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Keyser S0ze posted:Yeah, I guess when you think about it the old money Wasps in those $48 million houses for those neighborhoods all got replaced with Google millionaires/lawyers/hedge fund douches from the East Coast that all drive Priuses and fly on private jets to vacation in rain forests. They've all traded their Priuses for Teslas.
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It's wildfire season in SoCal again and there's a big fire that's been burning near my coworker's house in Lake Elsinore. This was snapped by someone the other day of the firefighting near his home.
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rope kid posted:Living in Huntington Beach was horrible for many reasons, one of which was being represented by Dana Rohrabacher. Sup fellow OC resident that use to be represented by a horrible poo poo lord (Ed Royce in my case) but is now in Sanchez's district.  Since the fair is going on right now it's always fun to re-register at the democratic party booth there just to be smug as poo poo while the people in the republican booth (usually next to it) glare.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Gosh that sounds familiar. Do they count as a full person or some fraction. 3/5 maybe? Everything > 10 miles from the California Coast = Nevada/Arizona/Texas EDIT: ^^^^ holy crap I had no idea they used passenger level jets for fire drops now. Always thought they stuck with C-130's at most. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzwS8Gv27J8 Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Keyser S0ze posted:EDIT: ^^^^ holy crap I had no idea they used passenger level jets for fire drops now. Always thought they stuck with C-130's at most. It's still pretty rare. The DC-10 is either a one-off or nearly a one-off, likewise with the Evergreen 747. I believe there's an effort underway to convert a bunch of BAe-146 regional jets (four engines, good takeoff performance, but way way smaller) into fire tankers but as far as I know only one or two are operational so far.
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StandardVC10 posted:It's still pretty rare. The DC-10 is either a one-off or nearly a one-off, likewise with the Evergreen 747. I believe there's an effort underway to convert a bunch of BAe-146 regional jets (four engines, good takeoff performance, but way way smaller) into fire tankers but as far as I know only one or two are operational so far. There are two, and they're based out of Victorville.
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nm posted:Depends. We have a somewhat higher than average income tax, but property taxes are probably the lowest in the nation unless some state doesn't have property tax. Prop 13 especially insures that anyone (or their family) who bought property in the 80s or earlier, pays almost no property tax. This applies to companies too. Property values can only be re-assessed up if the property is sold to a non family member. The best part is that if you sell a business that owns property, that property stays assessed at old values. Companies create corporations for the sole purpose of holding a single large property, then instead of selling the property they sell the holding company.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Sup fellow OC resident that use to be represented by a horrible poo poo lord (Ed Royce in my case) but is now in Sanchez's district. Redistricting didn't do poo poo for me. I just went from one right-wing shitlord to another. 
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Casual Yogurt posted:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-delays-20130812,0,4180504.story The signs along I-5 all through the Central Valley have made me assume that the people who put them up are all essentially the ornery idiot farmers from Polanski's Chinatown.
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rope kid posted:The signs along I-5 all through the Central Valley have made me assume that the people who put them up are all essentially the ornery idiot farmers from Polanski's Chinatown. They're not idiots for perpetrating the best welfare scam in history.
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FCKGW posted:It's wildfire season in SoCal again and there's a big fire that's been burning near my coworker's house in Lake Elsinore. This was snapped by someone the other day of the firefighting near his home. God forgive me. 
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Dusseldorf posted:They're not idiots for perpetrating the best welfare scam in history.
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cheese posted:Which welfare scam are you talking about? 10 million people in so-cal living off water from the rest of the state (and other states)? He's referring to the water-rights. Ya know, the thing chinatown is about.
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cheese posted:1) make a poo poo load of money working in the bay but be unable or unwilling to spend 3/4 of a million on a decent 3 bedroom condo
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etalian posted:Find your county: Ahh, San Bernardino County. Hate gay people(Prop 8), weed and taxes, yet voted for Obama. How in the gently caress?
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Forceholy posted:Ahh, San Bernardino County. Hate gay people(Prop 8), weed and taxes, yet voted for Obama. How in the gently caress? Lots of poors and immigrants?
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Lots of poors and immigrants? Exactly, lots of people either priced out or sold their homes during the bubble and moved out to San Bernardino and Riverside county. The trains are packed with people commuting into Union Station every day.
