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Post by seedless-sensat »

woodruffw wrote: post #228
mustacheemperor wrote: post #226

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I read that whole exchange eager to learn the secret of an affordable one bedroom apartment in New York and the secret is rent part of a place with roommates. I can only chuckle.

Having a roommate is my choice; you can confirm the number ranges I gave for studios and 1BRs in those neighborhoods on most sites. I’ve never paid more than $2,000/mo in rent in NYC, and that was a 1BR in Manhattan in 2018.

In this whole exchange you implied you lived in a 1br apt for $1.6k in a cool area today, but now it comes out you share a 3br. I also chuckled

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Post by Gravityloss »

helen___keller wrote: post #191
ghc wrote: post #143

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You definitely don't need (or want) a car in Boston. Boston is extremely pedestrian friendly and correspondingly hostile to cars. 95% of the people who complain about getting around here are commuters from outside the city.

Unfortunately this isn’t true in all of greater Boston or even within the whole metro core. If you live in Watertown, Quincy, Waltham, Newton, etc etc you are going to have a very different experience My main complaint with Boston is that even if you’re happy with just the walkable city center, it’s still tough commuting if you can’t walk/bike and you aren’t going to/from downtown Boston. For example if someone in So…

If you're going 5 miles, biking sounds like a realistic alternative?

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Post by jlokier »

ejb999 wrote: post #249
CapstanRoller wrote: post #211

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Why are you putting the onus on victims to befriend and "convert" their oppressors? Seriously, what the fuck .

When someone disagree's with your point of view, you are thus a victim? I think I see the problem here.

"Disagree with a point of view" and "don't want to be beaten up" (an example) are not in the same ballpark.

People are undoubtedly victims if they get beaten up or have to live under daily threat of it. (Again, example).

That is relevant to the KKK a few comments up. It's not that long ago the KKK wouldn't stop at beating someone up, when they could get away with torture and murder and be let off by juries who approved - in some states.

Replace "beaten up" with any other kind of serious harm to get the point. There are plenty of examples today, whether you care to recognise them or not.

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

FrontierPsych wrote: post #234
slg wrote: post #115

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>Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas. I'm a liberal-leaning moderate but many of my favorite people (friends and family) are conservative, and many of my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic. This is a comment that originates in privilege. The concern for many people is not simply that they would have to be friends with conservative people. The…

>This is a comment that originates in privilege. This sounds like a comment about privilege that originates in privilege. The person just expressed his or her opinion, and bandying words like "privilege" shuts down communication by route of shaming someone. Not everyone is LGBT+, ethnic minority. If someone was to offer someone $20 million per year to do a job in Kansas, I guess many people would turn it down to make…

can you elaborate why you think the comment about privilege is wrong, rather than emphasizing that you don't like that the word was used?

> Not everyone is LGBT+, ethnic minority

yes, but some are, and ignoring concerns which apply to them because you're not personally affected by the concerns is, well, privileged - you literally have the privilege of not having to worry about right-wingers driving a car into you only because you're the wrong ethnicity or nationality, like one just did in Texas

if you feel shame as a result of this, look inward and ask why, because nobody here is shaming you for simply being privileged

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Post by TexanFeller »

Tiktaalik wrote: post #116
bityard wrote: post #78

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Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas. I'm a liberal-leaning moderate but many of my favorite people (friends and family) are conservative, and many of my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic. You'll always find people here and there who won't give you the time of day if you're not on Team Blue or Team Red, but my take on it is, if I can't make fr…

The thing is that personal politics don't end up being a personal thing because they result in real policies that guide real material outcomes. At this point saying one is uninterested in living in a red state could be about party politics, but it also could just as much about not being inclined to subject onesself to starkly higher risks of being shot and killed (the outcome of someone's personal politics). eg. http…

> Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher

It makes no sense to put suicides in the same bucket as homicides, please stop trying to manipulate the discussion this way. There are more gun deaths from suicide than murder and accidents put together, so it massively skews the numbers.

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

dffdsa432 wrote: post #162
Tiktaalik wrote: post #116

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The thing is that personal politics don't end up being a personal thing because they result in real policies that guide real material outcomes. At this point saying one is uninterested in living in a red state could be about party politics, but it also could just as much about not being inclined to subject onesself to starkly higher risks of being shot and killed (the outcome of someone's personal politics). eg. http…

This is such a propaganda piece. NYC has a per capita murder rate of 5.5 according to its latest report. There were 40 states with a lower murder rate [1]. The highest murder rates are all in blue cities [2] 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni... 2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

your comment keeps confusing, or switching back and forth between, states and cities, which one is your point based on?

states were the original topic, and it looks like New York is actually the 2nd lowest by 2019 numbers

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Post by TexanFeller »

benburleson wrote: post #134
oatmeal1 wrote: post #126

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Avoiding red states to avoid being shot would be extremely dumb for many reasons. 1. Cities and neighborhoods in any state can be safe, even in the states with the most shootings 2. If you have enough money to choose to live in another state, you're probably not going to be living in an extremely poor area that is the most likely to be beset with gun violence 3. Other commonplace things are much more likely to kill y…

Texas sure seems to be an outlier though.

Native Texan living in the city. There has been only one time in my life I was near gun violence and it was 1/2 mile away. That didn't make me hate guns, it just made me consider concealed carrying again. Zero people I know have been near shootings or are worried about shootings, it's a nonissue in the real world and only seems scary because of news coverage.

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Post by iinnPP »

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #265
FrontierPsych wrote: post #234

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>This is a comment that originates in privilege. This sounds like a comment about privilege that originates in privilege. The person just expressed his or her opinion, and bandying words like "privilege" shuts down communication by route of shaming someone. Not everyone is LGBT+, ethnic minority. If someone was to offer someone $20 million per year to do a job in Kansas, I guess many people would turn it down to make…

can you elaborate why you think the comment about privilege is wrong, rather than emphasizing that you don't like that the word was used? > Not everyone is LGBT+, ethnic minority yes, but some are, and ignoring concerns which apply to them because you're not personally affected by the concerns is, well, privileged - you literally have the privilege of not having to worry about right-wingers driving a car into you onl…

The assumption that people from the LGBT+ community must be of certain political beliefs is in itself prejudice.

People don't have to do what anyone believes is best for them. They don't need anyone pressuring them to behave a certain way. They don't need that from society, or anybody. What they wear is their's to choose. What they spend time on is their own. They can do whatever and be whoever and nobody else is in any way an authority of what is or isn't good for anyone other than themselves.

Edit: I changed single person wording to reflect the actual purpose of the message.

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Post by klysm »

helen___keller wrote: post #191
ghc wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You definitely don't need (or want) a car in Boston. Boston is extremely pedestrian friendly and correspondingly hostile to cars. 95% of the people who complain about getting around here are commuters from outside the city.

Unfortunately this isn’t true in all of greater Boston or even within the whole metro core. If you live in Watertown, Quincy, Waltham, Newton, etc etc you are going to have a very different experience My main complaint with Boston is that even if you’re happy with just the walkable city center, it’s still tough commuting if you can’t walk/bike and you aren’t going to/from downtown Boston. For example if someone in So…

Somerville to Boston landing is kind of a tough example, but I agree it’s annoying that there’s no way to go “sideways” on most public transport in Boston - everything goes to the center
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