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Xaris posted:it doesn't mean anything other than a personal anecdote but I was at my storage unit today for the first time in awhile picking up Christmas decorations and man, a solid 1/2 of units seem to be vacant which is pretty crazy and dire. I had a very minor waitlist when I signed up back in 2017 and has always been a solid 90%+ occupancy up until now. also funny enough, my storage rent has barely budged in like the 8 years i've been there, started off at $40 back in 2017 and is only $50/mo in 2023, which is very reasonable for how relatively large it is. self storage units like these also tends to be mostly lower-income people so I don't know if all the low-income people have been swept away or what I was looking up REITs today and apparently there are REITs that solely rent to those storage unit companies Wonder how they're doing these days
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 07:44 |
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Tars Tarkas posted:lol I can't get past the "Not a robot" security check I keep clicking on motorcycles and stairs but it keeps saying I failed, good times this is a DNS issue, check your browser settings and make sure it's not internally switching (there's a setting in Firefox that does it over https and bypasses your systems dns settings, turn that off)
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 07:47 |
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PoundSand posted:It's cause it's sweeter. Lactose free milk is made with enzymes added that essentially pre-digest the lactose for you, and what it's broken down into is sugar. I made oat milk a few times during the pandemic when I couldn't get any milk of any kind, and while the homemade stuff was nice and worked for what it needed to do (plus it is as an excuse to use the leftover oatmeal mash to make cookies), it was different from the stuff you get at the store and I could never figure out why
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 08:19 |
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Gunshow Poophole posted:this is a DNS issue, check your browser settings and make sure it's not internally switching (there's a setting in Firefox that does it over https and bypasses your systems dns settings, turn that off) was wondering what was going on with archive.ph the past week or two.
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SKULL.GIF posted:megabrain take? edit: https://twitter.com/gave_vincent/status/1646886017541230592?t=wyxNBkfOcEnQZ4bmGfSTjA&s=19 https://twitter.com/gelberer_Gamer/status/1680810385211785217?t=wyxNBkfOcEnQZ4bmGfSTjA&s=19 https://twitter.com/gelberer_Gamer/status/1662025059748159489?t=FNRU71HEzn95fUe8WQ4IVg&s=19 BornAPoorBlkChild has issued a correction as of 10:05 on Dec 3, 2023 |
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BULBASAUR posted:I can't wait to eventually get out of here. PNW just kinda sucks. Too many tech workers moved here, and everything is expensive now. It was nice growing up here before Seattle got gutted but it's unrecognizable now. Nature stuff is the best part but even that is getting crowded and diminished. err has issued a correction as of 11:37 on Dec 3, 2023 |
# ? Dec 3, 2023 10:41 |
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Capitalist societies just seem to hate that they have humans in them.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 10:56 |
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skooma512 posted:https://novum.substack.com/p/living-in-a-time-of-psychopolitics Pretty good post
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 12:59 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Capitalist societies just seem to hate that they have humans in them. it is the ultimate contradiction of capitalism: surplus value only comes from human labor, which capitalism is determined to remove entirely to avoid paying proles
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 13:25 |
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Glumwheels posted:https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/tear-down-the-christmas-market-paywall/#comments I got dragged to this last night and it was the dumbest thing I've ever paid for in my loving life. We were there for 30 minutes at most before my wife- who seriously gets off on christmas tomfoolery and therefore had been looking forward to this for weeks- quietly said that we could leave. There were so many people packed into this event that you couldn't move. The lines for food were literally 100 people+ long. That's already insane, but the event area was so small that it meant there were weird makeshift snaking lines where no one understood what line was for what food, everyone was cutting lines, it was complete loving chaos. none of the food stalls had signs on top so, again, you literally just had zero idea who was selling what. A couple told us that they waited FORTY MINUTES for their overpriced lovely German food and had to ask for a refund. I tried to get a shot of the chaos happening at the food booths, it's 50 times worse than it looks in this shot but you can at least get a rough idea of how hosed it was: There was a stand selling two (2) churros for $11.99. You can't make this poo poo up. I tried to explain to my SO that paying to go to a market where you spend money is hot trash but you gotta pick your battles sometimes. At least she realized her mistake and we bounced to get a bowl of pho at Viet Anh down the street. F- would not attend again Only cool thing was this merry go round BULBASAUR posted:snip Yeah. I feel ya. Not that it would change your life but have you tried a sun lamp and do you take vitamin D? I found those help a lot I totally get your perspective though. The bay definitely has better food and perma-sun is amazing.