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I'd pay extra to live in a neighborhood with no children.
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kid sinister posted:Then what the hell do families with multiple driving teenagers in your neighborhood do if they can't park their rustbuckets on the street? Growing up in suburban New Jersey, most of the towns just generally prohibited overnight street parking, so you either had to have a driveway/garage large enough to accommodate your cars, or do without.
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Jan 24, 2015 07:05
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I'd pay extra to not have to read all this HOA poo poo that comes up every dozen pages or so and goes on for another dozen pages
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Jan 24, 2015 07:30
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Wild EEPROM posted:I'd pay extra to not have to read all this HOA poo poo that comes up every dozen pages or so and goes on for another dozen pages There are a couple thread tags you can use that will do exactly this. Go hog wild!
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Jan 24, 2015 08:14
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Dillbag posted:There are a couple thread tags you can use that will do exactly this. Go hog wild! Wait, what? We have some kind of post filtering by keywords now? 
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Jan 24, 2015 16:02
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No, he simply has to post that request with the banme tag and he won't have to read it again.
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Wild EEPROM posted:I'd pay extra to not have to read all this HOA poo poo that comes up every dozen pages or so and goes on for another dozen pages HOA horror stories are one of my favorite parts of this thread. Schadenfreude more than anything, really.
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Jan 25, 2015 17:20
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GreenNight posted:I'd pay extra to live in a neighborhood with no children. How about a whole city? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Woods,_California
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Jan 25, 2015 18:18
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FCKGW posted:How about a whole city?
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Jan 25, 2015 18:31
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Crotch Fruit posted:Medican age of 78, that sounds like hell. . . It would be impossible to ever drive more than 20mph. Sure it would, during bedtime (4pm to 2am)
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Jan 25, 2015 18:35
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The Villages is the sprawling olds-only mecca of central FL. I've seen some real poo poo on some commercial service calls up there, I can't imagine what some of those piece of poo poo houses were put together like. And yeah, 25MPH is speed racing and golf carts are street legal, geezers get plates and everything. You even see snowbirds with out of state tags on their golf carts. 
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e: forgot what forum this is!
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enziarro posted:The Villages is the sprawling olds-only mecca of central FL. I've seen some real poo poo on some commercial service calls up there, I can't imagine what some of those piece of poo poo houses were put together like. Sup other goon who lives within driving distance of The Villages! Better yet, it's just one of several old people towns I know of where golf carts are street legal, there's one over on the coast that I have to drive through whenever I'm going south down A1A where suddenly the speed limit plunges and there's a bunch of mini golf cart roads that merge into and out of the street. Florida is the place where old people go to die very slowly in their goofy miniature electric vehicles.
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Jan 25, 2015 20:42
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FCKGW posted:How about a whole city? I have an uncle who retired from the Orange County Sheriffs. The cop slang for retirement community Leisure World was Seizure World. Unsurprisingly they were there all the time for medical calls
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SkunkDuster posted:HOA horror stories are one of my favorite parts of this thread. Schadenfreude more than anything, really. Mine is hanging in there. Making sensible decisions, being pretty reasonable, and generally handling everything with a healthy dose of common sense. I'm enjoying it while it lasts. It's the price I pay for living in one of these newfangled mixed residential / commercial developments, where people are suddenly starting to realize how awesome it is to not have to get in the car and drive 20 through 15 minutes of suburban traffic just to grab a coffee or buy groceries. It's almost like the cities were a pretty good idea, or something. Sorry to disappoint, thread. 
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SwivelTits2000 posted:Mine is hanging in there. Making sensible decisions, being pretty reasonable, and generally handling everything with a healthy dose of common sense. I'm enjoying it while it lasts. It's the price I pay for living in one of these newfangled mixed residential / commercial developments, where people are suddenly starting to realize how awesome it is to not have to get in the car and drive 20 through 15 minutes of suburban traffic just to grab a coffee or buy groceries. It's almost like the cities were a pretty good idea, or something.
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I do too and I sometimes do it myself and it's because carrying a bunch of groceries home by hand sucks. I used to live in SF and I lived 1 block from a laundromat and I would drive there becuase my wife and I would save up like a ton of laundry and then go do it all at once and carrying it all over there sucks compared to just putting it in the car. All that said, mixed-use zoning is very good and more people should live that way, as long as it's not me, because I love having a big two-car garage I can do projects in, a back yard I can let go to weeds, and not listening to my upstairs neighbors run around their apartments at 2 AM having a screaming argument before having loud make-up sex and screaming fake orgasms.
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Leperflesh posted:and not listening to my upstairs neighbors run around their apartments at 2 AM having a screaming argument before having loud make-up sex and screaming fake orgasms. This combined with lots of BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOMBOOM sounds of people running up and down the stairs (that shared a common wall with us) is exactly what my old apartment was like. Buying a house (also with a 2 car garage and a big rear end backyard) was one of the best things I ever did. I didn't mind the apartment noise too much but MANNNNNNN you can bet your rear end I don't miss it and wouldn't know what to think if I'd have to pay attention to my noise level or worry about someone parking in my space again.
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Leperflesh posted:and not listening to my upstairs neighbors I 100% do not miss having my cigarettes put out by the dog pissing on the next (wooden) balcony up from mine. I couldn't even really blame the poor fucker, as the balcony was literally the only walk he ever got.
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I mean, you can still rent a house, this isn't a screed against renting so much as it is against lovely multi-family housing with inadequate soundproofing between units.
