b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Sure price growth might slow but also long term this locks in high housing costs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Lmao I’ve been looking at properties in Flint lately. Still one of the only places in the country where you can buy a gilded age mansion for $250k. There are huge abandoned two-story homes dotted all around the neighborhoods immediately adjacent to downtown, and no one is doing jack shit with any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 19 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: Lmao I’ve been looking at properties in Flint lately. Still one of the only places in the country where you can buy a gilded age mansion for $250k. There are huge abandoned two-story homes dotted all around the neighborhoods immediately adjacent to downtown, and no one is doing jack shit with any of them. Hydration is overrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 24 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: Hydration is overrated. They fixed that years ago (more or less) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 44 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: Lmao I’ve been looking at properties in Flint lately. Still one of the only places in the country where you can buy a gilded age mansion for $250k. There are huge abandoned two-story homes dotted all around the neighborhoods immediately adjacent to downtown, and no one is doing jack shit with any of them. Not to mention that’s an area in the US that could be best equipped to weather climate change. 250k today could be a few million in a few decades lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Earlier I watched my neighbor in his lifted truck run over his own garbage can. The curbside one that’s 3-4 ft tall because it’s trash day and he didn’t see it. Right in front of him because he was parked on the sidewalk. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 8:42 PM, Jason said: Just to make sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Jersey taking W after W on the urbanism front 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Hoboken is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Whoever designed or thought this up I'm putting to the wall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 30 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said: Whoever designed or thought this up I'm putting to the wall. i’m putting their entire family in the guillotine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 56 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said: Whoever designed or thought this up I'm putting to the wall. This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen for so many reasons which tells me some dipshit tech bro is going to make it happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen for so many reasons which tells me some dipshit tech bro is going to make it happen A VC guy waking up on a mountain of cocaine saying "I love it. Can we make it a subscription model?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 This guy lives in Santa Monica and apparently thinks he lives in Johannesburg. And he's gonna be running for city council. He's talking about state rules about new housing development not requiring minimum parking near transit. One of our current city councilmembers (who he's buddies with) says he won't go to our downtown area without carrying bear mace. I'm downtown every day and have zero fucking idea what he's on about, but I do know that he insists that Santa Monica should have lots and lots and lots of parks yet I live less than a mile from him and have never seen him out walking (and someone else I know who lives nearby has never seen him in public either) and that he seems to just drive to Orange County on the weekends to walk around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 14 hours ago, Jason said: This guy lives in Santa Monica and apparently thinks he lives in Johannesburg. And he's gonna be running for city council. He's talking about state rules about new housing development not requiring minimum parking near transit. One of our current city councilmembers (who he's buddies with) says he won't go to our downtown area without carrying bear mace. I'm downtown every day and have zero fucking idea what he's on about, but I do know that he insists that Santa Monica should have lots and lots and lots of parks yet I live less than a mile from him and have never seen him out walking (and someone else I know who lives nearby has never seen him in public either) and that he seems to just drive to Orange County on the weekends to walk around. I've noticed that people who have lived their whole lives in sheltered cars basically develop a mild form of agoraphobia. They don't feel safe out of their climate controlled steel boxes. I found this video interesting. I had never really thought about the fact that in European cities, you see kids EVERYWHERE. With no adults around. In every European city I've ever been to, it's completely normal to see kids as young as 8 or 9 just moving around in small groups (I still hardly ever saw kids by themselves that I can recall) completely unsupervised. Japan was the same - kids just walk/take the train to school or wherever they need to go by themselves, sometimes very young kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 To be completely fair if you let your kid free roam anymore: 1) you may end up getting the cops or cps called on you b) your kid may eventually get hit and killed by a monster suv driven by an accountant playing candy crush on the in console dash three) they might gain some independence and we can’t have that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominous Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 On 6/16/2022 at 4:06 PM, Uaarkson said: Lmao I’ve been looking at properties in Flint lately. Still one of the only places in the country where you can buy a gilded age mansion for $250k. There are huge abandoned two-story homes dotted all around the neighborhoods immediately adjacent to downtown, and no one is doing jack shit with any of them. Yea but nobody want's to live in Flintown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Just now, Ominous said: Yea but nobody want's to live in Flintown. They said that about Detroit right up until people started swarming the city, but okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominous Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 1 minute ago, Uaarkson said: They said that about Detroit right up until people started swarming the city, but okay. Detroit has some good white color jobs, by midwest standards, which made living in Detroit something to consider if you were not planning on raising a family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 5 hours ago, Fizzzzle said: I've noticed that people who have lived their whole lives in sheltered cars basically develop a mild form of agoraphobia. They don't feel safe out of their climate controlled steel boxes. It's not an accident that the rise of stranger danger tracks with both ever-bigger vehicles and and ever-more-dangerous built environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 5 minutes ago, Ominous said: Detroit has some good white color jobs, by midwest standards, which made living in Detroit something to consider if you were not planning on raising a family. As does Genesee county! Flint is just like Detroit, minus the current “cool factor” and probably about a decade behind in gentrification efforts. But the seeds of renewal are being planted as we speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 18 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: To be completely fair if you let your kid free roam anymore: 1) you may end up getting the cops or cps called on you b) your kid may eventually get hit and killed by a monster suv driven by an accountant playing candy crush on the in console dash three) they might gain some independence and we can’t have that That's something that gets hit on in the video. People hae CPS called on them for letting their kids play in the street in front of their own house. Is that something that has changed recently? I'm not very old, and when I grew up it was pretty normal for kids to walk to school on their own, and we would wander around the streets all damn day on our own in the summer because there wasn't really anything else to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CitizenVectron Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 A 7-year-old at one of our schools was hit by a drunk driver yesterday morning after getting off the school bus in front of the school. The drunk driver was driving a jacked f-150, and plowed through two parked cars before swerving onto the sidewalk and running over the kid. The child is in critical condition and was airlifted to a nearby city's children's hospital. It was 8:30 in the morning and this person was blitzed. They caught him and charged him after he continued driving down the street before running the truck into the front of a house. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: A 7-year-old at one of our schools was hit by a drunk driver yesterday morning after getting off the school bus in front of the school. The drunk driver was driving a jacked f-150, and plowed through two parked cars before swerving onto the sidewalk and running over the kid. The child is in critical condition and was airlifted to a nearby city's children's hospital. It was 8:30 in the morning and this person was blitzed. They caught him and charged him after he continued driving down the street before running the truck into the front of a house. I'm sure the pickup truck driver was just swerving to avoid a pedestrian who'd darted out of nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 School zones are 30kph in our city, too (19mph). This guy was apparently going very fast, there was very little warning. Reportedly there were dozens of similar-aged students around who witnessed it. A nearby bus driver and some teachers rushed to help, but there wasn't much that could be done until EMTs arrived. I can't imagine the trauma on those kids, witnessing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Jason said: Reminds me of this oldie but a goodie (can't believe this came out over 10 years ago) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 I know this is from Reddit, but still Jesus these people fucking hate kids. Blows my mind! (and as someone who was discriminated against for housing because of my kid it really fucking sucks!) Cities can be amazing for kids and if we’re going to make cities better for everyone the building codes should make soundproofing a priority (especially over parking or design review) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Or, you know, people who live in cities should accept the fact that humans making noise is part of the deal. Work harder if you don't want neighbors you fucking weaklings, boo hoo hoo. Also another compelling case for the complete obliteration of reddit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Saw this comment about John Oliver. Quote John Oliver is Joe Rogan for people who love "Hamilton." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 4 hours ago, Kal-El814 said: Or, you know, people who live in cities should accept the fact that humans making noise is part of the deal. Work harder if you don't want neighbors you fucking weaklings, boo hoo hoo. Also another compelling case for the complete obliteration of reddit. People should just learn to shut up and deal with it if you want to live in a city. If you're trying to work, put fucking headphones on, it's not rocket surgery. Sometimes I don't get home from work until 6am and they start mowing the lawn across the street at 8:30. I also live across the street from a school. You don't see me bitching at them to keep it down. Like, if noise bothers you so much, maybe YOU should be the one to move out into the suburbs. That being said, soundproofing absolutely should be required in building codes. I know of brand new buildings back in Portland that cost $3k/month and you can hear *everything*. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 City noise is the best white noise imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 3, 2022 Author Share Posted July 3, 2022 I can dig it. The punishment for running a red light in a fucking obscene truck should be castration. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 2 hours ago, thewhyteboar said: I can dig it. The punishment for running a red light in a fucking obscene truck should be castration. This makes way too much sense. It will never happen in America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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