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specialgravity t1_jdvc6ao wrote
Reply to comment by SailingSpark in Follow-up: Does the Atlantic City boardwalk have enough to entertain a group of 14 year olds for 2-3 hours? Just wanting some beach shops, an arcade, ferris wheel, go-karts, etc. Closer and cheaper than Wildwood, not sure if there's a noticeable difference for that brief of a visit by garbageeater
The arcade version. It’s gross and sketchy. AC is not really safe. I wouldn’t trust my kids running around that arcade. It’s not seaside or wildwood.
specialgravity t1_jdv6rq8 wrote
Reply to Follow-up: Does the Atlantic City boardwalk have enough to entertain a group of 14 year olds for 2-3 hours? Just wanting some beach shops, an arcade, ferris wheel, go-karts, etc. Closer and cheaper than Wildwood, not sure if there's a noticeable difference for that brief of a visit by garbageeater
I stayed at Showboat and it was sketch. Do NOT let your kids wander around there alone.
specialgravity t1_jdnnofv wrote
Reply to comment by Jagrmeister_68 in End all Blue Laws in Bergen county. Let us have Sunday shopping! by Paid-Vacation1
That’s the problem. The people in Bergen county flood other towns on Sundays because there’s nothing to do in their dull, backwards towns. The people who work Monday to Friday also matter. We all paid for that monstrosity in the meadowlands with our tax dollars. Let us at least shop in it.
The State should also end statewide blue laws with car dealerships. It’d be nice to shop for a car on a day I have off.
specialgravity t1_jdnmozj wrote
Reply to Can someone explain the justification for having "private" beaches? It seems like access to natural attractions should be free. by SnooBooks4898
Devil’s advocate: There are plenty of accessible beaches in NJ for people of different income levels. The State beach is free under Murphy and the cost was marginal under Christie if I recall correctly. It’s nice for a non-beach taxpayer to not have to pay for maintaining free beaches that NYers and Pennsylvanians will vacation at. Also, California has free beaches but hey also have homeless encampments lining their boardwalks. You wouldn’t even bother going to the beach if we had that here. There’s a trade off.
specialgravity t1_jbyqxb2 wrote
Reply to The decline of Jose Tejas by VividFossil
Everyone has been phoning it in since covid. Not surprising.
specialgravity t1_ja9ztwc wrote
Reply to comment by ohhiiiiiiiiii in How much snow do you think we're going to get? by Action_Maxim
BuT I wAnT sNoW!! - redditor who “works” from home
specialgravity t1_ja9c1ey wrote
Hoboken and JC are really the only walkable cities I can think of, even then it all depends on where in those cities you live. You'll end up needing a car pretty much everywhere here unfortunately. Relying 100% on public transportation is no fun.
specialgravity t1_ja7z0xj wrote
Reply to comment by Educational_Paint987 in Who here owns residential and rents it out? thinking of buying a two-family in Rahway as it is getting very cute there. by [deleted]
Rahway has a nice downtown area, great shopping nearby, the parkway and turnpike are accessible and close by, great parks, shade, sidewalks (in theory it's walkable, depending where you live), a major hub train station that has two train lines running through and depending on the train it can take 40-50 mins to get to midtown manhattan (and you're usually only waiting up to 20 mins to get on the next train in or out of NYC). Only drawback is that the schools suck and the taxes are high. Parking can be annoying too for some of the homes or apartments with no driveway or lot.
specialgravity t1_ja7ucry wrote
Taqueria in Jersey City, once it reopens.
specialgravity t1_j9x52lo wrote
Reply to comment by deluxepepperoncini in MFs want me to go to Ridgewood for $4 😭 by munchingzia
Food scales my dude. Ideally coffee and water should always be weighed at a 1:15 - 1:20 ratio depending on your taste, meaning for every 15 grams of coffee there should be 225 - 300 grams of water (this produces 1 coffee). A French press typically brews up to 4 coffee (do the math). The problem with scoops is that there is no standard measurement and no two people scoop the same.
Not all drip machines are designed equally. There’s a whole bunch of factors here, including basket vs cone filters, brew temperatures, pooling and channeling, and the heat plate underneath the carafe burning your coffee. Your machine could be old and need to be descaled. This is why French presses are such a fool proof way to start out making better coffee.
specialgravity t1_j9vn5vm wrote
Reply to LPT Request: how can I avoid capital gains tax (20%) on land sold (<$500,000)? by ScrollinMyLifeAway
Lose $500,000 in capital loses.
specialgravity t1_j9upyfw wrote
Reply to comment by MeatierShowa in Has Anyone Ever Won Jersey Cash 5 Jackpot Lottery? by LIVEFan33
Slots have much better odds than the lottery.
