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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by killingtime74 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:40PM (#29803234)
I have done this for my friends and they have not taken my advice so I’ve stopped. Things that were all easily within their ability to do. E.g apply to a great company with referrals vs their dead end one (they said it themselves), buying in the capital city the same time as me rather than in a satellite city and missing out on gains. Buying a boat to live on to “save rent” rather than an investment property.

I just keep quiet now since people don’t do things they’ve not “come up with” themselves

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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by hiphopfox on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:16PM (#29803592)
> buying in the capital city the same time as me rather than in a satellite city and missing out on gains

"You should have taken risk X rather than risk Y because X paid off" is not helpful advice.

Hindsight is 20/20, and different people have different safety buffers and values that will guide them to capital city vs satellite city.

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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by killingtime74 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @09:08PM (#29804052)
I gave the advice contemporaneously as I was buying not in hind sight.

Ah well, it’s probably good they didn’t follow my advice. if they make money they are geniuses, if they lose it’s my fault.

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