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cowperthwaite t1_j64jmyj wrote

Reply to comment by TzarKazm in WHY ARE HOUSES SO EXPENSIVE by mommy2boy

I think a better stat is comparing the number of listings to the amount of Bristol's residential units (usually the census)

That being said, when I looked it up on the census quick facts, it just gave me "X," so to find the numbers requires digging a couple layers deeper.

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Rogue-Island-Pirate OP t1_j64jb8a wrote

Reply to From Pawtucket to Washington: RI native lands key White House job by Rogue-Island-Pirate

From the Article/Video: "by: Ted Nesi

Posted: Jan 26, 2023 / 05:29 PM EST

Updated: Jan 26, 2023 / 05:43 PM EST

WASHINGTON (WPRI) — When Gabe Amo shows up to the office each morning, he finds himself at the most famous address in the United States.

Amo, who grew up in Pawtucket, works at the White House as a special assistant to the president and deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. His job: serve as President Biden’s primary liaison to mayors and other local elected officials from coast to coast.

“Whether it’s your snowstorm or your wildfire or your mass shooting, I’m often one of the first people in the federal government that somebody is hearing from,” Amo told 12 News."

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bungocheese t1_j64gva8 wrote

Reply to comment by possiblecoin in Hasbro to cut 1,000 jobs this year by GhostOpera406

I've posted in this thread a bunch because I have a handful of friends that work there or have worked there. It's a good place to work in the day to day, they have pretty good benefits, give good pay for the type of work it is, half day fridays all year and any time a movie is out they work on they go for free. It's a dieing industry in the last 5 years as everyone is only using apps and phones and it's a big public company, so the anxiety of every quarter seeing what happens really messes with the people.

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Also, as I said in another thread many people that lose their jobs are not in positions or types of work that they can easily move somewhere else and losing that job can pretty much ruin them, so it gets very personal.

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bungocheese t1_j64g3ge wrote

Reply to comment by WickedxJosh in Hasbro to cut 1,000 jobs this year by GhostOpera406

It's also one of very few "stable" jobs for creatives especially around here. If you want to be a freelance artist of one sort or another you can but it's ridiculously hard to get a job with benefits in that space. So many of the people that work there are absolutely crushed and it can be an absolutely life shattering time for them. Engineers can engineer other places, PM's and sales and marketing can go find other places, not many places for people that love to create.

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dontbitelee t1_j64f5ih wrote

Reply to comment by maznyk in An 18th century gravestone for 6 children from the Langley family in Newport, Rhode Island, in the early 1900s and 2022. by jimb575

This is what OP wrote in the original post:

>The headstone is for six infant children of William and Sarah Langley, who died between 1771 and 1785. From left to right, they are: Sarah (1771, age 6 months); Nathaniel (1772, age 6 months); Sarah (1775, age 21 months); Royal (1778, age 5 weeks); Sarah (1781, age 13 months); and William (1785, age 4 weeks). The stone was carved by Newport resident and prominent gravestone carver John Bull.

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