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https://rogerwilliamsparkevents.com/the-botanical-center/

honestly.. you need a small apartment. live in less square footage, but be able to afford it in my opinion. there is a nice building in RI that was converted from a brick mill to lofts.

you're making assumptions.. what you need is to get into a no rent situation where you live for free somehow to save money.. also learn about houses. get a preapproval letter to see how much you qualify for if anything. then shop for a small house or apartment with a good reserve fund in the hoa.

i bought a crap house in need of repair for $230,000 near RI two years ago..

I’m not sure on price but I believe it has a pretty low capacity. Went to a wedding there years ago. It was amazing, but it was not a lot of people. And I thought it was something about how it wasn’t designed as an event hall so you couldn’t do as many people with tables and such. But seriously gorgeous venue and it made for a great wedding.

I'm just saying I can't wait for self driving cars because people cause more accidents than ai. Not sure why you're getting so defensive and taking my opinion on self driving vehicles personally?

So well-stated! I work for a state office. The pushback from municipalities is REAL. The House of Representatives has said it will be announcing a package of housing this year. Multiple towns have already opposed it - and it isn’t even out yet! They don’t even know what the legislation is or any details, and they’re opposing it.

Massachusetts.

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Stronger emphases on property rights and stronger local governments shouldn’t go together.

Death to zoning.

Out of state buyers came in and pushed up prices. Vacation homes in RI are a bargain compared to other places. Covid remote working allowed others to come to RI because houses were cheaper than where they were. Covid also saw people spending lots of time at home move if they wanted more space at home, or renovate their homes, so a lot of home sales that would have trickled out into supply were kind of rushed into it, so theres no backlog of homes to come on market or if you renovated you are staying for a bit. The high prices and high interest rates makes it so everyone that didn't buy recently have a better situation than what they could buy into now so they are staying put. Rates are still high, but prices have backed off peak a bit so anyone thinking of selling now missed the high point and will be less likely to sell. The only people moving right now are those who have to for some reason, like work.

Lots of reasons really. The market will work itself out, but not any time soon.

It actually raises rates for everyone else (albeit by a tiny amount) because they "buy" at the retail rate which is more than the wholesale rate. They also have to manage irregular flows of power across the grid that they neither need nor want.

Horrible advice

Thank you for this info!!!

Banks figured out you make more renting the house out forever as opposed to selling it

Yes correct my parents had an interest rate of 17% for their $50,000 house

Now it’s 7% on a 800,000 house

I do, most of the time. If a cop is hiding in a definite speed trap I'll almost always try to warn oncoming drivers. On a lot of roads it's very easy to drift into questionable ticket territory without being dangerous to anyone else.

That said, if I see a cop and someone coming the opposite direction is driving like an ass or blatantly way too fast? Fuck 'em. They have that ticket coming.

Crash has already started. Rates are insane.

Fuck Rebel Bagels and anything associated with it

> The biggest problem is that utilities are monopolies. My ONLY option is RIE. I can't even get solar because my roof cannot support the panels. And it's not like I can call up Eversource to be like "hey can you beat this rate?"

Supply is deregulated. You absolutely can call up a different supplier and see if they can give you a better rate. Just be careful to understand their terms before switching.

https://ripuc.ri.gov/utility-information/electric

There are also ground-mounted solar options you may have if your roof isn't compatible.

> Others with solar can't sell me their unused power because legally they have to sell it back to the utility company in exchange for credits

You can absolutely buy power from some one else, you just have to set up your own independent power system to get it to your house from theirs. Naturally if you're using the RIE grid to store and move the power, they are going to manage the process.

> (which ideally SHOULD lower overall price for every non-solar customer but it doesn't)

It does, but kinda in a roundabout way. See here if you want to dive in: https://upriseri.com/how-are-electricity-rates-determined/#:~:text=They%20start%20at%20the%20lowest%20price%20and%20they%20get

Anyone have a real link

I love the thinking but I also recognize that they'll find a way to fuck us over more.

Now if we could all find ways to go off-grid that would be a real way to do it.

The biggest problem is that utilities are monopolies. My ONLY option is RIE. I can't even get solar because my roof cannot support the panels. And it's not like I can call up Eversource to be like "hey can you beat this rate?"

Others with solar can't sell me their unused power because legally they have to sell it back to the utility company in exchange for credits (which ideally SHOULD lower overall price for every non-solar customer but it doesn't)

Not sure why you're being downvoted. I live in Providence, never parallel park. The city's such that if you don't want to parallel park then you can simply route plan better and park down a side street and walk an extra 30 seconds.

Sure, if you don't want to risk burning more calories than you have to, and so insist on parking directly in front of wherever you're going, yeah, you'll probably have to do it.

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