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We need to hire people with appropriate educations and pay them appropriately across all levels of this system. Most that work there aren’t even social workers. The state tells them they’re child welfare and mental health experts and they have no such education that reflects that. You need a pulse and a Bachelors degree in almost anything and you’re magically a child welfare expert, w the education requirement actually dropping as they contract out to private agencies to manage cases

This wont help OP but I've taken to cutting them town with 6 feet of stump, and then after 2 or 3 years I just pop them onto a strap and pull them over with the jeep. It's very cheap. A lot of backbreaking work, too.

A variation is to make a 12 foot a-frame with 4x4s, and then drive them up instead of over.

I swear it's opened another spot

Remember prior to 2016-2018 or so when they used to publish that in the initial story before the AG’s office and DHHS changed its internal policy and refused to release info about that part so they wouldn’t look as incompetent as they are instead of actually improving their services?

Yup. Manchester gives the rest of the state a bad name.

I don’t understand. They look like good clean people

Probably to try to make the community feel slightly better about having their water poisoned over the years.

It took the state and the police 19 days to go to that home, after dozens of complaints... NH needs to do better!

This sub goes through waves of defending it or shitting on it 😄 Defending it is just ignoring the issues in the city. Every person I've met that went to Central has a horrific story about it (ask anyone who went there, that's in their 30's or older, a story about the tunnels) but they all say something about loving it. Manchester was great but it's been getting infinitely worse over the last 20 years

I worked there for 12 years, 4 of those years on night shift. My first year on 3rd shift Denise Roberts was randomly murdered just down the street (still unsolved I believe), that mass overdose of K2 (about 20 people died in a 24 hours), I shoed away the same prostitute blowing guys in our parking lot at least a dozen times, there were about 3 or 4 armed robberies at the Rite Aid on Elm within the same month! and don't even get started on the Cadillac Motel.
I spent a good amount of my free time as a teenager all over the city and it was never that shit but as time went on it ramped up really hard. I understand population dynamics but almost no where else in NH can you consistently find such garbage. I say it's a dump out of love, I'd like for the city to acknowledge the bigger issues and not the panhandling laws that don't work. And to qualify all of that, yeah I've done some volunteering there but holy shit it's brutal even just driving in there nowadays.

If Lincoln hadn’t been killed and Grant could’ve continued his tour of the nation, we’d be in a very different nation right now. Grant, unfortunately, was not the same man as President that he was as General.

We didn’t crush the south after the civil war the way we needed to. We did not do enough to stamp out the ideologies and assuage the southern population - they too quickly were able to fancy themselves downtrodden rebels who would rise again rather than the sufferers of a bloody and awful conflict that stems directly from their own evil ideologies.

I didn't say anything about that. It's a dump

I have friends that did this stuff for years.

While its tough work and I am thankful for those that do it, they get paid beyond well. As it's almost always OT and Nights etc. They typically get like 3-4x their standard hourly rate. And that is for the entire time they are away from home (this includes the overnight stays).

Its one of the only things that pays properly these days.

Screw landlords, that is all.

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No, that is not all. Being a landlord is a business. They have expenses too. Real estate taxes. Water/Sewer bills. Maintenance.

I'll tell you who's at fault. Your NIMBY neighbors. And YOU if you don't show up at town meetings or hold your mayors, town managers, etc. feet to the fire.

You set aside zoning for multi family homes in EVERY town, and soon you'll have all the apartments you'll need.

I was a landlord in another state. City I lived in was mostly 2-3 family homes on small lot sizes. Single family homes were the minority; in fact, a lot of older victorian single family homes had been converted to 2 and 3 family homes.

Here's what you do. Show up at town meetings. Shame the NIMBYs and those responsible for zoning. Use your cameras and go on social media. Call the networks.

Is there any way to tip them like a GoFundMe? I appreciate their work in miserable weather.

Being without power for 2 days was a real eye opener. Made me realize I need to prepare better. Was around 45 degrees in my house. Had to sleep with 4 comforters on me. I have a well too so no power no water. I have 2 pellet stoves I use to keep the house warm. Going to get a generator so I can power the wood stoves and the well pump a minimum. Any suggestions for better prepping?

How do you figure that?

Gotta have all your stuff in order. Money, credit, finding a place. All that stuff is annoying and hard work but it’s worth it. Gotta start somewhere and sometime.

Expensive in the short term. Cost effective in the long term. But they can fix the power outage and use that as an excuse to raise rates every year. Utilities, like healthcare, should not be a for profit business.

If you're driving around with 2lbs of weed Don't point your gun at people on the highway

Fixed it

That's the problem with private utilities, they're incentivised to let things fail.

A friend of mine had some MASSIVE old oaks dropped on his land a few years ago. Even though he had them not brush/chip/haul the wood, it still cost him well over $1000/tree, then he and a bunch of friends took 4 full days to finish clearing up the area and hauling the firewood to his dad's place for his woodstove.

SHit is crazy expensive and 100% labor intensive. A good workout if you like doing that kind of stuff, though.

Assuming the bank allows you.

Was literally out on Monday during storm, trimming things that were all up in primary and home owners still coming out saying “who told you, you could do that? I’m calling the cops.” Bro I’ve got a detail right up the road turning traffic around go right ahead!

Both of their prices were within a few cents per watt installed back in July. Not sure how it might have changed since then with inflation and how the supply chain is doing. You can also check out Monarch Solar. Anyone who gives you an hour long fancy sales presentation is probably going to be expensive, so stay away from those. Sounds like you already know more or less what you want. Fuat at Sun Dial is no BS which I appreciated.