Hello, youtube traveler. This video is 4 months old and was not popular at all when I released it. Over the past few days, this video gets more comments than everything else I have been uploading. How did you find it? I am curious. My board repair video got nothing - but this 4 month old video is getting constant comments. Just curious is all. Thank you, and have yourself a great day.
Hi Louis! Im not a subscriber (Although I will now...) But it came up in my recommended feed. I also just wanted a story to listen to, and you are a good storyteller. I normally put board repair vids on whilst im coding. Hope you are staying safe!
Just popped up in my feed as well. And you aren't alone man. Maybe it's a common feeling for those of us that achieve some measure of success without having any financial advantage.
@@idklol4197 The reason for all of this isn't capitalism it's the government. It's rent control and building limits and regulations and taxation. Complaining that capitalism makes new York expensive completely misses the point.
The problem is you're honest and humble. Your father raised you right. It's not a good feeling, to feel like you don't belong, but you've helped out thousands of people, and gave good jobs to others who otherwise might be working a menial dead-end job. I'm the same way. 10 years ago I would "rob Peter to pay Paul." I would pay one bill late because the late fees were less for that bill than the one I needed to pay right now. In the past 2 years I've made more money than the previous 8 years combined, and I feel like I don't deserve it despite the fact that I've worked so hard to get where I'm at. I still live in the same apartment I did when I moved out of my previous apartment those 10 long years ago, and despite the fact that I make more than enough to live in a nicer apartment or buy a house, I feel like I don't belong. The one thing you have to remember, not everyone who lives or has a business in a big city can afford it, in fact most can't. Most rely on a never ending stream of credit, until one day it does end and those people are quickly replaced by the next sucker who wants to live the fast life without actually being able to afford it. That's why you don't feel like you belong. You're not comfortable raising your standard of living when you know you have other things to take care of, such as your employees and business. So in a way, you're absolutely correct. You don't belong. You don't fit the profile of a NYC business owner / resident. You put your customers and employees first, meanwhile a lot of businesses in NYC show up, take the money, and fold up shop overnight, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. I respect the hell out of you, keep doing what you do.
This is doable until you get older and realise you can't keep this up for ever. We should all work hard, but have a plan to become debt free and buy what you need not what you want. You can have your own home if you work hard and work smart, not running on a tread mill getting nowhere! I'm talking about the majority of us that have to work to eat! If I couldn't afford to live somewhere, my choices are, make more money or move! I hope you succeed in what ever your dream is.
I'm a native New Yorker too, and leaving was the best thing I ever did. You need Louis level of talent and savvy just to tread water, and I don't have either
Feels same in CA, so expensive here in every region no way to live on a single income, especially minimum wage. I don't feel like I don't belong, but I def feel like I can't make it here.
I’m a 3rd generation San Franciscan, and I don’t feel like I belong here anymore also. Most of my friends have moved away. Every artist (who wasn’t some Burning Man part time artist) and musician moved away in the late 90s. I have nothing in common with the people that live here now. Everything beautiful and cool that I grew up with has been torn down and replaced with some ugly glass and steel monstrosity. Housing costs are so insane that only millionaires can afford to live here. There’s now two types of people - millionaires living in luxury condos, and fentanyl addicts. Ok, fine, if you want to live 8 people in a 2 bedroom place, you can maybe make it work. I can’t and don’t want to live like that when there are more hospitable places I can live in that don’t cost so much. The political leaders here only care about making names for themselves to grow their political careers, not about their constituents. They’re so busy virtue signaling that they don’t have any energy left to stop Blackrock Corporation from buying up every available property to develop it into luxury condos. It’s way past time to leave this place to crumble into the bay.
I lived in $kam Fag$issyCo (San Francisco) a while & it's a giant rape machine = so overpriced, but visually nice ~ many of the areas =D When I first got there I was like 'wow such nice lush scenery ~ U must B a real loser 2 leave here' then after a while I found out no, if U have N E good sense, U leave there because 'fog & trees & mountains' R not as important as being able 2 actually live your life rather than just struggling as everybody tries 2 destroy U on purpose =)) Even surrounding areas R a mess. U have 2 go like 2 hours away 2 find N E thing 'reasonable'.
This entire video is either a rant about how NYC is still ran by the mob OR how NYC is a haven for capitalist dirt bags (one in the same really). Either way, we can know that a guy like Trump whose entire family was real-estate tycoons in NYC in the 1980's is mob-connected and corrupt as they come.
Corporate America swallowed the 'middle class' whole in the middle of the 20th Century. That's getting close to a century ago, now. Now it's 'those who make it' and 'the rest'.
@Bum Face Gammon Depends on your geographic location. Living in cities is basically a poverty trap. I work in the city to get the city income, but I live in the burbs.
@@nolanduarte They all complained about the takeover. They all protested. But they went to Wal Mart to buy the poster board and markers. It was cheaper.
Before I ever went to NYC, I spent ALOT of time in Japan. Didn't realize how incredible and efficient a city like Tokyo is until I went to NYC for the first time. I've never been so unimpressed. Been back to NYC a few times. Just a big fuckin shit hole. No offense to prideful New Yorkers. I'm guessing most of those people would agree with me.
