"100% of people who do not save money do not have any!"--Dave Ramsey

[Piotrsko]

Backhoe and demolition permit about ten grand. Diy with an 8lb sledgehammer and sawsall, but it gets scary when the roof goes suddenly

[freebeard]

What happened between #783 and #788?

[hayden55]

Why are houses in Show low, AZ so expensive? Is it because it is a weekend retreat area? I live in one of the Top 5 places to live in the USA and houses here are about 1/2 of the price of houses there depending on new build or existing.

I would consider the fact that star link internet makes WFH possible pretty much anywhere. When I move on from this job i will probably do WFH and rent my house out and live like 30 minutes away where living cost are about 1/2 of here so probably 1/4 of show low.
Better hurry on moving though all of the blue staters are moving here and paying out of state prices jacking us up.

https://realestate.usnews.com/places...places-to-live

[redpoint5]

My theory is that now is the time to find beautiful and affordable places to live since most of us will be working from home at some point, and demand for those locations will increase, along with price. It's very doable to be off-grid now with Starlink, cheap solar, affordable batteries, etc. Once drone deliveries become a thing, living 30min from the city won't even prevent one from having a variety of prepared meals available.

[freebeard]

Great! Now I have to worry about somebodies lunch falling out of the sky on me. I went out to the carport on Sunday and there was an Amazon package there that said Sunday Delivery and had a similar address (only the unit number matched). I hopped on my bike for the last leg.

I was concerned about Starlink but apparently the 40 duds were not in their final orbits. The 50% greater drag overpowered the reaction wheels so they couldn't deploy the solar panels for the ion engines.

[hayden55]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

My theory is that now is the time to find beautiful and affordable places to live since most of us will be working from home at some point, and demand for those locations will increase, along with price. It's very doable to be off-grid now with Starlink, cheap solar, affordable batteries, etc. Once drone deliveries become a thing, living 30min from the city won't even prevent one from having a variety of prepared meals available.

Yup. Better get in while the getting is good. Because home prices are going way up here for work from homers from out of state.
I've seen a lot of people call it:
"The Great Work-From-Home Migration"
"The Rural Boom"
etc...

This will for sure be the reason why i pivot from manufacturing engineering back to mechanical design engineering. The pay difference isn't enough to want to work in person.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Great! Now I have to worry about somebodies lunch falling out of the sky on me. I went out to the carport on Sunday and there was an Amazon package there that said Sunday Delivery and had a similar address (only the unit number matched). I hopped on my bike for the last leg.

I was concerned about Starlink but apparently the 40 duds were not in their final orbits. The 50% greater drag overpowered the reaction wheels so they couldn't deploy the solar panels for the ion engines.

I don't look a gift horse in the face, especially when it delivers from heaven.

Last mile is the most expensive part of delivery, so you've done a great good deed.

Not aware of the Starlink issues. Can the duds boost enough to deploy solar, or are they doomed? How did they get deployed so suboptimally in the first place?

Originally Posted by hayden55

Yup. Better get in while the getting is good. Because home prices are going way up here for work from homers from out of state.
I've seen a lot of people call it:
"The Great Work-From-Home Migration"
"The Rural Boom"
etc...

This will for sure be the reason why i pivot from manufacturing engineering back to mechanical design engineering. The pay difference isn't enough to want to work in person.

I prefer working in the physical environment rather than virtual, though eliminating commute and dress code and precise clock-in/clock-out requirements are strong motivators for WFH.

I'd have made a good manufacturing engineer if I could manage to complete the schooling required to get a job. My favorite thing is failure mode analysis and process improvement.

[Piotrsko]

If you get certification online, that's a way in. You can upgrade to ME after some OJT and being friends with the higher ups or own a ski boat if you worked at Huge aircrash. Wont make you qualified, but the pay and benefits are the same.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Not aware of the Starlink issues. Can the duds boost enough to deploy solar, or are they doomed? How did they get deployed so suboptimally in the first place?

They're inserted into what's called IIRC a validation orbit. Where the solar panels are extended and the ion engines fired up. They rotated the satellites to an edge-on orientation because of the atmospheric drag anomaly. Then the drag overpowered the reaction wheels so they couldn't re-orient for solar collection. In car racing it's called DNF.

The larger concern is the the Magnetosphere continues to weaken so this may be more common. Suggesting fewer satellites per launch to a higher validation orbit.

Last mile is the most expensive part of delivery, so you've done a great good deed.

It was like the ending of Cast Away, except that I had pedaled through a neigborhood that was like when the guy peered out his window in Close Encounters and the suburban scene with lawnmowers and kids playing looked like an alien landscape. All paint and fresh pavement and not a speck of dust from the trainyard. Only a block away. She seemed like she wanted something more, and about my age. But I excused myself. She can figure out where I live.

I'll take the 'good deed', though. Thanx.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by hayden55

This will for sure be the reason why i pivot from manufacturing engineering back to mechanical design engineering. The pay difference isn't enough to want to work in person.

I pivoted back to manufacturing engineering from design engineering 6 years ago because even then design work was being outsourced overseas. My current employer and the past 2 had Indian tech centers they were paying to do design work. The ratio of US to Indian engineers has only continued to shift toward the Indian side. My current employer added a Mexican tech center a couple years ago.

At my wife's employer the entire design engineering department is outsourced. They hired her to have someone on-site to check on the work being done by the outsourced design house. She is the only engineer they have.

Work From Home won't be the blessing that most people think. Any job that can be done from home can be done from anywhere in the world.