WHY is Everything SO MUCH WORSE Than Before?

Today's video is a combination of a rant on how / why everything is so much worse than before. We're talking gyms, restaurants, retail, banks, services, you name it, its all getting worse than before the pandemic. But also, some interesting information on why the landlord business is dying across the globe.
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[@MichaelBordenaro]

Real Estate Investors TAPPING OUT (We've Had ENOUGH!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHekoppng7d9h8U

[@Falconlibrary]

I was involved in getting rent control passed in Beverly Hills, but we made sure to structure it so that landlords could recoup the cost of renovation--the idea was to stabilize the city, where a majority are renters, not freeze rent in perpetuity. We limited rent increases aside from renovation to the CPI plus two percent, but most landlords own their buildings free and clear, so no mortgage costs, and they're all able to make a decent profit. The one thing we weren't successful in doing is passing a vacancy tax--the dirty secret of Beverly Hills is that its real estate market is used to launder billions every year, and can't have that going away. What about a foreign owners surtax? If you're not an American citizen and you want to buy US property, you pay a premium for the privilege. I'd be down for that.

[@osuave7811]

Crony Capitalism. It even has an impact on the red states. It's a result of a system that is successful at placing blindfolds on its citizens who end up advocating agains their own self-interest.

[@clickbaitvideos]

I will not work unless I get a minimum of $100 per hour PERIOD

[@diy5729]

Its not going to get better, since we allowing the invasion of our country. You let in the crappiest people, you get crap.

[@diy5729]

Chickens, fowl, hens, geese and the birds you just pointed to all eat ticks. Its a great way to keep your lawn/area tick free by having them around. Keeping water fountains or ponds near your home or condo is great way to attract them AND keep ticks down to zero lol

[@iansimpkins2570]

I totally agree with you, but also the general public behavior has deteriorated to the point that any interaction with anyone is hostile, circular, and emotionally overblown. I’ve been abroad several times since covid and these issues you mention are totally US based

[@avscript1]

Thank you for saying out loud all the things my wife and I have been saying in private. Its all related to inflation. Prices go up, service gets worse, businesses fail, quality goes down, portions shrink. We're becoming a banana republic.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

My pleasure! Felt good to get it out!

[@Matt_K]

Only part I would disagree with the above statement is that inflation is just a tiny piece of whole story. I moved to US (NYC) in 95. Things were cheaper and more affordable back then. And since mid 2000s in my opinion federal government has been so much pro big business that small business had to gradually cut costs and quality and here we are. Cost of education is through the roof, opening small business and running it successfully has become much harder and it reflects directly on people's attitudes and overall culture.

[@ipenguin3918]

You mean a 3rd World Nation. It takes two missiles to shoot a balloon?

[@inertiaspinner555]

The currency is devalued which causes the prices to go up. Our currency is fiat, it’s manufactured into existence by an unconstitutional, central bank (Not Congress) and by our commercial banks working within the fractional reserve system (Debt). It’s controlled, it’s planned, and it’s bipartisan.

[@ipenguin3918]

@@inertiaspinner555 There is no longer a "fractional reserve" requirement in the banking system.

[@Tonymanero1960]

Michael,...I retired a few years ago with a substantial nest egg,....and a wonderful partner.Many mornings when I wake up I feel like pulling the covers over my head and not leaving my bed,...The country that I knew growing up is gone,...and though it was never perfect,....it was never a complete disaster like it is now,...and it's only getting worse.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

You're right Tony at least folks like yourself got to experience the "good times" when they were here to be had

[@SomeUserNameBlahBlah]

Rigged elections have consequences.

[@censoredeveryday3320]

If you voted democrat, you caused a lot of it yourself. And yes, Trump locked us down as well. None of the political parties are very good right now, but under Brandon we are now in WW3 with Russia, mandates, and skyrocketing inflation. I'm convinced those in power are trying to run the country into the ground

[@lindylou3519]

Oh Steve…same here. I’ve never felt so unsure of life in my entire life as I do now & we surely had our share of some hard times.

[@igorstjutins8575]

@@lindylou3519 I agree with everyone, world is going all a way to the unknown territory, prices up, service down, greedy politicians, chaos, misery and desperation.

[@scrumtrellecent]

It's getting to the point where nothing is fun anymore.

[@timboc105]

Yup!

[@cryptotrader2779]

Exactly. I've been saying the same for ages. There is no joy in life anymore, only stress and mountains of BS to deal with. Having a laugh and a carefree good time seems like a thing of the past.

[@mariamathews5312]

So true

[@mariamathews5312]

COVID didn’t change anything. The government policies changed everything for the worse

[@Nirobiscloset10]

Exactly.

[@kristie7146]

Totally agree with everything Michael. Things have changed so much it's amazing to me. I feel like I'm living in an alternate reality. I don't go out do anything unless it's necessary to survive.

[@fursurething8659]

It's crazy. I was talking to someone today about this exact same thing. Life just definitely isn't what it used to be

[@guadalupechavez1163]

Exactly

[@bigb6046]

100 % inflation , crime - everything that matters.

[@taroman7100]

Many many of us feel that way. For example, the times we live in where free speech is curtailed tantamount to having to stand in the corner in primary school. I just received a second warning from KZbin for cyberbullying? what? This is as dangerous as anything.

[@GhostRangerr]

Same for me, after the pandemic I became more isolated than ever.

[@eriear]

Part of the problem is the “great resignation”. At my work a huge amount of people with knowledge and experience left. Production, quality, etc is all a hot mess now. I’ve been there 20 years and this is absolutely rock bottom.

[@overthehilldill3626]

This one hit hard. As i travel this country i see this everywhere. Everyone's moral is very low and you can just feel the tension. Things can't go on much longer w/o major societal breakdown happening. It's what they want. Thx for another fantastic video.

[@thetapheonix]

It needs to get a lot worse before anything will change.

[@AshleySpeaks4U]

I agree. The "they" has been allowed to become filthy rich. The only incentive to survive is if you are wealthy. Nothing is fun anymore-everything breaks.

[@onemishelle]

100 % spot on! I just got back from visiting my son at his college. The hotel I stayed at charged 300 a night. Nice hotel, but not worth the 300 bucks! When checking out the desk clerk asked me about my stay. Since he asked for feedback I proceeded to tell him (in a nice way) about the uncomfortable beds and lumpy pillows. Room service wasn’t even an option in this place. He looked at me like I was crazy. Until people quit paying for lousy accommodations and services, businesses will continue to charge unreasonable rates. $ 300/night hotels have become what the $80 hotels used to be and the $1400/night hotel has now become what the $300 used to be. Crazy and no thanks!

[@lovelynirvana2960]

I've been noticing the same thing. Things are getting so much worse than before. I was telling someone that there was a time when you actually saw happy people around. Now, almost everyone is miserable and disgruntled. The United States used to be such a fun place to be. Now, everyone is worried about everything. Even the children are not laughing and playing as much as they used to.

[@taroman7100]

They dont allow children to play nor art or music in the schools. Dont know what we pay school taxes for?

[@kellykell9620]

I grow tons of my own food, kale, cabbage, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes and have chickens for eggs. I just refuse to participate in the chaos. I work from home and keep to myself. I cook at home only now, no more going out.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

That is awesome! Wish I could do the same

[@simonbagel]

We want to check out of the system but we're not a farmers. I've been thinking that moving near an Amish community might be a good idea.

[@kellykell9620]

@@simonbagel I’m renting (hoping to buy in the next few years) for now I just grow in my backyard in Florida. I can grow year round so it really helps. Being as self reliant as possible, frugal and debt free never hurts.

