And even the ones that are repairable would cost tens if not hundreds of thousands to fix and take months for each one.

More often than not demolishing and buying new is a cheaper and easier option especially once the roof fails enough to les water in.

I was in waterfront hotel a few weeks back and the bartender was genuinely happy about them buying the restaurant. He said they came in and told everyone who wants to stay has their jobs and said they have lots of opportunity to move up in the company. I'm sure different employees have different experiences but that guy seemed to like his new employer

I talked to some of the guys a few years back then they did mine and the toughest part is that they have to ohysically go into every single house in the city. In my house I had a finished basement so I had to cut a big chunk of sheet rock so theu could access the pipe. If I didn't have the tools or was some little old lady that process could have been a lot longer as contractors were called or the bge guys had to deal with it. They were telling me about basements they went in where they had to climb over decades of piled up junk just to find the pipes.

This isn't just digging up the street to change pipes it's connecting a pipe to every single house in the city with new meters new connections and all the issues of getting to the pipes in the first place.

Thanks. The new layout is a million times better. That turn where it's blue paint now looked awful before. Can't imagine the close calls and accidents there with a sharp blind turn like that.

Anyone have a before picture?

I recently watched a short piece on tree cover in Phoenix. They showed the south which is much more industrial however still with residential where there are no trees and no greenspcaping at all being 10-15degrees hotter than the north where neighborhoods have grass lined sidewalks and trees dotted everywhere.

Literally 10 miles apart and the temperature changes double digit degrees on the same day just because of trees.

Certainly don't hate it but also don't think it's worth going once you've been. It has a cool atmosphere, if not a little dated, and the food is fine.

Yeah Delia Foleys. I haven't been to kislings in even longer.

Honestly I had them 2 months ago but was drunk and prior to that haven't had them in 2 or 3 years.

A little disappointed in Delia Foleys rating but to each their own. You are however dead right about killings that they put way too much sauce. It's been years since I've been there but it's like Buffalo wing soup. If they cut back by like 75% on the sauce the wings would be so much better.

Yeah calling them.boneless wings is stupid. Just call them Buffalo popcorn chicken or Buffalo chicken bites. They are great but not at all wings.

The baltinore thing is so weird. I mean he grew up in the Bronx in the 80s and 90s he could have written the same exact book and just said his life was the same as a kid on the streets of baltimore since in the 90s those 2 places were very similar. Why specifically say he grew up in baltimore when he didn't.

A year or so before they switched to monthly billing I got a bill for thousands that was just flat out wrong. No leak, no extra water usage just someone read the meter wrong or someone input a number wrong. Took my like 5 or 6 phone calls, being on hold for hours and a fee weeks, if not months to get it fixed.

And that was before the switch to the new meters and the new billing schedule. For some reason baltinore just can't seem to get people water and charge them accurately. It's insane.

Based on DPWs history of massively screwing up water billing I wouldn't get out the pitchforks just yet. $21k is a shit ton of water if the bill is actually correct.

My boss lives in Olney and has never been to Baltimore city. I work in Cillege Park and I'd say a majority of people I have met that live south of Columbia haven't been to baltinore other than decades ago for a highschool field trip.

I mean I get DC is closer but Baltimore is only 30 minutes away. Insane to not ever even check it out.

Yeah for sure. You can't build anything without passing someone off. It just feels more and more like Costello is ignoring all dissenters if they aren't 100% on board for any development. And that's a real shitty way to run a city.

I'll admit I was quite ignorant myself until a few years ago. One of my coworkers is from Uganda and regularly visits. I asked her what she did while she was there and she said she stayed with family and would go clubbing and go out to dinner and see movies etc. I was like wait what's in Uganda. I just had that stereotypical view of Africa being nothing but villages with cities containing tin roofed shacks. Some cities in Uganda are closer to wakanda than they are the wide perception of Africa.

Edit:never change reddit. Downvoted for talking about how I learned something.

I live in the county now and when my wife and I talk to people about moving there from the city their eyes always get wide and they act like I moved out of north korea. Our answer is always we loved it but between 2 kids in a small rowhouse and covid we decided we wanted more space. They always seemed genuinely shocked that we weren't somehow stuck in the city.

Costello really annoys me. I used to be in his district and when he first started I really liked him. He was super responsive and seemed to back his constituents but over time it seems like he is just pushing for development above all else which isn't 100% a bad thing its just that he seems to have blinders on to anything that happens as a result of that development.

>This is why I won’t live in Baltimore,” the message read. “When I was driving through there, it didn’t even look like America. It looked like the middle of fucking Uganda. Even war-torn Ukraine looks nicer than west Baltimore.” 

Fucking morons. The middle of Uganda is a beautiful place. Sprawling modern cities rolling into beautiful countryside. I wonder if there could possibly be another reason this mouth breather chose Uganda as their example.

These are private parking lots where private companies enforce private rules, usually aggressively and unethically.

City streets are monitored by city tow trucks where the incentive is much lower to tow.

Somyoud rather profit off of shitty aggressive tactics that fuck people's cars up, often legally tow cars and cost people a shit ton of money rather than deal with the issue yourself.

So you admit you are fine to shift the problem elsewhere regardless of consequences.

Noone is talking about parking. This is about how much a tow truck company can charge for towing a car and about allowing them to only take cash and allowing them to sit on lots waiting to pounce on cars.

>Voting “no” were committee chair Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, Mark Conway, Eric Costello and Sharon Green Middleton

To be clear the bill didn't ban towing it just reduced the fee from 300 to 250 and reduced the drop fee from 150 to 62.50

It also made tow truck drivers searching for cars to tow illegal forcing landlords to actually monitor their own lots and call a company if they need a car towed.

What's so frustrating about the current bullshit is that these truck companies just wait around and tow from lots, usually at night, where cars aren't actually blocking any customers. The example they use in the story is bank of America which is closed when the towing usually happens.

It's all a bullshit scam and the fact that baltimore charges more than any county outside of Anne arundel and more than fucking philly is insane.

Fuck Costello and yitzy for their constant business first residents never mentality. Vote these assholes out.

What's crazy is every single homeowner suggestion about hiring contractors says never pick the lowest bid. Why does an entire city ignore this advice?

Like if 3 bids are close sure but when the big is 30% lower than an engineering estimate that's just dumb.