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 15:16 |
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Taima posted:I got dragged to this last night and it was the dumbest thing I've ever paid for in my loving life. We were there for 30 minutes at most before my wife- who seriously gets off on christmas tomfoolery and therefore had been looking forward to this for weeks- quietly said that we could leave. lol wow, worse than I expected because I didn’t think it would be so overcrowded. I’d rather go to Leavenworth for our fake Christmas town fix. Were the non-food stalls any good, did they have anything interesting? gently caress waiting for an hour for $12 churros, you can get churros at Costco for a $1.50. I wonder what the event organizers are charging vendors. Looks like an Instagram trap, good thing Seattle has so many wannabe influencers in food and events. I was hoping the downturn would gently caress influencers but doesn’t seem to have done so unfortunately. Glumwheels has issued a correction as of 16:55 on Dec 3, 2023 |
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Taima posted:I got dragged to this last night and it was the dumbest thing I've ever paid for in my loving life. Sounds the same as the Toronto one, which was originally free but then implemented ticketing for entry to "control crowds" (lol)
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 16:43 |
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:Sounds the same as the Toronto one, which was originally free but then implemented ticketing for entry to "control crowds" (lol) Pfft, a few years ago maybe. They're on some new poo poo now.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 16:59 |
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Ticketing to enter a Christmas market is so insane. No clue it was a widespread practice
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 16:59 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Pfft, a few years ago maybe. They're on some new poo poo now. Lmao 15 dollars for a cocktail and access to a space heater.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:01 |
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In Training posted:Ticketing to enter a Christmas market is so insane. No clue it was a widespread practice It most definitely wasn't when I lived in Germany, leave it to Americans to figure out how to incorporate more rentseeking into the equation
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:01 |
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lol no babies or toddlers in the premium warming lounges
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:01 |
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the philly christmas village kicks rear end. sorry about all your lovely wannabe markets/villages
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:03 |
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:While grocery shopping this morning, I noticed that there is now a new, Winco store brand generic soda (), priced just under the formerly cheap Shasta. A little late replying, and I'm the first to admit to be a Winco fan, but I know personally some who work in the corporate accounting and they claim that they really do their best to keep their prices as low as possible. You noticed this recently, but several months ago they started providing Winco sparkling waters, and I've personally been noticing the brands of milk changing a lot. They are employee owned - I don't know what that means as far as capitalism and labor and exploitation or whatever, but I do know it's better than being publicly traded, and I've known people (family) who had a good retirement after selling back the shares they got cashiering. edit: ready for winco socialism.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:04 |