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krysmopompas posted:I'd ask where you're finding such an amazing deal, but I know it's just going to be ruined by an $800+ HOA fee. God I can't stand HOA. Unless its a small build site, you can't find anything newish without an HOA. I'm currently not in a HOA but we have looked around in the past for another place. I don't care about a community pool or gate, and I don't need somebody bitching at me because I was working on my car. Nothin' like owning a home, but you really don't. One of the biggest problem is we run a piano studio in our home, we took a front bedroom window and knocked it out and replaced it with a door so students don't have to come through the house. This wouldn't fly in a HOA and I would imagine that if we didn't put in a door, we would have a problems with the HOA frowning on the piano lessons in general.
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I bought my house in concord in December 2009 for $240,800. Prices fell further after that, and recently have recovered, and I'm now probably in the black on this purchase but not by a lot. Point is, it's possible to buy a decent house a lot closer to San Francisco than loving Tracy for a lot less than half a mil. I live a ten minute walk from the BART station; my wife's commute into the city (embarcadero) is about 1 hour, including the time spent walking to the station and waiting for a train.
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incoherent posted:He's referring to the water-rights. Ya know, the thing chinatown is about.  Leperflesh posted:I bought my house in concord in December 2009 for $240,800. Prices fell further after that, and recently have recovered, and I'm now probably in the black on this purchase but not by a lot. Point is, it's possible to buy a decent house a lot closer to San Francisco than loving Tracy for a lot less than half a mil. I live a ten minute walk from the BART station; my wife's commute into the city (embarcadero) is about 1 hour, including the time spent walking to the station and waiting for a train. Anyway, my point was not that you can't find ok housing on the outskirts of the bay area, but that many young workers (like myself) feel priced out of the market and are forced to make the choice of owning a home in Concord (no offense, but gently caress that) or renting a decent place at a high markup in San Mateo, Sunnyvale, Willow Glen, etc.
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withak posted:Concord is pretty far away from everything. You can hit up tommy t's "off of willow pass road, up in concord." Spaketh e-40.
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A few months ago, a recruiter came down from Humboldt State (at the very end of the app period, for some reason) to San Diego. I went because Humboldt is my dream school (ie, not back home in SoCal), and because I was accepted in February. The presentation was preceeding along fine with some absurdly cheery alumini leading it, when one of the male aluminis gets the mic, and one of the first thing that come out of his mouth is : "You may think that Humboldt is the number one county in California for the production of marijuanna. You are wrong. That dubious distinction goes to San Bernadino county. Humboldt is a distant second." My mother and I exchanged raised eyebrows, and the statement got a chuckle from the room. I imagine my next two years are going to have much partaking of the Mary jane in my future. That's ok. Move in date is next Monday. 
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Oh, yeah, for sure if you work on the Peninsula south of Milbrae BART station and you had to drive to work daily, Concord is too far. I was more just saying that there's options that are closer than Tracy. Also, Concord home values are still at a median of ~$370k. If you filter for 4-bedroom houses you still hit a median of $473k. That's the median, there's homes below that, although not, as you correctly say, much south of $350k. cheese posted:Anyway, my point was not that you can't find ok housing on the outskirts of the bay area, but that many young workers (like myself) feel priced out of the market and are forced to make the choice of owning a home in Concord (no offense, but gently caress that) or renting a decent place at a high markup in San Mateo, Sunnyvale, Willow Glen, etc. Yeah. That's exactly where I was at for most of the 2000s. My wife and I rented a ~650 square foot house (cottage, really) with a separate garage for $1650 on the southern edge of Belmont. The financial crisis and housing price collapse was terrible, of course, but it presented me a unique opportunity to do something I honestly didn't think I'd ever be able to do: buy a house in the bay area. My mortgage + taxes + homeowners insurance + PMI are less than what we were paying in rent, and my home is about 1200 square feet, with a two-car garage and a front and back yard, in a decent neighborhood. It'd suck if I couldn't work from home (I'd have to seek work either in SF, or in the East Bay; gently caress commuting to Sunnyvale or something). As-the-crow-flies, Concord is still significantly closer than Tracy, and given the option of BART (and the widening of the caldecott tunnel, due to open this year), it's a lot less of a commute to SF and northern parts of the peninsula.
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A White Guy posted:A few months ago, a recruiter came down from Humboldt State (at the very end of the app period, for some reason) to San Diego. I went because Humboldt is my dream school (ie, not back home in SoCal), and because I was accepted in February. The presentation was preceeding along fine with some absurdly cheery alumini leading it, when one of the male aluminis gets the mic, and one of the first thing that come out of his mouth is : Humbolt has nature, San Bernadino does not. Enjoy your stay!
