Ilanaspax

Ilanaspax t1_j2swlpt wrote

Reply to Looking to upgrade my home office chair. Used office furniture stores in the area? by SevenOfSpadess

Highly recommend checking out Maco in union city. It’s an office supply store that I think mostly does bigger accounts but I went in on a whim and got great service as a walk in pre-Covid. It seems like a small mom and pop shop but they have a lot of inventory and the sales person was really helpful and more than happy to pull parts from other chairs to assemble the perfect ergonomic Frankenstein office chair for me. It’s not cheap but I wanted a good quality chair and left happy.

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Ilanaspax t1_j2qon08 wrote

Reply to comment by objectimpermanence in Has anyone been through eviction courts in the past year? by balaca40

Sorry to say you seem a bit obsessed and also to be projecting quite a bit onto me simply stating an opinion that hoboken at the moment seems less corny and tacky than downtown JC (an ironic turn of events if you’re remotely familiar with the region). A result of better city planning or simply less heinous faux luxury buildings due to it being a smaller city? You be the judge because I don’t really care to be honest.

Not sure where you got the idea that I hate wealthy property owners - I simply dislike those with a sense of entitlement that see nothing wrong with displacing long term residents but I can see how it’s easier for your brain to process rich person=bad instead of wrapping it around the bigger picture. Good luck with that 🙏

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Ilanaspax t1_j2p1be7 wrote

Reply to comment by glo46 in Has anyone been through eviction courts in the past year? by balaca40

Inherited wealth? Sheer dumb luck? Rich dad? Lots of ways to attain capital that isn’t through working hard and having skills otherwise there would be a lot more rich people.

You’re going to be disappointed to learn most wealthy people aren’t rich because of their innate talent and brilliant mind.

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Ilanaspax t1_j2oiits wrote

Reply to comment by pixel_of_moral_decay in Has anyone been through eviction courts in the past year? by balaca40

I somewhat agree with you. One of the clearest indicators that developers and the city are working hand in hand strictly for profit with no regard for quality of life is the fact that everything being built in the name of “progress” are 600 sq foot rental apartments that guarantee no residents will stay in JC long enough to make any real change in the community. It’s a revolving door community where developers and politicians make money hand over fist with seemingly no one to answer to and they’ve got genuine idiots on here defending them.

People point to how expensive hoboken is to defend the non stop rental construction but the tables have definitely turned from ten years ago and I’d rather live in hoboken than downtown JC because there’s a semblance of community left. Downtown just feels like a giant soulless mall but with worse stores - atleast hoboken retains a shred of its character.

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Ilanaspax t1_j2aahzi wrote

Reply to Thrift shops by ScallionImportant288

You’re looking for a vintage shop not a thrift shop. Thrift is something like goodwill/Salvation Army where you find your own gems. No one will tell you the good thrift shops because any spot in the tristate area ends up picked over by people reselling at a higher price in vintage shops. Has totally ruined the fun of thrift shopping imo.

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