I am an American who has never been to another large US city other than Pittsburgh, the closest to me, But I have been to many of Japan's large cities like Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka etc, and I was absolutely amazed, and I supposedly live near one of the best U.S cities, but it just doesn't hold a candle.... I now never want to travel to any other U.S city, because it will only fill me with disappointment
I used to live in London, over the years I've seen it turn from a working city where the people that actually work there lived there to a millionaires playground where if you haven't got 6 zeros on end of your bank balance you will have little chance of having a home there. As time has gone on I earn much more than when I lived in London but even with my new wealth it would be impossible for me to afford to live there the way I used to. The problem is what attracted well heeled people to the city was its vibrancy and its culture which is getting stifled as the people that create that buzz are moving out. Rich people consume culture but few create it. The London I knew is dead, even if I had the means I wouldn't live there today as I would be chasing a nostalgic ghost.
I went there in... shit, 2004-2005 maybe? I remember remarking to locals that it felt like a shell of a city. I remember I stayed at this hostel at Hyde Park and I was stuffed for a towel. I could NOT find any place that sold a towel. Ended up getting a subway map towel from a souvenir store so I could wipe my filthy body off. But the locals didn't think commuting two-three hours to the city was a big deal. I was baffled.
@mar777i Id argue it was one of the first international cities which made it a really cool place but now its just a city for millionaires and billionaires.
@@Carbine64 actually it's not. There is no wrong or right way to write this. You sound like an silly pendant trying to be so formal. www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/could-couldnt-care-less Thank you.
This is exactly what being in a band felt like. It definitely taught me the life lesson to not trust a single person or any of their promises when it comes to business. Unpaid gigs, failed contracts, getting paid in beer instead of the guarantee, and so much more. It's quite a weird experience having every single person and thing around you gaslighting you.
Agreed. It happens to Medical Doctors too. Can I prescribe controlled medicines in most States? Yes. Do people kill an hour of my time and not have money to pay me? Karens are really the worst. They feel entitled to my service and time for crap money. Boomers always were given health insurance before. Not now. Ok you don't want to pay me $400 for 3 family members. One person ER visit with their insurance costs $380 each min on top of co pay.the WI hospitals are not giving oxygen. Karen is mad she bought crap ivermectin from India. I inform Karen that that box $260 is only enough to cover you 1-2 days. Dose has to be calculated based on your weight. Karen wanted to go total cheapskate on me. She even did not want to treat her step daughter working at the grocery store. Much love Luis from Wauwatosa WI.
it's kinda funny how he puts it that way... but you also have to remember back then he probably didn't have 12 employees literally jampacked into the shoebox of the place... I'm just gonna assume he had to do this all by himself, pretty much.
I have a similar feeling I started identifying with a question: "Who is supposed to be able to live here?" I am not near your level, and honestly I would never want to be. I want to be able to do honest work to earn a simple life, but it seems impossible. I work a blue collar service job, where a lot of people work insane hours or have second jobs just to live in shitty apartments. We can't afford healthcare. We can barely afford to keep a working vehicle. I am researching ideas like building a livable space out of a shipping container because housing prices are absurd. The shitty thing is I don't want any of this. I don't want this life, and what this culture has to offer, then on top of that they want me to run myself ragged just trying to survive. This can't last. Eventually I will find a way out. But it just sucks because this is not how a society is supposed to function. People who do valuable work that is necessary to keep the society running should be able to live a better life than this.
Youll be replaced by chinese migrants or whoever else hoping to make money to build a home in their home country. U dont belong there. Ur supposed to be in university.
It just depends on where you live. I live in a smallish town in the midwest. One thing that stuck with me was when a passing comment that my dad made was that he stated that you need to make 500$ a week to support a family and have enough to be happy. Meaning in the midwest you can and people do get by with much less income. But I would assume that it is much easier to go from poverty to middle-class in your lifetime in a smaller town that does not have super inflated prices, than a large city like NYC.
The video was not too long. Late at night, when I'm doing my book keeping, I like to have you on, keeping me company, a sympathetic, understanding voice with integrity, helping the battlers, the ripped off and the exploited. This is my reason I listen to your stories. As a storyteller myself I appreciated a good story told from the heart. Here you reveal that you don't like yourself quite as much as you probably should. The day will come when you do but you will still be humble and that's why we love you Louis. You are real in a fake world. You are rare and that is why you feel you don't fit in. You're one in a million and that's why you feel different. You are different but not less. Keep speaking your truth and you will continue to have a grateful hungry audience in a world where truth is hard to find. P.s. I love your repair videos too so long as your commentary is part of them.
djwestbrook36 yeah, you’re poor living in a tiny apartment toiling in a city you don’t belong in instead of living a fulfilled life in one of the countless beautiful places across the US, even a smaller city around a million people. All for the “culture” (you want to fit in). Who needs nature, trees, community festivals, picking apples, going hiking, skiing, taking part in whatever hobbies you want, drinking and lighting off fireworks with your buddies and ripping your car through a country road back to your big ass five bedroom house with five acres you got for 350k. On my death bed I want to think about how many ethnic food restaurants and hip clubs I went too, not any of that shit. This is all coming from someone who fled LA. I know what it’s like to live in a huge city. I thought it was cool when I was young too, and felt cool for living in LA. Until I realized nobody gave a shit about me and I could be living a real American life anywhere I choose
djwestbrook36 the thing is people have different ways they want to live. Some people like the pace and hustle of NYC, while others like a more laid back lifestyle where they can focus on themselves . I think a lot of people in cities like NYC trick themselves into thinking they like it but it’s just what they’re used to. Same goes for people born in suburbs, many of them would be happier somewhere else.
