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The last place we lived had a... Not sure exactly, 36" height countertop and island? Definitely taller than the standard 30", but not 42" full bar height. 30" is too short for people over about 5'10" imo but probably pretty comfortable for someone 5'2-6"
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I'm finishing up a kitchen remodel and can confirm that 36" is pretty much the standard height for kitchen counters and appliances like free standing ranges.
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Oct 20, 2023 23:34
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https://abc7.com/fake-grass-artificial-turf-california-environmental-concerns/13942121/ Cities in historically dry California can ban artificial grass now It cites some valid stuff about micro plastics and apparently one type of artificial turf has been known to have pfas The part that really grinds my gears is this  quote:Other concerns include plastic pollution in water runoff and extreme heat. Synthetic options tend to heat up significantly more than natural alternatives. No poo poo Sherlock, I don't have to spray it with chlorinated filtered drinking water four days a week to keep it green, so there's no water in the soil to perform the evaporative cooling grass uses to keep from cooking itself alive We have a 400 sq ft patch of artificial turf that effectively acts as erosion control and turns that area into a play area for the kids. I looked at the historical photos for our lot on Google Earth and before the previous owner installed turf there it was just dry barren rocky soil for 40+ years
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Oct 21, 2023 00:24
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Sloppy posted:There's a variety of options besides a standard drainfield, check out the stuff Orenco makes.
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Oct 21, 2023 02:47
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I have relatives in the Seattle area and their entire HOA neighborhood doesn't give a single poo poo about green grass, it all goes brown in the dry summer like it naturally should and no one has irrigation systems. It rules. I wish more people would get on board with this. Take over your HOA and change the rules from within, if you can
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Oct 21, 2023 03:35
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My favorite thing about HOA elections is that, like running for real office in CA, the only acceptable platform is “I will murder the local homeless population and raise your home values.”
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Oct 21, 2023 03:49
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Hadlock posted:https://abc7.com/fake-grass-artificial-turf-california-environmental-concerns/13942121/ Lol california
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Oct 21, 2023 21:49
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Synthetic turf was one of those ideas that depended on technology advancing during the life of the product. It was a way to pawn old toxic rubber tires onto consumers and promise that there would be a way to recycle it by the time the fields reached end of life. The synthetic turf Council doesn't even try to argue that the crumb rubber exposes children to heavy metals including lead. They just argue that the exposure doesn't actually cause any harm.
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Oct 21, 2023 22:43
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I'm pretty sure ours is made from shredded polyester disco pants, dyed green. If you hop out of the pool and jump on the slope still soaking wet it's like a slip n slide with the added adventure of the risk of rugburn at the bottom if you weren't wet enough There's a lot of variety of fake grass
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Oct 21, 2023 23:40
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I'd rather have a yard covered in ugly gravel and broken glass than fake turf grass, that poo poo sucks so much
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Oct 22, 2023 00:14
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Fake grass is the worst I would rather eat dog turds Than deal with that poo poo
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Oct 22, 2023 00:16
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Hadlock posted:I'm pretty sure ours is made from shredded polyester disco pants, dyed green. If you hop out of the pool and jump on the slope still soaking wet it's like a slip n slide with the added adventure of the risk of rugburn at the bottom if you weren't wet enough this post kinda looks like astroturfing
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Oct 22, 2023 00:18
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The fake blades of grass have gotten really realistic and soft! It's the other layers of the tiramisu that are no good.
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Oct 22, 2023 00:39
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What’s wrong with xeriscape stuff
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Oct 22, 2023 00:52
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Yeah we are fully xeriscaped, or whatever. Bunch of native shrubs spaced 6+ ft apart and gravel etc. In the back yard, immediately adjacent to the pool is a 10x12' flat spot that then slopes down at a 45° angle. In this exact use case it's nice to have some soft area for kids to roll around/rough-house on right next to the pool, since the pool is paved with pavers and the rest of the yard is either gravel or geotextile with beauty bark on top It could be real grass but then I'd have to water, fertilize, mow etc and we have really poor rocky soil plus it's proven nothing grows there
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Oct 22, 2023 01:00
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If I lived somewhere dry I would opt for dirt/sometimes mud over gravel. I despise having gravel in my yard. It's even worse than wood chips, and I hate wood chips (my current yard is half wood chips, it's the worst. How long does it take these things to rot away on their own anyway? I'm feeling as many I can to the shrooms right now but there's no way I can get them all, there's so many)
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Oct 22, 2023 01:21
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Hadlock posted:Yeah we are fully xeriscaped, or whatever. Bunch of native shrubs spaced 6+ ft apart and gravel etc. Astroturf is a really weird choice for that, why can't you just do the normal thing and convert the slope into a great amphitheater, with seats formed from the bones of your enemies
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QuarkJets posted:Astroturf is a really weird choice for that, why can't you just do the normal thing and convert the slope into a great amphitheater, with seats formed from the bones of your enemies Hadlock is very popular and thus has no enemies.
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Oct 22, 2023 06:15
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Zarin posted:Hadlock is very popular and thus has no enemies. No enemies remaining you mean
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Oct 22, 2023 08:33
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Meanwhile in Windsor, Ontario, the traffic islands are covered with artificial turf instead of grass. I assume because no maintenance required by the city.
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Oct 22, 2023 15:16
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mr.belowaverage posted:Meanwhile in Windsor, Ontario, the traffic islands are covered with artificial turf instead of grass. I assume because no maintenance required by the city. No time to maintain grass in Windsor, too busy eating the best pizza. 
