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Nope. There really isn't much reason to. The winters are mild, and Arizona is far enough south that there's still a good amount of daylight in the afternoons, at least compared to the northern parts of the US.

That book was a delightful surprise.

I never expected that the chapters about giant, intelligent spiders to be the parts that kept me hooked. I'm not sure I could have cared less about what happened to the humans.

> Personally, I feel the solution to insufficient teacher time is to use peer grading much more, and spot checks. Get kids to read and revise each other's works frequently, and teachers should aim to grade at least N papers per student where N is much less than the number of papers a student writes.

That's how it's done in creative writing courses. I've always found it infinitely more helpful than only having feedback from the instructor, even if the instructor's feedback was generally more helpful/useful than peer feedback.

Agreed. I lived in the southeast valley for 16 years. At the start of it, we were fairly near the edge of the sprawl, and now you have to drive another 20+ miles to get out of suburbia. It's definitely had an effect on temperature, particularly overnight.

Phoenix regularly has overnight lows above 90F. It's pretty bad.

Best feature coming in iOS 13 is an option to silence all calls from non-contacts.

I installed the public beta for that alone because I get so many of these types of calls, and it's saved me 19 interruptions so far this week.

Obviously blocking all unknown numbers isn't an option for everyone, but it's been great for me.

Which foreach are you talking about? Array.prototype.forEach, for...in loops, for...of loops?

The first only works with arrays and array-like objects.

The second works on objects and arrays, but it iterates over all enumerable properties, so you don't want really want to use it for arrays. It's also made a lot less useful because it only iterates over properties, not keys.

The third finally provides some sanity, but it's only been around since ES6. Before that, lodash's each method was the most reliable way to iterate over a collection, be it an object or an array.

Just because you don't know the reason for something doesn't mean there isn't one.

Right, and I absolutely agree with that. When I bought my house, I had no expectation that utility services would be the same. While my neighbors and I have some complaints about the quality of our internet service, we're looking for 15-25Mbps, not 100Mbps, and certainly not 1Gbps.

But GP's first sentence was mainly what I was trying to address:

> I am all for utility companies cutting service to rural areas, for cost savings or otherwise.

If my electric and gas providers suddenly decided that I was too expensive to serve and cut me off, I'd be out in the range of $20-30k to install batteries, a generator (since solar might not be adequate in the middle of winter), and to convert my heating from natural gas to propane.

Thanks for the link! I've looked briefly at LTE internet service but hadn't seriously considered it because I'm just on the edge of decent cell service. While my phone usually displays 1-2 bars, it's not even enough to make voice calls. I think due to the topography in the area, my phone can receive signal from the tower but isn't powerful enough to transmit back. It looks like UbiFi also sells 4G signal boosters and external antennas, and that might just do the trick.

I agree that the marginal cost of providing those services to rural homes is higher than urban/suburban homes. However, I think you're vastly overestimating the actual costs incurred, as many (maybe most) people who live in rural areas don't have most of those things.

I live in a mostly rural county in north-central Colorado. The county maintains ~250 miles of roads of which only 39 miles are paved (the rest of the roads in the county are state and federal highways).

Outside the few small towns in the county, there's no sewer or municipal water. Everyone has a septic tank and a well on their property that they're responsible for maintaining.

Same with cable/fiber. Unless you live in a town, your options are ~1.5Mbps DSL or ~5Mbps fixed wireless (if you have good line of sight to a base station). Neither the county nor any of the ISPs in the area have any plans to significantly improve services, so I'm really hoping that SpaceX gets Starlink up and running sooner rather than later.

Considering all that, I don't think that your calculated premium of $400,000 per rural home actually applies in most situations.

Asking about marital status or number of kids isn't just a red flag. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission often views it as evidence of illegal hiring discrimination.

If they're asking questions like that, what they're really asking is how available you are to work tons of extra hours, nights, and weekends.

> That's an entitlement problem not an affordability problem. People feel entitled to live in certain locations.

I would like to live in/near the city where I was born, lived a good chunk of my life, and where most of my family lives, but the cost of housing in Denver has risen almost 500% since I was born.

Do tell, does that make me entitled? Because I feel pretty goddamn entitled.

My 2016 Jeep Wrangler has Chrysler's garbage voice control. When I say "settings," half the time it hears "español" and changes everything to Spanish, and also switches the digital speedometer from mph to km/h. The confirmation prompt doesn't understand "NO" even when I scream at it.

Once that happens, the only way I've been able to switch it back to English is via the steering wheel controls, but you can only get to that menu when the vehicle is in park.

I lived and drove in the Phoenix metro area for many years, and there are very, very few areas that are as dense as most other cities. On top of that, the infrastructure is relatively new, the roads and lanes are nice and wide, and weather isn't a major concern almost all the time.

GP's assertion that driving in Phoenix is easier than most other places is absolutely correct.