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Jan 30, 2015 18:21
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That's actually one major advantage renting has over buying, all else the same: don't like the situation? WAAAAAY easier to just find a new place.
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I have lived in lovely apartments where you hear the baby next door 24/7, and I've also been in non-lovely apartments where you can't hear anything around you.
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Even though noise is a pain in the rear end, I cannot stress how much of a pain it was in my bachelor apartment when people would park in my spot. Hell I had TWO spots designated to me, but almost every single day I'd come from from work and someone would be in my spots. I even tried checking with my neighbors a few times and they either didn't know who they were or were lying to me, probably lying. I couldn't park in the street or anything because there was no place to park without parking someone in. My only choice was to park in another spot and hope someone didn't get too pissed, which starts a really annoying chain reaction down the entire complex. I haven't lived there since 2007, but my neighbor's stupid rear end van (which permanently had an Upwards game in the front dash/window, which was cool) still shows up on google maps and for once is actually parked in his own space. Here's a streetview picture of it. I'm surprised the google car/whatever it's called wasn't jacked considering the neighborhood. (my 2 spots circled for all that care) 
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Tyson Tomko posted:Even though noise is a pain in the rear end, I cannot stress how much of a pain it was in my bachelor apartment when people would park in my spot. Hell I had TWO spots designated to me, but almost every single day I'd come from from work and someone would be in my spots. I even tried checking with my neighbors a few times and they either didn't know who they were or were lying to me, probably lying. At our condo complex parking in someone else's spot is an act of war. The accepted response is to sit there and lay on the horn until someone comes out to take the walk of shame.
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Crosspostin' for the people that haven't seen it; life at my job is... exciting.Wasabi the J posted:That is the least of my company's power issues.
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 What in the actual gently caress is going on there?
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Collateral Damage posted:
The city block lost power, boss man (probably) said "TIME LOST IS MONEY LOST, I'LL HIRE WHATEVER CONTRACTOR IS DUMB ENOUGH TO HOOK THIS GENERATOR UP IF YOU PUSSIES WON'T!" Load bearing ratchet strap Pulling the keyhole shelves sideways Piles of cable Plugged into the mains with no switch In front of an actual door "gently caress it, just put cardboard on it. Keeps the terminals from arcing on my hood, should be the same for three-phase." Thankfully that poo poo's all gone and properly installed (now).
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:At our condo complex parking in someone else's spot is an act of war. The accepted response is to sit there and lay on the horn until someone comes out to take the walk of shame. Related quote:
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Can't you just get the mis-parked vehicle towed? It costs enough to get your car out of impound that I doubt many people would be willing to do that more than once. EDIT: vvv I think they were ignoring the parking assignations, which accrued penalties that they refused to pay, which eventually ended them up in court, and now their condo is getting seized to pay court fees. TooMuchAbstraction fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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idgi, they were upset because they got assigned a specific spot?
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Collateral Damage posted:idgi, they were upset because they got assigned a specific spot? I guess? And now that they've spent six years pissing off the courts and probably bungling every last aspect of the case, they'd like an actual lawyer to come in on their behalf...for free, of course.
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enziarro posted:The Villages is the sprawling olds-only mecca of central FL. I've seen some real poo poo on some commercial service calls up there, I can't imagine what some of those piece of poo poo houses were put together like. My folks thought it seemed like a good place to retire and bought a home there. Sold it less than a year later because the place is full off assholes. Glen Beck and Sarah Palin spoke there multiple times during their stint. The houses are pretty well built, though, My dad is a stickler for that sort of thing. Whole place is full of sinkholes, though. Houses disappearing and poo poo, and they try to cover it up.
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Trent posted:Whole place is full of sinkholes, though. Houses disappearing and poo poo, and they try to cover it up. Florida apparently has retirement communities that are full of sinkholes as well. It's like the planet is correcting the worse human offenses without letting us resort to outright murder.
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The thread will be pleased to hear that today while driving through the wastelands of outer Fairfax County VA, where rampant development is the norm, I spotted a house for sale sign near a development. Featured at the top of the sign was the phrase "NO HOA"
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neogeo0823 posted:Florida apparently has retirement communities that are full of sinkholes as well. It's like the planet is correcting the worse human offenses without letting us resort to outright murder. A lot of southern Florida is swampland. Honestly, what do they expect to happen when they build structures of questionable quality on swampland?
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n0tqu1tesane posted:A lot of southern Florida is swampland. Honestly, what do they expect to happen when they build structures of questionable quality on swampland? Listen, lad. I've built this community up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the snowbirds said I was daft to build a town in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest retirement community in the southern USA!
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n0tqu1tesane posted:A lot of southern Florida is swampland. Honestly, what do they expect to happen when they build structures of questionable quality on swampland? The sinkholes and the swamps are largely unrelated. The sinkholes come from the carbonate rock that underlies pretty much all of Florida, which is relatively easily dissolved. Although the swampland thing certainly contributes it's fair share of problems.
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It's called "karst topography," and it's a really cool geological phenomenon! 
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Leperflesh posted:It's called "karst topography," and it's a really cool geological phenomenon! Unf, yeah baby, that's some well-developed karst you have there. Shake that thang! Oh poo poo poo poo! SHIIIIIIT!" *Sinkhole swallows home*.
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I only know about Karst because of growing up in Kentucky with amazing cave systems everywhere.
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