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If you or someone you know is a gig worker or contractor or otherwise 1099'd (or if you're on payroll but don't have enough withheld throughout the year) pay attention to this IRS change & be sure your estimated (or payroll withholding) payments are up to date. The Surprise Bill Coming to Those Who Underpay Their Taxes quote:Failing to keep up with tax payments now could lead to an expensive surprise come next spring. Here's the IRS tax-withholding estimator. Also, a reminder that the $600 reporting rule for banks passed in the American Rescue Plan (lol) was delayed in 2022 to make it easier for banks to comply but it's in effect for 2023: quote:Under the law, beginning January 1, 2023, a TPSO is required to report third-party network transactions paid in 2022 with any participating payee that exceed a minimum threshold of $600 in aggregate payments, regardless of the number of transactions. TPSOs report these transactions by providing individual payee's an IRS Form 1099-K, Payment Card and Third-Party Network Transactions. There's a chance that since we're heading into an election year there's a chance the reporting could be delayed another year but if I were operating a cash-based gig I'd make sure my ducks were in a row & estimated taxes are up to speed just in case.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:06 |
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quote:As of Oct. 1, the Internal Revenue Service is charging 8% interest on estimated tax underpayments, up from 3% two years ago. The increase is one of the many effects of rising interest rates. they could just not raise it, but you know
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:10 |
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Gunshow Poophole posted:this is a DNS issue, check your browser settings and make sure it's not internally switching (there's a setting in Firefox that does it over https and bypasses your systems dns settings, turn that off) Xaris posted:was wondering what was going on with archive.ph the past week or two. How can I do that in Chrome? Also having trouble with archive.ph.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:10 |
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Taima posted:I tried to get a shot of the chaos happening at the food booths, it's 50 times worse than it looks in this shot but you can at least get a rough idea of how hosed it was: Kinda reminds me of the market in downtown Chicago last year. We were already down there in the area from going to take our young kids to see the Bluey play. After grabbing some lunch nearby at a Panera, we wandered over to the site of the market (Dailey Plaza, and a surround street or two). Upon seeing what looked to be the line just to get inside the market, I tried to flat out refuse to wait while having a 3 and 5 year old in tow. But my wife started pouting, so I gave up and we got in line. Good news, the line started moving quickly. Bad news, the line had completely wrapped around 3/4s of the exterior of the market before entering some barricaded snaking, so it still took us like 30 minutes to get in. It was still super busy inside, but at least all the lines for the vendors were only like 5-10 people deep, and all the signs were pretty clearly visible up high. We got some sort of pastry, some spiced nuts, some stuffed gnomes, and then left once my wife noticed I was starting to struggle after carrying our 3 year old for the previous 20 minutes. But at least there wasn’t an entrance fee.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:15 |
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RealityWarCriminal posted:
It's funny how IRS penalties are pegged to the interest rate, but barely reflected in the rock-bottom federal poverty levels used for means-testing everything from expanded Medicaid to SNAP.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:16 |
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Orvin posted:Kinda reminds me of the market in downtown Chicago last year. We were already down there in the area from going to take our young kids to see the Bluey play. After grabbing some lunch nearby at a Panera, we wandered over to the site of the market (Dailey Plaza, and a surround street or two). Upon seeing what looked to be the line just to get inside the market, I tried to flat out refuse to wait while having a 3 and 5 year old in tow. But my wife started pouting, so I gave up and we got in line. Neighborhood-based xmas festivals are better; change my mind. Also, a lot of churches hold holiday marts over weekends in December.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:19 |
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err posted:PNW just kinda sucks. Too many tech workers moved here, and everything is expensive now. It was nice growing up here before Seattle got gutted but it's unrecognizable now. Nature stuff is the best part but even that is getting crowded and diminished. Central Oregon loving sucks now, at least what my wife says who was born in Bend. Anything worth doing out in the wilderness is crammed full of people, even during the workdays. Also: The amount of trash that people leave is astonishing, and I would always see park rangers or volunteers packing out garbage bags full of litter on an out and back 4 miler.. I don't get how difficult it is to shove a clif bar wrapper in your day pack or even your pocket and to carry it the quarter mile to the trash bins at the trailhead but the general population seems to enjoy trashing up area's so what the gently caress does it matter I guess..
