn't suspect anything illegal was underway
How they got caught
The couple reportedly met a local lawyer for advice about Ms Haider's residency in India last week but the lawyer informed the police about them, Times of India newspaper reported.

"I was startled when I found that she and her children were carrying Pakistani passports," the lawyer told the newspaper, and added that Ms Haider was making inquiries about the process of getting married in India.

An India-Pakistan love story that went horribly wrong
The lawyer claimed that Ms Haider had said that her husband [Ghulam Haider] would physically assault her and that she had not met him in four years.

He also claimed that Ms Haider got up and left as soon as she was asked about her Indian visa and that one of his associates then followed her.

"When I learnt that they were living in Rabupura, I informed the police," the lawyer said.

Along with the couple, the police have arrested Mr Meena's father as well for sheltering Ms Haider without a visa.

The couple have appealed to the Indian government to help them get married.

Ms Haider's husband, meanwhile, claims that his wife has been "seduced" through PUBG and wants her to be returned to Pakistan with their children.

Additional reporting by Riyaz Sohail and Shumaila Khan

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Sunil Chhetri: Indian footballer in the same league as Messi and Ronaldo

He has 93 strikes from 142 matches - the top two positions belonging to Cristiano Ronaldo (123 goals from 200 caps) and Lionel Messi (103 from 175). Take the all-time list and Chhetri is ranked fourth with Iranian legend Ali Daei ahead of him with 109 goals from 148 matches.



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...sphere?  ???:

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This futuristic entertainment venue in Las Vegas is the world’s largest spherical structure

The MSG Sphere won't open to the public for almost three more months, when U2 christens the entertainment venue with a series of concerts. But anticipation is growing. Cue the superlatives. At 366 feet tall and 516 feet wide, it's being billed as the world's largest spherical structure.



I took these photos last year when it was still under construction:






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..or of S.E. Asian decent..  ???:

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3 water buffaloes roamed through an east Charlotte neighborhood. Only two came back.

Police officers spent three hours Friday evening chasingan escaped Chinese water buffalo that was ultimately caught and euthanized after roaming around an east Charlotte neighborhood, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said.

Officers responded to calls on Friday around 5 p.m. about three missing buffalo running loose by Leesburg Road and Hollyhouse Drive in east Charlotte, Queen City News reported.

CMPD Animal Care and Control officers were able to catch two out of the three while the owner was at the scene with a trailer. During the pursuit, the third buffalo became frightened, and authorities spent another few hours trying to corner the animal.

At about 6:30 a.m. Saturday officers finally contained the female buffalo at Albemarle Elementary School’s athletic fields. The buffalo was euthanized after it became “increasingly agitated,” Queen City News reported.

The owner was issued a citation since it is illegal to own water buffaloes in Charlotte, according to city law.


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...call so she's in trouble  ???:

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Nurse having affair with patient failed to call ambulance when he collapsed with his trousers down

Nurse having affair with patient failed to call 999 when he died with his trousers down
Penelope Williams struck off after admitting sexual relationship and phoning colleague for help instead of making 999 call



An NHS nurse who took part in a sexual relationship with a patient failed to call an ambulance when he died in the back of his car with his trousers down during a secret late night rendezvous, a disciplinary committee has heard. An NHS nurse who enjoyed a sexual relationship with a patient failed to call an ambulance when he died in the back of his car during a secret late night rendezvous, a disciplinary committee has heard.

Married Penelope Williams had been enjoying a year long fling with the dialysis patient when he suffered heart failure with his trousers down in a hospital car park while with her.

Ms Williams, who had hidden the relationship from bosses, failed to call 999 and instead rang a colleague who turned up and performed CPR, the panel heard.

Now, the nurse has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council who warned she had 'brought the nursing profession into disrepute'.

The panel heard Ms Williams started working for the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board as a Registered Nurse in a Renal Haemodialysis Unit in October 2019.

Her patient, and later lover - known only as Patient A - was one of the unit's regulars who needed regular dialysis.

Ms Williams and Patient A began a sexual relationship in January 2021, and she did not tell bosses about it, the panel was told.

In January of the following year, a colleague - known only as Colleague One - received a phone call from Ms Williams who was 'crying and distressed' and asking for help because 'someone had died', the committee heard.

She had met the patient in a car park in Wrexham in January 2022 - and called for help at 23.56pm when he blacked out.

The colleague told her to call an ambulance, but Ms Williams failed to do so.

The colleague later arrived at the car park, where she met Ms Williams and could see Patient A in the back of a car with his 'trousers down'.

Colleague one went to check Patient A who was unresponsive, so she called 999 asking for police and ambulance before starting CPR.

He then died from 'heart failure and chronic kidney disease triggered by a medical episode'.

Ms Williams initially told police Patient A had sent her a message on Facebook explaining he was unwell, and so she 'came to meet him'.

But she later admitted she and Patient A were in a sexual relationship and said they had previously arranged to meet at the car park that evening, the panel heard.

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...will heed the advice and skip it especially with a small child traveling with us..  ???:

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US recommends Americans reconsider traveling to China due to arbitrary law enforcement, exit bans

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. recommended Americans reconsider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions. No specific cases were cited, but the advisory came after a 78-year-old U.S. citizen was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges in May.

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...and thus, causes those stores to closed down too. What's really bad is these closure not only affected the businesses but many members of society that depend on it like the elderly. But selfish "SHAMELESS" FRAUDs don't care and will just continue to have the "no big deal, the store can just write it off" idiotic mentality... :idiot2::

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It’s not only NY, LA, San Francisco. Retail crime has hit a bustling Kansas metropolis

A local Victoria’s Secret lost $30,000 a month to theft, authorities say. The Cabela’s has reportedly lost more merchandise than any other in the nation. They’re not in San Francisco, Chicago or New York, the way some might assume. They’re in Wichita, Kansas.

