nsnick

5 over 1 has nothing to do with the number of floors. It means type 5 (wood) over type 1 (concrete).

This is an old post from 2018

I have lived in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle since the pandemic started and while Portland and Seattle have gotten worse, they don’t hold a candle to how dangerous San Francisco has become. There are parts of San Francisco I won’t walk around in the day time. There simply isn’t anywhere like the tenderloin or SOMA in either Portland or Seattle.

Why would the FDIC make them whole? Doesn’t FDIC insurance only cover $250,000?

Legislation doesn’t guarantee rights. If the same body trying to violate your rights with a bill can just pass another bill to repeal your rights, your rights are not protected. Two things are required to guarantee rights from a government: a constitution or charter that is extraordinarily difficult to modify, and a court system whose decisions can’t be overturned by the elected government, neither of which the UK has.

The problem with gas stations becoming EV charging stations is that EV charging takes substantially longer than filling a gas tank and no one wants to hang out at a gas station.

Buckingham Palace is around twice the size of Windsor Castle.

We pay 50% income tax in California and don’t have any decent public services.

What is typically lost when a child changes schools?

The effect of taxes on people who don’t own houses is not minimal.

It would evaporate leaving salt.

No one is deciding to work a trade instead of going to Stanford.

Retired teachers in San Francisco who own property have either owned it since the beginning of time, or have an incredibly rich spouse.

On number 4, if all you need to do is go in one day per week, wouldn’t the radius increase to how far you can get in a roughly two hour flight? This opens up Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake, Las Vegas, Phoenix, LA, San Diego...