Property taxes are lower in the city but income tax is higher

Finding a two bedroom house for $100k is going to be hard and possibly in bad shape or bad neighborhood. Somewhere in the 125k-150k range is more likely. If you can find the house, property taxes will be less than your current hoa fees. But you will be responsible for lawn care, house insurance, and roof repair which is usually part of hoa fees. And moving expense and real estate agent fees will cost you atleast $10k. You will also be subject to a 3% states income tax and 1-2% local income tax.

That is a huge variation and seems highly unlikely to be caused by type of gas. The more likely explanation is different driving mix between city and highway

How do the additives differ from the fuel injector cleaners you can add to your tank like stp? Just something I’ve always wondered about.

I’ve been to Houston and I wasn’t impressed by the food. There was a big emphasis on quantity over quality. It wasn’t bad but I was hoping for better creole and bbq. The brisket sandwich at Bucees was probably the best meal I had in Houston. There was a good pierogi restaurant which was a surprise. I was mostly on the east side of the city which is an industrial wasteland of oil refineries but Galveston island was a cool mini New Orleans and the Johnson space center is super cool. I didn’t make it to any of the museums but I wanted to. What kind of food do you like?

Could be worse at least your not in Houston!

You need medical help or a job writing for South Park but I’m not sure which

The entire mon valley operation is 3000 people. It could be out in Washington or Westmoreland county. Whether Beaver county is far enough is more an issue of being upwind from the city instead of downwind. Just because I think heavy industry should be scrutinized and held to a high environmental standard doesn’t mean I think we can live without steel and plastic. Battery cost is rapidly decreasing and if you factor in healthcare costs of poor air quality from pollution from fossil fuels, it actually can save money in the long run. Obviously industry isn’t going to change overnight and it will take another 20 years to replace fossil fuels but it does seem a lot more possible than it did 20 years ago when when nickel cadmium and lead acid batteries were the best available.

9 miles downwind sounds like a lot but when there is an atmospheric inversion the sulfur smell makes its way into the east parts of the city

Google offices are in Mountain View which is a wealthy and clean suburb of San Fransisco. California has a lot of homeless people because they don’t have cold winters or hot summers.

It would be preferable to build them far from dense areas. I don’t know how far is good enough. It would also be preferable to update some of the more ancient parts of the mon valley works but that project was canceled a couple years ago. Nuclear can be used as base load source along with pumped storage hydro like the Niagara falls power plant. Windmills and solar can provide base load via batteries and hydrogen generation. Technology will continue to advance. Pittsburgh had sixty days out of epa compliance in 2000 and only about ten in 2020.

The steel mill emits sulfur witch stinks really bad but if you don’t live near it you won’t smell it. So many coal power plants have closed in the last ten years our rankings have improved greatly in the air quality categories such as soot and ozone. Many large cities have worse rankings. If you are interested in reading about it here is a ranking https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities

Slightly less grocery stores because we don’t have the major national stores like Kroger and Safeway. Pittsburgh is in a weird middle ground between the east coast and the Midwest so sometimes we can be late for national chains to locate here. Traffic is better than larger cities like Houston and Seattle but worse than smaller cities like Buffalo.

It’s really expensive to build and staff a power plant that only runs on the coldest day of the year

I said they can turn off their home lights and I said nothing about heat. The point is that the stadium is just a popular punching bag for people to use as a distraction from doing the bare minimum of checking if they are wasting any energy.

The average household uses 1500 watts an hour. An nfl stadium is around 10 megawatts or about 150 watts per fan.

There is a game and people are not home so they can turn off their home lights to offset the stadium energy. Instead of blaming the shortage on something with the most visibility like the stadium we could harness’s the common effort of a million people to double check and turn off a few unused items

Can you charge overnight when the grid is less stressed?

How do you know they are wasting more power than a million people living in the county? Think about all the people going to the game that are turning off their home lights. I think they are just reminding people to turn off unused items because it will save money on your bill and help the grid.

To work in a place like a hospice you are surrounded by death daily. You become immune to it and normalize it and even joke about it as a coping mechanism. I hope it was an accident and they apologized at least

Sounds like people have had bad experiences at both Allegheny and UPMC so maybe it’s just that hospitals and death just suck in general

That sounds risky. I think the screening is just a few questions like have you had a fever or had contact with anyone sick. It seems prudent for a level 1 trauma hospital with 500 beds to be extra careful. Even my dentist is still taking forehead temperatures before doing an exam.

They allow visitors if they pass a Covid screening. He failed that screening due to prolonged contact with Covid positive person.

Getting professional therapy is good thing! People should complain if they think a medical mistake was made or if they think there are things that can be changed and made better in the future. But I also think op is acting entitled and above the rules and overly harsh on the staff that we’re just trying to keep the other people in the hospital safe.

The hospital prioritize life saving over compassion. Sometimes they can’t do both. Sometimes the staff is overworked and doing their best not to make a mistake that kills someone and can’t find any emotional strength to deal with someone who wants to break rules that might get someone killed. I’m not saying it doesn’t suck but to post a diatribe on Reddit months later is either entitlement or grieving in need of professional therapy.