With my last move I had some overlap (new lease started about 5 days before my old lease was up) and that worked out really well. I’ve had friends who had from a couple of days to a couple of weeks between leases and the one who didn’t have a SO/friends/parent in the burbs to stay with got an AirBnB for a few nights until he could officially move in.

76 to City Line Ave is an absolute nightmare, I second avoiding this if at all possible.

Still not gonna stop people from driving their Altimas with temp tags over them to park on the grass.

It’s such a shitty situation for both parties. I can’t imagine what she must be going through. Horribly traumatic.

I’ve had to get a loose pit off my family dog. I was kicking it as hard as I could and luckily had mace with me which worked. My dog was thankfully not hurt but it was terrifying.

Absolutely. Any dog owner needs to learn how to read their dog’s signals for when they start feeling aggressive or agitated, and how to break up a fight if needed. If you cannot control your dog, it is not the right dog for you. Pits are extra tricky because it’s not uncommon for them to just snap, no normal signs of agitation like hair standing up, growling, etc. and they latch on and will not let go.

I immediately thought that! She’s an amazing artist and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one of my favorite albums of all time but it’s risky to book her since it’s never a guarantee she’ll show.

I’m really disappointed to hear this, I really liked the food and coffee I got there. Certainly won’t be going back there, the workers deserve so much better.

I fortunately don’t have to drive throughout the city often anymore, but I’d say that Chinatown is the most frustrating (trying to weave through parked trucks, drivers of said trucks unloading stuff and moving it across the street, double parked cars, people running out in front of you), the craziest is the Boulevard (particularly as you get up into the Northeast), and the worst is Lincoln Drive. granted I haven’t had to take Lincoln since before COVID but when I had to take it often, people treated it like their own personal F1 course and the potholes were atrocious

That’s so cool! I visited Ireland back in the fall and saw a bunch of kids in Kilkenny hurling, I’d never seen it before so I asked them about it. Thought it was pretty cool and watched clips on YouTube, it’s so intense!

TIL Philly had a camogie team. Do they have hurling and Gaelic football teams as well?

Oh I just gagged reading this, I can only imagine the smell. Poor lil dude but man that’s disgusting

Well fuck. I take rideshares whenever I’m out at night because the El isn’t safe anymore, but then this shit happens and on the middle of the Vine St Expressway too.

Oh, the teens fucking terrify me. At the very least they’re a nuisance but there’s been more and more instances of them being extremely violent, like the group of kids who were like 14 and younger who beat an elderly man to death with a traffic cone and were filming it. It’s a dangerous combo of no impulse control, brains not fully developed, and parents who aren’t controlling their kids.

I won’t ride the El or BSL alone anymore, I feel too unsafe both in the stations and on the trains. I feel compassion for people who are homeless, mentally ill, and struggling with addiction, and there are certainly some who aren’t wanting to bother anyone but just want a place to rest that’s sheltered and warm, but they shouldn’t be able to take over stations and train cars and treat them as bathrooms and drug dens. And then there’s plenty more who are extremely disruptive (begging, harassing other riders, screaming, fighting, etc.) and even downright dangerous. Not to mention the unsupervised groups of kids and teens who make a ruckus, harass people and even mug and rob them, the people who decide to start stabbing or shooting, or rapists and robbers who take advantage of the lack of police/security presence. It’s just not a place I want to be anymore.

I don’t see any of these as major intrusions except for MIA and that’s only because I live a couple blocks from the art museum, and really the most annoying thing about it is that the parkway is blocked and it’s harder to get into Center City. I do think there’s a difference when there’s a lot of drunken debauchery happening (people urinating and throwing up in public, fights breaking out, anything that puts the public in danger like the ATV and dirt bike riders that don’t pay attention to road rules and are loud AF at all hours). I used to live above a bar and I detested St. Patrick’s Day when the Erin Express would come through and bring loads of loud, drunken idiots and I can see how people who live along the Mummers parade route would get pissed for the same reason.

I used to drive past there regularly for work and I detested going around lunchtime because there were people constantly doing this.

Blaze is fine when you want something quick and there aren’t any by the slice places nearby but overall so many better pizza places in the city

I second the architecture boat tour, it was fantastic. And Chicago deep dish isn’t for everyone but you have to try to while you’re there.

Oh that’s rough! My parents also got COVID back to back, they had paxlovid both times though.

I got RSV fairly early in the season after traveling internationally, and let me tell you, it knocked me on my ass. I felt much worse with RSV than I did when I had COVID. Ran fever over 100 for over a week, no energy, coughing my head off and even codeine wouldn’t relieve the cough, had to sleep sitting up because I felt like I couldn’t breathe at all laying down. Would never want to experience that again.

This spring I got a cold, then COVID, then another cold that turned into a sinus infection. Took me out for a good month.

The movement in the 80s and 90s for de-institutionalization was definitely good in some ways because there were so many people in hospitals who didn’t need to be there and would benefit from living and getting care in the community. But there are many more people who cannot or will not be compliant with treatment in the community and/or don’t have the services or support (from family, friends, greater community) to get it. Those are the people that you see living on the street, causing harm to themselves and others, who IMO need to be hospitalized for at least some period of time to get on a routine of meds that stabilize them and then get set up with services and supports when they go back into the community. But sadly I doubt that it will happen like it needs to because taxpayers don’t want to pay for it. So hospitalizing these people gets them off the street which will help temporarily but ultimately won’t do them much good if they’re released without a plan.

I’m a Southern transplant and am overall not a fan of cold weather, but that first snowfall of the year always makes me feel like a kid again because we so rarely got big snowstorms when I was growing up. I’m 30 years old but it’s such a joy to go out and just PLAY. Build a snowman, have a snowball fight, go sledding, make snow angels. And then go inside, strip off the cold, wet clothes, take a hot bath, and sit on the couch with hot cocoa and a good book.

I love dogs too but man, my cat really is the best. He’s cool living in a small apartment, doesn’t require walking and bathroom breaks in shitty weather, is ok with being left alone for hours at a time, and acts as a space heater on cold winter nights. He can be a little asshole at times but he’s MY little asshole.