@@lepus6511 We aren't wage slaves, we choose to work and pay bills because it's easier than the alternative, which is to live completely off the grid hunting/farming/gathering, or just being homeless and surviving off charity. The metaphysical struggles of nature and reality (i.e. you must eat or else starve for example) does not equate to being forced to work or enslavement. I don't say this lightly, obviously it would be lovely to not have to work to survive, or to work and just have all your needs and wants fulfilled regardless of the income made, but unfortunately that's just not the case. But at the end of the day, we are still free to choose whether we earn a wage or not.
"I committed a wee bit of victimless fraud in order to get my business started, and no one ever realized that's what was happening so it wasn't really an issue." Louis, you memeboi
"New York is the new model for the new concentration camp. Where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built. They’ve built their own prison, so they exist in a state of schizophrenia. They’re both guards and prisoners and as a result, they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made, or to even see it as a prison." - My Dinner with Andre
Nyc is an open air asylum the subway is literally unbearable and unusable due to the lunatics that are all over it it’s disgusting and unacceptable. That they let these lunatics on the train in the first place
Imagine being told you cant go to work, cant earn an income, cant get unemployment, can’t protest against political figures/policies taking place, can’t pay your compounding rent, watching more draconian laws be put into effect while things are improving, and STILL: - Eat up every word the news and politicians tell us - Have everything you worked for stripped away with no contest - Shame and belittle anyone who questions just how crazy and over the top this is. Shame anyone who is upset that their livelihoods are gone and aren’t coming back anytime soon. Tell them all they are a necessary sacrifice for a virus with a .5% death rate. I can not stand nor take the brainwashed passiveness and fear of the average person right now. Its pathetic and its the reason life keeps getting harder for all of us. When you’re out on the streets with no recourse, just remember that this is what you wanted.
You're a legend dude. I remember fixing phones and laptops for 6 months to make enough money to buy the parts to fix my own computer at 14. Those skills also got me through lockdown, thanks for all your work on right to repair.
Here comes recognition for the hard work that you are doing from Finland, country with 5 million people. Keep it up. Proud of you. I used your videos in one talk (speech idk what to call it. 80 people, in school, I’m a engineer student learning how to not build houses) I gave about right to repair. I think that it is important that you bring these up. I’m sure that even those ‘saatanan tunarit’ are thinking these same things. And you have great story telling
Of course normal people belong in Manhattan, without them the millionaires would need to do things like get their own coffee and try to figure out how to repair their poorly designed Macbook themselves after they spill said coffee on it.
Bullshit, lots of rich people live in NY. The upper east side is known for having lots of rich people living there. Y'all don't know what you're talking about.
Jat Tan Some truth to that. Lot of people come to work in Manhattan for a few years after college and end up leaving because you have to downgrade your quality of life since you rely on a salary.
Don't feel guilty about working on a park, everything you have done has led you to what you have now and it's all because of the effort you put back then. You feel bad for being treated like crap and you don't want to do the same to them because you're a good guy and you have a consciense.. don't let it get to you, everything you put up with is for you, your company, your employees and clients best interest and it will pay off later!
Tom Miller it definitely is more. My parent apt is worth 2.5 xs what they pay. They’ve been in that apt for 50 yrs. they’re can’t wait for my folks to leave.
newyork would die if people just left and realized they could live a great life out in the west or even those "flyover states". think outside your box/city. get out and discover new lands that have not been shitified yet.
I'd be interested in the story going two ways: 1. You move - find a spot where your business is needed, become a part of a community. Your talent is clear, I'd draft you for my own community. 2. You stay - fight for your spot and for reform in NYC, just as you are fighting for the right to repair. - Your experience has given you a method to deal with problems. You speak so clearly when you break down the possible problems of electronic equipment - use that clear rationality to break this problem down. Treat it like a broken system, solve it. Keep growing bro - you're impressing, Mike
Born, raised and lived in Florida for 26 years. Been in New York for four now and I am still amazed at how ridiculously difficult basic living can be. Everything you mentioned and more. Parking, dealing with landlords, shopping, noise, roommates, inflated costs, competition, commuting, traffic, barely functioning appliances, disgusting streets, unscrupulous individuals the list goes on and on. When people say "Oh, it's tough to live in New York", they are right, but they also can't even begin to understand exactly what that means. I love it though lol
Yea it's fun for a while. You really learn how to be a minimalist and how to get along & deal with people in ways you never did before. I'm also a transplant and dealt with it in my late 20's and 30's. I'm still here but places outside the city with central air are very enticing 😁
The problem is that you shouldn’t have to leave your hometown, the place where everyone you know and love, everything that’s familiar, and your town for the past 31 years to do exactly what millions of people over the last 400 years have been moving to your town to do. NYC used to be the place people came to for economic opportunity, so it’s a problem when one day the city becomes known for everything but that.
@Nick Fomula why do you think it's about money? Lol people can have reasons for not wanting to leave a place other than not being able to afford it or some shit.
