These days folks breaking into cars are most likely addicts with scrambled brains - it's not something most would be doing if they were clean. Trying to solve it with just a living wage would be futile since they would have to be "functional" addicts to hold down a job AND properly budget for their habit... and that's not what happens in most cases lol.

Not sure if anyone is familiar with the ward at the Portsmouth Hospital, but it's just a constant stream of addicts detoxing and then being sent to longer rehab programs. I spoke with a girl there who was given 22 grand in cash from Social Security back payments, and she vented to me now that she was clean and thinking clearly, "holy shit, how can they just give $22k to an addict? What do you think I did with it?"

Drug use like this is a sign that a lot of folks are being overlooked in our communities, and we've all been paying for it in one form or another. Given what I've seen of the culture and lifestyle, it almost always starts in childhood too. 40% of children in Belknap county grow up being exposed to some form of abuse, and those stats are probably very similar in other areas. This is the real issue we should be focusing on - how to prevent this behavior from happening in the first place. Money alone doesn't address cultural problems.

Yup we had to throw out a bunch of Tupperware from the 80s for that reason, you could actually feel it starting to decompose. Not BIFL at all unfortunately.

I was gonna say, Manchester neighborhood 4 ways in general are where I see the most people going full speed through a stop sign lol

Elderly housing would prob be relevant considering our state is #2 for oldest population, as well as its proximity to still-standing shopping centers. The malls-to-housing concept has been implemented in other parts of the country too. I don't think forcing more retail into a place where it already failed is the way to go... NH residents are hungry for services that actually benefit and enrich their lives. It's no coincidence that two of their only existing tenants are a gym and a trampoline park lol.

Fun fact, the rooftops of the Steeplegate Mall is an ornithologist observation site for endangered nighthawks.

He has said stuff to the effect of "waiting for the right time and the correct procedures," meaning everyone suspects the state wants to make sure they can control the sale of cannabis just like liquor lol

It's important to note that while he was a Buddhist, he also wrote extensively about the parallels between Christianity and Buddhism and basically reps Jesus as a Buddha. Granted, how he perceived God obviously wasn't the same way that Western Christians do, and he approaches Jesus with none of the backwards cultural/political attachments that you see in Christian nationalism.

I def agree that looking into his work may be beneficial for someone struggling with that faith system.

Kind of surreal to see a TNH quote on reddit that isn't from the (tragically inactive) TNH subreddit lol, but definitely look him up if this kind of stuff speaks to you. This dude led a pretty long and interesting life, but one of the things he's known for is making spirituality and interfaith concepts more easily digestible for the general public. A pillar of all that is self love and self care, since that directly affects how we perceive and interact with the world around us.