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According_Rough_5 t1_iyv2nn0 wrote

Reply to Two men charged with stealing and damaging C.A.R.E. Animal Rescue Trailer; trailer stripped for parts by ash-hole189

I will be looking for a good area that has decent schools, rent to own homes, entertainment and etc.we live Pine Bluff AR. Just wanna be some where that has opportunities for something better. There is problems every where anyone goes. My kids wanna have friends they can hang out with. It's my main reason for asking. Any help on a decent area is appreciated.

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teenage-mutant-swan t1_iyuo8jy wrote

Reply to comment by mightymeltar in visiting for the week by fentown

When I lived in Springfield the tap water in my apartment would sometimes run cloudy or even brown for a few seconds when I turned it on. I assumed it was just the apartment’s plumbing but idk. Seminole apartments owned by Wooten btw. Never bought a water purifier so fast in my life

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DKBMusic t1_iyue8a1 wrote

Reply to Guitar lessons by MonoChaos

Ernie Williamson Music has great teachers. Plus you can do in person or remote, for those times when you can't make it in (handy when we have winter weather).

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VaderTower t1_iytlbdw wrote

Reply to comment by jttIII in Property taxes by yaxgto

Oh boy, escrow payments went up crazy 2 years ago I think when the sps bond issue passed.

It is what it is, inflation means while you pay more in actual dollars, the value should be the same unless increased tax percentage.

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VaderTower t1_iytl1ya wrote

Reply to comment by mdg4486 in Property taxes by yaxgto

Very well could be state mandated timing, I've never heard of anyone around here doing anything different. But I could be wrong.

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VaderTower t1_iythoha wrote

Reply to comment by jgj570s in The new house I bought has some shims underneath the floor beams, between the concrete support & the beam, that are failing. Who would I call in Springfield? A framing company? by jgj570s

I mean you can use literally anything, more wood shims, these, steel.

Do you know how big the gap is? You might just call up a metal fab shop and ask how much it would be to cut you a 10-20 4"x4" squares of 20 gauge metal.

However no matter what shim what you go with, you must jack up the beam so you can fit the shims in, no way to get them in to do work without jacking up with beam slightly (1/16" maybe more)

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armenia4ever t1_iytgj80 wrote

Reply to comment by Spiffy_Dude in Two men charged with stealing and damaging C.A.R.E. Animal Rescue Trailer; trailer stripped for parts by ash-hole189

Correlation doesn't equal causation.

It's definitely an important factor, but there are so many poor people and communities throughout the world that don't rob their neighborhoods blind because there are either severe consequences for doing so or they are part of a high trust society. (Think Denmark, Finland, Norway, Japan, etc.)

Literally, all the generational wealth and property built up over a century on my mothers side was wiped out in a few weeks in just one genocide. We don't get any of the usual sympathy either with charities, grants, scholarships, etc just for Armenians like specific other marginalized communities have here.

Are we stealing left and right from our neighbors because we are poor? No.

Yes being poor limits our options as it does mine everyday, but if you cant trust your neighbors or people in your community, it eventually breaks down beyond repair.

Poverty will never be entirely eliminated, hence strong robust social safety nets in places like Denmark, but those are places that are high trust because they have centuries of people living there with the same morals and values.

Danes trust their fellow Danes would never take advantage of the system. Us? We literally have 100s of billions of fraud during the pandemic loans and bailouts again that allowed major corps to buy their stock back instead of putting into the workers. (The bond across society is broken.)

We don't have what countries like Denmark do and probably won't for another 100 years and with Americans having less and less in common based on geography its gonna get worse.

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