@Nick Fomula it's not really about me, I know that I'm moving out of the country one day when I'm able to. But we dont know his personal reasons for staying is what I'm saying. It's really not that easy for everyone, we don't even know him.
When i was a kid, i used to want to visit NYC thinking it was one of the coolest places ever. Now that im older i realize new york hasnt been cool for a long time.
From someone's who's experience of a "big city" is a town with just over a quarter of a million people, it's always really interesting to see and hear these kind of stories. Keep up the good work!
A friend of mine was married to the daughter of a (now jailed) Democrat big-shot in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He invited me to a DNC fundraiser that I attended. I had to drive a vehicle that I was too embarrassed to allow to be valet parked, and wore "business clothes", since I was one divorced and broke-as-faq person. The host was cordial, but it was made clear by the other attendees through their pretentious-a$$hole-attitudes that I did not belong there. Of course I skipped out and thought to myself "FAQ THEM...FAQ 'EM ALL!" Now, many years later, with some slight modicum of success (achieved through my own merit and independent thinking), I realize how right I was with my thoughts, actions, and determination. Louis Rossmann will also realize that he is correct by being Louis Rossmann. Mistakes? I've made PLENTY...trusting people....having faith in people I should not have....it has happened and probably still will, but hopefully with less frequency. Louis has surrounded himself with great talent that he fosters and treats right, so he will triumph...with time. It's hard for Louis to be (what he views as) a "prick" when dealing with these people, but fortunately he has Paul for that. If people don't treat you right, they can "eat your shorts".
@@STONE69_ On a happy note, the guy got like 20 years in the federal penn for racketeering, theft...all kinds of charges...part of the reason was that, in an attempt to destroy the evidence, he had a $hit-ton of paperwork thrown away...INTO THE DUMPSTERS OF THE COUNTY OFFICE WHERE HE WORKED...found by a TV station and turned over to the FBI!
I guarantee you those people are as catty to each other as they were to you. If it wasn't your clothes, it would be the school where you sent your kids or your age or your weight or your marital status or whatever they can get on you. These people are empty and the only thing that gives them a rush is one-upping others.
I'm from New York too. The amount of money we make is of the top5% and live like the poorest people. Friends of mine find out about how much I make think I'm rich.... Yet they have so much more than me. It's so sad.
At 200k 2 parents + 2 kids you can afford your 1000 sq ft mortgage and to put a little away for retirement, but thats about it (and no vacations obviously). If you want your kids to go to a good school and go private, you're basically broke.
anon-iraq And do what? Just sit on my porch and drink? No thank you I like being able to go have Korean BBQ at 3 AM on a whim or visit art exhibits after work.
I say this as a fan, and someone who admires what you do and the opinions you hold: Sometimes that feeling is your soul telling you to find where you DO belong. I listened to mine, left my childhood home and found a new place where I am happy and living with people who get me. I recommend it.
I’m from Long Island, and actually born in NYC. This area is not for “real people” anymore. All the “real” growth is happening in third tier cities like Charlotte, Nashville, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, Phoenix, etc. NYC is a place for buying RE for money laundering out of China, tourists, and a class of business (financial) people that have leveraged the free money the federal reserve has printed that’s not available to small business. Hence why SoftBank can give some dude loosing money another $100 million. It’s free anyway. Even the Republican tax plan is really geared to large corporations. It gives a few scraps to small business, it actually somewhat hurts W-2’s, but its full benefit is larger corporations. Look at the stock market. The benefit of virtually free money has perverted the value of it. Companies now just buyback their stock to increase earnings, which reduces their float and increases their share prices. In order to do this, they just take out virtually free debt. None of this is available to any of us. If you try to get a HELOC, you’ll have a million pages of paperwork, you have to give a reason to the bank for why you want the money, it comes with conditions, etc. Credit card interest APR charges are at all time highs. However, if you are big, you can just get your basically 0% or no more than 2-5% bonds, free money from the FED, etc. That’s why we will either end up with a two class society and/or a revolution. Apple, the richest company in the world, will become a target - not in a good way.
I mean that's all uncomfortably true, but at the basest level those companies have kind of proven they have at least a decent track record and potential to earn more. Regular folks don't have those for leverage. And you know any sane person would scrutinize and screen people's ability to pay back loans before lending them money.
By random I clicked, and became mesmerized by your storytelling rhythm... compelled to listen! P.S You're not ordinary or unattractive .....Love your energy and realism!
When my wife and I were looking for a house, we tried the realtor method. Long story shortened, I found realtors playing both sides, and trying to get us to up our offers. I had a house where I submitted an offer, the realtors brother put in the same offer. I put in a higher offer, realtors brother did it again. I walk away. Realtors brother buys the house for 15k under my first offer. Finally found our home by doing it myself. Found a house, convinced the owner not to get a realtor and give away 7.5%. Bought the home, for a fair price, using only the title company to run escrow. If we can push these parasites out of realty and let people make handshake deals, life would be so much easier.
We bought with an FHA loan. That type of loan needed an appraisal, title insurance, mortgage insurance, home owners insurance, home warranty, and inspection. Escrow made sure everyone got paid and provided a way for me to chip in to the pot with my down payment.