[@lindylou3519]

@@simonbagelthey have the right idea.

[@fursurething8659]

​@@simonbagel I only grow some stuff now. Have for a few years and had chickens maybe 5 years ago. But honestly a garden and chickens isn't to hard. I had never done it before and after 2 years I had it down pretty well with a little help from KZbin. Plus it's very rewarding eating food that you have grown not to mention the nutritional benefits!

[@anngrace5050]

I totally agree. I don't even like to travel anymore because very few things are enjoyable. It's not like it used to be. Everything is broken!

[@timboc105]

Yup!

[@jimshoe402]

Took 4 trips in 5 months Hawaii-Vegas-SouthBeach-Hawaii.NOTHING LIKE PRE all 3* not 5* DUNG TRIPS !!!😷😷😷😷😶

[@brianmatthews4149]

I agree with you.

[@realestatebykemi]

That’s how I feel. Been wanting to book a cruise but it just seems like a major hassle, just to be trapped on the ship for days. I wish I could get my excitement back about traveling. I just enjoy being home now. Maybe it’s God protecting us from injury. Last year I took a quick vacay from GA to FL, had the rental car tires collapse on me in the middle of god knows where. On a Sunday when many places were closed. It was a nightmare trip, I should’ve just left the car there & got on a train back to GA. Enterprise is HORRIFIC. I made them reimburse me for my entire trip, hotel, gas, everything. So, with service like that, who’d want to be bothered traveling? I pray my next vacation is more enjoyable.

[@greensorrel6860]

@@realestatebykemi sorry you went through that

[@Falconlibrary]

I feel your frustration. Not so long ago, that would've been MY rant. When I first moved to LA in the 1990s, I got an apartment 1.4 miles from work, thinking it'd be an easy drive. On a good day, it took me 45 minutes each way. Seven, eight changes of a traffic light before I could get through an intersection. I got a bike and made the trip in under 10 minutes, but angry/careless motorists hit me three times, nearly killing me the third time (one was carelessness, the other two clearly intended to hit me, the third one being a woman in a Range Rover who tried to slam me into a tree and actually bent the bike frame in half. LAPD didn't ticket her). Public transportation? A bus ride meant six changes of buses and the trip took me nearly two hours. After that, I walked, and every day, the same LAPD patrol partners stopped me. I asked them why they stopped me every day and one cop said "Because you're walking and that's a suspicious activity. Don't you own a car?" Miami has a long way to go to equal or exceed that level of crazy. My last five years there, I lived in Beverly Hills and never went anywhere. Groceries = Instacart, car stayed in the garage, walked to work (the BHPD doesn't consider walking a suspicious activity). This is why I've chosen to buy a house in a SMALL town with no traffic and nothing there but houses, a gas station, a Pizza Hut, and a grocery store. Will it be boring? God, I hope so.

[@overbuiltlimited]

Glad you got out of LA. My brothers lived there working in the film industry before the writers strike. It was insane on multiple levels. I hear you about wanting to live in a place with a slower pace of life. My wife and I have been planning on moving to Sarasota, FL for years. It was always such a nice atmosphere. The last couple years though things have changed. Traffic is crazy compared to what it was a few years ago. Over all hustle and bustle is way up. Prop taxes and insurance way up. Lots of woke businesses and woke people. We are now looking at other areas.

[@Falconlibrary]

@@overbuiltlimited I don't regret living in California. In many ways, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. But comes a time in your life when you just can't take all the jostling and noise. The film and tv industry does distort LA in many ways, some of them good (I never had an ugly waitress in my entire time there--every aspiring actress does that as their side hustle, although now I understand many are turning into OF girls). I decided to retire not because of the pandemic, but because when I did go to a store after the lockdowns were lifted, I saw thieves loading up grocery carts to overflowing and just rolling them out of the store while the employees watched. They told me they'd be fired if they tried to stop the thieves. Try that in Kansas and you'll get your ass kicked.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Wow sounds like you're lucky to be alive! I'm gonna buy one of those electric scooters soon to use on these heavy traffic days and I can just use the boardwalk instead of the street

[@Falconlibrary]

@@MichaelBordenaro Most LA bicyclists and scooter users ride on the sidewalk even though it's illegal because it's the only way they've got a chance. I don't know about Miami, but LA motorists hate bicyclists and pedestrians and actively try to kill them.

[@arabee4497]

Lol!

[@steven4315]

I'm a retired factory worker. I started watching Florida videos with the idea of retiring there. The more I learned, the less it made any sense. I retired in Southern Indiana. We have two acres just outside of a Fish and Wildlife area. All my utilities are provided by co-ops. My wife has the pond she always wanted. I like to go for walks in the woods (outside of hunting hours). Everything is paid for. From what I see, we made the right choice.

[@edmundmcgrath213]

Most people are herd animals. They go where the rest of the herd goes. Everybody is going to Florida these days supposedly, everybody. Who wants to go to a place where everyone else is going. Take a different tack as you did. Unfortunately for you, many of the posters on this site will now rush to southern Indiana and quickly turn it into Florida. You will then be forced to move to Western North Dakota. Don't tell anyone about it though or the flock will arrive and destroy that too.

[@steven4315]

@@edmundmcgrath213 Not concerned. The FWA limits construction areas around here. What we regard as a good retirement is not everyone's cup of tea. The county has a slow growth rate.

[@edmundmcgrath213]

@@steven4315 wait until tomorrow after everyone reads your post. The cat is out of the bag. Only kidding!

[@jimshoe402]

Buddy lives there Prop Taxes 1% of ur selling value ?? I got mine down under 2%%% IL .

[@kentkearney6623]

Mind the fallout of NORFOLK SOUTHERN. Good for you. Florida has become a shadow of it's old self.

[@graywilliams_77.]

I wasn't financially free until my 40’s and I’m still in my 40’s, bought my third house already, earn on a monthly through passive income, and got 4 out of 5 goals, just hope it encourages someone that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any of them right now, you can start TODAY regardless your age INVEST and change your future! Investing in the financial market is a grand choice I made. Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[@graywilliams_77.]

I invest across the top markets but not by myself though. I follow the guidelines of ROCH DUNGCA-SCHREIBER. you might have heard of her. I can correctly say she's worth her salt as an investment advisor as her diversification skills is top-notch, I say this because I see that in her results as my portfolio grows by averages of 20 to 3O% every month, unlike I can say for my IRA which has just been trudging along. my portfolio just mirrors what she places and not just on some particular industries of my choosing. she gave me that financial freedom I needed

[@NouraEl-k1l]

That’s great, your investment advisor must be really good, I have seen testimonies of people using the help of investment advisors in making them more financially stable. Do you mind sharing more info on this person?

[@graywilliams_77.]

look her up on the internet with her name. she's quite popular for her services as she was recently featured on CNN. She can work with anyone irrespective of where you're located>

[@NouraEl-k1l]

I just looked up this person out of curiosity, and surprisingly she seems proficient. I thought this was just some overrated BS, I appreciate this..

[@curiousziggy3984]

Excellent video Michael. I am 69 and think about all these issues you covered many times. I thought I was just old and grumpy. Feels good that someone much younger has these same perspectives. I admire your street smarts especially at your age. The government handouts encourage irresponsible behavior because nobody worries about going hungry...kind of like the FED put.

