I don’t need a sign to know when I’m speeding, school zone or not. It’s a choice.

Ex NYer here. Bagel gourmet. One on Thayer one on meeting st and another I think on Richmond (or used to be?). Artisan bagels around here are all meh. Ditto their sandwiches. BG is closest to an nyc egg and cheese and b (or s) you’ll find.

Not knowing where a school is is not an excuse to speed. City speed limits are 25 anyway (only 5 above school zone limit) and to get a ticket you have to be doing 29/30 anyway so you were already speeding that’s the reality. So leadfoot still applies. Blaming signage is just an excuse.

The bright yellow school zone sign isn’t enough? Just be a better driver, leadfoot.

Love it. Have lived on both coasts and internationally. Reddit is a very very very small subset of any given population. I will say Rhode Island as a whole breeds a special sort of online crank (peruse the comments section on globe Ri section or Dan McGowans ri politics page). So there’s that. But the scale of the city is great. Arts / food scene. The ocean. Slightly more parochial In the suburbs than I’d like? Sure. But that’s why I’m in the city.

So probably just the owner doing what they should have done before rather than something exciting coming soon. Good point.

Uber is all over PVD. Lyft as well but both are active.

Did you test in RI? MA and NY def have it in the test and have for decades.

This has always been a big part of the test in all kinds of states. I think it speaks to a) city driving and b) control of your car and spatial awareness. The driver is in control of a hunk of steel that can kill. They need to show they can manuver it.

Good shape being the key. Don’t buy a money pit. But a solid house with rental income is a winner to get started for sure.

You could always not give tenants access to the yard and get that scenario for yourself. House prices (and lack of supply) are all over the place not just RI.

Good point - wasn't it a gas station before (or the time before that? Something environmental).

So what's the load in for? Bunch of white plastic (pvc stuff?) and acitive crew there today. Haven't heard any dish....

I'm fairly certain it's not DB but at this point I'd be happy to see anything new on N Main (that's not an auto parts store). But the site was definitely filled with some new material when I drove by today so something must be up!

Gen X thanks very much. Unwillingness to see another point of view and I'm never wrong - classic rhode island

Because it's called driving around for 40 years and basically seeing the trend die out? Waze does it for you. Who is going to spend money on this when the answer it's something that's gone out of style specifically re the cop thing? Flashing for passing and intersections (as well as tailgating assholes) is still a thing but the idea that it's one if by land 2 if by sea is not widely used. It's just flashing. Or not. And rarely for cops because the apps have taken over.

No one said it didn't mean anything, it just means something to (largely) old people and is becoming less of a thing. But you do you.

No but I think that's what folks are saying. I've been seeing it for years and because I'm a certain age, I know what people are "trying" to say but it's stopped being a thing for many people so it's not going to suddenly sink in NOW after dying off as common practice for decades. As someone else also pointed out, many new cars have "auto" settings that go on and off to high beams or on and off altogether because the sensors in their cars are doing it automatically so you're seeing a lot more automatic flashes that defeat the purpose. When I learned to drive in the 80s, flashing lights ONLY meant that. It's just stopped being a thing for all of the above reasons so you'd be 100% fighting a losing battle here. But you can sure try! I think most people also get their cop info from phone apps anyway which IMHO is very reliable (at least with Waze). It isn't about police brutality, it's about we're all doing something that now is for middle aged/old people and past the point of being adopted again.

If no one knows why you're doing it and you're just flashing lights and most people aren't making the connection (or not thinking it's worth it) - how are you going to "teach" people. I think the thing got ingrained in those of us of a certain age at drivers ed time but if that isn't happening now, unless you plan on going on tik tok and being widely successful - making it a "thing" is a ship that has sailed.

This!!! Most new cars have this setting (or the option to turn it on). So it’s becoming something that marks that you learned to drive say between 1970-99.

Um maybe in someone’s head but no.

Not a thing anymore. And not worth bringing back (I mean how would you anyway?).

But use of that particular FORM (the several pages of checklist) is not. Disclosures go in MLs like they go anywhere (not just RI). And saying “unknown” is an answer to a disclosure. A seller not having that form when it’s on market is not unusual. That’s my point. Only some sellers (or agents who require their sellers) both in RI and MA as well use that kind of form. Lots of times it’s just disclosed in the disclosure box on the mls listing or in the PS amendments once they agree. But if it’s a fsbo I’d be even more wary - or a flipper acting as the agent.

I would not risk floods for a great location. Unless you’re only staying a few years and even then. Water levels are only going up.