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ParticipantBikes are traffic. Bikes are allowed to take the lane regardless of signage. Cagers who whinge about it can fork themselves: that’s the law.
ParticipantThe rotary clock controls also break, and parts aren’t always available after a decade or so. (Plus they’re harder to clean if some goo gets spilled into them.)
ParticipantIt also won’t be widened because an inland collector route for local traffic already exists and is pretty wide. El Camino Real.
As far as the NJ towns, the area is actually pretty built up, but the houses have tended to not turn over as much as in CA, so they stay in families that have homes either in NY or further north. There are some retirees and recent immigrants who live year around, but the population ratio summer to winter is something like 5:1 or higher.
The “nicer” part of the shore is also not nearly as convenient to get to from NYC as North County is from San Diego.
ParticipantActually, SR-1 ends in San Juan Capistrano, north of Pendleton. The coast highway is local road S21 south of Oceanside 🙂
Said road is already 4-6 lanes in many places. It’s a lot faster than the equivalent road in my neck of the woods, which is generally two lanes with speed limits 40 mph max and a yield sign/crosswalk every block in some towns. Unlike in CA, the NJ beach towns get deserted after mid-September, so it’s only bad driving in summer.
ParticipantI didn’t think that dual agency in the case of short sales was actually legal. I suppose the buyer could agree to represent themselves without the seller’s agent working for them.
ParticipantBecause they don’t want people who live in Ramona and work in SD using the coast road as a commuter route alternative to the 5? Secondly, one doesn’t want 50-60 mph traffic in the beach cities, since you have a lot of people (and kids) walking and crossing the road.
It’s unofficially called US 101, but it was de-designated as a national route south of L.A., so the towns can do what they like with the county’s permission. I think slower traffic in towns plus a 55 mph limit on the less built-up parts is a good compromise.
Also, from what I’ve seen, the choke point isn’t the road through those towns. It’s the fact that several bridges are under construction.
ParticipantI have a very basic G.E. 18″ unit in my condo in NYC. Simple rotary dial control. It’s white, but they make a black-and-stainless model. Pretty quiet and seems to do a good job.
Initially, it sometimes dripped from the front panel. I called G.E., they sent out a tech, he figured out what part I needed, and they overnighted me the part and instructions for installation.
ParticipantWhy was the broker/seller allowed to keep the deposit, though? Seems that there would be a default expectation of a house being delivered vacant (unless otherwise stated), and the buyer should have been able to sue for the deposit back.
ParticipantShouldn’t vacant delivery of the place be added as a condition of sale in the final contract? The above sounds almost criminal.
ParticipantYou’re not “buying” anything just yet. You have a certain time period where you can walk away from an offer with nothing lost other than your time. An “offer” in CA is worth the paper it’s written on and no more.
Your broker fills out a standard form and 3-4 addenda, you sign, send proof of funds/proof of mortgage approval, and the seller either accepts or declines. You then have a certain time period written into the offer to do due diligence, waive contingencies, and put a deposit down.
This is less true on the East Coast, but in CA, people seem to throw out 20 offers on short sales in a month and see what sticks.
O’ya, and check the HOA financials and meeting minutes really carefully. If those can’t be provided and/or there’s a history of random special assessments, run screaming. Don’t walk.
ParticipantEven if they DO have a playground, a parent has to actually leave the house and follow them out there and stay with them while they play.
Is it unheard of in CA for kids to go to the park or playground in a group of friends once they turn 9-10?
This assumes the condo is in a “walkable” area, of course.
ParticipantWrong about places to escape the heat being 5-8 hr away from Phoenix. Prescott is at 5000 ft and is generally in the 80s in Summer — 1.5 to 2.5 hr drive away depending on traffic on the 17N.
Basically, slightly less time than it takes me to get up into the Catskills.
ParticipantWhat is the problem with just buying a 2 or 3 bedroom condo and parking the RV and/or boat somewhere else? I lived in a 2-bedroom townhouse with my family in high school, and wasn’t the worse for it. If anything, if maintenance is included in the costs, it frees you up a little since you can ditch the place for a month (summer trip?) without worrying about your shrubberies.
Why does everyone need a detached house with 3000 sf and a big lot to waste time on cleaning up?
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Absorb as much knowledge as you can. Network. Quit after 1-2 years of big-fucking-corepirate hellhole (with a day’s notice) and either strike out and state your own business, or go freelance. Oh, and try to meet your future boss before taking the job. Coming to work every day wanting to kick some PoS in the junque wouldn’t be fun.
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