It’s Phang Nga lickin’ good!

What a Merde! well-written and Putain! concise article. Thanks for copying it Salope!

Pardon the outbursts. I have LaTourettes.

> “we are from jersey city, we can seriously fuck you up”.

Was this one of those funerals where everyone was wearing screen-printed t-shirts of the deceased with a caption like: “FRANKIE GONE TO HEAVEN”

But… most fries are gluten free?

Keep in mind the city income tax you’d pay in NYC.

This. Rabid raccoons. Hit and runs.
It’s like there’s a JC version of Cupid going around shooting people with arrows dipped in the Hudson.

The dogs themselves are mediocre quality, but the fact they’re cooked on a flat-top grill makes them automatically better than any place that steams or boils them.
Also most of the toppings are just “fine”, but the chili onion sauce is truly unique.

Have also had a good experience with them.

If she was under the influence of something, then she took a calculated risk and it paid off for her. I think fleeing the scene is a smaller punishment (both legal and political) than a drunk driving charge.

Two points on transit:

• NYC is known for having really crappy and indirect public transit connections to all three of its airports. It’s hard to go anywhere on transit from any one of them. Jersey City is comparatively better just because it’s a more affordable taxi/Uber ride from Newark.
• A huge majority of Jersey City (and really all of North Jersey) transit traffic has the sole purpose of getting into and out of Manhattan. Trains, PATH, Light Rail, etc. aren’t meant to get you “around town”

This is a temperate zone!

He will surely get a ticket if he’s in the way of the street sweeper.
If he isn’t, he won’t.

The gross disintegrating exterior is funny, but in the grand scheme of things is probably cheap enough to fix and finish, right?
Makes me wonder what serious, non-cosmetic things are wrong with the building.

Empire State Building - Art Deco. 99 Hudson - Fart Deco.

I live in Northern NJ. My brother in semi-rural Michigan bought a house a while back and my wife was like, “Why didn’t he just rent a nice place. Seems more suitable for his lifestyle.”
I had to explain that in much of the middle of the country you simply cannot “rent a nice place”. Almost everyone owns their homes, even in trailer parks. And rentals are almost all low-quality homes for low-income folks to rent out of necessity.
Based on your initial post I’d say to go for it with the higher-priced place. It’s at the tippy-top of your budget but as a new build there’s a good chance it won’t need major maintenance (roof, AC, etc) for a while. Though I wouldn’t count on “just refinancing when rates go down”. There’s no telling if and when that will happen.

I used to own a small condo in town that did both hot water and heat (standard baseboard radiators) from a single hot water heater. It was a nifty little system. The heat was just controlled by a recirculation pump connected to the thermostat. Meanwhile on the hot water side, there was a mixing valve with a temperature-sensitive element that would blend in cold water to prevent scalding.
This meant we could turn the water heater up to its max setting for the purpose of more powerful heating but still get safe water out the tap.
Is this how your place is set up (aside from it not being baseboard)?

And huge backups are often caused by a shitshow on the NYC side with gridlock on the exit.
They could pay a few full time cops to just babysit the lights and stop people from blocking the intersections at Hudson or Varick.

• 100% of the traffic in question is going through the Holland Tunnel.
• The Holland Tunnel is not being widened.
• The only explanation for this project is to spend money on building… something… for the sake of building something.

All the news stories covering this project should be one short paragraph. It’s understandably stupid on a very high conceptual level. The additional concerns about environmental and socioeconomic impacts, while valid, aren’t even necessary to bring up.

If the powers that be really want to funnel money to the construction industry they could pay them $5B to dig a big hole and another $5B to fill it back in.

If she keeps changing cars we’ll have to start calling her Amy DiSguise.

You might have to ask one of the ghosts to start helping with rent as a roommate.

I wonder if this is where nurses would go to jump.

LCOL places are that way for a reason. Always rent first if you’re moving to a different state.

Girl’s whispering voice: “Seven days…”

It’s Pecoraro Antique Bakery, not Pecoraro Brand New Bakery.

Taxes and rising mortgage rates will certainly put downward pressure on prices, but it’s a question of how much and if it counteracts the still- present overall housing shortage.