Modern highway brigands. Kind of interesting that exists still in the US.
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
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#12> Brookside Police did patrol the 1.5-mile stretch of Interstate 22 within their jurisdiction and wrote tickets that brought in $82,467 in fines. So that was the most productive one? After salary, health care and operating costs, The roi does not sound all that good.
That was from 2018. In 2020, the fines were $600,000.
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#13Down here if FL we had a town called Waldo who's police department was disbanded for similar behavior, it was notorious for a long time: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-waldo-speed-trap...
I still drive 5 under through there. I still see them hunting. I go to the FIRM racetrack often and my car looks like a speed trapper’s dream. So I’m extra cautious.
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#14The more I read and experience such things along with the healthcare scam and sudden bills from hospitals and haggling with insurance, the more I wonder why I immigrated to the US when I could have taken my software skills and education to anywhere else like Europe or Canada. This country is for hustlers and grifters and the cunning.
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#15The more I read and experience such things along with the healthcare scam and sudden bills from hospitals and haggling with insurance, the more I wonder why I immigrated to the US when I could have taken my software skills and education to anywhere else like Europe or Canada. This country is for hustlers and grifters and the cunning.
There’s still a significant salary spread between the US and most of Canada and Europe (Switzerland is competitive with the US, but most of the rest is not). Remote working may close some of the gap, but right now there’s a wide gap.
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#16The more I read and experience such things along with the healthcare scam and sudden bills from hospitals and haggling with insurance, the more I wonder why I immigrated to the US when I could have taken my software skills and education to anywhere else like Europe or Canada. This country is for hustlers and grifters and the cunning.
There’s still a significant salary spread between the US and most of Canada and Europe (Switzerland is competitive with the US, but most of the rest is not). Remote working may close some of the gap, but right now there’s a wide gap.
I don't think I care about salary so much especially when I hear that the other countries have a better social safety net. As a software engineer I am confident I can make decent pay for the area. I am not looking to send my kids to private school or avail a world class surgeon or have a beach house or make millions. I just want a good happy middle class life writing code and without a lot of hustling. And somehow the US does not seem very conducive to that.
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That's what it comes down to, what is the law (reguardless of any ethics/morals).
For some reason the leash laws are never enforced tho...
Seems that could add up to large fines in the same way.
Sadly the courts actually ruled the police have no duty to uphold the law, they literaly get to choose if and when they intervene. including murders, rape, home invasion, etc. and won't face repercussion for looking the other way.
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#18The more I read and experience such things along with the healthcare scam and sudden bills from hospitals and haggling with insurance, the more I wonder why I immigrated to the US when I could have taken my software skills and education to anywhere else like Europe or Canada. This country is for hustlers and grifters and the cunning.
There’s still a significant salary spread between the US and most of Canada and Europe (Switzerland is competitive with the US, but most of the rest is not). Remote working may close some of the gap, but right now there’s a wide gap.
The "salary spread" doesn't make up for the lower quality of life, IMO. And I say this as a Canadian who moved to the midwest US.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s still a significant salary spread between the US and most of Canada and Europe (Switzerland is competitive with the US, but most of the rest is not). Remote working may close some of the gap, but right now there’s a wide gap.
The "salary spread" doesn't make up for the lower quality of life, IMO. And I say this as a Canadian who moved to the midwest US.
I’m sorry that you have a lower quality of life in the US; are you planning to move back in order to increase/regain your quality of life?
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#20There needs to be a RICO prosecution.
Biggest gang in town.