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:24 |
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Orvin posted:Kinda reminds me of the market in downtown Chicago last year. We were already down there in the area from going to take our young kids to see the Bluey play. After grabbing some lunch nearby at a Panera, we wandered over to the site of the market (Dailey Plaza, and a surround street or two). Upon seeing what looked to be the line just to get inside the market, I tried to flat out refuse to wait while having a 3 and 5 year old in tow. But my wife started pouting, so I gave up and we got in line. Oh hey I'm on my way there right now w a 3 year old because we have to go with my MIL every time she visits because tradition.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:29 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:it is the ultimate contradiction of capitalism: surplus value only comes from human labor, which capitalism is determined to remove entirely to avoid paying proles
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 17:39 |
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Why do they need a queued entrance if there's no fee. The ones in NYC are just a bunch of stalls in a park that you can wander around.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 18:22 |
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Nice and hot piss posted:Also: The amount of trash that people leave is astonishing, and I would always see park rangers or volunteers packing out garbage bags full of litter on an out and back 4 miler.. I don't get how difficult it is to shove a clif bar wrapper in your day pack or even your pocket and to carry it the quarter mile to the trash bins at the trailhead but the general population seems to enjoy trashing up area's so what the gently caress does it matter I guess.. i was gonna dispose of it properly but since i saw someone else's yeah i just tossed my own, place is going downhill i tell ya
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:https://twitter.com/gave_vincent/status/1646886017541230592?t=wyxNBkfOcEnQZ4bmGfSTjA&s=19
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:00 |
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PoundSand posted:Not in this particular pithy manner but I do sort of struggle with this myself. Like I vote for/support additional taxes for public works/education/etc but like realistically I'm accutely aware my money is just going to grift. It's hard to square the circle of wanting the gov to fund more public transport for example while also knowing that like a mile of lightrail costs 10 bajillion dollars and is never going to meaningfully advance as a project. It is a stark reality that extra funds/taxes do often just go to stupid poo poo like police departments that are already overbloated. This isn’t meant to be as glib as it sounds, but can’t you just admit that good things are good, bad things are bad, and that you’re doing what you think is best with the options available to you?
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:04 |
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PoundSand posted:Not in this particular pithy manner but I do sort of struggle with this myself. Like I vote for/support additional taxes for public works/education/etc but like realistically I'm accutely aware my money is just going to grift. It's hard to square the circle of wanting the gov to fund more public transport for example while also knowing that like a mile of lightrail costs 10 bajillion dollars and is never going to meaningfully advance as a project. It is a stark reality that extra funds/taxes do often just go to stupid poo poo like police departments that are already overbloated. I had an anarchist housemate who said he didn't pay taxes because he didn't want his earnings to go to the MIC. i kinda saw his point but he also had a lot financial and legal problems.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:07 |
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mawarannahr posted:I had an anarchist housemate who said he didn't pay taxes because he didn't want his earnings to go to the MIC. i kinda saw his point but he also had a lot financial and legal problems. lmao
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:09 |
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also dr collier is talking about christmas gift giving (in large part commenting on the planet money episodes about the same) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quXEUVLX5II
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:10 |
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MickeyFinn posted:This isn’t meant to be as glib as it sounds, but can’t you just admit that good things are good, bad things are bad, and that you’re doing what you think is best with the options available to you? I mean that's exactly what I do/how I vote on local bills but it's hard not to feel doomer about it when you just look at general government corruption. In this case no matter how much you want to support good things the reality is your money is just going to more bombs for israel or even in the niche case it does go to a public project to endless circular grift that inflates the price by an order of magnitude.
