Summoarpleaz

Summoarpleaz t1_jeazbfx wrote

It’s weird I’ve never had issues with geico and they never bothered me even when I had a fender bender; they just paid the claim. My premium didn’t go up so I was like huh maybe I’m just paying an exorbitant amount. I got a quote from NJM (which I use for home), and their policy was $700 more for two people. I have no idea how or why.

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Summoarpleaz t1_ja8fh9o wrote

Yeah people are just conflating a lot in this thread. If there’s any change that’s needed, it’s not one person that needs to stop buying a second home, it’s the corporations relying on predatory practices to snatch up homes on a large scale to rent. That and/or foreign investors parking their money without improvement to the community.

Saying op should let someone who needs a place to live to buy it could be said about everyone who wins a bid to purchase a home. If I buy a home, and the person I beat out in the market also needed a home, was what I did unethical because I didn’t allow the other person to buy the home at a more affordable price?

People are understandably angry but OP is not nearly the core of the problem.

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Summoarpleaz t1_ja88x84 wrote

I loved when I went to look at homes and all of a sudden everyone had different names for styles of homes. Looked up cape cod and understood it meant something like in the style of some older homes that were built on a small footprint so the hallways are more narrow and the rooms smaller generally speaking. We went to see a home and the agent was like this is an “expanded cape cod.” I had no idea what anything was after that.

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Summoarpleaz t1_j94kcy9 wrote

Reply to comment by vakr001 in For all the newbies by whaler76

I’d like a little more snow - I feel like when I was young we’d get a freak blizzard in March every other year. Idk about this year though; even the winter winter wasn’t wintering. Granted Ny got pummeled

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Summoarpleaz t1_j8mzhys wrote

From a liberal arts person from Rutgers, I’d say go to Rutgers. To me, Rutgers is a place that you can do almost anything. There are opportunities to study abroad, there are opportunities to study almost any subject. NJIT just from my eagle eye view was always STEM through and through.

To be sure, it depends a lot on what you want to get out of your grad school too. If you’re dead set on STEM to the end, then by all means take the money. If you’re not sure, I’d say take Rutgers. If say you want to go to law school (which I don’t recommend lol) your undergrad means almost nothing except how your grades are. An undergraduate degree in the sciences can help job prospects, but it rarely matters where that degree is from. I’d just go to Rutgers since i feel there’s more infrastructure for careers paths like that.

Just my 2¢… which can’t buy you anything … in THIS economy ?

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Summoarpleaz t1_j0jvwaz wrote

With the caveat that I haven’t had a bowl of pho in NJ that even comes close to those I’ve had in SoCal, or anywhere with a significant Vietnamese immigrant population, thus far the best bowl I’ve had in the state is at pho today (locations in south Plainfield and fort lee). I’d be VERY interested to know if any that I’d need to try, but I’ve gone from Bergen to Monmouth and I haven’t had one really all that good.

Edit: except the one my SO makes at home but 🤷🏻‍♂️. I haven’t tried their pho but the bo kha (sp?) at baguette delite in Piscataway is pretty good so that might be worth a try.

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