A pattern of store thefts - not just one-off petty shoplifting incidents, but more serious planned and brazen heists from pricey luxuries to everyday products – has retailers on edge across the country. In some cities like San Francisco, retailers are closing up shop, pointing the finger at crime.

But it’s not just big coastal cities grappling with the problem. In America’s Midwest, a bustling, mid-sized metropolis, known for its rich entrepreneuria l heritage as home to both Pizza Hut and The Coleman Co. is also wrestling with the gravity and pervasiveness of retail theft.

“I’ve lived in this city my entire life and to see this much retail crime, it’s shocking,” said Captain Casey Slaughter, who is in charge of the Wichita Police Department’s property crimes bureau.

Republican Kris Kobach, Kansas’ attorney general, said retail crime is a “spiraling problem” in his state, adding that Kansas and Missouri are among the top 10 states in the nation for volume of retail crime. Kansas lost approximately $642 million in stolen goods in 2021, he said.

“People are frustrated. Store employees are frustrated,” he said in an interview with CNN.



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...yours so this Flight Attendant is in the wrong. If she really want to complain, direct it at the root of the cause, corporate greed:

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Airline Tells Parents They'll Be 'Put In Jail' & The Kids 'Put In Foster Care' If They Don't Take Their Toddler Out Of The Seat They Paid For

Brian and Brittany Schear were told they would be 'put in jail' if they didn't take their toddler out of the seat they paid for. The Schear family had been traveling back home from Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii with their two toddlers in April 2017 when they had a horrible experience aboard their Delta flight.

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China's top-ranking diplomat told Japan and South Korea their people can dye their hair blonde and make their noses sharper but that they'll 'never become Westerners,' urging them to work with Beijing instead

China's top diplomat Wang Yi reminded Japanese and South Koreans of their ethnicity.

He said they can "never become Westerners," calling for closer cooperation between their nations.

"We have to know where our roots are," Wang said at an annual forum on international relations.

China's highest-ranking diplomat urged Japan and South Korea to cooperate more closely with Beijing, saying they can change their looks but will "never become Westerners."

"It doesn't matter how much you dye your hair blonde, how sharp you make your nose, you'll never become Europeans or Americans. You'll never become Westerners," Wang Yi told South Korean and Japanese guests at a conference in Qingdao on Monday.

"We have to know where our roots are," the diplomat said, according to a recording of the conversation shared by Chinese media.

Most Europeans and Americans aren't able to tell Chinese, Japanese, or Korean people apart, Wang added.

Wang, who was speaking at the annual International Forum for Trilateral Cooperation, said the three nations should raise a "clear signal" that they want to work together, adding that they should resist a "Cold War mentality" and push back against "bullying and hegemony."

The diplomat's comments come amid rocky US-China relations over Taiwan, chip restrictions, and accusations of Beijing spying on the US with a balloon. Tensions continued to sour in June as President Joe Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dictator," as State Secretary Antony Blinken visited Beijing to ease the relationship between both nations.

South Korea and Japan, close US allies, have recently publicly aligned with Washington on several hot-button issues, releasing joint statements with the White House on Taiwan in the last two years. Both nations have also conducted high-profile military drills with the US this year.

Washington has sought to curb China's growing influence in the rest of Asia, as Beijing pursues closer ties with countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

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Automotive Discussion / End of an era for Lambo??
« on: July 06, 2023, 02:04:54 PM »
Lamborghini has sold its last fully gas-powered supercar


Lamborghini is all sold out of gas-powered supercars, its CEO told the German outlet Welt.

The Italian brand is electrifying its entire lineup, starting with plug-in hybrids.

Lamborghini plans to launch its first electric vehicle later this decade.

The vision boards of finance bros around the world are in for an update.

Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the German newspaper Welt on Wednesday that the brand has sold out its remaining production run of fully gas-powered models, per Reuters.

From here on out, all new Lambos sold will be electrified in some manner. First up will be plug-in hybrid replacements for the Aventador and Huracan supercars and a plug-in hybrid Urus SUV. Later this decade, Lamborghini plans to launch its first all-electric vehicle.

Since Lamborghini buyers order their cars far in advance, the company will continue churning out gas-powered vehicles for some time.

The decision to embrace electrificatio n after decades defined by thunderous V12 engines ultimately came down to tightening emissions regulations around the world, Winkelmann told Insider in an interview earlier this year. The auto industry as a whole is in the midst of an expensive, messy transition to electric vehicles.

But just because Lamborghini is rethinking the way its cars are fueled, that doesn't mean it's going soft or losing touch with its roots. Winkelmann told Insider he is intent on giving Lamborghini buyers the adrenaline-pumping performance they expect — and more — while cutting the company's carbon footprint.

The company's first plug-in hybrid (a type of vehicle with more electric-only range and a bigger battery than a traditional hybrid) is set to hit driveways and climate-controlled 12-car garages in late 2023. Thanks to a V12, three electric motors, and a small battery, the Revuelto supercar can produce just over 1,000 horsepower and hit 62 mph in 2.5 seconds, Lamborghini estimates.



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...due to the high cost of living IMO  ???:

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West Hollywood minimum hourly wage tops $19, highest of any US city

The swanky, celebrity-studded city of West Hollywood officially has the highest minimum wage of any U.S. city after pay zoomed to $19.08 an hour Saturday. WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.



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