[@sl123sl]

exactly...and eventually the society crumbles

[@gregh7457]

customer service here in japan is fantastic. glad i moved here 6 months ago from hawaii. renting an apartment is cheap too. I vacationed in bangkok last week and prices were up but customer service was almost as good as japan. no despair there. It seemed like people were happy to be back working again

[@laura-zu4yz]

I’ve been disturbed, angry, sad and mad for 3 years. There are so many levels of atrocities happening from the fed gov to local gov in which to ruin our first world country as we “knew” it.

[@MrOlives28]

The decline event is more noticeable everywhere. meanwhile.The jail population increasing , same as National debt , Divorce rates, Food prices. The list is long .

[@bakerbrown6]

Add to the list personal debt, which is astronomical right now. People are using credit cards to pay for food

[@georgecuster527]

3 billion people were roaming the earth in 1970 . Today 9.3 billion people are now fighting for the resources. Great video as always Michael.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

That absolutely is a big part of it

[@joejoejohnson8207]

Good thought

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Yeah, but before the pandemic, everything was fine. It's not the population that is the problem, but the politicians intentionally driving the country into the ground.

[@liamthompson9090]

There are not too many people on Earth. Neither is it the case that there are too few resources. If people would be content with what they actually need--as opposed to what they think that they need--and if the political-economic system was organized into Contributionism communities, everyone would have what they needed, money would be eliminated, and people would be free do what makes them happy to do.

[@Old_Geezer]

At least, that's what they tell us. We really have no way of knowing do we? I sure as hell have no means of verifying their numbers. Do you? Have you ever wondered how they arrive at these figures? They always state them with absolute certainty but it's hard to see how they could possibly be so sure - outside of the developed nations, a lot of places do not have a population census and many don't even keep reliable records of births and deaths, don't have any kind of voter registration etc. Just as with everything else, one should remain skeptical when "authority" tells you anything with absolute certainty. The overpopulation claims form a core part of the Agenda 21/Agenda 2030 narrative - they use it in the same way they use their absurd "climate change" nonsense - the two combined are used to justify their evil - the concept that billions of humans must die to "save the planet" and, as I'm sure you've noticed, they push both messages relentlessly. They want a world population of 500-750M - these are their own published figures. By their own admission they want billions dead and gone - convincing you that there are too many of us is a no brainer for them. If we don't reproduce, it's just another tool of theirs to control populations, to reduce them. There are many published documents out there where these eugenicists openly state their ideas, goals and suggested methodologies regarding this subject. I'm sure, for example, you've seen Bill Gates famously crowing about reducing the world's population, making specific mention of v***ines - he should know, many third world nations have suffered at his hands, used as experimental fodder for his evil, poisoned, sterilized, murdered, all under the guise of medical philanthropy. These people are very real, very powerful and extremely evil - ultimately, the only thing they care about as far as our planet is concerned, is stealing and controlling all of its resources and solely for their own benefit. We are in their way and this is why they want the majority of us removed from the equation. Considering that statistics tell us that most western industrialized nations are not even reproducing at replacement rate and haven't been for some time, one has to wonder just where all these new human beings are coming from. Apparently third world nations are contributing more new lives than others, but even so, I struggle to believe that they can be responsible for this claimed population explosion - I mean, they seem to add another billion to the number almost on a yearly basis nowadays. Japan is already feeling and suffering from the consequences of their low birth rates over the past few decades, a situation described as a crisis, and even the Chinese are facing issues with population decline and their young people not wanting children anymore and it's going to be the same for many countries going forward. Whatever the true number might be, the world's population is actually in decline and the globalists are doing their best to ensure their depopulation goals are met - they don't much care how they do it. For them, scaring people into believing the overpopulation myth is one of their less murderous methods. If you want to learn more about the topic, a quick search for something like "the overpopulation lie" or the "overpopulation myth" should net you some interesting videos and articles. It's easy to think that there are too many people, especially when powerful forces promote the idea constantly and particularly when they use visuals intended to deliberately reinforce the claims. They don't show you pictures of vast empty plains or prairies when they are pushing the overpopulation message - it's always crowded subway stations, or crowds of people thronging the streets in some major city during the rush hour. It's also easy to believe if you live in a major urban centre, a big city, where conditions are overcrowded and constantly hectic and busy. The reality is that much of the world is still relatively empty and we are not at all short of space. Resources are of course something else entirely but a lot of the claims they make regarding oil, gas, metals and food can never really be trusted either. A lot of what we are told is served up for many reasons and one of the big ones is control.

[@sean636]

A lot of this is true for most of the country but I think it’s worse in Florida due to growing pains. Florida has gained so many people it’s hard to handle I think

[@MikeBA10]

Well said Michael. I've especially noticed the restaurant problem. Seems like many of them have cut corners to stay in business during the pandemic and have kept up with that. Makes me appreciate a nice home cooked meal at home that much more.

[@acb2439]

Thank you for the rant Michael. You are 100% correct. It's not just happening in Florida. Sadly, the demise of America is well underway 😢.

[@ysabellpp]

Europe too… it’s genuinely in the entire world the same rapid decline

[@marknewton6984]

Started in the 70's. Now global. 😮

[@Chiefsfan98]

You are not alone Michael! I hate the world we live in now. Everything is worse and I don’t know if it will change.

[@marknewton6984]

It will change. It's an election year. 😮

[@slater6673]

You are 100% correct, sadly. It’s like companies don’t feel like they need to compete for our money anymore. My wife and I have started noticing terrible quality and service along with places being packed and poorly maintained. I fear too many people don’t value working so it may not get better. It’s like society isn’t vibrant anymore. And this is recent, just the last couple years

[@TimothyCHenderson]

For many the pandemic was a wake up call. For those who worked in service (myself being one of them for nearly 20 years), you learned rather quickly that you were disposable and that all the hard work and effort you put in over the years was just a commodity (longest day I worked was 27hrs of which I was paid for only 18). I left retail almost a year ago and will never go back. Customers also got significantly worse after the pandemic too. I would rather work for myself and struggle with the uncertainty of self employment then be exploited by a massive corporation that doesn't give two F's. Retailers are also obsessed with perpetual, double digit growth which puts a huge squeeze on funding at store level. I guarantee that there's labour shortage issues but a lot of what you're seeing is cut backs to payroll to save on controllable's to improve the corporations bottom line. Over the 20 years I worked in retail, I saw labour hours for our stores go down every year, little by little so that we had less and less hours to give to staff with the expectation that we streamline and find efficiencies. Same with a drop in quality, which at the retailer I was working at, had begun long before the pandemic. Non-viable Neoliberal business practices coupled with pandemic upheaval are telling us that these business practices are no longer sustainable. The pandemic played it's part in showing us the great weaknesses and faults in our existing system, now it's time to find a new way... what that is, I couldn't tell you.

[@taroman7100]

Most companies we grew up with have been swallowed into a big consortium. No more competition just one big anti capitalism garbage heap.

[@barkingdog9509-]

I work in fine dining here in vegas. Prices are way up, quality is down, hustle and morale have also plummeted.

[@jimshoe402]

Honest person..

[@msingleton]

Same in Utah. Two major factors: Too fast of a growth rate in population making everything crowded and chaotic. Not enough employees working to properly maintain business with so many customers.

[@jacquelinecooper2004]

Salt Lake City has always been like that, I was there in 2015 and there were hiring signs everywhere. The locals didn’t keep jobs because of the drug use there.

[@leonakay6491]

Thank you for your words. This is a reality, and here in Australia, it is also happening, perhaps different with some property laws. The poor service, higher prices and lower quality of the food when eating out, is not something we support. We now prefer to eat at home, at least we know that the food is fresh and what ingredients go into it. So many changes, and unfortunately people are just struggling to keep their businesses and homes. Most people just don't care anymore. Standards have fallen everywhere. Simply a disaster! This is a reality check, not negativity. This is happening everywhere.

