bonelessdongs posted:

I stopped looking for houses because all it did was make me feel like poo poo and start thinking thoughts best left in a shack in Montana

euphronius posted:

it’s the basis of R1 zoning which is extremely common

actionjackson posted:

R1 zoning prohibits people who are not related living together?

spacemang_spliff posted:

good news is that they're not going to cancel loans so you don't have to kill yourself

euphronius posted:

i guess it’s unlikely to get a citation for having a roommate in a single family zoned area but it’s possible especially if your neighbors don’t like you

https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-ladue-v-horn-1071546274#:~:text=Rule%3A,or%20welfare%20of%20the%20community. posted:

In July 1981, defendants Joan Horn and E. Terrence Jones purchased a seven-bedroom, four-bathroom house which was located in a single-family residential zone in Ladue, Missouri. Residing in their home were Horn’s two children (aged 16 and 19) and Jones's one child (age 18). The two older children attended out-of-state universities and lived in the house only on a part-time basis. Although defendants were not married, they shared a common bedroom, maintained a joint checking account for the household expenses, ate their meals together, entertained together, and disciplined each other's children. Pursuant to its Zoning Ordinance No. 1175, plaintiff City of Ladue made demands upon defendants to vacate their home because their household did not comprise a family. Family had been defined by the ordinance as “one or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, occupying a dwelling unit as an individual housekeeping organization.” When defendants refused to vacate, the City sought to enjoin defendants' continued violation of the zoning ordinance. Defendants counterclaimed, seeking a declaration that the zoning ordinance was constitutionally void. The trial court entered a permanent injunction in favor of the City.

https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-moore-v-east-cleveland posted:

The appellant lived in a home with her son and two grandsons. The grandsons were cousins, with one of the grandsons moving in after his mother died. Appellant received notice that she was in violation of Cleveland's criminal statute that limits occupants of a dwelling to members of a single family. The appellant's family did not meet the definiation that was required by the statute. She was convicted and sentenced to 5 days in jail and a $25 fine.

https://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/supreme-court/1990/117-n-j-421-1.html posted:

The narrow issue presented in this case is whether a group of ten unrelated college students living in defendants' home constitutes a "family" within the definition of a restrictive zoning ordinance. The Borough of Glassboro concedes that a primary purpose of the ordinance was to prevent groups of unrelated college students from living together in the Borough's residential districts. The ordinance limits residence in such districts to stable and permanent "single housekeeping units" that constitute either a "traditional family unit" or its functional equivalent.

bawfuls posted:

grandma living with two grandkids: fine and jailtime

10 college kids in one house: totally fine cause they eat together

bonelessdongs posted:

I stopped looking for houses because all it did was make me feel like poo poo and start thinking thoughts best left in a shack in Montana

christmas boots posted:

This is very distressing to hear.

I mean, Montana?

Vox Nihili posted:

It's a reference to Ted Kaczynski

Beached Whale posted:

christmas boots posted:

Huh, no wonder he did it.

quote:

In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were given to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition.[25] Electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly.[25] The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week.[26][27] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.[28]

Vox Nihili posted:

The best explanation for why he killed a bunch of people is probably the insane psychological torture inflicted on him by a deranged Harvard psychologist in his late teens. Just grabbing the summary from Wikipedia:

He was 17 when they did this to him!

quote:

And with a flexible budget ($1,000 to $1,500 a month) and a decent salary, you’d think it’d be easy to find a nice place to live, right? Not so much. For $1,000 a month, Azeem faced such options as a room with no heat and no windows (just a skylight that he was assured opened and closed), and apartments with insect infestations. There were places with no storage space and ones where the existing tenant admitted the electricity occasionally went out because the landlord would forget to pay utilities.

Nonsense posted:

Boston Racists

euphronius posted:

well there you go market solutions

Rip Testes posted:

Airbnb going to full remote model globally - 'Compensation won't change for those Airbnb employees who choose to move. Starting in June, the company will have single pay tiers by country. '

WaryWarren posted:

gtfo gentrifier

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

I'm trying to get my cousin outside Austin to move to Colorado. At least the rent is affordable in my area.

No dice so far. I don't get what he sees in the place anymore. He's a musician and says the local scene has gone to poo poo.

i say swears online posted:

the music scene is awful. live music is dead. i used to hang out in smoky bars when i was eighteen and listen to bands all the time

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

College in Austin was cool as gently caress, but when I went back there maybe two years ago and all of the bars on 6th st and 4th street are just the old names, but none of the atmosphere that made them good if they even still exist at all. The Library doesn't even have books anymore. The Aquarium has one wall that is an aquarium. Maggie May's has no defining characteristics. Austin City Limits is gone and replaced with condo's. Pretty sure all of the houses/bars on Rainy street are condo's now. The Iconic drag is now indistinguishable from any suburban shopping street with the same starbucks/chase bank/panera combination as all the others.