Tampa Launches First Ever Air Taxi service.
This is far from your Grandpa's Yellow Cab service, or a personally chartered flight. Welcoming the transition to a mode of transportation from "The Jetsons" will be hard for some people to adjust to.
What The Fu¢k Are They Thinking ?
Sorry, that was a bit harsh, let me lay it out in a wordy, but far more relatable way. It has to be said, and hopefully someone hears it.
Look up in the sky! Is it a bird, or a plane? No it’s grandma coming back from Janet’s house, triumphantly flying in from playing their weekly canasta game. Surely she is also carrying all the gossip from the other ladies, and she can’t wait to tell you all about it. Ten years ago this would not have bothered you, you would have picked her up from the airport, listened to her brag about winning and maybe a few bits of gossip before dropping her off at home. Not today, now she is flying right into the back yard in an air taxi.
You will get to hear all of Grandma’s salon gossip in todays society, you see she retired as a Registered Nurse over 15 years ago, and recently lost her home to a predatory reverse mortgage. Now she lives in the dining room that had to be converted into a bedroom. She would have slept in one of the 3 bedrooms already there, but your 32 year old brother, and his kids are sleeping in 2 of them, and your parents are in the other. Your brother lost their house, and business during Covid, and had moved back in just to save up for another down payment. Unfortunately the house prices have doubled in the last 3 years, and now he can’t get approved for the amount needed, not even for a crappy house that needs work. You yourself, are sleeping in the massive old shed that your dad used to keep the lawnmower and shovels in. It took some work insulating it, but it is far better than renting a single room from a stranger. Hell anymore on the $65,000 a year salary you make as a diesel mechanic, you can no longer qualify to rent a one bedroom apartment anywhere within 50 miles of your job. They require you to take home 3 times the annual rent in salary, after taxes. At $2,100 a month in rent, you need to make $75,600 in take home. Now you all live in a multi-generational home.
Hell even your parents house, the one you are all living in now was valued at $100,000 just 6 years ago, and $160,000 only 3 years ago, and now it is appraised at $270,000. None of you would be able to afford to buy it now, not in this economy, and housing market. The fact that there is an air taxi service, is kind of a good thing, the roads were so messed up from neglect that you already bent 2 of your rims on potholes in the last 2 months, and the 60 hours a week you put in at the mechanics shop only covers your mandatory health insurance premiums and leaves you enough left to buy a single $3 hamburger, or slice of pizza per day, you would have to stop eating for at least 2-3 weeks in order to save up for another used rim.
Thank God For The Air Taxi’s !
Real Life Florida can be seen by clicking the link, and It’s not what you think. It is however completely relevant, and is also quite important contextually.
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