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:31 |
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PoundSand posted:Not in this particular pithy manner but I do sort of struggle with this myself. Like I vote for/support additional taxes for public works/education/etc but like realistically I'm accutely aware my money is just going to grift. It's hard to square the circle of wanting the gov to fund more public transport for example while also knowing that like a mile of lightrail costs 10 bajillion dollars and is never going to meaningfully advance as a project. It is a stark reality that extra funds/taxes do often just go to stupid poo poo like police departments that are already overbloated. bourgeois government allocates resources on behalf of the bourgeois simple as
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:35 |
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err posted:PNW just kinda sucks. Too many tech workers moved here, and everything is expensive now. It was nice growing up here before Seattle got gutted but it's unrecognizable now. Nature stuff is the best part but even that is getting crowded and diminished. I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people itt hate the PNW. I'm mainly talking about the greater Seattle area west of the cascades. I moved here a little over a year ago, from the bay area (Santa Cruz): It's always so green and vibrant, and will be one of the best places to ride out climate change. It seems inevitable that Seattle will become the "new" San Francisco bay area over time due to further climate degradation in California. There's little long term future in much of California if you're trying to figure out a place to eventually retire; by the time that comes we'll be well in the grasp of the worst elements of climate change we're not getting any younger so we wanted a place we would feel comfortable in retirement with climate change instead of fearing it... The warm season is much shorter than California but the months you do get are really spectacular, and it rains every month of the year- usually just enough to keep things green during the warm season. Washington has tons of public access land and you can actually do things on it! And so many cool lakes to hang out and swim, great trails, and easy access to British Columbia which is one of my favorite places ever in the summer. Every year the weather gets better, with the dry season being warmer and lasting longer and the wet season getting more moderate and lasting a shorter amount of time. In the coming years I think everyone will be pretty surprised how much the area cleans up and really expands its excellent dry season. We live at about 550 feet of elevation, over the Snohomish valley, and the fog stays below us 99% of the time. That is definitely something worth thinking about for anyone moving up here. Vitamin D supplementation and sun lamps also do wonders. Still, even with the bad weather reputation, I had a tan for about 4 months straight this year. That is pretty good and getting better over time. I've also felt like the "seattle freeze" is super overrated and people here are really nice We honestly couldn't afford housing in the bay area but found decent digs here that we really like for a fraction of the cost, and it's soooo nice to be living in an area where your house isn't about to burn down every 2 seconds, and climate change makes the area BETTER year over year. This is important to me because so much of life in 2023 is just about things getting worse, all the time, forever. For that reason, being able to say "next year will probably have better weather than this year" is so nice. To equal it out, there definitely are lovely parts of the area: 1) holy poo poo, traffic is horrible. I came from the bay area and thought I understood traffic, but lol. lmao. 2) good food is less common than the bay and more spread out. But there are great examples of any type of food you might want if you're willing to drive. 3) the fog and rain can be bad but again, this is getting better every year. Still, people who are prone to SAD should probably stay away. 4) food is easily equivalent in price if not more than the bay area, but we know a couple of supermarkets that are cheaper than anything we had in the bay and we primarily shop at those joints. 5) losing CA beach weather really sucks, not gonna lie, but you can harvest clams and poo poo so. Consolation prize I guess. 6) people drive absurdly slow here and I have no idea why Idk anyways I know this is the doom thread and not the Talk about Places We Like thread but especially with climate change to worry about I really think you could do much worse, and if you are able to live at a bit higher elevation you can avoid a lot of the fog/haze as well. Taima has issued a correction as of 19:50 on Dec 3, 2023 |
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It gets a lot of hate from those who grew up in the PNW because it really was this hidden gem of a place where not many people were really flocking to, until the late 80's and has subsequently ramped up in terms of people moving there. Locals complain in lock step with the entire "NIMBY" concept and cost of living has skyrocketed exponentially, pushing people who work lower wage positions out of areas like Seattle, Portland, bend, pretty much anything close or west of the Cascades. I lived in Redmond Oregon for 6 years and even at the end of my tenure, traffic felt like it got way worse and everythung got so stupid expensive. Also: everything outdoors related was just packed full of people and the idea of "getting away from people" was a non existent thing unless you went to Eastern Oregon There's also a pretty big culture clash between true locals that were raised in places like bend/Redmond and the stereotypical "Californian" coming in. I heard that poo poo so much from the general population so that rhetoric is still be shouted at the tops of some people's lungs
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:53 |
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I'm old enough to remember when people were claiming the PNW was "climate-change proof" but then woops, turns out that's one of the regions most impacted by it and also it's chock-full of nazis lol
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:56 |