A damn quarter pounder $10

It was a “national” shutdown that only affected a few parts of the nation. #RightyTrollMath

 

IMHO, the issue is not the mortgage rate but the cost of housing; it’s ridiculous. Over that lady 59 years, the cost of a “regular” home has increased at 5-6% annually. That’s some crazy inflation. Our first home @ $37K was financed at 11.75%. Today, a similar sized home in a development would cost $400K in NE Florida.

 

So, six pages later, can we assume that OP was just making stuff up and/or needed attention?

 

That does it! I'm movin' to arkansas.

 

We didn't even need six pages to know they were making something up

 

Warning: Arkansas is full of people from Arkansas.

 

Your list shows zero states over $10. And only a handful over $7. vast majority are just over $5.

More importantly from your link the democratic governor here in NC is killing it:

 

I will say the NW part of AR is incredible. Great brewery scene and some of the best mt biking in the country.

 

I have dear friends who moved there, ten years ago, and never moved back. They’re teachers at an English language school.

They relate how their experience, teaching in American schools, was grinding and unrewarding. Students were predominately from broken families and were unmotivated and often unruly with calls to police not uncommon.

By contrast, Chinese school kids would show up a half hour early, while doors were still locked, just to practice their English.

And at the end of the semester, to a pupil, parents would send letters of thanks for their children to recite to my friends.

 

Sounds like an advertisement for communism from you. I am shocked. Meanwhile the US is still the most successful country on the planet by economic output and university rankings. Hmmm.

 

I heard food is cheap in Russia, too!

(dig at Tucker - not you).

 

McDonald’s Gross Margins in Dec 2013: 38%

McDonald’s Gross Margins in Dec 2023: 57%

bUt mUh BiDenFLaTiOn. Rabble rabble.

 

You're right. Starvation is still free.

 

I've always had a problem with liars.

 

McDonald's is intentionally abandoning the value menu crowd. They know their middle class clientele will grit their teeth and pay more.

And no, this has nothing to do with politics. Neither does Publix's $9.79 12 packs of Coke.

 

Shill for every other country and drinks whatever kool-aid from said country yet doesn't have the conviction to move to these utopias. Weird

 

Quarter Pounder® with Cheese
520 Cal.
$6.49

That's a fancy Fairfax locale, the one I could walk to if so inclined. From the website.

However, in the app it's $5.19. And the one two miles away is $4.89.

I mean godspeed to the franchisee who has found a location where people will pay $10 for a sorta-burger. That is how it should work, BTW. You charge what people will pay, full stop.

But that's just that place gouging because they have people willing to be gouged.

I don't really care what YOU will pay for a McD burger aside from the concept that what others will pay does indeed affect my price. I know what I will and won't, and FTR I am also not paying $4.89 for a quarter pounder. But in this case it isn't impactful because I am not sure what the price would have to be to make me think it over. Def closer to $1 than $5. So I am basically out of that market.

But the overall point is quarter pounders don't cost anything specific. They cost what people will pay. The $10 ones wherever you are buying them are the exact same product as the $4.89 ones here. I don't know what to tell someone complaining about robbing themselves.