specialgravity t1_j9uoasy wrote
Reply to comment by midnight_thunder in MFs want me to go to Ridgewood for $4 😭 by munchingzia
Get a French press and some decent ground coffee and you can have better quality coffee for less without the environmental impact of dumb plastic k-cups. You can even make cold brew. If you want to start going crazy, get a scale and a cheap blade grinder and start grinding your beans. Much better than k-cups or delivered Starbucks coffee.
specialgravity t1_j9p8hy6 wrote
Reply to comment by hagemeyp in Awful design flaw at EWR by css555
As opposed to? JFK and LGA? Give me a break. Unless you live right next door to them, EWR kicks the shit out of them. Take an Uber and call it a day.
specialgravity t1_j95ftj7 wrote
Reply to 11 cop cars just went racing down route one north towards Edison from North Brunswick. At 7 PM at night. by kanshakudama
This mall has really become dilapidated
specialgravity t1_j770uxr wrote
Reply to comment by luxtabula in Former Governor Whitman Wants to Carry Her New Party 'Forward' - Insider NJ by FragWall
It seems like these well intentioned progressive agendas around alternative ways of counting votes always backfire. Every year California is clenching its butthole either due to their free for all primary that can result in two far right candidates if enough liberals split the votes or it’s brain dead recall system.
In NYC we saw the liberal candidates split the ticket and lead to Adams becoming the nominee. It turned out that the far left voters mostly only voted for their candidate and left the Adams alternative out to dry (I forgot these peoples names sorry). Really we wasted a lot of time and resources on possibly the same result or actually prevented an Adams alternative from being viable because the left still only wants to vote for their preferred candidate and their candidate only. Finally in Maine ranked choice helped Susan Collins get re-elected. Time and time again the left is unable to compromise while the right falls in line. I much prefer the system we have where we’re forced to choose. We may have never had Governor Murphy with ranked choice.
specialgravity t1_j63bxvg wrote
Reply to comment by DarwinZDF42 in County saves Jersey Shore woods as open space in $8.5M deal, killing plan to build houses by sutisuc
More developments -> more families -> more kids -> higher school costs -> higher taxes. Pick your poison.
specialgravity t1_j63bmf8 wrote
Reply to comment by Shishkebarbarian in County saves Jersey Shore woods as open space in $8.5M deal, killing plan to build houses by sutisuc
It works both ways. The more developments -> the more families that more in -> higher BOE costs -> higher taxes.
specialgravity t1_j26xcd3 wrote
Reply to Terrible Turnpike Traffic Today by museolini
Yeah wtf was going on it took 1.5 hours to get home
specialgravity t1_j1yv1lv wrote
Reply to Zog cornhole or Hive volleyball? by bonafideprincess
Hive has its shit together and has the better offering of sports and locations. Everyone joins up for Hive over Zog unless they’re part of a legacy team.
specialgravity t1_j1ei94h wrote
Reply to comment by lost_in_life_34 in RIP To Anyone Travelling Out of Hoboken by Castor_and_Pollux123
I don't want to burn a PTO on a bullshit day and I can't wfh
specialgravity t1_j1ei57q wrote
Reply to comment by kittyglitther in RIP To Anyone Travelling Out of Hoboken by Castor_and_Pollux123
Because it takes 1.5 hours by path an subway to get from one place to the other.
specialgravity t1_j1ehsm9 wrote
Reply to comment by Joe_Jeep in RIP To Anyone Travelling Out of Hoboken by Castor_and_Pollux123
It's unaffordable to commute on the turnpike and 78 as it is right now. I can't imagine what it will cost when they add their $10b lane.
Please, for the love of god just expand our existing rail. There is plenty of dormant, unused rail that is going to waste. Unearth it and make it feasible to travel by train again. Make it so I don't have to transfer at Newark or Secaucus every trip and I will gladly use the train more. You'd think after Xanadu and Revel the state would listen to it's voters, but I guess corruption wins out.
specialgravity t1_ixoumm3 wrote
Reply to Can somebody familiar with NJ bus transit tell me if this commute to NYC is feasible? by [deleted]
I took a job with a longer commute and let me tell you… it sucks commuting. I’m still glad I did it for other reasons, but think long and hard before you take on a 2-3 hour commute. You should be devising a plan to move if you’re dead set on working in NY. It might even be beneficial to get an apartment during the week to crash at with roommates in Hudson county or NY just to avoid the awful commute. Idk what your personal life is like and if you can make that work. Is this job remote at all?
specialgravity t1_je8394d wrote
Reply to comment by rollotomasi07071 in Hindenburg flies over the Bergen County Courthouse - October 9, 1936 by NextCommittee3
I’m gonna guess another smaller zeppelin