Louis, I’m close to the same age as you. Executive for a small business. Your closing statements/questions on feeling like a imposter as you have gone from hundredare to ten thousandare really resonated with me. From my experience, so far, it seams to hold true that as we climb from one challenge to the next bigger challenge, there will always be another even larger challenge that takes more money to solve the problems. I have a couple close friends that have achieved the next level or 2 above me, when we spend time together, their conversations tend to be focused on the level above them. I think It’s simply, that there is just a percentage of people that are very focused on mastering a craft/ technical skill and expanding that, it just becomes necessary to come up with the cash to execute. It doesn’t end, until we give up or die. How many other component level repair shops have popped up in your area, that are self made?
As someone who has had a _little_ success in life I think I can say this; money doesn't get rid of your insecurities. It doesn't get rid of your self-doubt or the secret things you hate about yourself. I would go so far to say that it is somewhat reversed to what everyone thinks. In order to become successful, in order to find peace, you have to face those things first. Yeah thinking about it now, I would say that success is your reward for trying to make yourself, and the world, a little better.
Usually money amplify qualities in people. If you are a generous person before you had money, you will tend to be more generous. If you are a horrible person when you were poor, you'll tend to be that rich asshole. If you are insecure before you are rich then you'll probably be more insecure because now you think anyone and everyone trying to be friendly is after your money. Not that you are wrong, but it doesn't help.
Louis, it sounds like you're a human trying to live a reasonable human life, wanting to do so with other humans. But that's not how that city runs. That's why you feel like you don't belong there. It's inhuman how this world runs, and NYC is not exception. In fact, it seems to be magnified there. I'm from the west coast, and every year I go visit NYC. Why? Partly because it's so different from the west coast, that it's actually like going somewhere different, not just to another same ol' same ol' city. (San Diego, LA, Seattle, Phoenix, Vegas; they're pretty much the same type of city. San Francisco is the closest thing we have to an east coast city) And also because of the shows and other things to see and experience as a visitor. But that's as a visitor. I can pick and choose what I experience, pay the high hotel costs for a short time, then leave. I generally don't have to deal with all that other BS. One time I was there visiting with a friend who is from Long Island and still lives there. We were on our way walking to somewhere in the city and I mentioned that I think it would be interesting to live in Manhattan for a short time. She literally stopped in her tracks and glared at me like I said something offensive and said, "Why?!" I had to laugh, and explained that to a west coaster, the east coast is a very different experience.. But I qualified my statement with "if I could afford to do so and not have to struggle financially."
I was born and raised in NYC. I told my sons it's a good place to visit or live for a short time for the experience, but he needs to have his shit straight before he does so. 6 months to 2 years tops and then GTFO. Plus, don't raise kids there.
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This is so freakin important to hear. It’s a cautionary reminder of what all of us should fight. The gentrification and the future of cities is upon us all to fight. It’s the same feeling for most of us just walking down the streets of our childhood home area. It’s so relatable. That why we listen to your life story.
A big reason you turned out successful despite this much adversity is because you were raised well by your father. A LOT of people have shit fathers nowadays.
Man disown that city dont let the manipulation of weath to discourage you. You could go anywhere you have drive also a unique set of skills. These long videos seem to be the ones I actually watch. I kept up to date on the whole new location, but didn't watch every video. Your honesty and genuine kindness (not overly kind) is something that will make life just fine. I always find myself more driven and filled with more gusto. I used to let people walk all over me and thought I was just nice. I learned those people didnt matter at all after watching your other long video where you talked about being kind not nice, or too nice. It has increased my value of my life. Thank you.:)
If he's happy in the City, who are we to discourage him? I live in a place my family helped to colonize 240 years ago, and because of the wealth gap, even I feel like I don't belong sometimes. It's *my* home though, so fuck it all. 😎
Easier said than done, he would probably lose most if not all of his staff. You don't just pull techs like Paul off of the street. But I do agree at some point a move away from NY will need to happen. The amount of cash he's shelling out for rent is just horrible. Plus, add to that all of the BS he has to go through there just to have basic services done.
Louis, I've been through a lot of similar things and understand you perfectly well. Your feeling is very natural and it is your intelligence that is telling you the obvious truth that what you;re trying to do is not to be done where you are the way you do it. Doesn't mean it can't be done, it means it doesn't belong there. FYI I was outsider to New York and survived there only for 6 months before getting out. I know how it feels to locals. They are part of a culture that I did not fit in and - for business reasons - you do not belong into either. With your skills this city can be very friendly if you just apply them in a different field and according to their rules and more specifically if you are successful at the level and understanding of the local culture. I didn't want to change so I left.
You're not an imposter: you're a g*dd*mn hero to some of us, Louis! 😎👌 Much respect for anyone who can hustle as long and hard as you, while still keeping your word and self-respect. You're a decent human. Stay well, my dude. 👍
I totally understand. I was born in NYC, raised on Long Island, visited all 50 states, lived in Alaska, Colorado, etc. When I tried to move back to NY at age 30, I was astonished at how difficult it was. Now I live in Thailand, where life is easy, and rent is low but quality is far higher than it is anywhere in the states...
@@IScreamedWolf I've done a bit of different things. Teaching, farming, music and art. There's also a stock market here to invest long-term, banks offer 2% interest on savings, etc.