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A White Guy posted:A few months ago, a recruiter came down from Humboldt State (at the very end of the app period, for some reason) to San Diego. I went because Humboldt is my dream school (ie, not back home in SoCal), and because I was accepted in February. The presentation was preceeding along fine with some absurdly cheery alumini leading it, when one of the male aluminis gets the mic, and one of the first thing that come out of his mouth is : I hope you like rain, outdoor sports/hiking and hate Costco!
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Did you forget there is an entire mountain range in SanBernardino? But yes the city is pure poo poo.
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cheese posted:I hope you like rain, outdoor sports/hiking and hate Costco! That's ok. I'm a poster child for YLLS, so I think living in the cold (it hasn't gotten over sixty the whole week in Arcata) year round and hiking (I have my own gear  ) will help.
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cheese posted:I hope you like rain, outdoor sports/hiking and hate Costco! Ah, paradise. Yeah, San Brenardino is the largest county in the US, largely enough to contain entire mountain ranges, deserts and urban areas in it (most of it is still terrible). I guess Big Bear is pretty cool if you can accept artificial snow for it being so close to LA. Having usable beaches and skiing/snowboarding in the same metro area is kind of nice.
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A White Guy posted:A few months ago, a recruiter came down from Humboldt State (at the very end of the app period, for some reason) to San Diego. I went because Humboldt is my dream school (ie, not back home in SoCal), and because I was accepted in February. The presentation was preceeding along fine with some absurdly cheery alumini leading it, when one of the male aluminis gets the mic, and one of the first thing that come out of his mouth is : Well no poo poo Wikipedia posted:With an area of 20,105 square miles, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the United States by area. It is larger than each of the nine smallest states, larger than the four smallest states combined, and larger than 71 different sovereign nations. Plus a large portion is barren nothingness and the prevalent grow houses in the urban areas (23 grow houses busted this year in my city of 50k!) then yeah, there's a lot of grow activity out here.
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A White Guy posted:That's ok. I'm a poster child for YLLS, so I think living in the cold (it hasn't gotten over sixty the whole week in Arcata) year round and hiking (I have my own gear
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Casual Yogurt posted:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-delays-20130812,0,4180504.story No, don't build it. This is one of the few times where the Republicans are probably right. The bullet train, as currently planned, is really damned dumb and will be an expensive and miserable failure if completed.
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Speaking of the Bullet Train... Elon Musk of Paypal and Tesla Motors fame thinks he has a better idea. If true, it sounds pretty baller; but it also sounds entirely pie-in-the-sky. That's some sci-fi poo poo. Still, it would be totally awesome. It does have the additional probably of not being economically feasible over distances longer than 1000 miles, which ruins my dream of the Vancouver, BC to Tijuana line, with stops in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. 
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Thanatosian posted:Speaking of the Bullet Train... Elon Musk of Paypal and Tesla Motors fame thinks he has a better idea. His claim that it's not economically feasible is to compare it to supersonic flight, which he considers feasible. Which it is, concorde was a thing, but nobody's doing it and for good reasons. If your baseline of comparison is a thing nobody's doing, and you're claiming you need to be more economical and/or faster than that, you're not actually measuring your project against a real-world alternative. e. Here's the actual paper, in PDF: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf Read the abstract to understand just how totally pie-in-the-sky his idea actually is.
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Northjayhawk posted:No, don't build it. This is one of the few times where the Republicans are probably right. The bullet train, as currently planned, is really damned dumb and will be an expensive and miserable failure if completed. I wish they would just spend those 68 billion dollars doing more useful transportation things. How about finally extending BART into the south bay and making it a complete loop?
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Ardennes posted:Ah, paradise. Yeah, San Brenardino is the largest county in the US, largely enough to contain entire mountain ranges, deserts and urban areas in it (most of it is still terrible). San Bernardino County is basically Texas with more gay people.
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A White Guy posted:I went because Humboldt is my dream school I ask out of curiousity, not a diss. Why is Humboldt your dream school?
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Welcome to Humboldt . I'm in Eureka. Cool enough town if not a little scummy, but you may just fall in love with Arcata.
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Forceholy posted:San Bernardino County is basically Texas with more gay people. Our BBQ sucks.
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