That’s actually really cool! Thanks for sharing

LOL! Never! They were really bad. We ended up tossing half the order in the trash and moved on to Wet City!

Just replaced our whole system a couple months ago. 2,600 square foot row home and we got a new 2.5 ton, 16 seer system for $8,400. Get several quotes as others have mentioned. We found the big name guys try to rip you off more than the smaller local companies. Good luck!

I suggested Cheezy Mike's. Your experience doesn't align with mine, aside from the obnoxious sauce pool - which is something I welcome. It's a bummer that they're not consistently pumping out a good product. I genuinely thought you would enjoy those wings, based on what I remember from my summer 2021 visit. As far as the $16+tip, let's do it this way: you recommend a wing spot I should try that, in your opinion, is on par with Cheezy Mike's. Then I'll go waste my money at the place you recommend, and you get a little redemption. Eye for an eye, if you will.

What’s crazy is that Bikemore identified this as an issue and wrote about it 5 years ago.

https://www.bikemore.net/news/priorities-spending-millions-on-central-avenue-for-more-of-the-same

I am not a fan of Merritt all together. I bartend in fells and when they shut restaurants down to just togo my finances were pretty tight. I was bringing home about $60 a week. Just enough to have gas to get to and from work and food in the fridge. Luckily my living situation was pretty good so I was allowed to slide on bills until I got back on my feet. I called Merritt to see if I could freeze my membership because I'm not making enough to pay their ridiculous ass monthly price. They told me yeah... for about $60 a month. I explained my situation and the obvious covid spike that kept me out of the gym for a bit anyway but they were like naw. I mean in my case I can't really fight with protocol. The person I spoke to was just doing their job and I do my best to not be a dick to customer service.. but it was the second round of the apocalypse! So my problem isn't with any person in particular. More like the whole business. Then when I finally got back to work I paid up when I owed but did t go much. I could cancel in September so on the 1st I went in and told them I wanted to cancel. They said I had to pay September before I could do that. I argued that they charged me for my first and last month when I signed up but again I'm not going to be a dick and fight protocol. I just sent an email letting them know my situation and closed the account my membership was linked to. Haven't heard from them since. But yeah fuck Merritt

have you try to run if you are honest and straight to the facts? You get killed in politics in this country. Sad but true.

>moment in my life no matter how bad things were that I thought that someone’s death would help my situation. I had poorly educated parents, bad neighborhoods, public education, and the rest. I have to think that my socialization was different in some key ways from the ones th

The Wire properly shows how an innocent elementary school kids turn into gangbanger.

He assumes because the dude was looking at him like he had a problem before he stepped foot in the place. I can't say for sure it's racism but unless this dude has had a bad experience in the past with OP then it's kind of easy to call that dude didn't want him in there from the get go just by looking at the cover of his book.

How is the bike lane marked off? Flexposts or just paint?

Most certainly not talking about ESAs. I know several individuals who had to go the self train route because they were not approved based on income. All of them need medical alert dogs for fainting disorders.

Rode this for the first time this weekend. It was a nightmare. People parking in the bike lane, cars rolling thru or not stopping at all at red lights and stop signs, pedestrians walking in the lanes.

heat pump and air handler systems are expensive in the winter regardless of hspf (efficiency) rating. below 40 degrees your going to get most of your heat from the auxiliary electric heating elements in the air handler. (basically a larger version of the heating element in a toaster) anything that glows red hot and uses electricity will draw a lot of amperage. I have 15 years of residential experience a md state masters license and offer competitive pricing . Message me if you would like an estimate

I'll be sure to take a look then, thanks!

Exactly. I was on the Amtrak yesterday and every time I see entire neighborhoods of Baltimore, literally tens of square miles, of abandoned row homes and single family homes collapsing into themselves. There is NO population pressure, so “gentrification”, which is a bad word, in reality, is all the things you said, and more. Revitalization of an area improves opportunities for all and expands tax base.

>they don’t magically make more money

Firstly, they often do, because new industry and tax base raises wages.

>can’t afford newly built gentrified areas

Sometimes. Sometimes they can. Sometimes the cycle persists where the “victim” is able to benefit from the positive change in wages and housing availability that was never present before.

Gentrification is code for NIMBY.

Chalk it up as a misunderstanding then workout.Let it be your motivator if you have to.Don't let it linger in your mind.It will only drag you down.

100% of the discourse surrounding gentrification is completely unproductive and like it was shown in DC, Denver, Detroit, New York, Atlanta, and almost every other city in the US, “gentrifying” areas is a genuine net positive because it’s a made up word that, in reality, represents accessible housing, safe neighborhoods, public parks and public services, robust public transit, thriving small businesses, wealth generation, and collaborative business that raises GDP.

Gentrification is NIMBY code. The transformations that have happened in DC’s Navy Yard/SE, Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, and others, representing double-digit BILLIONS of dollars worth of investment, touches every part of the city and is an immense net positive.

People complaining about gentrification would prefer those places remain weed-filled cracked parking lots and piles of wind-strewn trash caught up against abandoned and condemned buildings in what is literally a wasteland.

Don’t let NIMBYs fool YOU.

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People really need to watch more Rick Steves

No I think Downtown location is the one in Mt Vernon, between Centre and Monument Sts. Used to go to that one when I was working nearby.

yeah, a friend's going through this now and IIRC $8500 was the lower of the two estimates he mentioned. My guess is that his system's gas but it wasn't changing in any case.

The conversations about this on Nextdoor will be brilliant.

Sources on the poverty?

1/5 of baltimore city resident are in poverty, compared to baltimore county which is less than 1/10, less than half the poverty rate

Sources:

City: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/baltimorecitymaryland

County: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/baltimorecountymaryland

They have a point about the traffic flow being a potentially huge problem with all the development going on. I'm not against bike lanes but it sounds like this was slapped on at the last minute with very poor communication to the businesses and residents it will effect.