I'm cracked out on caffeine, I live in a retirement ville east Texas so I can't relate to the imposter syndrome. But I feel that Millennials and Gen-Z and on, are more likely to not wanna ascertain a sense of individuality, as they see nothing but "Successful" people on Social Media. I always go back to that saying "look good, feel good" and if you always compare yourself with someone you only see the highlight reel of there life through rose tinted glasses. You'll miss the Rollercoaster life is, and why you NEED that fall to go back to the top. A solid sense of individual, is needed in times like these. Isolating are selfs aint healthy, mentally speaking.
Interns putting their internship on their resume: "Oh, you worked at a place for free... Sounds good to us! You're hired as an intern! If it was good enough for them, it's good enough for us!"
It's been a minute since I've watched some of your videos. Last time I was here you were still at like 10K subscribers. It's great to see you with 1M subs. Love your videos and stories
Louis, Move to and setup in Nashville, TN. You will live like a king with affordable cost of living. You will have tons of business from kind people who will support your honest work. Word of mouth spreads far and wide here. You will have talent to pick from both local and state universities. Ride your bike (without a motor) through the green parks. Drive through the beautiful countryside on your off-days. There is a music industry here if you want to leverage your studio equipment repair skills.
onenoc Two what an extremely small-minded comment. I bet you think southerners are all culturally ignorant and stupid too lol. And I’m from NYC. Maybe get out of your bubble sometime and explore the real world, not your phone screen.
@@JohnSmith-qv3fd you’re really going to advocate for NY in this case? It’s not a matter of “culture” you find in museums, but of the culture of the city. In the south, you can start something by yourself much more easily than what Mr Rossman has had to do, and while he will be tied down to NY for some time yet we believe he deserves better.
"if you're not a multi-millionaire, you dont belong, and that's how I feel as a business owner" - That sounds like the PLIGHT of a WORKER to me. Almost like we share the same issues - paying rent, fixing the appliances, paying for day care and health care expenses.
Honestly, it sounds like everything started to weigh on you and you're becoming depressed. You are a genuinely good person, you literally give people information that takes money out of your pocket through a free platform and don't even get paid on probably a decent portion of your videos. You don't belong because you can't be who those people are, you can't be the guy who fucks people over. You probably feel like you're going to fuck them over if you negotiate s better price or just fold to what other people are saying, assuming they're doing the best thing (which is what you do).
I live in L.A. now, but have also lived everyplace from the heart of Chicago, to an ex farm town with 2500 people, to the tract home suburbs. I've worked everything from a house painting biz when I was 16, to 18 years in film production, to now running a internet sales biz. In my experience... Most people suck everywhere. Whether it's my mom trying to find somebody to get her AC fixed in her 80k house in central IL, or guys who have the contract to fix all the AC on the Paramount Studios lot... MOST of them don't give a shit, and most of them will not do what they're supposed to do, without constantly being hounded. Because most people suck, have zero pride, and just don't care.
Agree I live in a mid size city in Canada I have to fix and do all manual labor because people just don't care and aren't getting rich on the job you are giving them .this has gotten worse since covid now its you should feel lucky to pay for sub par work
You're dope dude, thanks for sharing - your not alone in how you feel, this is the general consensus of the working class if not every non-millionaire in every major city in the US
47:05 "is it them or is it me" It's them. 100 percent it's them. Just because many people are doing it does in no way justify objectively wrong behavior. Not to go full Godwin's law here, but just because in 1939 it was normal to be a Nazi in Germany does not mean anyone who was against that system should have felt bad for being against that system.
It wasn't normal to be a Nazi. Their membership wasn't very high. The Nazis ruled through a combination of stoking patriotism, socialist policy, and whole lot of fear.
@@surprisedchar2458 If you define being a Nazi by being a member of the NSDAP then your statement is kinda true. But support for the NSDAP was very high in the population. I'm from Germany and I have talked to a number of people who actually fought in WWII, in private conversation they all admit to having supported Hitler and that everyone else was doing it.
I lived in NYC for 4 years and loved it. I made a lot of personal and professional progress and learned a lot. However towards the end I had this exact feeling and left.
I wish there were a city like how NYC used to be when you hear about it in the 70s and 80s, affordable and mecca for interesting, creative people. I know aa lot of people are living in small towns now and socializing online, but it would be cool to be surrounded by IRL interesting people. All the cities have been taken over by rich, bland people, it is not even worth the cost.
Pink Puffin it was filled with crime in the 70s & 80s. Times Square was filled with druggies, hookers, pimps and porn shops. There’s a reason why movies like Taxi Driver or The Warriors or Serpico or Death Wish or The French Connection took place in NYC
Louis. First off I wanna congratulate you for this video. I’ve been a RU-vid premium subscriber for a long time. I’m also a subscriber of your channel. And this is the first time that I’ve ever commented on a video ever. I live in California currently where real estate is extremely expensive. I roll around the world in a wheelchair. I’ve enjoyed time in New York. Have a lot of friends and family from there. The reason I say all these things is. Once you hit a goal. It’s human nature to always want more. I don’t care where you are in life. Once you become comfortable. In life. A true entrepreneur which I believe that you are. Is always looking for their next success. I really enjoy your videos. Keep doing what you do and providing outstanding service to your customer. I also expect excellence from someone when I am paying them for a job. Whether it’s a few hundred dollars or more. Expecting excellence for a service or product is natural when you’re a driven individual like yourself. I’m also the same way. Very driven in everything that I do. Keep up the great work. One day when I get back to New York. I will try and say hello.😎
Be yourself, even if you think “yourself” sucks. Not for any amount of money would I want to be part of the herd. Part of your journey brought you exactly where you’re supposed to be. :)
You feel this way because you are dissapointed with the people. You are dissapointed because you would never treat them the way they treat you Louis. You are to good for NY.
