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  • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8か月前

    It doubles as a weapon on the train once the cage match ensues. Most people use folding chairs, but this one isn’t fucking around.

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    8か月前

    My apologies to everyone the one time I needed to get a coffee table to my new apartment on 179st. I was a really broke student and it was too heavy to lug.

  • Eq0@literature.cafe
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    8か月前

    I could never live in NYC… the homelessness problem is too widespread in pretty much all of US cities.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      8か月前

      I’m confident whatever you are imagining is not the daily lived experience of new york city. People picture like times square in 1973 on new years eve and also classic film the warriors. Go look at like park slope on google street view (or another similar service of your choosing).

      • Eq0@literature.cafe
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        8か月前

        I went through Penn Station more times than I would have wanted. Arriving and leaving from there twisted my stomach in a knot, I wouldn’t be able to handle it every day.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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          8か月前

          You ever get stuck in Penn after the last train leaves at like 150, and you have to wait til 527 to catch the train home? That’s when it gets interesting.

        • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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          8か月前

          If you live here you don’t really go through Penn station. That’s a major commuter hub.

          I’ve lived here for years and only go there if I need to go to NJ transit for some reason (which isn’t often).

          That’s like thinking all of NJ is Secaucus train station, or all of someplace else is just the airport. It’s not representative.

          • Eq0@literature.cafe
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            8か月前

            “There is a homeless problem, look there”

            “But if you don’t look you don’t see the problem”

            Rents in NYC are rising higher than salaries, squeezing out the poorer segment of the population. This, between other symptoms, generates homelessness. That’s what I see in NYC.

            • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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              8か月前

              They said the problem was “widespread”. I’m saying it’s not like everywhere you look, but it feels worse than it is if you only go to the high traffic areas where homeless people go to beg for help.

              Cost of living is rising higher than salaries everywhere. This isn’t unique to New York.

              The fact that homeless people exist is a poor reason to avoid New York, in my view. People act like you’re going to be wrestling with the homeless every day.

              We should do more than ignore the homeless, but that’s a separate conversation.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8か月前

      The homelessness epidemic is a problem everywhere in the US. You just notice it in cities because of the population density.

      Cape Cod, the famous summer vacation hotspot south of Boston, has the highest rates of drug addiction and homelessness in the entire state. The same is largely true of any vacation area, actually. They often have the highest rates in their state due to high CoL and poor job opportunities outside of low wage jobs in the tourism industry (all of which are seasonal jobs as well, meaning they close when the tourists leave).

      But out of sight, out of mind.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8か月前

    I do love the looks of bus drivers when you get on with a load of crap in your hands.

    One time, I had to fetch two larger packages from the post office, so when I got onto the bus, I really had to aim to fit through the door and also prop up my ticket in my right hand, so I could still hold the packages with both hands. And the bus driver just looked at me like “ehm… okay… I guess, we doin package delivery then”.

    Another time, I went shopping in the next city over and after half an hour, I got back onto the bus with four packed shopping bags and saw that it was the same bus driver who brought me into the city. And he clearly saw that I had just been shopping and nothing else, so he gave me a look of “well, that’s convenient, that you’ve got your personal chauffeur”. 🙃

    • shplane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8か月前

      It’s a common conversation though. I live in a big city and people who live in rural areas say this to me all the time. I just shrug my shoulders and say, “ya, good, live where makes you happy.”

      • thedruid@lemmy.world
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        8か月前

        Yep live where you like.

        . I hate living in the city. I walk. ALOT. I love walking in my rural area, fishing, camping, engaging with neigbors and meeting the lady downtown street who makes gluten free cupcakes ( amazing).

        Its what i like

        I know people who rave about the things they can do that I can’t. And I love how happy they are living where they love

        People need nature, and they need each other. So live where your needs are met the. Most and stay happy.

        Your attitude is best. Let’s all be happy for those who can live where they love. Because Many can’t.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8か月前

        Some of the rural people I know are extended family and if I take them at face value what they are essentially explaining sounds like some yet to be undefined personality disorder.

        They all circle around a set of claims that amount to an inability to adhere to basic social skills that even the most neurodivergent person manages to perform.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    8か月前

    Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y’all not have sets?

    I mean, I don’t even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      8か月前

      Would you want to carry an entire dining room set while walking or taking the subway home?

      It would be difficult to carry even just two non-folding chairs without inadvertently being an asshole to people around you, unless the sidewalks were dead.

      • Patches@ttrpg.network
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        8か月前

        Could you imagine carrying home 3 chairs of a set one-at-a-time and finding out that they just stopped selling that style?

  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
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    8か月前

    My ex made me carry a window unit air conditioner someone was throwing away to the subway, take two trains then carry it home. She was visiting from New Orleans and didn’t believe me when I said people leave shit like that on the sidewalk all the time in New York. It was fall. I could very well find another one closer to home.