[@stephenbowden4766]

Thank you Michael for this video, you hit the nail on the head, but I truly believe that this country and maybe even the whole world is in an unrecoverable nosedive. Everything and I mean everything is a total mess.

[@harmgregory4560]

not really.

[@hailandfire1822]

This rant is an absolute thing of beauty. Thank you for confirming what many of us have been thinking. We live in a world on the brink of something... BAD. I'm not going to pretend I know exactly what is going on, but I don't think it's our imagination. People are angry, desperate, and as I said in another comment, subconsciously suicidal. I suspect when tax season rolls around, and people are going to have to actually LOOK at their brokerage statements and determine their losses, then the tears and anguish out there is going to DOUBLE.

[@gregorysagegreene]

Read 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' - See it now!

[@FloridaGirl-]

100% relate Michael on all accounts! On top of the Northerns being down. We still have TONS of hurricaine workers here on the Gulf! I’m serious. I only go out if I really need something. The traffic is NUTS and people drive like nut jobs! I’m just extending my garden. Good thing I have a hobby! Had a Dr appt other week. I go to counter to check in. They tell me, “oh, Wednesdays the Dr’s day off”. i’m like, ok, so why did you schedule me?”. Then they wanted to squeeze me in 3.5 hrs later. Told em. I’m not coming back. Let’s see I have my yearly in June. “Bye”👋. While I was at the window. Gal in next lane. Comes in. Taking her hubby for a scan somewhere. She says. Hey, I was half way to appt. And looking at the Dr order. This isn’t my husband. I don’t know who this person is. So they had given her someone elses Dr order. I could hear the twighlight zone music playing. 🤪. So it’s EVERYWHERE! Crazy! You should check out the WEF, and the whole “UN 2030”-agenda. It’s NOT about climate!! And yes it’s an AGENDA alright!

[@gregorysagegreene]

As a trucker I see 4 wheelers and even a lot of other truckers take their 'rants' out on the road! Insanity.

[@joemosc5671]

I’ve talked with my brother a lot about these things. food quality is gone everywhere service is gone at every restaurant or even fast food the workers look like they are on there last breath daily morale is at a zero And businesses are cutting and cutting products to the cheapest standard possible to make as much as possible now. You are right Michael the pandemic was the beginning of the end. Eventually I hope somehow we can get back to normal but who knows we all been waiting a long time and years are going by 😢

[@taroman7100]

That's what they wanted. It was a massive mistake to lock down an economy this size for nearly two years!

[@Jeannified]

OMG, your assessment on restaurants is SPOT ON!!! Also, one of our favorite go to places is The Cheesecake Factory, because the food and portions are consistent. That being said, they stopped carrying my favorite dish over the past several months (pecan encrusted salmon over a kale salad). Also, for what we buy, the total bill has gone up by about $15.00. Also, my husband is a great cook, so we always question why we go out, because he can make better food, for a lot cheaper...although the groceries have gone way up too. He said that what he used to pay $100.00 for, now costs him about $200.00 to $230.00. Crazy!

[@rabbitcreative]

> salmon Fish are not human-food. Eat plants.

[@Jeannified]

@@rabbitcreative Eating a big salad right now...with tuna.

[@Dido271]

This applies to the trades too. Young people don’t want to do trades and aren’t replacing the people retiring. Super hard to find affordable quality contractors to do work on my properties and I’ve lost a lot of money over the last year just trying to get basic stuff done like painting

[@flower2289]

I think more young people should go into the trades. Pushing everybody towards a university is a mistake. And a hard working, conscientious person can make plenty of money doing that.

[@nikita.bogdan.c]

Because of corruption. Evil is winning.

[@stevenotero2627]

I second that emotion. These corporations have no shame nor accountability. So they run amuck. We get ripped off every which way we turn. Customer service no longer exist. It's just customer take it or leave it attitudes from businesses. After the laughter comes the tears. Cheers. 😎🎭✌️

[@lindaadams1008]

When I was a landlord, I received a call from the tenant, saying that the air conditioning unit stopped working. It was expensive and stressful. Now, I own one house, and it's the one where I reside.

[@timboc105]

I'm an AC tech of 36 years it's not all.peaches and cream is it being a landlord. Us AC techs can't stand u lords when u call us out on Sunday morning

[@jimshoe402]

Just like me People changed can't trust them..But Happy

[@jimshoe402]

@@timboc105 That's ur Job don't like it QUIT like i did at 51.Try working outside at -25F and 50 mph wind..ALOHA😁😁😁😁

[@timboc105]

@jimshoe402 Try working working for countless hours in 138 degree attics when its 98 outside all summers replacing people's shit..😁 OH BTW Air Conditioning destroyed the real Florida..Cheers

[@jimshoe402]

@@timboc105 QUIT I DID all fixed Right simple !!! ALOHA

[@charlesgomez4218]

Hello Michael, everything you talk about going on in Miami - is happening here in NY , very disheartening and 😢😢 take care....

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Sorry to hear that, I knew it wasn't just me

[@ginon.7329]

I can't get any type of service anywhere anymore. Everything you say is happening here (Virginia Beach area). Post COVID is bizarro world to many. Yes, I relate.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

What is going on!!

[@censoredeveryday3320]

People are dropping like flies because of the mystery oil

[@gregorysagegreene]

You look at longtime employees, who once were *invested* in their vocation, had that ethic passed down and down and down over generations of cycling workers ... suddenly saying "fuck this!" ... and then the next set of replacements in 2020-2023 has to deal with all this crap from businesses already on the way down, where survival rather than people is the only priority, and with decades of mentorship completely evaporated and lost. It's a 'new' world, people. One that only long years of hard times will take to make the next set of 'good men'.

[@mhphotography08]

I bought in 2010, liquidating all my rentals now, taxes are insane, 20%+ every year!!

[@lindylou3519]

Just went on a Disney Cruise with my oldest daughter who just lost her husband to cancer. We went to the Virgin Islands & Bahamas. Well, lol, she & I were absolutely amazed & impressed daily over the friendly & courteous service of each employee on the ship from servers to cabin steward, from Captain to Cruise Director as well as amazed at the good quality of food & the cleanliness of every inch of the ship. We both looked at each other & made the comment that we had honestly forgotten what truly good service was until now & how miserable it was going to be to go back to the rude & broken society we have now. Man, it’s like night & day. I guess the whole world needs a little magic.

[@therapywithisabel]

Good to know Disney cruise can still bring the magic

[@noreenn6976]

@@therapywithisabel I hear many say that Disney Cruises are very magical. I've noticed that Disneyworld doesn't feel as magical as it used to, maybe I need to take a Disney Cruise instead

[@lindylou3519]

@@noreenn6976 you would be in awe over it. It was wonderful.

[@mikey289]

I went in a Royal Caribbean last October and it was incredible good. I love it and the customer service in the ship the best

[@noreenn6976]

@@mikey289 wonderful, maybe cruising is the way back to good customer experiences

[@gabyd.530]

Thank you for the rant Michael. I needed to hear this!!! I live in Texas and even though it is not as bad as it see.s to be in Miami, we are getting there too. The pandemic changed a lot of things, consumers became more conscious and selective. I've recently noticed how people walk into a store like Ross and almost immediately get out. Why? Dirty aisles, 2 staff members, empty shelves... why bother ?

