I’ll play too. Lots of amenities, the only real traffic we face is during school zone hours. Some things take a short drive to deal with but that’s ok if you’re used to it. And as I said, I grew up in the suburbs so it’s much more normal for me than someone who grew up inside the Loop or in Croydon or wherever.
I’m sure it’s fun and interesting to live in the city. Our daughter runs a theatre company and all of the shows are in town and when there we like it, and think it would be cool to have an independent theatre close by, bars, etc, but for our lifestyle those things aren’t that important. We’re more homebodies and I think suburban living is more conducive to that.
Plus, our area is very diverse, and the restaurants around here range from Thai to Indian to Italian, Peruvian…it’s a good area (and no I don’t work for the Chamber of Commerce) but I can see it’s not for everyone, but that’s ok too.
On edit, bottom line is we’re old folks (well sort of), my wife is retired and the kids are both married and living on their own so we might have different priorities than a single person in the city or a young couple just starting out.
The problem was, the old crackhouse was four units - 1701A, B, C and D - and some utility companies would not get it through their thick skulls that those street numbers had gone away (my neighbors were blissfully free of this being numbered 1703, 1705 and 1707).
So, when AT&T came to hook me up to fiber optic, the installer was stymied. My house wasn’t A, B, C or D, so his computer overlord told him that fiber wasn’t available in my area. So we stood there in my yard, looking up at the fiber optic cable running between the light poles in front of my house (above-ground lines being a bane of urban living to be sure), laughing at the fact that he could not connect it to my house 20 feet away (for which exact purpose there was a Smurf tube under the sidewalk).
My fridge beer is an IPA, but I rarely drink them out of the house these days because a pint of barley wine ends the evening real quick. They could save a lot of tap space by just serving these IPA freaks a pint of rubbing alcohol and a bag of dried hops.
Exactly. Which is why all the breathless hysteria by politicians (who, of curse, have nothing to gain by creating a crisis) and media talking heads about “trust the science” is so convincing.
The youngns like me appreciate your house’s sacrifice in becoming six new houses that are much more affordable for us. I’m not literally in the bunch they put up on your old lot, but I could hit it with a hard-thrown baseball from my own unit nearby.
OMG! I had that exact conversation with AT&T about 1701 times.
As (yet another) side note, I really want the option to change the phrase to alert Siri to an incoming command. If you haven’t seen this coming from the neutral zone, I want to be able to issue commands by saying “Computer” in the way that Scottie does.
Not quite resisting the urge to point out that studies require funding and funding comes with political implications. Even so, I think you are underestimating the amount of contrary evidence out there.
Currently, the vast, vast bulk of scientists (about 99% as I mentioned earlier) agree that climate change is real, is man-made and is going to be very bad for the planet in general and humans in particular. What they disagree on, is to what degree it will be bad; like how many inches of sea level rise, how much the frequency and severity of natural disasters will increase, how many billions will be displaced and how many millions will die.
But, yeah, it’s just a theory, so let’s not worry about it until we’re fighting over beachfront property in Colorado.
So the studies that “show” man made global warming isn’t real never received any funding and the scientists did the research out of the goodness of their hearts?