Rossmann you’re a F’ing machine . I’ve been subscribed to you for a long time . And the world needs more people like you around . As long as you make videos I’m hitting that thumbs up 👍
Millionaires live in nice houses somewhere further from larger cities. Larger cities are money holes. Those suck the money out of you so you'll just barely, day by day, grow bigger and possibly be a decent company at one point where some bigger company will buy you out. Meanwhile, out of that city, somewhere in a little less populated city: someone starts a business that grows decently huge while the ones in larger cities start popping out to the surface. And when the company in less populated city has grown big, it starts buying the smaller companies in the larger city.
The thing is that big cities get the reputation of having a lot of jobs. Nobody moderately well off lives in these cities unless they outright own the buildings. Hell I can almost guarantee that most of the buildings around the stock exchange doesnt even house people but investing machines. You gain the illusion that people are making bank but you realise that the only way to actually make money is to move out or have a shit ton of money. The big cities is where you make connections and if you are sharing a studio you aren't meeting them
You need to save money for a morgage! Meanwhile: "We want everyone to move out by their parents into housing where the rent is so high you can't save money at all! Oh and we wnat to share small apartments, you finaly got freedom by moving out away from your parents just to live with total strangers spending early all your income on rent alone!" With the current climate it's clear with their outirght refusal to build moderate/cheap priced housing, send the population back to the middle ages. Where you home was a single room which you shared with your kids, live in parents (old) and wife. Like you have in Japan, Hongkong and Korea as the only option for most folk and is getting more and more common. So atleast the rent is cheap? Oh... Meanwhile they themselves will live in a giant mansion with entire forest and parks as private property, even worse is renting and hosue prices go up way faster than wages go up. So most people are now waiting for a new crash. The entire housing market is giant bubble by design, it serves them (the 1-10%) the other 90% can go into debt, live in a beddroom sized apartment alone or share a small apartment with mutple people (lol just stay at home then, it's cheaper). Then it's making 0 sense that the places with most jobs have the most expensive housing, so you get 3 options: 1) be lucky and find work locally outside of the cities, 2) live in said city and spent almost everything you earn on living from day to day alone or 3) travel back and forth 2 hour+ each for your job. Goverment regulation is the answers to this but you either have "We like inflated tax incomes so w ejust ignore" or the goverment of the US who have brainwashed most people to always go "That's socialist! Their own fault for not being rich!". Living situation across the west is failing and the private sector is doing nothing, the goverments aren't doing anything and the people who already own the houses and building support the current situation. We need a system where the rent is the same in a country everywhere, basicly a checklist that determines how much you can ask. Which will result in apartments in cities becoming vastly cheaper, afterall they are small, the area is awefull, the area is noisy and your view faces a brick wall in the alleyway anyhow with a balcony where you can place only a single chair on. So restrictments, no more 1 bedoom small apartment being asked to give up your entire monthly wage/income just to be able have a place to sleep.
@@Finish303 to be honest I'm not even that opposed to bedroom sized living if you are a minimalist but the bs is that people are paying mortgage rates for living with others in a minimalist lifestyle where a minimalist is supposed to promote freedom
@@demonvictim BS? It's being made trendy nowadays, these are places in the cities so you still pay the same rent as somebody outside for a 1 family home.
Hey don't give up, your number 1 priority should be graduation. Put everything else aside and get that done. If you had a better option right now, you'd already know it. It's never too late dude do it
Good stuff Louis, im watching this from Estonia and i think what you´re saying resonates to majority of big cities located in developed countries. It´s not yet heavily pronounced here, but i reckon we will get there eventually.
I’m a fairly new subscriber ( within past 2 weeks).This suggestion comes up on the right sidebar, no matter what I’m viewing on RU-vid. I noticed it was older, but because it was always there, I’m finally watching it:).
Wow I'm still in the first 12 minutes, and I thought I had a crazy life, hustled hard etc Damn, you americans work hard. Thanks for sharing man. Sometimes I miss those crazy days, it's like the anxiety keeps you in top shape, something like that, who knows. The hustle is real.
You need to have what's called a "liquidated damages" clause in your construction contracts. It means the contractor has to commit to a level of quality, and a schedule -- and if they don't produce acceptable quality, by or before the deadline, they have to pay damages which are calculated DAILY -- $xxxx per day until acceptably done.
My employer would be out of business if they worked under such contractual obligations for certain services (painting!). This is very good advice if you can make it fly. (I hate painters so much and their constant refrain of, "It'll take 3 more days". Lies!)
Yes, NYC is sorta a millionaires town, lived in a “large” midwest city my whole life and that was the only thing I could think of the dozen or more times I have been there. Everything is time priced and is basically priced out of even the richest budgets.
same here in madison wi. Gentrification has taken ahold. ANd no, not one political party is to blame because we're traditionally democrat and this is a NEW phenomenon
It's also police happy there if you travel by greyhound bus and happen to go to the nyc station. I missed the bus, and had to wait hours, and police there treat people, like bus station bums, like you can't sit in one place for too long...
