QueMasPuesss

QueMasPuesss t1_je5r741 wrote

Reply to Question for a jop opportunity as a foreigner by dogefki

Is the €4300 pre or post tax?

Post tax that’s decent enough money for starting out in DC.

You’ll want to find a room share, where you have roommates. You can get a room with multiple roommates for around $1000 per month.

I would recommend finding a place on or near a bus or metro line to work. You won’t need a drivers license.

There is also a fairly large French population in dc. You can find dedicated Facebook groups for that for more specific questions.

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QueMasPuesss t1_je4oa9g wrote

Reply to Six Weeks After McPherson Square Encampment Clearing, Most Residents Still Don’t Have Homes by akahogfan

“Having experienced traumatic events at city shelters, many unhoused people cannot stomach the idea of living in a group setting. Others no longer trust the D.C. government to provide safe shelter sites. And some can’t fathom life away from those who helped them survive in the encampment.”

I guess we should just legalize encampments indefinitely!

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QueMasPuesss t1_jdyuasv wrote

Reply to comment by MoreCleverUserName in Gut Renovation on Wardman Style Rowhouse - Budget Discussion/Advice by LeDeepPenseur

250k is really not “cheap.” It only appears so because many design + build firms add multiple layers of costs and inefficiencies and profit (and also potentially systems for delivering a better, more reliable product, depending on their experience.)

Let’s say the house is 2500 sq ft. 250k is 100 sq for renovating. 100 a sq ft has is just a bit low on the sticks and bricks of building a new 2500 sq ft home from scratch (though pandemic has messed with hard costs, but it’s starting to come down a bit.) But it gives us a cost baseline from which to work.

Digging out a basement CAN be expensive, but a lot of that stems from particular engineering complexity and how tall the basement it is to begin with, how much extra engineering needs to go in, etc.

If it’s a simple job, dudes literally go in with jackhammers and shovels and then pour a new foundation and footing walls after. Labor shouldn’t be more than 10 grand (3 - 5 dudes over a weel - 10 days) plus cost of materials, plus profit for the sub.

Once you have the blank canvas, you’re building from scratch-ish, but the main expensive pieces should be electrical, plumbing, and hvac. None of which should be more than 15k or so for systems (excluding finishes.) add in some structural changes here, plus reframing interior walls, let’s just round up to 100k before the finish out.

A decent Ikea kitchen should run around 10 - 15k, bathroom for material and labor should be 7.5 - 25k per depending on complexity, (let’s call it 15k for an average for 3 bathrooms - 45k), then another 10k for drywall, 10k for interior painting, 10k for flooring (refinishing original hardwoods and adding LVP in basement) then 10k on lighting fixtures and other odds and ends. That gets us up to 200k. These are rough rough numbers but more or less ballpark if you’re working with a one man shop GC and not a build + design firm.

Throw 50k on top for windows, finish trim work, exterior painting, landscaping, permits, and extra overhead, and 250k is achievable. There will be a lot less handholding, a less bespoke experience, and a lot more design + supervision heavy lifting for the homeowner. A guy with his own dedicated crew on payroll can likely achieve the above for around 150k, which is how the dedicated flippers make money on deals homeowners can’t.

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QueMasPuesss t1_jdyewnn wrote

Reply to Traffic at kite festival in dc by nickyiy

Drove into just north of the tidal basin in 12 min today found parking no problem then walked around for an hour then went home. Lunch break blossoms > whatever mess y’all did yesterday.

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QueMasPuesss t1_jco1puv wrote

Reply to comment by RedfishSC2 in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

Dallas has great Korean, Ethiopian and Vietnamese food and decent Thai and Salvadorian. Houston has the best Vietnamese and Chinese food outside the west coast imo (though queens gives houston a run for its money with Chinese food.)

Edit: though I think DC has better French and Italian than major Texas metros, plus a greater variety of more obscure cuisines (by American diasporan standards) due to the breadth of diversity, ie Balkan, Uyghur, Bangladeshi, Peruvian, Georgian, Filipino, Portuguese, Russian etc etc.

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QueMasPuesss t1_jco1g03 wrote

Reply to comment by janmint in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

Cactus Cantina is pretty mediocre. It was dubya’s favorite place but he’s from Connecticut. Ironically their lomo saltado is one of the best things on the menu.

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QueMasPuesss t1_jco0xj8 wrote

Reply to Best Chinese food? by Preston_south_end

Peter Chang, Mala Tang, Bostan, and TNR are the best imo, in more or less that order, but it also depends dish by dish. All are solid and won’t disappoint imo. Haven’t been anywhere else for Chinese I would go back too. Peter Chang lunch special is a super good deal also.

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