Cities that people think are good, but are secretly bad: Austin, Denver, San Diego
Cities that people think are bad, but are secretly good: Baltimore, Houston, Milwaukee
@nikillinit
I know I'm in the minority here, but aside from high costs, SD is kinda boring. The vast majority of the city is generic, sprawling suburbia, restaurant scene is mediocre for a metro of its size, and job market is weak except for biotech
@nikillinit
I know I'm in the minority here, but aside from high costs, SD is kinda boring. The vast majority of the city is generic, sprawling suburbia, restaurant scene is mediocre for a metro of its size, and job market is weak except for biotech
It's interesting how these folks get so worked up about outdoor dining "making a profit off public space" but never have a word to say about car dealerships storing their inventory on the sidewalk
@Gothamist
Let me rephrase that for you: Private businesses can no longer occupy and make profit off of public spaces, unless they agree to build dining sheds that meet safe construction requirements and do not become rat nests.
@skarobotarmy
Encourage you to spend more time inside the 610 Loop. People will spend a weekend visiting relatives in like Cypress or Pearland and leave convinced that Houston sucks.
@inpersonnate
Arguably the worst food scene of a top 20 metro. Feels devoid of culture or history, like a giant suburb rather than a real city. Vegetation is brown and grey most of the year because it sits in rain shadow of the Rockies
@crulge
@Jimmiwanderer
I don't know about ableism but honestly it's much better to do this via email/secure message. People who work in medical billing lie constantly which is why they prefer to interact on the phone. You want to get the lies in writing so you can refer back to them later.
@crulge
@Jimmiwanderer
@UHC
Same story on the provider side. After seeing
@peterdenoblemd
whining about the No Surprises Act, I asked him for a Good Faith Estimate of his pricing. His office admin, Jenn VanBeekum claimed she can only do this over the phone, even though by law this must be given in writing.
Can't even fit a stroller through these illegally parked cars at
@NYPDSVU
at 653 Grand Av in Prospect Heights, much less a wheelchair.
@MeeraCJoshi
can you help with this? They just falsify 311 responses when you try reporting.
"Any vehicle that blocks the path of a pedestrian ... that is unacceptable & it's extremely unacceptable when it is a public servant's vehicle. It is a matter that we take seriously, & we will address."
~ Meera Joshi
@MeeraCJoshi
NYC Deputy Mayor
@crulge
@Jimmiwanderer
Here's Starr McAfee, Manager of Claim Operations at
@UHC
telling me that their in-network negotiated rates are confidential and cannot be shared, even though the No Surprises Act requires them to disclose upon request
@CharlesTXPolicy
Fascinating history and museums, especially the Walters (which is free!). Beautiful architecture and rowhouses. Restaurant scene is very underrated, and it's one of the only US cities besides NYC that has tiny bars that seat like 12 people at a time
@travis_robert
It is really depressing to see both Matt Walsh and a significant number of DSA socialists in apparent agreement that you should not face any consequences for driving around with fake/concealed license plates
@_streeter
@MTA
@NYCTSubway
we spoke about this same vehicle two weeks ago and you promised to escalate to supervision, what exactly happened here? Why is there still tape on the license plate two weeks later?
@inpersonnate
@nikillinit
Wish it was possible to enjoy San Diego's Mediterranean climate! Unfortunately they've set land use rules so that you end up spending 90% of your time stuck in a car.
@the_transit_guy
Adobe Acrobat. All I want to do is read and make edits to documents, why is this program so sluggish and in need of constant software updates?
@HowsMyDrivingNY
As of 11:03:12 AM EST on January 10, 2023:
Total parking and camera violation tickets for
#NY_FAL6236
: 51
23 | School Zone Speed Camera Violation
4 | Double Parking
4 | Bus Lane Violation
3 | No Parking - Day/Time Limits
3 | Front Or Back Plate Missing
@CharlesTXPolicy
Fascinating history and museums, especially the Walters (which is free!). Beautiful architecture and rowhouses. Restaurant scene is very underrated, and it's one of the only US cities besides NYC that has tiny bars that seat like 12 people at a time
Sayville's LIRR station is surrounded by a sea of surface parking lots. Plenty of space here to build housing, and removing some of that asphalt will improve drainage and water quality
@JohnBauters
In many areas of LI, there simply isn't much available land. Also major environmental concerns in our case. We lack sewer infrastructure, which already has immensely harmful impacts on our bay and sole source aquifer.
@inpersonnate
The nature to the west is fantastic, and maybe that's part of the problem. Nobody wants to be in Denver, they want to be outside of Denver, and that's why the city is mediocre.
@RosserJobs
A variant of this question from a poll on /r/accounting. The typical respondent wants a 30-40% pay premium to be in office five days a week.
@StreetsblogNYC
@NYPD78Pct
I agree with y'all 99% of the time but the behavior from these guys on mopeds has gone from bad to worse. No license plates, driving on sidewalks, and endangering pedestrians.
Reported this ghost car at Warren and Nevins yesterday and
@NYPD84Pct
just keeps falsifying 311 responses. What do we need to do to get this towed,
@LincolnRestler
? Still parked here right now.
✅Car left parked at the bus stop.
✅Expired temp paper license plate.
Your officers are on the lookout for fake and expired paper license plates and illegally parked vehicles. We're ticketing, confiscating, and impounding. Drive safe, drive proper, drive legal.
@03grunt11G
@JustinMBibb
He's repealing government mandates that require private businesses to build car storage. Can you walk me through how reducing the amount of government mandates is socialism?
@kevinklink
I'm a CPA. Moving to South Bend would probably result in a ~50% pay cut, assuming I could find a job at all. What good is lower cost of living if the job market sucks?