Not every old guy who is with a younger woman is thinking "duhh uhh, look how good i am me!", probably most of them are thinking "ehh, yeah she wants me for my money but I think that's a fair trade", or "I bet I can exploit her better than she can exploit me".
Anyone who thinks their wife didn't at least partially married them for money is fooling them selves. Women are very pragmatic when it comes to marriage, its us men who do it for "love".
@@Fankas2000 And you think women don't marry for love? They do, if anything what they find attractive just differs. The vast majority of women don't marry a man for money because they're thinking "he has money I want money", they do it because money is a very good predictor of success, and women are attracted to successful men. It's not the money they're attracted to, it's a man who is successful enough that he has a lot of income. It's no different to men, men find women attractive for various reasons as well. Whether it's physical attractiveness, personality (which is just a metric for socialization), etc. Both marry for love, you're just viewing women as marrying for pragmatic reasons because you're not seeing through the same perspective. Just the same as some women will say "all men care about is physical features, they don't care about love, only women marry for love". Both marry for love, but what triggers that "love" reaction varies slightly. Also I really don't see the issue with women being attracted to a man *with* money (not attracted *to* money). At least a persons wealth is related to their work ethic, motivation, success, etc. People have no control over their facial structure, but then it's fine if women find that attractive (which it is, I'm just pointing out the logic).
@@lost4468yt For someone who wrote an entire page of text, you sure didn't said much. All of what you said could have been Summarized with "men marry women for who they are, women marry men for what they can do". One is much closer to what we would call love then the other.
The honest reality is there is too much demand to live in Manhattan, and coupled with decades of horrible city governance has created an inhospitable environment. Leave and save your soul.
Paul Graham had an essay on his site a few years ago where he discussed the culture of various cities. NYC judges by wealth. Cambridge, MA it's the books on your shelfs. Silicon Valley has wealth but your wealth doesn't count if you aren't working on some technology on the edge. Can't remember more. It was eye opening.
The instruments by which hierarchy is determined change. The hierarchies are always there. If there weren't money or work success, it'd be the kind of place you live in, how many parties you get invited to, etc...
I hated living here in Vermont most of my life, now at 29 I am so grateful I never left. Most people I knew in college that moved to NYC or LA hate living there now and want out.
Lol nice ALR pic. Anyways, same thing happened to a friend of mine. He started working here in TX, went out to Cali because he thought the 25% pay bump would be worth it. He's now miserable in Silicon Valley. Living with three roomates he doesn't even hang with, paying over 1500 in rent per month, is waiting for his chance to get a job back here in TX without looking like a flighty job hopper. Sad thing is he's still a commie sympathizer. All the shitty state policies he hates there doesn't get the point across that he shouldn't support them back here.
I hope they all leave. I'm born and raised in NYC and LI. Too many Non NYers in NYC. It's just too many US transplants, they're taking up the jobs the apartments and they think they are the real NYers after being here for 2-3 years. They live in the middle of the city and look down on the people that live in the outer boroughs. Then they drive the cost of living up across the entire city as they move from apt to apt every year with 3 and 4 roommates.
I can relate to this for sure. I've built up a small business in NYC over the last 10 years as well. We pay the highest rates in the country for basic services, and it's honestly a miracle when we actually get what we've been promised and paid for. "Lead" Contractors are the worst to work with, since they are heavily incentivized to cut every corner possible, while employing people who can't ever specialize and master anything. Doing business here feels like every day I'm trying to swim back to shore but the undercurrent keeps me from going anywhere, bashing me with waves every couple minutes for good measure. I'm pretty sure there's places in the world where people do their jobs and take pride in their work. And I think it has to do with community, and having to see your clients every week at the local bar or at church. NYC is too big for that to work, and so there's little accountability. Everyone also has to work twice as hard to get by so that doesn't lend itself to caring 100% about a budget job you're doing just cause it's slow. I mean even if you don't mean to, I'm sure the services you perform at 3am are not going to be as good as the ones you perform at 3pm. You're sacrificing quality in your work in this case because the system is f$cked and you need to work 14 hours a day. I don't blame people in New York who become jerks here for being jerks. But I do commend good people like yourself who try to do the right thing. I'm personally moving away, so I'll let you know if it helps. ;) Also I've been meaning to bring a couple sick macbooks over for ages. Will come down there soon. good luck with the new shop!
Louis, I hesitated to watch. I started.. what the hell. This video is cathartic. It is so much about my similar situation. Trying to do something without the necessary capital. I have been doing this for 25 years. It never gets better. I just do a great job and put a foot out of the bed each day and continue on. Your crap detector is right on. It comes from years of people trying to scam you (and me). BTW same in Washington.
Would you ever make a video just talking Audio studio stuff? Theres entire youtube channels dedicated to that stuff and your insight as a repairman would be valuable.
@@SeaJay_Oceans yeah, but even then there's things that not even that guy can talk about, and it has everything to do with the shitty clique of Bernstein type folks, and their shit religion. Even then AJ likes to scream a lot, making a lot of the things that he says sound stupid or even crazy to the point that it kind of becomes counterproductive to the problems that he's talking about, if only because of the sheer amount of negative attention he gets from the public.