[@ShootingStar_JB]

THANK YOU! I agree 1000% from CA, national parks, vacation towns, the daggom Target, traffic anytime, ALL SH*TSHOWS now. I don't like going anywhere anymore and I order most of my non perishable groceries from Thrive Market. Civilization is going downhill 😔

[@petestanton1945]

there was a punk rock movie in 1981 called The Decline of Western Civilization. China just keeps progressing tho

[@MichaelBordenaro]

One int the same! I can't stand going anywhere either anymore. Pretty much only for the videos and that's it.

[@ryebread921]

@@petestanton1945 China is in worse shape than us. They are experiencing a massive population decline as a result of their one child poo policy and western nations are moving their manufacturing out of China due to their strict covid policies

[@robertmanley2687]

Soylent Green is people

[@kristie7146]

100% agree. I don't go anywhere I don't have to. It's not worth the stress.

[@jonEmontana]

You’re just speaking the truth and reality. It does get much worse from here I predict with a high level of confidence.

[@AdminLogistics.]

All of this is happening in aviation as well. No line crew for fuel or push back, nobody at the FBO desk, maintenance shops are very very short technicians, ATC short staffed. Crazy

[@dlady4]

But... do you know what there isn't a shortage of? Crooked, opportunistic politicians and lawyers ready to sue the crap out of businesses and people for the most minute thing. A lot of professionals are leaving their careers/jobs because the risk/reward balance is no longer there. Too much risk for very little reward. This is also true of many professionals in healthcare.

[@annyer262]

I tried getting VFR flight following on Sept 11 last year, after departing Augusta ME. No response. They were short staffed. I could hear both the controller and the other planes. Very busy. On my trip there and to MSV back in August I got no response to close my flight following. I called up on clearance delivery to make sure I was out of the system. This is not supposed to happen. You are not taught that there is a need to do this during training. I have given up talking to flight service these days. Just use Foreflight.

[@alyssa7782]

We had to wait an hour on a plane this past weekend just for it to be able to pull up to the terminal so we could exit. The pilot couldn’t get ahold of anyone to give us an update-he said all hands must be on deck and that they were short staffed.

[@z33317]

I live in Broward County - just north of where this video was done. My 2 cents about food prices.... I do most of my shopping at Publix, but I recently began to buy certain items elsewhere. In particular milk and eggs (probably the most common items most families buy). A dozen large eggs at Publix now runs almost $6. A gallon of Publix own brand milk $4.95. Bought a package of two dozen eggs at Sam's Club last week for $5.98. Bought a gallon of milk at Aldi for $2.98. Aldi also had a dozen large eggs for $3.39. Even Costco charges $3.85 for a gallon of milk. Publix is basically a convenient location to shop as they are all over the place, but you are paying dearly for that convenience. I mainly shop/buy at Publix when items I want are BOGO, otherwise I'm getting fleeced. I now buy those dairy items at the stores mentioned.

[@puravida5683]

Not only worse in Miami! As an expat living in Central and South America for 9 years, it's the same. Higher food prices, lower quality of food, smaller portions, terrible service, and tips automatically included in the bill. I now cook at home, finding different recipes on KZbin. I now feel so sorry for tourists I see, in the restaurants, I now walk by.

[@SomeUserNameBlahBlah]

I was thinking of moving to South America as well. What countries would be a good spot to look at? Note - I only speak English, but will learn another if needed.

[@LEETCH_2]

Argentina is beautiful. They call it the Paris of South America. Lots of Italian food. And beautiful architecture. Try there.

[@SomeUserNameBlahBlah]

@@LEETCH_2 Any particular place/city in Argentina? Also, do most people know English in that area?

[@SammifromMiami]

@Pura Vida, we were just in Costa Rica. Loved our resort at Manuel Antonio. The people were nice. But I don’t know if I could live there. I found all the fences and barbed wire around everything a little off putting. Is all of Central and South America like that? Uruguay intrigues me. What say ye?

[@flower2289]

Sometimes I wonder how I ever repaired anything before KZbin. I am retired now and my income is not that high so I repair almost everything myself. I really love that aspect of KZbin.

[@overbuiltlimited]

I can totally relate. I grew up in Miami in the eighties. We rode our bmx bikes everywhere. If a kid tried that today they'd be dead within a year. Miami is soooo much busier now that when I grew up.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Oh yeah I see people on bikes get almost swiped on the daily within an inch of a speeding car. Crazy to be riding a bike around here.

[@yuriib5483]

we went 13-17th January to South Florida staying around Plantation. took us 52 minutes to cover 30 miles to Perez art museum. no shit bud there's more people now there than in 80s

[@roxann.]

1st! Publix near me is basically empty for the last few months but Trader Joe’s is slammed. That’s what happens when you charge $10 for berries.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Publix is a horrible deal for basically everything now. We go there once a month just to get a few items that only they have and that's it.

[@DungNguyen-hz5tb]

We seldom eat out anymore. Quality, tips, etc is so bad.

[@kenetic1228]

Us Too. Always an easy $100 too to eat out

[@javajunkie517]

@@kenetic1228 Right. and how long does it take to earn that after taxes? Not really worth the cost to me anymore

[@sarahm3896]

B of A is awful. Always 1 cashier and 20 people in line. I dumped my rental last spring. I knew inflation would increase my expenses. I’ve been living below my means, I don’t eat out, I don’t shop like I used to, I don’t buy things I don’t need. I’ve basically adopted a minimalistic lifestyle and I love it. I’m patiently waiting on the sidelines to purchase my dream home. It was hard not to buy last year but I know it’ll pay off in the end.

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Same here. I unloaded a property about a year ago that was in a bad area for a great price. The cash from that sale is now earning 5% while I rent a small place and just watch the housing crash from the sidelines. Keep patient and look for good deals. I think I might get my real estate license too so I can write a lot of low bid offers myself

[@sarahm3896]

@@censoredeveryday3320 Right on!

[@MichaelBordenaro]

I am pretty much a minimalist as well, my expenses are still very low for where I live and I like it that way. makes life easier.

[@austinbrehm8473]

I couldn’t agree more with this video!We all need to speak up!! This is getting out of control. Absolutely terrible to watch this happen. Please everyone, speak up!! Let’s turn this around

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Yes!! The more people that refuse to pay for ridiculous items / services that suck the faster they'll go under

[@danman1287]

The insurance issue is uncontrollable outside buying a newer build with updated building codes. This is something that can wreck retirees...most eventually just drop it but don't sell ... Then the recent hurricane hits them. It's high risk living in FL (retiring) if u can't afford a newer build home.

[@GigaChad_169]

I’ve been thinking the same thing. Service is terrible across the board, restaurants, stores, etc. Eating out isn’t worth it anymore. Low effort cooking and low quality. Despite that many of these restaurants are still crowded. I can cook well and I expect that when I eat out the quality of the experience is better than what I can make at home. Eating at home is healthier anyway, maybe all of this is a blessing in disguise. We all need to make an effort to be deliberate with our spending and less impulsive about seeking convenience.

