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by vecinu 6y ago
I personally find Blind to be a low quality, young demographic driven community with egotistical folks obsessed with money. Was your experience different?
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by vecinu 6y ago
> That's not 'generally' true Yes, you're correct, I'm mainly referring to California as that's where I've been living for a good chunk of time. Prop 13 "locks in" your property tax rate with
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by vecinu 6y ago
You can't just compare it that simply, use the NYT Rent/Buy Calculator for a more in-depth analysis. [1] Renting is generally cheaper than buying, especially in very high COL areas like the SF Bay Area, NYC/Manhattan, etc...
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by vecinu 6y ago
> And while I personally have no desire to live in CA anytime soon, except the occasional visit, I'm glad so many decided to leave since COVID. > In a decade or two it may look like and feel as it did when I was a kid in the 90s
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by vecinu 6y ago
> I live in New York, which has a basic culture of "hyper aggressiveness." It isn't "rudeness," as so many people like to think of New Yorkers. They can be aggressively kind and generous. They are just aggressive
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by vecinu 6y ago
Does anyone else have a hard time putting up with flying (pre-pandemic) recently? 20 years ago I used to fly without any issue but since they've made the seats smaller, the food somehow got worse and the TSA pre-boarding eats another h
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by vecinu 6y ago
You bring up a very good point and it's worth reiterating that the Kremlin reverted to use paper instead of computers to discuss sensitive topics. [1] I wouldn't be surprised if any network connected device is vulnerable to bein
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by vecinu 6y ago
I have a hard time understanding how this view can be held when we know that there is "censorship" and "moderation" happening in EVERYTHING we do online. There is a reason you can't find snuff films, pornography, ab
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by vecinu 6y ago
I recently read Anu Partanen's book "The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life" that discusses a number of these factors and how they're different in her native country of Finland. My thoughts on the ma
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by vecinu 6y ago
I hope my comment doesn't sound tone-deaf or ignorant but this is something I have thought about for a while. As I was watching @lisper's movie "grace of god"[1] and heard the phrase "convince myself that it could n
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by vecinu 6y ago
Likewise, so many amazing memories lost. I wish I could look back to how naive and childish I was at the beginning of my time online.
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by vecinu 6y ago
You are correct, I am actually asking to pay more taxes if some of these problems could be solved. What good is having a lot of money if you're surrounded by problems and are unhappy? I would gladly spent it to make my community more
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by vecinu 6y ago
> It sounds to me what you really want is for someone to alleviate your discomfort by shoveling off the riff-raff so that you can enjoy your bike ride, rather than having to address the systemic issues, which might impact your net worth.
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by vecinu 6y ago
Great question, I have yet to discover the safety of the bike lanes spread around here but local cyclists I've talked to feel comfortable cycling on the semi-protected bike lanes on main roads here because they're so wide. I admit
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by vecinu 6y ago
This article is a rehash of existing information and an insult to tech workers that were forced out (such as myself). If the day to day living conditions were actually acceptable, many people would have stayed during the pandemic. The real
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by vecinu 6y ago
I may be able to share my experience here since I went through multiple TN1s. You'll satisfy the citizenship requirements but will have difficulty proving significant ties to Canada if you don't have a bank account, car, home or f
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by vecinu 6y ago
> I’d put them at the two corners of the White House How do we interpret this next sentence as a continuation of the figure of speech? I can't seem to wrap my head around it sounding anything other than explicit.
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by vecinu 6y ago
Keep in mind though that after a couple of years at a FAANG company, your pay scales much quicker than it would elsewhere. That junior earning $150k/yr total comp is closer to $300k in a few short years. At that point you're getti
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by vecinu 6y ago
You mention the IFR but what about the long term implications of so many people catching COVID and having reduced lung capacity or long term damage? Can we please address this fact that scares a lot of us? We already know the death rate is
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by vecinu 6y ago
This is wishful thinking. Staying for years around an area that gets "only a month" of excessive PM2.5 particles and smoke is unwise and you will soon become someone with an existing respiratory condition. I'm leaving the Bay
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by vecinu 6y ago
I can't believe I actually spent 15 minutes getting lost in Castle Wolfenstein 3D on this, thanks for the memories!
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by vecinu 6y ago
I hope this doesn't sound strange but I'm glad to finally get closure on this. I remember the news article from 3 years ago that came out about this and there was speculation that this was just a random attack on a regular hiker.
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by vecinu 6y ago
My buddy is paying for his wife's degree in Fashion studies @ $30k/year in San Francisco. As an international student. This is a degree that most likely has minimum wage earning potential.
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by vecinu 6y ago
I see, so you're banking on the fact that the living conditions in SF will improve and it will be come desirable again. That is something we can agree on, I too look forward to such a period but I imagine it'll be 5-10 years from
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by vecinu 6y ago
I think the 2020 census will be obsolete because it was done this year... I already completed it so I'm going to show up as a SF resident even though I'm leaving before the end of the year.
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by vecinu 6y ago
I'm open to hearing your experience and if maybe you're just able to overlook the excruciating human suffering that is visible day to day in the city. I think some people can tolerate it while others can't, nothing wrong with
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by vecinu 6y ago
You really have to explain this to me because I'm leaving SF now even though I could save 50% off my current market rate rent if I move to a new place. What am I missing that I haven't seen in the last 6 years? I've walked&#x
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by vecinu 6y ago
I took a quick look at the data sources since I was curious where data for Romania and other eastern European countries was coming from [1]. I wonder how accurate and reliable the data is but if it's coming from a central European comm
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by vecinu 6y ago
Can we talk about the countries that are doing better than the US like Germany, Austria and Switzerland?
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by vecinu 6y ago
If you don't mind sharing, how old are you and did you have any pre-existing conditions? (You mentioned having pneumonia when you were younger).

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