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FranLab is getting evicted
james_s:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 27, 2023, 11:45:02 pm ---I'm not quite sure. Recently I went to the US and visited some family members in the process. Their home was crazy expensive even for Dutch standards while it was somewhere in the mountains and not exactly in the city center. The problem with the US is that everything is much further apart as well. Walking a few blocks in a suburb means walking along large plots of land and crossing insanely wide streets that add to the distance considerably. I really had to adjust the scaling of the maps in my mind; what is a short walk in a typical European city, is twice as far where I was in the US. IOW: I think the cheap places are cheap because anywhere you want/need to go takes a lot of time to travel.
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Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone so I buy a lot of my food in bulk from Costco, frozen stuff that keeps a long time. I mostly only go to the grocery store for vegetables and dairy, maybe once a week or so and usually on my way home from going somewhere else. If I want to visit a friend I need to get in my car anyway, I don't know anybody that lives closer than a few miles from me, it can be faster go go 15 miles away on the highway than 3 miles through town and highway driving is usually less stressful. I can walk to shops downtown but in practice I rarely do except to exercise. I don't want to carry home bags of groceries or whatever. I don't really buy very much in general and have little use for local shops. If there was an electronics hobby store or surplus shop nearby I would go to that but there isn't.
tom66:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 28, 2023, 12:19:26 am ---Where do you need to go? I go days at a time without leaving my property, especially in the winter when the weather is unpleasant. I can order almost anything I need online, I live alone so I buy a lot of my food in bulk from Costco, frozen stuff that keeps a long time. I mostly only go to the grocery store for vegetables and dairy, maybe once a week or so and usually on my way home from going somewhere else. If I want to visit a friend I need to get in my car anyway, I don't know anybody that lives closer than a few miles from me, it can be faster go go 15 miles away on the highway than 3 miles through town and highway driving is usually less stressful. I can walk to shops downtown but in practice I rarely do except to exercise. I don't want to carry home bags of groceries or whatever. I don't really buy very much in general and have little use for local shops. If there was an electronics hobby store or surplus shop nearby I would go to that but there isn't.
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Everyone is different but I enjoy my walkable neighbourhood;
- Walk to the gym
- Walk to the swimming pool
- Go to the park to, well, walk around and look at the wildlife and get fresh air (10 minutes away from me). If I had a dog, great place to walk it too.
- Go to the shops when I'm in need of only a few items
- Take my car to the garage, when I need a service or something I can walk back
Sometimes I take one of those rental scooters if I need to.
But almost all of my day to day needs are within 10-20 mins walk. I do still drive to get grocery shopping etc. (because yes, carrying heavy bags home = not fun) but don't drive everywhere.
james_s:
My neighborhood is walkable, it has sidewalks and I go for a walk almost every day just to walk. I don't really need to walk to any particular destination, there's nowhere I need to go. Brick & mortar shops are a dying concept, I order virtually everything and it gets delivered. The only thing I go out and buy regularly is groceries and when I do I almost always get more than I want to carry. The other thing I sometimes go buy is stuff like lumber and building materials, which again I don't want to carry. I've never taken a car to a mechanic in my entire life, anything it needs I can do at home without leaving my house. I see little value in being able to walk to businesses although I can actually do that pretty easily from here, there's just not really anywhere I go that I'm going to get something I want to carry home by hand. Electronics shops don't exist anymore, computer shops are all gone, there's only one electronic surplus place in the region that I'm aware of and they sell online too. I have zero interest in the beauty supply shops, wine tasting places, overpriced trendy restaurants and other stuff that makes up the majority of retail in my city, it could all burn down and I wouldn't miss it a bit. In fact I'd welcome the open space.
sokoloff:
Similar story here, though I do not renew tires nor do any paint/bodywork at home; the equipment is just more than I want to deal with for as rare as those circumstances come up. Everything else, I do in the driveway. I'm in a city (Cambridge, MA), but in the outskirts of it (1, 2, and 3 family houses make up my section of the city; the nearest building over 5 stories is probably 3/4 mile away). I could walk to a handful of restaurants and there's a small shopping district filled with stores catering to people with some combination of way more money or way less economic sense.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 27, 2023, 11:37:42 pm ---Graphtreon put some recommended channel down the bottom of the page, Physics Girl was one, wow, what a boost! Went from 1k to 12k Patron in a matter of weeks.
Just checked, and this is the video, she's in a bad way :(
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I'm sorry to hear that and I sincerely hope she recovers soon.
That being said, I do find the video too dramatic and showing too much. Being ill is sad, and I really wish her well, but staging her health condition this way, not my thing.
Quite a few people have criticized Fran for exposing a bit too much of her issues and using that to raise some money, but this one looks much worse than what Fran ever did, in that regard.
And the Patreon face mask on an hospital bed? Really? :-X
Now I appreciate Physics Girl did not do it herself, and she was probably not even in a condition that would have allowed her to decide, so someone else did it for her, and this was this person's decision.
Anyway, wish her well.
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