[@timboc105]

Mostly Meth heads cooking ur food in restaurants

[@gregorysagegreene]

Mate! 💜 You're such an honest, genuine, smart, and likeable guy. I'm an Aussie expat, been here almost 25 years, and I've never met that many yanks, as a foreigner with a worldly perspective, that are in fact - real. Usually it takes a bit of me to turn 'em around. 😄 But you are right. It ain't the 80's no more. In fact, it's not just the bug that did this. For me, I see it as starting well back in 2008. Even in 2006-7, things were radically different than what the kids coming up could even imagine now. It was kind of like a Lewis Black rant. Downtown, opposite the Grill Boozer and right beside the Cinema there was a Starbucks, and a short quick drive aross town after the Theatre there was another - Starbucks! That was my life back then, shortly after my divorce. Right when I thought it was hell, and in fact well before Lehmans - Bear Stearns had collapsed - even when housing was turning down *life was still on fire.* I had people and food and a coffee joint with quiet private alcoves and plush upholstered seats to comfort me in my grief and loneliness. People just don't know what we've lost. It's a creeping thing. Fast forward to 2019, and as a Trucker now you could still restock from a Walmart in the dead of night at Sidney, Nebraska or catch my favorite Starbucks on a Friday or Saturday night in Lodi, California till 11 pm. Now, not so much. All over, Walmarts are closed at 11pm till 6am, and my Starbucks 'latenighter' is 9pm. Back in that 2006 timezone it used to be 1am!!! So this has been a slow 15 year creep, what it must have been before the 'reality' of Winston's day in 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', where he had a sneaking suspicion - like the kids of our day - that something is just not right, yet he never knew of anything earlier than his shitty world of the present. He would be used to the uncomfortable boarded seats in the Starbucks, with their revamped walk thru and out layouts now, and their locked bathrooms to keep all the ever-increasing homeless out! And he would be equally blissfully ignorant that even though 'coffee' went down this week, it had already gone up in price so much more last week! What *'they'* have done to us! No wonder we get all the arguing with the customer, and the shitty service and literally everything else you are so right about in all our service establishments, Michael. I dunno' if you are aware of him - "I was so happy with the product, I bawt the company" - but a leader of inventiveness in Sales and relationships to people, a thing that was once tantamount to and characteristic of America - Victor Kiam - would be turning in his grave.

[@edmundmcgrath213]

The older you are, the more likely you are to comment that things started to go bad earlier. For example prior to 2007 as you mention. I think if anything the Starbucksization of America is what's wrong with the country. 30 years ago you would have Joe's Gym to work out at now it is not a franchise with elevator music and mirrors everywhere. Businesses like Joe's Gym went out of business and never came back. For me it's the duality of corporate America hollowing out the interesting and charming main streets, even South Beach by the way back in the late 70s when I first started going there. Much better place. And the second Change I feel from my own experience is just the horrible technological changes that have occurred, social media in particular, cell phone staring all day long, particularly with millennial's getting worse and worse each generation. Thishas isolated everyone from each other and people began in the mid-90s starting to live in their own bubbles and entered into a technological biosphere where their entire world lives inside a 4 inch screen. No one meets anyone anymore. I'm old enough to remember pre-Internet for at least 15 years of my adult life and post Internet and I can tell you pre-Internet was 1000 times better. I saw Pink Floyd and AC/DC play in Miami in the early 80s and nary a cell phone to be had. People were engaged in the moment listening to the music. Today look at a concert if you even want to call them that, some awful autotune drivel, with every single audience member holding phones overhead filming themselves having a good time, but not actually having one.

[@gregorysagegreene]

@@edmundmcgrath213 Oh yes. You just touched on a whole lot extra of what used to be. I watched both of those groups, among many others, in concert in Melbourne Australia in the '80's, which was awesome, at a time somewhat before one of my companies required me to take the 'brick' and a CRT home overnight in a sportsbag for 'duty programming' responsibilities. My kid brother and I in the very late 70's travelled our home island of Tasmania in my car together with a *paper* map. An 'answering machine' was a bulky object attached to my landline phone that I consulted after I got home from work. I *met* people largely at my workplaces, and actually *never* had to go out and buy a gourmet coffee every day - it was just nescafe granules and boiled water and ordinary milk mixed before I took it to my desk. I was actually quite alone and lonely in 'the big smoke' for a long, long time - my 'experiences' were never like this virtual reality we talk in now - but the experiences I did have were *real,* such as one coworker inviting us to a couple day stay on their parents' peninsula farm, and another giving me some 'contract' moonlighting work at his budding side job. Childhood was about being out and about amongst nature and the land in a semi-rural and radically-different environment to what most kid's know today. I had no idea that in forty years I would be on the other side of the ocean, looking back through the sea of time, and contemplating what 'Americanization' and Globalization has done to most of us Westerners. I was just a boy, hopeful and optimistic for a future . . . I never had an idea that one day I would reviewing such a recent personal history of loss and tragedy and deprivation, and that my *only* fruitful means of connectivity would come from a decade and a half of a newly-developed skill of *writing,* borne out of an intense desire to understand and question and express all of that.

[@hoarbaby]

2012 is when it all changed

[@nimbusspacewagon]

The US economy was held together with spit and tape before the pandemic. The pandemic broke the tape and everything crumbled at once. 40 years of Reganomics and NeoLiberal policies have brought us to this late-stage capitalism hellscape. It really can’t get much worse without people finally rising up in revolt. Everywhere I look i see people who have nothing left, while a corporate media tries to tells us everything is great; while bought and paid for corporate politicians on both sides of the aisle try and tell us they are working for us…no one believes it anymore, too many are hurting now…everyone is hurting too much and the shared experience of the masses is no longer able to be subdued by the spin and lies of the plutocrats.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

That is such a great way to put it

[@cassandraatsea]

No businesses can get enough employees. I spoke to one of bankers at WF recently, and she told me bank just can’t find employees anymore. If someone is promoted, or retired or resigned, they can’t find any replacements. Stores, factories and all the businesses are the same. They can’t find workers. Nobody wants to work as used to be. I wonder where do everyone get money without working.

[@thetapheonix]

There are plenty of people available to work, it’s just people don’t want to work. They get just enough to survive off of government entitlements and they just screw off the rest of their lives. I see it every day.

[@stevewalther2293]

@@thetapheonix I keep hearing this...people getting money from the Government???!!! Who gets money from the Government...lol...I'd like to know how I can get money from the Government...Kids are living with their parents and play video games....I know people who are in their 50s and live with their parents...cost of living is insane...

[@rl9808]

I’m glad I got over 55 years of life before it went downhill!

[@javajunkie517]

Ditto!! Glad I lived thru the 70's to 90's - it was a great ride!

[@MichaelBordenaro]

You are lucky!!

[@jagsfanrick]

yea the 80's was awesome

[@s99614]

I also feel sorry for young people today.

[@javajunkie517]

@@jagsfanrick Yep. The kids in my family don't understand how awesome it really was back then - pre cell phones, instagram all this crap now..... It was cheesy, but it was SO great!! Never a second thought to going to school, a store, a theater and feeling anxious like you could be in another headline - let's put it that way.

[@teresaalford5978]

Excellent video! I have not dined in in 3 yrs and have NOT missed it! Eating out is a rip off!!!

[@Userhfdryjjgddf]

Same here. Every day I'm cooking at home it makes me feel awesome. I like to stack silver and gold. I joke that every meal tastes like gold amd my coffee tastes like silver. Oh ya cut out all fancy coffee shops 3 years ago as well. My coffee costs me with creamer about $12 a month.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Thanks Teresa you're not missing much!

[@anya8221]

Agreed, we only go out for things we can't make at home, like sushi and chinese, very rarely.

