I never heard of Kauffman until a couple months ago. It would be nice if I didn't have to hear about him and other rando politicians every day here.

Only disagreement I would have with your post is the car centric piece. While Littleton is not car centric and probably has one of the most walkable downtown areas out there, if you want serious grocery shopping you need wheels. In Bethlehem they'll need wheels to get anything other than beer or coffee if they live near downtown.

Bethlehem is fine. You have all the amenities you need, to include a couple of restaurants in town and then Littleton stuff next door.

Only area related gripes would be is shitty grocery options. Shaws is suboptimal and the Coop is pricey. I know a bunch of folks who hit the Plymouth Market Basket.

It is sad for sure. I've unfortunately known a few formerly successful individuals succumb to their addictions regardless of the help we provided. Nobody wins when it comes to meth.

and depending on how you articulate your position to the cops when they arrive, you'll spend at most an hour in cuffs while the prelim investigation is done.

"I was faced with an erratic dude with a weapon and genuinely feared for my/my family's life"

Two schools of thought when dealing with cops. First is the general do not talk to or cooperate with cops. The second is carefully talk to/cooperate with cops and then shut up. While I'm generally in the don't talk to cops type, the second one would apply here.

Two good vids that are worth the watch:

Don't talk to cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Carefully cooperate with cops in a self defense shooting(I'm not a huge Ayoob fan as he is occasionally one of the some animals are more equal than others type people, but he is spot on here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJ4wLP_0UM

Welp, he certainly looks the part.

Not even beer? I haven't been in an Aldis since I left IN, but I loved their cheap pils.

I've lived in a shitload of states as well.

Guess whose politics I don't care about? Those other states.

The out of state posters here are generally here to influence political points whether that is through their posts or the reddit up/down vote.

It's political silly season and it's reddit.

Just like out of state money increases ads on media sources, their henchpeeps are doing the same on SM.

You're never going to get enough reports on reddit to remove posts as reddit is 97% progressive people and the out of state ads speak to that population.

> Our Republican governor has vetoed every weed bill he's recieved

Bill #s and years so I can look them up on the GC site please

> And sure, the American public on both sides want legalization but Republicans in government would never vote for it.

Look up who sponsored the legal weed bill that made it out of the NH house last year. Was it a perfect bill-heck no. It was the dumb liquor store model, but Abbas sponsored it and pushed it through.

The only weed bill to get past the house last year was by Abbas(an R)

Shit, both parties have been asking for legalization. Neither of them have done anything about it where it matters.

Pardoning after a conviction is just blowing the topic a kiss.

Wake me up when something passes the bodies that actually create laws like the US House or Senate.

It is long past time that it was federally legal.

Is it an outdoor wood boiler, or a stove in your house?

If a wood boiler, those things are pretty forgiving on what they'll burn. You don't necessarily need to splurge for kiln dried this late in the season.

If the stove, u/oper8orAF is spot on with getting things cleaned/inspected. Heck, you should do that with the wood boiler anyways.

Also look into chimney fire extinguishers such as Chimfex. Those things work.

For next year, consider getting your wood in late spring. That way it will have the whole summer to dry out a bit. Note that some species such as oak can take a couple years after being split to get down below 20% moisture content.

Can't help you out on wood in that area, sorry.

Check out r/firewood one of these days.

You just accurately described the whole state of Texas.