jeweynougat

jeweynougat t1_jeehe5y wrote

I'll have to disagree with this. I park in that garage. It is full and then it turns over and fills again in the evening. I live in the Northeast. It take a 15 minute walk and then two buses to get to Penn Station. The first bus comes every 30 minutes during rush hour (!!!) and often doesn't show up or is running late (I went just now to looks at the exact headway on Google Maps and it is running 20 minutes late, eg, right now). There is no light rail. There is no metro. For physical reasons, I cannot use a bike or scooter. Until Baltimore does better with reliable public transportation that serves all areas of the city, there needs to be some affordable way for people to park their cars near the train. It doesn't have to be on that block but the city is large, this is the only train station, and public transportation is a joke.

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jeweynougat t1_jdvopk9 wrote

Reply to comment by BlubberyGuy in Not Baltimorean enough by BlubberyGuy

Too funny! I have no problem owning Westchester and I’m proud to be from there. I only said NY because people in Baltimore didn’t know that area. I never felt like a city kid, even if I hung out in the city all the time, and I wouldn’t have wanted people to think I was someone I am not. Suburbs and cities really are different.

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jeweynougat t1_jdvmisx wrote

There are things that are unique to cities over their suburbs or exurbs. People living in HoCo probably don’t deal with many of the challenges of city life. It isn’t just old bay. I say this gently as the person from your example: I grew up in Westchester County, NY. When I came to college in Baltimore I told people I was from NY, which I knew they’d interpret as the city because if I said Westchester they wouldn’t know where that even was necessarily. But I’d never have told someone from Manhattan or the Bronx I was from NY. My life was nothing like theirs even if we liked the same teams and food. And that’s fine! It’s fine to be from where you’re from even if it’s a suburb or a county and not a city.

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jeweynougat t1_j3vzag6 wrote

This was my experience with Geico, who I was very sorry to leave because they dealt with me really fairly after an accident a few years ago. But they went from ~$1200 a year in 2019 gradually up to $1800 a year for 2023 and wouldn't budge when I complained. I'm now with Progressive who took me back to ~$1200.

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jeweynougat t1_it5o4z9 wrote

I had a fender bender with a driver and we both called the cops multiple times. We waited two hours and they never showed. We finally left when they told us if no one was hurt they weren't going to bother. So even if you did call there's no guarantee anyone would come.

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jeweynougat t1_irtoxwa wrote

I always get it in the mail but wish I didn't. It's just another thing to throw away and I pay online.

I pay it late every single month because pretty much all my bills are due around the 30th and the water bill is due like the 23rd and I just prefer to do them all in one day, plus not a week early. I've never been charged any kind of penalty.

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