[@maryperzigian4369]

Im another subscriber that cannot possibly agree more. I was always, and still keep trying to be- a glass half full person. I’m failing for the first time in my life because EVERYTHING is broken. Like another commenter I feel like I’m living in Seinfeld’s Bizarroworld where everything is backwards! My life was relatively good through 2019- then the s-storm hit. Restaurants charge twice as much for much lower quality while never having enough staff. Groceries prices are through the roof, I’m seeing more and more higher quality stores here in the greater Tampa area fold and your subscribers all know how screwed up real estate is. The government changes the definition of recession hoping that people are stupid enough to believe them. Don’t even try to be a frequent concert attendee since ticket prices have quadrupled. Retail stores have less and lower quality goods and no help. I could go on and on. Hard to believe it is already 3 years with little change. Like everyone else, I really miss my old life. If I live to see anything like my old life I will surely appreciate it even more than I did before. The great reset will never work unless everyone blindly follows the blind sheep! I will be an outlier til I die. Yes we need a big big change in the jester in the big house.

[@cindyireland3394]

Normal isn't coming back, Jesus is ✝️

[@aboveaveragejoe6795]

@@cindyireland3394 you betcha! Spread the word.

[@gregorysagegreene]

It'll probably have to be a revolution, cause this has been a long term thing they did to us.

[@taroman7100]

Washington is locked up. Too many special groups wanting attention. It would take a tough guy to put a serious end to drugs and corruption. Once inflation takes off it's greed all the way and every man for himself. Seen it before.

[@katherinehardesty2876]

Thanks for comiserating with us. Sadly things in general seem to be collapsing. ;(

[@Not-An-AI-Bot]

Yeah man, traffic is always bad here this time of year. But it's def getting increasingly worse every year for the last 3 years.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

It's definitely getting worse

[@seameology]

Restaurants in Minnesota. Yup. Higher prices, smaller portions and the quality sucks. I won't eat out, any more. I'll cook at home.

[@Papaseer]

And I just want to add Michael you are so not alone in this , What miami used to be it is no longer and it is really sad …so not feel any type of way for venting your frustrations you are absolutely right as I sit in my hotel in Alabama typing this , litterally just drove from miami yesterday, and I’m headed to the Midwest for a fresh and cheaper start , thank you I knew i left for all the right reasons and it was hard I love miami 😢

[@gabesimmonds8421]

I think it's nationwide. You might have less of this in the Midwest but ultimately it will catch up everywhere. Watch Dr Zhivago, the 1965 version with Omar Sharif. Its about how the Soviet revolution took over Russia step by step. He also found his hideout in Siberia but not long.

[@Papaseer]

@@gabesimmonds8421 i totally agree , I think nomadic style of life is becoming more common

[@househunter1586]

Thank you for making this video. I feel like you just provided a monologue for what I’m thinking on a daily basis in this post pandemic world.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

You're so welcome! I figured that would be the case with many folks!

[@berninme]

Agree 100% on many things being worse now. Going out to eat is the biggest waste of time and money now. Paying to make yourself sick.

[@realestatephotographyofcda5764]

Prime Rib: low and slow, wife says to rube the sh!+ out of it. Stuff it with garlic and you blast it in the oven @ 500 for like 20-30mins then turn it down to 325 for a few hours depending on the weight.. check core temp to preference.. 🤙🏽👊🏽 The rub consists of garlic, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, olive oil maybe some cayenne, paprika.. Adobo from Goya is amazing. Hope this helps! 👍🏽

[@Eliudmondragon]

I agree. Everything is getting so much worse than before. Just the fact of going out to eat or to have a little fun involves lots of money and lots of lines.

[@Yette]

My sense is many people just never went back to some service sector jobs after the pandemic. People were tired of meager wages, no benefits and lousy jobs. As long as the companies don't pay a living wage, I agree the service we were accustomed to won't come back. Corporations are interested in profits and don't care about delivering a quality product. Workers are considered expendable.

[@karengriswold4537]

Hi Michael! Not negative, reality just sucks right now. Great rant!

[@MichaelBordenaro]

I'm glad you see it that way Karen that's how I'm looking at it too

[@ginon.7329]

Yes, I agree, always feel free to rant.

[@ag4allgood]

Restaurants worse / gyms worse / everything is worse. Well the boomer generation is retiring. The replacements in those jobs are so distracted by their smart phones now they have no focus. Showing up to work late & leaving early is what I witnessed at my company in the last few years. That is not in my work ethic. I was early to work & stayed late if required but you know the company didn't PAY ME Michael ! I was not on salary either. So with these new show up late / leave early employees head down looking at the smart phone all day coming on board - very discouraged. Those LAST few years I purposely gave Management that same lackadaisical ethic because it NEVER was appreciated ! No raises for YEARS ! The new generation taking my place lacks work ethics / hustle & focus.

[@lindylou3519]

Amen!

[@DavidFoster-ef5vr]

I definitely agree. Here in NYC some of my favorite restaurants closed for good or have changed ownership because of the high rents but less customers. While workers came back to the city its not like it was. The remote option is still there. My bank Chase used to be everywhere they closed branches. Now because of crime some won't let you in the atm area at night. My local grocery store don't have much cashiers so you be forced to self checkout. The Drug stores have closed due to shoplifting. Most are not 24hrs anymore and if you find a Walgreens or CVS. They will have things locked so you need an assistant to get it. Rite aid I think pulled out of Manhattan. Its crazy.

[@paulconner4614]

I was visiting my son in Seattle and tried to go to the Drug store at 10:05 pm. I went to 2 stand alone ones and two that were inside grocery stores and all 4 were closed. Next morning made the mistake of walking down to the McDonalds to get some breakfast and at 7:30 am the lobby was not open (only the drive thru) and they throw a fit if you walk through the drive thru so no McMuffin for me.

[@MeadowDay]

This chaos is what they voted for..madness!

[@sharonlee7111]

With all that traffic can you ever even imagine trying to get out of that place if there was ever a public emergency

[@MichaelBordenaro]

I don't have to imagine I was in that situation in 2017 with Hurricane and Irma. It was basically impossible to leave, unless you left a few days in advance.

[@FloridaGirl-]

So TRUE Michael. People have no clue! Plus you be lucky to get gas. 2 days before Ivan. No gas at the stations here in North Port! Was INSANE!

[@ipenguin3918]

They'll be told to shelter in place.

[@FloridaGirl-]

@@ipenguin3918 That’s exactly what I did! And was smack dab in the middle of Ivan! 145-150 mph winds! 😱😱 And it lasted FOREVER! It was hair raising! I sat and prayed for 13 hours! 🙏 God saved my house. Something, I’ll never forget! Believe me!

[@landeeld9596]

Of course many people from the crazy states have moved to Miami (I moved from Southern Cali to Panama City Beach in the last 6 months).

[@anthonyshaw8698]

I totally agree with you. Alot of restaurants increased their prices, and the food and service in most, has declined. I can cook, so alot times, I just eat from home, and my food is great!!

[@timboc105]

Bingo! Pizza Hut wanted $37.50 yup I asked twice for the price for a medium meat lovers pizza and a dozen wings yesterday I told them too keep their food!

[@carl9901]

some of my favorite places closed down during the pandemic. For ex suburban station in philly, had two fantastic coffeeshops serving commuters. Now there's just 3 crappy dunkin donuts. Small business owners can't afford a hit like getting 0 commuters for 2 years straight

[@williamchampagne2684]

Thank you Michael this is truth and reality. I no longer live in Miami Dade. I moved to Raleigh Durham and we’re experiencing the same craziness and chaos here. It is somewhat taking the joy out of going to events, dining out and driving. Driving is become dangerous- people rear end you and scoot off - run over people and not stop- yes I am speaking of Raleigh NC 😬 All the Air bnb and out of state/country investors has changed the vibe-comes down to their greed and not our quality of life. So you are not alone, thank you for another great video,

[@floraldays5642]

I have noticed these issues and agree with all your points.

