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401-Climber t1_jbqcd4z wrote

State pier in Newport, the spot in Narragansett that’s been mentioned already. Anywhere the lobster boats are docking, there will be a wholesaler right nearby. These are the lowest prices for lobster in the whole world. No exaggeration. The same can be said for the commercial fishing towns all the way up the coast to Maine. North Atlantic Lobster is only harvested from this area of the entire earth.

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jjayzx t1_jbqaufi wrote

It appears luxury housing is the only damn thing being made and allowed to continue. It's fuckin stupid the shit that's being pulled everywhere with housing. Here in EP the mayor made a big photoshoot before election of "breaking ground" on a housing project, that's been sitting for years. A percentage of which is supposed to be affordable. That pile of dirt that they literally brought in instead of actually just digging some up from this empty lot is still there, untouched. While on the other end of the street a nice apartment or condo building is put in. Then there's the Kettle Point development that literally paid a fine just so they wouldn't have to do a percentage for "the poors". Then up the road more where there was gonna be a huge waterfront development with a bunch of housing, a percentage affordable, and shops, restaurants and what not. Straightened out the land and now just sitting there some years, long empty waterfront strip. Then there's Exxon that owns the most land in the city and most of it empty now and they don't pay property taxes on any of their land, I looked it up. It's all valued at $0.

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UnderwaterInRI t1_jbq72fr wrote

I'm absolutely fine with more housing, I just didn't want some wavy Miami skyscraper standing at odds with the entire skyline. It also wasn't exactly affordable housing they were trying to build. The superman building is a better hope there. Heck give it a couple years and the providence place mall is a better hope there. Let's make what we have work for us.

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wyldweasil t1_jbpzdoo wrote

You're going to need a time machine to find an apartment for that much anywhere in the state.

You may want to check other communities like Attleboro, Fall River,, but I think you're going to have a hard time finding anything in New England for that amount for a while.

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