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Jenkl posted:No time to maintain grass in Windsor, too busy eating the best pizza. I hope you’re not talking about Antonino’s. I have yet to find anything special about the pizza in Windsor.
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Oct 22, 2023 16:23
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mr.belowaverage posted:I hope you’re not talking about Antonino’s. I have yet to find anything special about the pizza in Windsor. drat that's a first. Antonino's is ok but expensive and not the best. Capris. Koolinis. Franco's. Armando's. All great. It's ok if you don't like it though. Nobody's perfect.
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Oct 22, 2023 16:27
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Why are all the streets in Windsor parallelograms
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Oct 22, 2023 18:51
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Hadlock posted:Why are all the streets in Windsor parallelograms Cause there's no squares in Windsor!
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Oct 22, 2023 19:23
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Hadlock posted:Why are all the streets in Windsor parallelograms Hadlock's hometown:  https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Su...FwcjI?entry=ttu 
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Oct 22, 2023 19:35
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Sundae posted:Hadlock's hometown: Lol where you have to ask if someone's address is in radians or degrees.
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Oct 22, 2023 19:49
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Jenkl posted:Lol where you have to ask if someone's address is in radians or degrees. When I first saw that map: First thought: "Wow, what inefficient land usage." Second thought: "WTF all that just for golf courses in a desert?" Third thought: "...there's a church at the center of each circle WHAT THE gently caress." E: Psychological horror movie poo poo going on there... 
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Oct 22, 2023 20:04
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Every afternoon the children come out and bounce their toy balls in unison.
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Inverse black rock city
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Every afternoon the children come out and bounce their toy balls in unison. I looked the town up, and there are no kids to bounce the balls in the first place. The old TV show "Eerie Indiana" would look at this town and say NOPE, too unbelievable even for spooky kids' shows. Sun City is all my worst housing nightmares rolled into one; it's a 55+ unincorporated HOA-town. Your under-55 family and caretakers can live with you, but they are banned from making use of any amenities or facilities whatsoever unless they're 19+ and the HOA expects them to be escorted places. They have to pay extra fees, also, whenever they use the amenities. If the 55+ resident/owner dies, you can continue to own the place but can't live there anymore (spouses included) unless you are 55+ as well. You would have to either sell or rent to a 55+ tenant. There are guest restrictions and fees whenever anyone visits, including restrictions on how many times per year you can have visitors and their ages. It is a HOA community for the worst people, governed by the worst people. Also  , there's a clause in the bylaws that your spouse must also be 19+. I love rules that only have to be written down because someone was the loving worst.
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The "circle neighbourhoods centered a community space surrounded by green areas" idea doesn't seem inherently bad to me, though, even if the implementation of that is the absolute worst in this instance
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GlyphGryph posted:The "circle neighbourhoods centered a community space surrounded by green areas" idea doesn't seem inherently bad to me, though, even if the implementation of that is the absolute worst in this instance That's the problem - it's the absolute worst in this instance, in the wrong place, in the wrong climate. It doesn't have to be efficient in a place with endless land, but this... this is just poo poo. Also, almost none of those circles are walkable to any sort of community space, especially for the age of the people involved and in this particular climate. (Also, with every neighborhood looking entirely identical and all the streets in circles, I imagine there are lots of mentally-deteriorating elderly folks completely lost at night trying to find their way home while driving in endless circles down the wrong street.)
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Sundae posted:Also, almost none of those circles are walkable to any sort of community space, especially for the age of the people involved and in this particular climate. We’ve got a nice little cluster of shops near our house in the ‘burbs, and driving past it this afternoon I was telling my spouse how it would be 10x better if they put parking lots on both ends and blocked off street traffic to make a pedestrian center. My wife agreed it would be better, but we live in a hell state that broke 95 degrees in October and the average citizen is not equipped to walk just a block or two in those conditions.
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quote:According to the census of 2000, there were 38,309 people, 23,490 households, and 12,520 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 2,639.5 inhabitants per square mile (1,019.1/km2). There were 27,731 housing units at an average density of 1,910.7 per square mile (737.7/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.4% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.3% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.2% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. One percent (1.0%) of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. It is a retirement community, but goddamn what a Boomerville.
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I moved from a place with no trees in the yard to a place with...several trees in the yard. I know I have to rake the leaves in the back before it snows, but do I need to rake the pinecones in the front too? I imagine so, but I've never seen or heard of anyone raking pinecones.
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Well, considering that raking is something that only has started in the past century or so, I'm sure that mother nature will survive just fine if you don't. That being said, how nice do you like your lawn to be? It's purely a cosmetic thing to rake. Pinecones can be a pain if you have kids (especially if they throw them)
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I lived next to Sun City in the 90s and I made the mistake of trying to do a Boy Scout fundraiser there exactly once. Buncha angry rear end olds that won’t help a kid out. gently caress Sun City
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George H.W. oval office posted:I lived next to Sun City in the 90s and I made the mistake of trying to do a Boy Scout fundraiser there exactly once. Buncha angry rear end olds that won’t help a kid out. gently caress Sun City rockers and boy scouts united and strong
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Poldarn posted:I moved from a place with no trees in the yard to a place with...several trees in the yard. I know I have to rake the leaves in the back before it snows, but do I need to rake the pinecones in the front too? I imagine so, but I've never seen or heard of anyone raking pinecones.
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