Save Europe

🚨 🇳🇱 SHOCKING: Dutch student forced to kneel by other students. Imagine the outrage from the mainstream media if the colors were reversed.

JUST IN: Dutch opposition warns the approved 36% unrealized gains tax will make the Netherlands “effectively uninvestable.”

As a foreigner in China who saw apartments in Shanghai selling for $100k 20 years ago that are now worth $1M+, I asked my wife, "Does this mean we can now afford to move closer to the city?" She laughed. We looked at the real estate apps. And while prices are down, an apartment that was $1.4M at the peak is now selling for $1.2M. Some areas are hit harder, some not hit at all. Where we live in Fengxian, in a villa compound, there's been almost no change. Same goes for the next district over in Jin Shan. The apartment we bought in my wife's hometown some years ago went up and is now back to around the price we bought it for. Kinda meh 🤷 Most people we know are happy to see prices come down. Things were getting out of hand. Now young people can continue to afford to buy a home. But negative headlines about China still got to make a living I guess 😂

I just moved to Cyprus 🇨🇾 My first impressions and why I moved: > it's safe (unlike rest of Europe) > friendly people (unlike rest of Europe) > quiet > clean air > fast WiFi > tax friendly > great coffee > amazing food > very walkable > incredible weather > affordable (€2 for coffee, €7 for meal) > great laptop cafe culture (unlike rest of Europe) > growing tech scene (unlike rest of Europe) It's been so long since I had somewhere I could lock in from and call home. I was torn between UAE and Cyprus but the last month made my decision for me. And so far I am so happy with my decision.

"Blue cities are radical hellscapes that can't fix crime." Counterpoint: Baltimore. Baltimore had 334 murders in 2022. Last year it had 133, the lowest since 1977. The turning point was that voters defenestrated a Soros-backed prosecutor Marilyn Mosby who averaged 333 homicides a year across eight years and declined to use mandatory minimum sentences. (She was later convicted of mortgage fraud, so there's that too.) Her replacement, Ivan Bates, ran on the Democratic ticket with a simple message: repeat violent offenders belong in prison. Maryland law already allowed five years with no parole for convicted felons caught carrying a gun, but Mosby never used it. Bates used it a lot. In just two years, his office sent more than 2K repeat violent offenders to prison, double his predecessor's TOTAL. The city paired that with a precision intervention program that identified the small number of people driving most of the violence, which led to 631 arrests (94% haven't reoffended). Police also seized 2,480 firearms last year alone, including hundreds of ghost guns, while maintaining a 64% homicide clearance rate. When shooters know they'll get caught and actually prosecuted, behavior changes. Sandtown-Winchester, once the most violent neighborhoods in the city, just went a year without a killing! Carjackings (-51%) and robberies (-24%) are also down. Baltimore didn't change demographics, or its culture, its rules, or much of anything else in those years. It simply voted in a new Democratic prosecutor, who decided the city needed to finally put violent criminals in prison.