@cooperlund
As someone who's made a similar move, $100k here is "studio apartment on Upper East Side" and $36k in Minneapolis is "multiple roommates in the suburbs"
@brianvan
Something that's puzzling to me is why car insurers don't seem to care much about this. Insurance companies love to find reasons to deny claims, and an insured lying about their address would certainly be a valid reason.
NY's "housing crisis" has ZERO to do with available units. Look around; plenty is vacant.
Real housing crisis has EVERYTHING to do with NYers not being able to afford what they currently own/rent because Democrats have been taxing us to death for decades.
@opinonhaver
Even with health insurance, the variance of healthcare prices. There's no way to know if a healthcare visit will cost you $50, $500, or $5,000.
@VickieforNYC
I feel like a lot of financial problems could be solved by not purchasing an Aston Martin and getting $12,000 worth of traffic tickets on it.
@jakegrant9
@tomgara
@NickRiccardi
If someone's driving around with fake paper plates, what else can you do besides tow their car? Giving them a ticket won't do anything since it's linked to a fake plate
@CBSNewYork
@cbsnewyork
Please walk me through how this is a "hit and run". The cyclist remained on the scene and spoke to the NYPD, who told him he was free to leave.
@nikillinit
@halletecco
I've heard people say this but what's stopping you from submitting the pharmacy claim manually? I've pretended to be uninsured in the past to get lower prices and this has worked for me.
@travis_robert
I stayed next to ATT Stadium for work once and it's incredible how hostile that area is to pedestrians. Even if you just want to walk to your parked car a couple blocks away, there are no sidewalks.
What have developers wanted that they haven’t gotten? Lifting the FAR cap gives developers carte blanche- doesn’t guarantee affordable housing - and they don’t have to talk to anyone but produces displacement.
@GovKathyHochul
@AndreaSCousins
@CarlHeastie
@GVSHP
Exhibit 1:
The Car Hater on Steroids - how do they think we get around in NYC? Everyone I know in Manhattan has a car. It's not so weird. Who do you think is parking their cars on the streets? Even in NYCHA, the tenants have cars & a car park.
Being anti-car is anti-progress.
@going_concern
This whole private equity thing is such a fitting final parting gift from the Boomers as they leave the workforce. The epitome of "fuck you, I've got mine"
So
@RBReich
's answer on
@wkamaubell
's show is even more cringey and disingenuous than his original letter. Mostly, he's lying. The developer isn't "pretending" to reserve 1/10 apartments for Very Low Income households. It's in their permit application. It's law.
@UnforceNYC
Weird how when these folks see a single empty bike rack it means no one's riding a bike and no bike infrastructure is needed, but when they see an empty road they draw very different conclusions!
@texasrunnerDFW
Doing the math, a 50% increase in AirBnb listings would be 50*0.018%, or a 0.9% increase in rent. Meaning that if you were paying $1,000/month before, a 50% increase in AirBnb listing means you're now paying $1,009. That seems like...not much of a difference at all.
@Blake_Allen13
@lyndonbajohnson
Say what you will about Ron Paul but everything I've heard is that he and his staff were highly competent at constituent services- perhaps part of the reason why a quirky libertarian like him kept getting reelected
@casiepierce
@JoshuaFechter
This bill is even more pro-local control than what you're suggesting, it allows individual homeowners to decide what they'd like to do with their own property!
@JohnSurico
If you take a look at the local precinct's PR photo from this afternoon, they allowed that driver of the same white Honda to park in the crosswalk after handing them a pamphlet- see the second photo here:
@MarketUrbanism
Interesting how local NIMBYs show up to oppose any new housing because it's not affordable enough, but not a word from these folks when existing housing is getting torn down
CB2 had been promised affordable housing for accepting luxury development in the recent past & it didn’t happen - That’s why there is reasonable skepticism that this rezoning will be different.
@NYCCouncil
@CM_MargaretChin
@CarlinaRivera
These efforts won't be successful when you allow the NYPD to falsify 311 responses about ghost cars. I reported this SUV today with a plate cover and 24 school speeding tickets in the past year, and
@NYPD84Pct
claimed they fixed the issue, but never ticketed or towed.
We’re teaming with
@GovKathyHochul
to pump the brakes on the use of "Ghost Cars" — vehicles that are virtually untraceable by traffic enforcement because of fake license plates.
Our multi-agency task force took 73 vehicles off the street on Monday alone.
Learn
@Warrennyc
The only times I've had to physically go to Lower Manhattan for city services were to get a driver's license and a marriage certificate. Are those services not also available in eastern Queens? What specific services are you talking about that require driving into Manhattan?
@uppereastsiteny
@NYC_DOT
@RebeccaLamorte
Why do we never hear directly from folks with mobility challenges on this? Why is it always local NIMBYs like yourself who claim to speak on their behalf?
@sandeepvaheesan
Los Angeles has famously strict zoning laws yet still has people living next to oil refineries. What's a city you think has done zoning right?
@cafedujord
That last bullet point about redeveloping vacant malls and office space is very different than what Livable California was saying just a few months ago:
@upzone_CA
Disagree with you here, the doctor shortage is because of licensing requirements and limited residency spots. There's no similar barrier to entry for engineers, and plenty of other lucrative fields they can go into, like software.
@_streeter
@MTA
@NYCTSubway
Yeah I was checking on that too, it's definitely the exact same piece. I have no idea if they simply never escalated like they promised to do, or if supervision received the report and decided to do absolutely nothing.
@CLutvak
Wasting everyone's time with an alert 40 minutes after the quake, then a second alert warning about "aftershocks" convinced me to permanently disable all emergency alerts. If that's the goal, well done!
@cowabungatime
@SwannMarcus89
The only reason you don't see NIMBYism in the Midwest is because the growth pressure doesn't exist to begin with. When these cities actually try to grow, the NIMBYs come out of the woodwork