Palace was fine, though it was pretty ghetto.

I'm not mad that the Palace is gone. I'm mad that it got replaced with another damn church.

Can you show me anywhere in this thread where people are hating on Christians? Or are you insistent on being a victim for some reason?

For South side, check out Wire Road Brewery. Nice drinks and free Wifi. My wife will do some work from there quite a bit.

I love Villa, and I would probably never recommend it to anyone

The question is if moving to a nicer location would bring in more customers. It's possible they could offset extra overhead with more customers. It's a gamble though

I tried signing up for Brightspeed but we had the situation where Lumen (cabling contractors) wanted to charge is over $1400 to hook it up to our house. Why it was so expensive, no idea. I called Brightspeed, cancelled the install, and let them know that there's no way anyone is gonna sign up for that service with those install fees. Hopefully they figure that out.

Meanwhile, AT&T fiber just became available in our neighborhood. Got it installed the next day. No install fees. 500Mb/s for $65/mo. Been great so far!

Honestly, most people won't need more than that. Hell, most people probably can't even use faster than that on wifi.

Is that the place in the skeezy strip mall on Sunshine? Their food is good, but boy I hope they can move to a nicer spot at some point.

Also once lawyers got involved, you gotta be really careful with what you say about anything. Him making a post at all until the matter was resolved was probably a bad idea by itself.

In any case, criticism to Nett on this matter is fair. He's gonna have to take it on the chin and do better moving forward

Please refer to my comment above

You're a weird person. You're commenting in a public forum on a topic, and getting mad when people reply to you. You're simultaneously getting angry while trying to play the whole "I don't even care!" angle. And you want to tell ME to grow up?

Best of luck, dude

True

> Go defend him to him, not me.

But... you commented? Weird response, man

I mean, after reading all accounts, I think Patrick is just a decent guy trying to to the best he can, but he's flawed like anyone is. And this one sounds like a pretty decent fuckup.

Here's one thing I'd like to hear from the side of the family: DID they try and reach out to Nett? Exactly what efforts were made for both parties to contact each other? Nett and the attorneys admit to playing phone tag for a couple weeks.

With what we know, assuming we take each side's story at face value, then it sounds like Patrick honestly fucked up. He admits as such, and this is one that he'll just have to take on the chin. He's clearly a guy trying to navigate his business to success, and I believe him in his efforts to do good for his community. But he got in over his head, struggled to manage these kinds of things on top of running the business, and who the hell knows what else is going on in that guy's life behind the scenes.

What I DON'T think is happening is that he's trying to scam the family out of charity. I don't believe this was a grift where Nett is trying to take advantage of a grieving family for personal gain. It doesn't make sense to risk your personal reputation for less than two grand.

Hopefully this gets sorted out soon and this ends up being a learning experience.

On the point of Ashley,

while she's unquestionably done some good work, let's not forget that local news are often garbage entities who try to make stories out of nothing. I'm not saying this is nothing, but the goal of local news stations is to get stories.

Opening up a restaurant is super expensive, even if you're moving locations. I'll let Nett speak up himself on this, but you have to recoup a lot of costs before you're coming out ahead of your investment.

I worked for a branch office of a company that essentially bought itself out and moved offices within the year. I had a talk with the owner and he informed me that it'll probably takes at least a couple years before the business actually turns a profit after all the costs that were incurred. Running a business is a lot more expensive than people think it is.

Are you serious? You can make a story out of anything when you're local news.

lol Patrick is one of the best business owners in this town! He's taken his employees on vacations, and recently gave a big bonus to one employee in particular who was struggling.

No one appreciates you

Yup. Just another politician using his office as a stepping stone to another position.

Jay Ashcroft really needs a fire lit under his ass. I know we have idiots like Josh Hawley and Parson, but let's not let Ashcroft fly under the radar. The dude begged Roy Blunt to not vote to protect marriages for same-sex and interracial couples. Dude is living 50 years in the past.

It's pretty small. It's easy to miss

He explained who he is. He's Tyler Drenon. Not sure why this confuses you.

Lol whatever dude

Why you shitting on people's tastes, man?

Yeah I don't get the hype, honestly. Tasted like Sonic to me