jb827

America has neglected working class people for decades. The economy has shifted from supporting earning income to make a decent living, to protecting assets (bail outs etc.) Trump tapped into this and tricked these people into electing him, bringing along right wing or whatever they are.. and they got hold of power. Don't think numbers are there for this culture war crowd to stay in power unless they hitch a ride with someone. (edited: typo)

I reckon flipping houses and renovating is one way - Buy an older house. Spend dodgy money into some serious renovations. Sell house for <original price> + <cost of renovation>. Money washed.

I think complexity here is migration to Python 3. Seems like the author picked Django and Python 2 in 2011. Python 3 was released in 2008. So by 2011 should have been clear that you might be facing a migration project sometime in future. Having made that choice getting 8 years out of Py 2 is pretty good. (Not saying he made the wrong choice. Would have made the same choice myself.)

Seems he would have done very well out of property as Australia hasn't been affected by 2008 GFC. There are young people that would have invested in property in Ireland before GFC and would have dug themselves a financial hole. This guy doesn't like calling it luck but I don't know what you call different outcomes for investors between the two countries. We are living in the time of quantitative easing, cheap credit and this seems to result in speculative asset bubbles and busts. Dow Jones is over 200% up in last 10 years. I think outcome of central banks printing money at this scale is unknown and puts a big question mark on long term investing and the 'time in the market' advice.