Too many youth are living aimlessly, we are never taught these things and frankly society is such an obvious mess that most are too discouraged to look any further.

For this reason, exceptions to the tax would have to be developed to encourage certain uses that the society deems important (ex. urban gardens).3.

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

This society makes it too easy to invest in stocks.

im still relatively new to socal (originally from long island and the nyc metro area) but in networking with alot of seasoned area 'brokers' i'm surprised to hear from quite a few (3-4, out of like 12 i've had conversations about my finances so far) that they still rent their condos and lease cars.. idunno, maybe its the new trend in society, to 'rent' everything?

Not sure why our current society thinks they should all have success and become rich day one in RE ... and skip the apprenticeship that most of us have gone through.I guess its just the internet age and access too to much information ... much of it white noise.

Lost money but I did not allow another brick to fall out of the foundation of our society. 

Besides that we live in a society that places little emphasis on financial education.

I have an appointment with the City’s economic developer and with the Historical society to get more information as far as construction, and challenges with past developers that couldn’t or wouldn’t go farther with it.There was a proposed shopping mall at one point for this property that never went past the planning stage.

I had to present to the historical society my plans to replace the windows with new, triple pane, vinyl windows.