Absolutely. Increase the budget to 2k, halve the space and make it a studio. Focus on new builds: should be dog friendly, but that might even be even more fees. If you're waiting 7 months, maybe increase rent 100-200. Budget more than you'd expect for utilities and car insurance.

If OP is from Austin, overpriced and below expectations should be second nature and feel very Austin-esque.

Fair points. Never considered the overall inconvenience of a physical line cutting through the middle of the room like that either haha

This is going to be extremely hard to find a place in August,when so many students from most of the colleges look for housing. Here in my neighborhood (Washington Park), most apartments get picked up quickly from the Johnson & Wales culinary students. I would suggest looking at Facebook marketplace, but even then, 95% of the apartments listed there say no pets, and might be out of your price range. Students get priority,because they usually have the money to get a place, especially the Brown University and RISD students on the east side. I would say to branch out a bit further, towards Cranston. The Edgewood and Pawtuxet Village neighborhoods are quiet and safe, but might not allow dogs and are higher than your budget. I would also look into East Providence (the city, not be confused with the east side of Providence). I lived in a 3 decker (1st floor) in East Providence for 5 years, and loved the area

Yes it would take longer. At a full bar while you're gathering your drink and your wallet and maneuvering out of the way, the bartender has typically already taken two or more orders from the people waiting nearby. Watch a bartender work and they're rarely if ever dealing with one person at a time. And again, no bar needs a line in the middle of it gumming up the flow of the room.

I think this is just groupthink mixed with the fact that no other place do we operate like we do at bars where we just casually walk up to the general vicinity of the register and wait for the customer service person to come to us as opposed to the other way around.

Patiently queuing is the natural, organized way of things in nearly every other aspect of life when it comes to goods and services, so it only makes sense that younger folks who haven't regularly been to bars to drink yet would do the same after every other place they've been to in their life so far has insisted on single-file queuing in order to pay for things.

Alls to say, we all had to learn these unspoken rules at some point. Give the young people a break, we were all there at one point or another 😊

I get it but to actually see people being polite/patient is SO refreshing

and the metal concerts

Love this!

Shastea on Broadway (near Julian’s).

Again, you might occasionally get passed over and have to wait slightly longer as a patron, but for the bartender doing this night after night it's much more efficient.

> Things would take much longer if each person had to wait for the person in front of them to move.

Would it though? I could see if there are many bartenders yeah a single file queue would get clogged pretty quickly, but if there's only one person serving they'll only have so much power to get so many people's orders out the door before moving onto the next person. I can't imagine it taking longer/shorter if there were an organized queue or not, there's still going to be time taken to take the order, get the drink, open/close the tab and move on. It's unorthodox, sure, but it doesn't really feel like this should be something worth calling out tbh.

Yeah so? Lining up for shit is good lol.

I can believe that people are upset that people are voluntarily making the right and respectful choice to line up. And calling them socially awkward for doing it?? Crazy world y'all live in hahaha

"usually" is the key word. With a line, there's no guesswork

Oh come on man, we all had to learn these unspoken rules at some point. Don't be so hard on em.

Did we really forget 80s goths or 90s Jnco kids? Every generation is weird because it is new and unfamiliar.

Farmacy Herbs, just off North Main St across from the cemetery.

I was in AS220 a couple weekends ago, I’m 42… I thought people were lined up but they weren’t. I took my drink up to the improv show. Sometimes I stay near the door cuz I’m headed upstairs, or I get behind my friends or people I recognize who I know are also headed upstairs

The above probably isn’t super relevant but I thought I’d share 😂

Wait, no. As a bartender I love this for a high volume venue 🤣 can we please start this practice

I get the frustration, but as a RIer is it really wise to be rooting for one of our largest employers and tax payers to lose a ton of money and potentially have to shed a lot of jobs? Especially for the people that work there often are in pretty specialized areas and will have trouble finding work again. I'm also very suspicious about the true source of some of the groundswell.

Meh, when I was tending bar, if I was getting rocked and could talk to the next customer I would take their order as I made a drink. Can't do that really with a line.

This is hilarious

Oh pineapples!

A bartender usually knows what order you arrived in. When you get passed over it might make you wait longer but it is not inefficient for the bartender. And they know you're waiting for a drink because you're looking at them waiting for something.

Prejudice is such a great vibe, isn't it lmao

I do assume as much lol I was just making a light jab