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decoysara t1_j3t1p7f wrote

Reply to comment by Dangerous_Public_164 in Apartment Hunting Advice by [deleted]

I get it, and my response wasn’t really necessary in this instance.

I feel like it is hard to tell how an area will be without spending some time there, and some people will find problems with anywhere/some will be OK anywhere. I don’t know why I decided to add to the internet conflict baiting machine, as I certainly do not wanna weigh in on anyone’s decision to live somewhere or not

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Dangerous_Public_164 t1_j3t0crs wrote

Reply to comment by decoysara in Apartment Hunting Advice by [deleted]

I'm more of a housing first kind of guy. I don't think though the homeless problem can be successfully addressed given the current state of federal legislation on a variety of drugs that really form the bedrock of the non-economic elements of the problem.

But this post isn't about solving the homeless and drug problem in America. It's about whether this guy should move his admittedly scared girlfriend into an apartment next to Dexter Park. Not moving your ass into a problematic area is not exactly NIMBYism. And even if it were, that would not make it a good idea for OP.

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joeboticus t1_j3sgdyf wrote

Reply to Has anyone shopped at the Walmart on Silver Spring st recently? by LilPoutinePat

Oh story time! So in June I moved here from down south, I needed to stock up on groceries and didn't know what was good in the area, so I went up to the Spring Street Walmart.

Now I've had a Walmart in my town for nearly all my life, I'm used to getting groceries from there all the time. I don't think I'd ever been in a Walmart that wasn't a Supercenter except literally one trip to the Walmart Neighborhood store in my aunt's town. Walmart always had fresh food, that's just how it was.

So I walk up and down the aisles of the spring street Walmart looking for their produce. It's so weird, there's just a bunch of rows of canned and frozen food in between the toys and the clothes. So I flagged down an employee and ask him where the fresh food is.

"Oh you mean the frozen food? It's over on aisle 32."

"yeah but I'm looking for like fresh fruit and meat and stuff."

"...Do you mean raw food?"

And each of us is looking at the other like they're a goddam alien. I cannot process the idea that Walmart doesn't have raw food, and this dude cannot process that someone would ask for that.

Anyway his coworker overheard and said told me they don't have fresh food, but they should have some at Shaws. So yeah they don't have it there.

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leavingthecold t1_j3secvj wrote

Reply to Has anyone shopped at the Walmart on Silver Spring st recently? by LilPoutinePat

The Walmart on Silver Spring is a social experiment disguised as a retail center. I remember all the fights and almost fights for not having a basic divider at the self checkout line, you also notice it doesn't even look like the other Walmart's excluding the Supercenters. Now they have the dumbest things like men's boxers/briefs locked up. If you have to go there best go in the early morning or towards closing. If not go to the ones far away from Providence and both Cranston locations. Warwick gets overflow as well.

I always tell people I know from other countries, if you really want to see America go to a Walmart.

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lisa_stansfield_stan t1_j3sbh4m wrote

Reply to comment by Dangerous_Public_164 in Apartment Hunting Advice by [deleted]

It's not just that people "don't agree," you're just objectively wrong. I've lived in four different neighborhoods over 13 years and no one has ever broken into my car or stolen my catalytic converter. Which you said will absolutely happen no matter where I move. I've had 13 wonderful years here, and I look forward to many more. Sorry that upsets you so much?

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