When did you buy though, I mean when the building opened that was like $350k; now it's probably more like $800k. With the massive year over year increases in DTJC, it's easy to loose touch with current markets if you haven't shopped around in awhile.

Also, cranky old man yells into the wind: The rent's too damn high, everything's too damn expensive.

Nope, for me this was JC zip code to the same JC zip code.

Also insurance rates have games, so to your point anything like this isn't universal advice. But it's good to know it's part of the game in case

No one offered this to me or let me know it was a thing, so happy to bring it up. It was a nice few years with no car or driving, but holy hell does it suck to have a very high deductible & monthly rates higher than 22 year olds

If you do sell the car you may want to keep a driver only policy. I went car less for a few years, and my rates coming back to owning a car were about 2.5x (even with worse coverage & deductible) what they were before. The insurance person gave me the reason was lapse in coverage made them rate me back down with new driver/insurance scofflaw policies, and that keeping a low basic driver only policy would have helped with that. Maybe blowing smoke at me, but fuck no one told me about the possible downsides

Used to live there. that parking lot constantly flooded, and there is (was?) a hotel there and people would often get their car totaled not knowing.

That strip mall is otherwise surprisingly dope. Coffee place is great, pizza place is decent, trader joe's is a good one. Feral cats live in the crawlspace under it, so that's fun too.

Is that much different than it's been for awhile? It's looked similar to that for months. Maybe the plastic barrier going down is new-ish?

> Coach House

Hunh, never spent much time looking at the actual boarders there. Much different & weirder than I thought

Can we get the mayor or something to do one of those viral dares, where he dares Trader Joe's to open a location faster than Whole Foods can open? C'mon lets use hellscape social media for something good.

Wait for the ramp Whole Foods, Morty. They love the slow ramp Whole Foods. Really gets their dicks hard when they see this ramp Whole Foods just slowly extending down.

You ever see a bicycle on bicycle crash in town? I've seen 2!

They were always there, it's just the pandemic upped the ante as to what they have to do to stay in the Insane category. I've never had someone behind me floor it into the oncoming lane to cut inside of me, so they could make a lefthand turn before I could, until 2021. It's now happened over a dozen times and impacted how I go through several intersections in town.

But they could also do a bit better job from where the picture is in defining the tracks VS road, as the pic shows the materials are all mixed about & this happens to confused folks a bit too much.

Isn't this person one of the folks who ran on eliminating the county line & modernizing Hudson county elections? I'm trying to recall, and googling that is a blur

I thought the harsh crowd control measures like pens you can't leave, and having to arrive like 8-12+ hours beforehand, were security after. Maybe that tamped down the crowds, but the experience sounds miserable.

My dad did the ball drop in the early 80s when it was kinda sketch to say the least, but that sounded better than what it is now to me.

The post 9/11 changes make it sorta miserable sounding. I've gone to one of the bars in the area, no view of the action but they keep a lane you can go out into the street with, that's the way to do it I tell you what.

Wine Basement at Pet Shop can work

Yeah, alot of confusion around ghost kitchens VS this.

I like to think of it like a diffusion line, it just takes up more "shelf" space in the app or tries to entice people to order from someplace "new" that they would've never ordered from otherwise. I hate them.

Or one of them there spammer lady accounts posting wierd open ended questions with young lady selfies (OP has tried a few today)

Post in your neighborhood free group (probably find one on facebook), maybe someone has one to pass along.

That's the secret. "$20, pickup from apartment" and willing to settle for free, or just list it as Free (sometimes this brings out the punters).

I got a dirty chai from Gregory's the other week, a large is somehow over $7.50 and the default selected tip in the POS was 20%. I felt inflation shocked shook

> That last part is important.

depending on where you are in JC, it can have a brownstone brooklyne vibe or a far non-subway queens sorta vibe. Nothing is Manhattan & if that's what you want don't settle for JC

I've gotten the Xi'an Famous Foods kit to make hand pulled noodles, would highly recommend. They have that weird cactus powder that makes things stretchy & is hard to get in the US

It's like $50 to get 3 recommendations from the Hudson County Bar last I checked, seemed too much without even checking if they have capacity to take a case first. Google & reviews can work too if money's tight

The people I know passing on JC for better value or lifestyle are above that range, that range has options and I’m feeling like people are looking elsewhere. While it’s of course a sample size of only friends, definitely a wind of change blowing while prices keep ratcheting up