What was that? Looked like you were being a prick about this and deleted something.

The unique thing about this city is how many residents do NOT pay for their own rent.

What are you talking about proof? Go out and walk around Saturday night. Streets are empty.

Half the city is a ghost town on Saturday night. It's really unsettling. I don't know how long property value holds out with this setup.

If you come in the summer we have water parks and stuff kiddos will love. Right off metro too. I've been here 6+ years and it still feels like an amusement park compared to fucking Miami where you spend 30-40 hours a month in the car like it's nothing.

Tbh I sold my truck and just bike everywhere now. It never even snowed this winter here. Although may have been a flurry or two we tend to worry about accumulation and there was 0. Bonus points for pretending you're captain America going by the monuments.

I've been making Mexican from yt recipes and it's 1000x better than restaurants.

We got a decent tacombi and Los tios off the blue line

Nice little neighborhood.

Is this where they found that cooler full of aborted fetuses?

Jaleo

I've never seen a post about this topic. You're really breaking ground talking about this here. Thank you for this important dialogue.

Agree, also like I said, the Amazon Fresh store is part of the value, I can literally walk in, throw $50 in groceries in my stroller, and walk out in 2 or 3 minutes. Pretty much all the fresh stuff I can't buy at Costco. It's a jam.

This week I'm getting 10% off everything in the store as well. Tj can't beat that, nope.

Even the eggs are well priced.

The Prime credit card + membership gets you 5% off everything at their stores, Whole Foods, and the website, at all times. It's a pretty massive reward if you are relying on their ecosystem for anything.

I don't make frugal choices, however, the average $250 trip is now like $450 so that's a little nuts for the 3 of us for like <10 days.

The best way to save some cash when you like to buy premium/fresh stuff is Costco. The stuff I get at Costco (not everything) is at least HALF the price of Giant, if not better. Just the cheese, meats, and snacks for my kid make it well worth the membership and hassle. I get 4% of my purchases back, can count on one free trip per year basically, and cover the membership.

Bonus points if you want to buy a couch or something. Costco also offers instacart, if you're sick or lazy.

Next is Whole Foods/Amazon fresh. Obviously WF is the worst value anywhere, with huge markups for no obvious benefit. I mean they don't even sell regular stuff. BUTTTTT... I get 5% off with the Prime card at all times. I also get 5% or sometimes 10% at the amazon fresh, and all online orders. Combined with coupons, etc. I get fresh stuff I can't get from Costco for very nice prices. Bonus points I can get in and out of there in under 5 minutes on a bad day.

ALL my Amazon orders are also 5% off which really adds. I know they are the bad guys and all that, but Safeway wants $10 for bread and Prime is literally dropping this shit off at my door, without moving my kid around.

This combo is 1) always getting me a discount automatically, 2) quality stuff, 3) usually got a competitive or great unit price, and 4) it is very little work/research to maintain.

So "gen Z" is flocking to the city with the most colleges per sq mile in the US. That's a dumb metric, but likely true.

Ya fuck that place. Tell me the price of what I'm buying or we don't have an agreement for me to pay.

I don't want a goddamn algebra equation to guess what my bill will be either. I will assume anything extra is the gratuity, and 100% optional (up to me). There isn't going to be any extra gratuity when the person I ordered from hands me a surprise bill >20% than what I ordered.

Nope.

It's small money, and stupid beef. Usually pretty petty stuff tbh. Violent criminals aren't good at risk vs reward analysis or trying to build some sophisticated criminal enterprise.

Those crimes are about 97% drug related. Mind your business and there's nothing to be scared of.

Jesus christ, I got 32 up votes, and 3 confused screamers, so I guess 10% can't fucking read. I'm alright with that.

It's called piling on. Have you been to the internet before?

I'm not insinuating anything, I am very bluntly pointing out that you are either trolling me or genuinely don't understand what I clearly and correctly wrote.

We done here?

You literally just quoted me than paraphrased it wrong.

I can't teach you the nuances of written English.

That's what the ADHD pros tell me.

Nah, you're just using a weird aloof super progressive attack pose to try and push me into saying something you can screenshot for a tweet later. Just let it go man. Everyone else knows what I said. I don't need an editor.

Well the park is clean now, so while you work on that other business, my issue is in fact resolved.

Yep. They still can't turn McPherson SQ into their personal KoA.