That One Guy

Dude you’re talking to someone with a neuropathy himself. Car dependent areas are unwalkable. Walkable areas are still plenty driveable. Having three transportation choices is better than one.

A lot of elderly people are afraid of driving or completely unable to. Creating areas that are utterly car dependent is a huge middle finger to the elderly, disabled, children, and any adult under 250 lbs. There are no societal negatives to trading car-only places for places where the car is simply one of 3+ options.

Escrow is about $300 of my $1800 mortgage. It would be $2700 at 7%. Actually less of a rise than I thought, 50% counting a fixed escrow on a rate more than doubled. Hard to mental math fantasy mortgages! Amortization ftw It’s a good feeling knowing that I could rent this house out, with recurring expenses, and roughly break even while paying it down. I love seeing the interest/principal payment split get a few bucks heavier on the principal side every month. Paid down $20k of this $360k borrowed so far. Had I bought earlier… man… that could’ve been really nice.

This state is too great The only thing better would be being in Summit County, cleaner air and more mild summers wild expensive now, and I’m married to a 3% mortgage

Good to see that Utah is not sympathetic to squatters

Conservatives overdosing on copium a true epidemic

You stuck at a farm feed store or welfare office today?

My cousin is his long term girlfriend’s stay at home dude. No kids, he just cleans the house walks the dog and cooks for her. On one teachers salary lol. Living in her parents basement apartment. Since late 2018 he hasn’t worked by choice. They could’ve bought a damned home if he didn’t “retire” at 38

It shouldn’t be hard for people. Cooking is something to be proud of when you’re good at it. It is not a gender specific activity. Any functioning adult should be able to cook. Nobody should constantly expect their partner to always cook for them.

Goddamn do you and I need to have a beer

We're watching That 70's Show for the first time. Last night, an episode that takes place in January 1977 had Hyde (played by federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison Danny Masterson) wearing an AC/DC t-shirt. Wouldn't it have been a little early for that band to have much reputation in the United States? In the middle of Wisconsin?

it should be noted that if you like your current plan, you can keep your plan

I used the word "likely" for a reason. Far from a shot in the dark, but yes, I wasn't physically there so I can't definitely give you the 100% guarantee. This pattern repeats itself throughout the US, which is why you can make the claim that it's [very] likely certain things. Join me next time for more lawyerball practice

Likely minimum lot sizes, huge minimum setbacks, parking minimums, minimum percentage landscaped areas, and possibly all of the above.

Kill the headlights, then put it in neutral

Highways are not expected to pull a direct profit Expecting transit to pull a direct profit is a mental illness

If you love roads, don't go bitching about road taxes. Any given road you're driving on isn't taxing you hard enough to use it to pay for itself. You're getting subsidized every step of the way.

There's no such thing as "free parking", there's just parking with the cost baked into the price of what you're there for. And a steep cost it is! If anyone loves free parking everywhere they go, I 100% don't want to hear them bitch about the reasonable concept of public transit not charging at the point of consumption.

In case it wasn't obvious, the above was an example of horrendous zoning and design practices. It's as if someone hated the concept of walking with the utmost passion, and was trying to maximize arbitrary miles driven. Hopefully each restaurant has a valet while they're at it. If I assembled a team of random mentally challenged individuals and gave them total freedom to design an area without regulation, I'm confident they'd come up with something better.

I think I'm in agreement with you. When Rush just up and stopped after the short R40 tour in 2015, I kind of just tried to forget about the band itself. Listened to little of the music and didn't think much of for a few years. Once Neil died, I started remembering a bit more, listening to a little more of the music again. When Geddy's book was announced, I really started thinking about the band and how long they were a big part of my life. Reading the book nearly instantly upon release felt like reliving parts of my younger life, and like you, it felt like the closure I didn't know I needed, but ended up happy to have. Thanks for 400 pages of word salad, Geddy!

A relatively concise summary. Cars are supposed to just be an option, not the ONLY option. When car dependency is required, we all pay quite dearly for it.

Camping was great

It appears I'm good enough for Europe

Am I crawling out?