[@triptibaliga9137]

I couldn’t agree more. We used to live eating out but have really reduced our restaurant intake. So expensive and simply not worth it!

[@emzywillrich7243]

I can relate Michael. I was out at restaurant today and went to the restroom to wash my hands, and the door was absolutely filthy, inside and out. Specifically around the door knob. It was disgusting!!

[@MichaelBordenaro]

yep so imagine thats on the hands of all the people serving and cooking for us

[@emzywillrich7243]

@@MichaelBordenaro Believe me, I am trying not to think about it.

[@dandahl5964]

True. Overflowing garbage cans etc. Crazy

[@MichaelBordenaro]

@@emzywillrich7243 haha I’m sure 😄

[@brn2863]

I'll sound like an asshole but we need more people to NEED their jobs again, instead of the other way around. I'm sorry but people in service and retail type jobs shouldn't feel they're indispensable. Recipe for disaster in terms of the job people do.

[@krisangel7080]

Another thing, most big manufacturing companies would fire you for the littlest thing. They can't ask people to move anymore to fill in.

[@kernelkorn6545]

I’ve heard Michael talk briefly about Musicians Friend. They’ve gone so far downhill it’s crazy. These businesses have done it to themselves. They’ve outsourced everything customer service wise. It’s pathetic. I placed a guitar in my cart on the website. 3 days later they peppered my phone at least 8 times. I never answered. Then they sent me an email titled “abandoned cart” asking me call them. They know how pathetic their outsourced customer service is. Now they use someone in the states to follow up on all the lost sales.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

I know they are getting bad now too

[@jojojojojojojo7013]

I guess we all see and feel what building back better meant.

[@taroman7100]

The Democratic party has been hi-jacked by commies. That is not the Dem's that I know. Our media is owned by corporations. How did this happen. No one minding the store. Border wide open. The president has broken his oath to protect our borders. This is ignored by every dem in office out there!

[@MeadowDay]

Exactly!…a country on its knees in two years!

[@CatsAreNiceMeow]

FJB

[@multipolarworldtoday]

Agree 100% about going out and the service industry has really declined in all aspects. I liked going out pre Covid , but now it sucks. I do not see things getting better for several years

[@MichaelBordenaro]

I'm wondering if it will ever get better...

[@jimshoe402]

@@MichaelBordenaro It will get Better Always does like 4 years ???

[@3722-d5s]

I agree with everything you said! Houston prime rib was the only reason I eat there and it was removed for some reason!

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Why would they remove the best dish on the menu?

[@vikingoutlaw9]

TRUTH is ALWAYS more powerful than when it’s Sugar Coated. Keep up the great news and informative insight. You’re 💯 on Target 🎯.

[@andrewhorowitz4448]

Time to get off the couch. Is our session over already. I feel much better. Thanks Dr. Mike

[@mmtravel9052]

Agree about the restaurants… doing it myself now… cooking at home

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Much better!

[@bjjones1969]

Yes “downhill”. Everything will go downhill. Thank you for sharing how Miami truly is. Hope other locals will share how things truly are.

[@330DKNY]

It's almost like corporations only care about their profit and reducing the number of employees working is the easiest way to increase the quarters numbers.... Who would have thought.

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Thats right

[@SC-or2ek]

As a self employed I work 7days aweek 360 days per years and try to save money For retirement investments In stock in rental property I'm still driving 🚗 20 to 30 years old car I don't buy thing I don't need. i don't keeping up With the Jones or the latest IPHONE 📱 all I need is to be able to retire when I'm ready And just live off my investments and rental 👍

[@j4513]

Feel free to rant, Michael. Even your rants are very interesting. 😂🙂

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Haha I appreciate that!

[@HoneyBadger80886]

AND educational!

[@amineaiffa]

I don't know about all the rest of the stuff you talked about but it recently dawned on me that waitresses expect 25% in tips for doing the bare minimum. I remember when giving 18% was considered high and 15% was average. The waiters seem okay, but the waitresses have become very entitled. A good old fashioned recession will flush all the poor service, overcrowding and shitty businesses down the toilette in a hurry. You can't stay profitable in an economy where consumers have little money to spend and you still treat them poorly when they show up to your establishment. By the looks of things, that recession seems right around the corner too.

[@marshferguson4737]

Here in Ontario, landlords are selling the units after a bad tenant. Here they've need waiting a year for evictions while people don't pay they're rent! This one lady in Toronto had a place for 1800 a townhouse and stopped paying. People can't do that to other people.

[@看热闹-i8h]

One reason this country has become very poor with huge debt hanging above our head. Medical system and insurance system all need big changes .But no one has that kind of power

[@mackakiwinz4353]

Same here in New Zealand Mike. I have a side hustle and all the tourists from all over the world arriving in Auckland have no luggage transferred the poor people are missing everything. Good call shrinkflation is everywhere and people are on edge and don’t want to work and we are only seeing the start of this depression. I am pleased we have been preparing for a decade as this is going to get ugly before it comes right.

[@Hermes1976]

It's SOOO True. Miami has grown But it has become DISGUSTING. It's filthy, smells of Urine, Dog feces is lying around. The Homeless population is OUT OF CONTROL. Restaurants the food is expensive and the food taste is far off. I'm a professional Chef, I have noticed the quality in the food is so poor. Food "Outages" The grocery stores food quality is piss poor. Every workers moral is just terrible. I have noticed the quality in EVERYTHING has dropped immensely. I lived in The North Shore of Chicago, Chicago for a huge city. Is Clean. I returned to Miami a month ago and I can't help but notice the filth, the infrastructure is crumbling. I don't want to invite friends. That is how bad. Unless I'm up in Sunny Isles Beach. I don't want to go to the beach. They are filthy. And The Cost of living is a JOKE. It's like NYC with Palm trees. Disgusting.

[@chinoloc916]

Thank you for the vids. Been watching for a long time now!

[@MichaelBordenaro]

Glad you like them!

[@xfiles4792]

The eviction bans killed my rental real estate business. I had nine properties. Once tenants figured out they didn't have to pay and there was nothing I could do about it my revenues went to zero. I waited a year living on savings. The tenants trashed the places on the way out. The defund the police movement turned my neighborhoods into gang land. One of my tenants was killed on the front porch in a drive by shooting. The feds gave the states money to reimburse the landlords. I got a third of what I was owed before the politicians blew the "unspent" money on other projects. So when I hear people going on and on about no affordable housing I have no sympathy.

[@Corkfish1]

This must be why my landlord seems to love me. I always send her the rent check early every month and if something goes wrong I fix it myself. She hasn't raised my rent in three years and I'm starting to feel guilty. Do you think I should start sending an extra $50 a month?

[@robbiecotner3666]

No matter how bad the tenants are, at the end of the day landlords still have a property they can sell, and tenants don’t. While it is disrespectful for your tenants to not pay up, don’t forget you have to be doing very well for yourself to be where you are.

[@gregorysagegreene]

Wow, that Biff! The timeline got skewed. We gotta' get back to 1985, Doc! 😮😳🙄

[@joseg1787]

You were renting to low lives where, in the hood in a Democrat state?

[@xfiles4792]

@@robbiecotner3666 No that is a misconception. I had to sell at fire sale prices and got less than half my money back. Just because I had more than someone else does not justify this criminal behavior. There is no way that the government should be able to tell people they don't have to pay when they signed a contract.