Ditto, you need to be strategic about these things. Let’s say you’re making a sofa choice. Starting point: you are ignorant, your wife knows more about sofas, she will sense your weakness and completely dominate the decision if you just casually engage her on the topic. DO NOT just start talking to her with some half-assed idea about what you want, because you will not get it. Females are very powerful furniture / home decor / design warriors. No, you need to educate yourself about the subject, and then come up with a highly defensible, very carefully considered choice, and then engage the wife. By the time I casually mentioned the sofa thing to my wife I was completely fluent in camelbacks and chesterfields and roll arms and etc etc etc.
“if anything the rents in long island are high because of the ridiculous bubble that was there for a number of years (and subsequent burst, which never happened in brooklyn)”
According to my cousin, his complex in Patchogue is in a sort of Catch-22 situation since the economic downturn hit in 2008. Many singles and young couples have moved back with mom-and-dad to weather the economic downturn. Their vacancy rate was going up. In order to fill up the apartments, they lowered their standards. They do not accept Section 8, but they are accepting people with lower credit ratings, and these folks tend to come-and-go, and trash the place more often. In order to make up for the damage, they charge higher rents, which then dissuades better-quality tenants from renting (they continue to stay with mom and dad). So far the situation is under control (it is an 800 unit complex), but they are worried.
It’s yours, rob. I’ll give it to you the next meet up (and you’ll be happy to know the print has a slight element of cheez to it- I wouldn’t want yo to think it wasn’t tacky enough. 😉
“completely fluent in camelbacks and chesterfields and roll arms and etc etc etc.”
those things all sound like gay sex positions.
i love those asian tex mex places. a couple deliver here at work. so cheap
Ditto, you need to be strategic about these things. Let’s say you’re making a sofa choice. Starting point: you are ignorant, your wife knows more about sofas, she will sense your weakness and completely dominate the decision if you just casually engage her on the topic. DO NOT just start talking to her with some half-assed idea about what you want, because you will not get it. Females are very powerful furniture / home decor / design warriors. No, you need to educate yourself about the subject, and then come up with a highly defensible, very carefully considered choice, and then engage the wife. By the time I casually mentioned the sofa thing to my wife I was completely fluent in camelbacks and chesterfields and roll arms and etc etc etc.
annoy <> jealous
people who have parents they can just move back in with kind of annoy me.
*rob*
“if anything the rents in long island are high because of the ridiculous bubble that was there for a number of years (and subsequent burst, which never happened in brooklyn)”
According to my cousin, his complex in Patchogue is in a sort of Catch-22 situation since the economic downturn hit in 2008. Many singles and young couples have moved back with mom-and-dad to weather the economic downturn. Their vacancy rate was going up. In order to fill up the apartments, they lowered their standards. They do not accept Section 8, but they are accepting people with lower credit ratings, and these folks tend to come-and-go, and trash the place more often. In order to make up for the damage, they charge higher rents, which then dissuades better-quality tenants from renting (they continue to stay with mom and dad). So far the situation is under control (it is an 800 unit complex), but they are worried.
It’s yours, rob. I’ll give it to you the next meet up (and you’ll be happy to know the print has a slight element of cheez to it- I wouldn’t want yo to think it wasn’t tacky enough. 😉
m4l – I missed that, sounds like good fodder
i heard north philly is fun. pink is from there i think
*rob*