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ParticipantIn many ways it is — (as weird as it seems) people seem to be a lot less suspicious, yet honest, here than in SoCal. I’ve never been told that I couldn’t view a property without my own broker present (for safety reasons) on the East Coast, for example.
Not to mention that we’re not freaked out by random street conversations. People in some parts of SoCal are so tied to the car/cell phone/work/home cycle and their own personal bubble that they’ve totally forgotten how to hold a conversation with a stranger.
ParticipantHe didn’t push down a TSA smurf, he pushed an airline clerk.
ParticipantWhereas the commercial f/l washer/dryers in my building’s basement do their thing in an hour for a normal load. Combined. It’s actually faster than doing it in your own laundry if you come later on a week night since you can dump in 2-3 loads at once.
And getting back to SD, plenty of apts in areas 1-4 have either a laundry room in the complex or a laundry closet.
Personally, I’d rather just have building laundry and pay for some other poor SOB to deal with maintaining the machines.
ParticipantYou’re just talking about normal city stuff here; it’s not perfectly clean, so what? Potheads, poop, and prophylactics — we get them in my neighborhood as well, can be annoying but it’s just part of life; there are always some tradeoffs.
Traffic is a lot less than parts of Manhattan or Brooklyn on the side streets, and parking is child’s play by comparison. I’ve never found a good spot further than a block from my destination in any of those places.
I’m also thinking that “gang bangers” is a not-so-slight exaggeration for most parts of 1-4.
ParticipantI should have clarified…flirting with people from work is not awkward or strange (though it is often a sign of bad judgement, IMO).
The manner in which he “flirted” was awkward.
Agree about the manner being awkward, but not about it often being a sign of bad judgement. Bad judgement is discounting someone because you happen to share the same office — shows a lack of open-mindedness if you’re both interested.
ParticipantGroping was wrong, but he had every right to ask whomever he wanted for a date, compliment whomever he wanted, etc. Just because someone is in a position of power does NOT require them to stop being human. You spend 1/3 of your waking life at work — G-d fucking forbid you’d meet someone that you’re interested in. (And in fact, policies prohibiting relationships at work regardless of position have been held to be a violation of human rights in many states.)
Publicity-whore Allred and her army of hypersensitive minions are as bad as Filner himself — both exemplify the worst of American hypocrisy.
ParticipantYou’re exaggerating — my family used to have an old beach house which we rented in winter and lived in during the summer. 30 amp 120V service for the whole house, so not much chance of a washer/dryer; mom, dad, my sister, myself, and frequently my grandma. It really wasn’t a big deal.
And again, what’s the big deal about doing laundry in your building’s basement? It’s not much harder than doing so in your own house.
When a people say they suddenly “need” x the day after they pop out a kid, they mean “want and the kid is a good excuse.”
ParticipantFlyerinHI, um, you either drop off laundry on the way to work and get it back dried and folded when you get back (Chinese laundry, not laundrymat) or you take it to the basement of your building, same as doing wash in your own house. Either way isn’t terribly time intensive.
Yeah, there’s the 0.001% risk that someone will steal your clothes, but that’s pretty rare so there’s no real need to sit there and watch your clothes spin.
ParticipantWhy is that strange or awkward at all? Plenty of good relationships have started at the office, despite the American superstition that it’s somehow wrong to date at work. I’ve had a client’s business manager (i.e. person who signed my business’s checks) ask me out; I said yes but also made sure that she knew her boss wouldn’t get special consideration when we dated, two different relationships.
But anyway, if it had been just that, it would have been unlikely to be an issue — the groping and general fact that he acted like a pig started the whole thing.
ParticipantHire your own subcontractors — this is nothing structural. You can even do some of the work yourself gradually over the space of a year.
This isn’t new construction where you’re building a new space or adding on and working with an architect.
ParticipantFlyerInHI – sadly, hoarders can expand into any amount of space and make it feel claustrophobic given the time and money. When they fill all available space, they’ll start filling their car or rent a storage unit. It’s pretty sad.
ParticipantHaha, this is turning into a debate about NYC, when I was just using parts of Manhattan as examples of similarly boring areas to downtown San Diego.
(And yes, most people wash their blankets and pillows — going to the Chinese laundry down the street or to the big washer in your building’s basement once every month or so isn’t a huge deal. Also, none of my friends’ apartments in San Diego actually have washers and dryers in the apt itself. They’re generally in a common laundry room — or nonexistent in the case of my friend’s old rental cottage in PB — she had to go to the laundrymat once a week.)
ParticipantYep, the subway smells, I’ll give you that.
I’m not convinced that New Yorkers smell worse (or better) than the average American. Yes, central A/C in uncommon in residential buildings, but that’s pretty normal for the Northeastern US. It’s not really needed in winter, since if you take 35 degree air at 100% rh and heat it to 70F, you end up with about 25% humidity (aka too dry). You’ll get some water added from showering, cooking, perspiration, exhalation, but it will still be very dry inside — if anything, you’ll be more likely to need to stick a pot of water on a radiator to add humidity, not subtract.
Discount stores. Hmmm, IKEA in Brooklyn, H&M in several locations in Manhattan, there’s a Kohls in Queens, Target on 115th(?) St in Manhattan, Costco uptown as well, bunch of local, inexpensive hardware/houseware stores. Walmart is MIA, but that exists too in the NJ suburbs.
Participant(1) Weather: depends on the summer. Apart from a week of heat-wave and a few days around Memorial Day, this summer has been amazingly pleasant. I haven’t actually used my A/C in a few weeks, and I woke up at night two days ago freezing my b@lls off. Temperature had gone down to about 55, which was interesting with floor-to-ceiling windows open and a ceiling fan blowing.
Winter can be amazingly beautiful if/when it’s snowing.
(2) Apartments: small washer/dryers are becoming more and more common. Laundries in the basement are also pretty common. Sometimes at cost, sometimes free especially in smaller buildings. I don’t think that people smell worse than in other cities, though on a hot day where people actually walk, you may have a point.
(The rental condo in SD also has a common laundry, BTW, no unit in the apartment)
Not sure what your point is about replacing furniture and stinky apartments. It’s not really any harder to replace furniture in NYC than in other places. If anything, cheaper since you have less of it, though you may need to pay someone to lug it up the stairs of a walk-up.
(3) Much of the “sub-standard” housing is actually pretty well-constructed and less problematic than stuff built more recently. Depends on the landlord, the management co, and/or the general type of building I guess.
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