I don't have a problem with that. If there are kids at the school, you slow down. I guess having it be in effect on weekends would be kind of dumb.

I just like the idea of flashing signs because if you don't normally go to an area you might not know where the zone starts and ends.

I see someone go through that zone doing over 30 (sometimes 40 or 50) several times a week. The only reason it's not every day is the traffic doesn't allow it.

All school zones are 20mph in RI and MA. I do like the idea of flashing signs but the limit is always 20.

Unless you mean the hours it changes, which are posted too small to read and figure out before you are past them anyway.

Interesting, thanks for the data and links.

Bristol has 96 official listing so probably has more in reality. It has a population of 22.5k people. Assuming the average AirB&B would house 2.5 people it's about 1% of Bristols housing. I'm not sure that would drop house prices much, but it is a significant amount of housing.

My experience with Tasca service was lousy. They won't get a recommendation from me.

But they would have to come up with an entirely new unique email name in order to be able to create a new website! Unless they use another hosting site.

This is incorrect. Housing prices have far outpaced salaries. A quick Google search will show you how wrong you are.

I suspect that people building up AirB&B empires has a lot to do with it. There are people in my town with a dozen houses for rent. I think it's more damaging than most people realize.

Sounds about right. I don't think north Korea has had original content in quite a while.

To give you an idea on flood insurance, I was looking at a house that was in a flood zone, so I got a quote for flood insurance: $6,600 a year. Which is never going to go down, and might go up.

Also flood insurance only covers a max of $250,000 in damage. If the house were a total loss, I would be out a lot of money.

I decided that having flood insurance be 25% of my mortgage payment was unacceptable. I could buy a lot more house with that money.

You can get salt, sand, shovels and even snow tires at Benny's! Oh shoot...

I didn't think I needed to explain limo tint, but I'm not young, so you younger people might call it something else. In the 80s and 90s "limo tint" meant very dark tint on your car, like they have on limousines 5% or less light. Not that you were talking about actual limousines.

So like an SUV? Q5? none of the sedans come pre tinted.

SUVs are allowed to have rear tint in RI.

https://images.app.goo.gl/XRGkXH88H67srgW66

No factory tints only one window. What kind of car is it?

Maybe they enforce it during inspection if you don't "know a guy " but I see multiple limo tint cars with RI plates daily.

You might want to check out Bristol/warren. Similar features, more housing, can easily commute to Newport.

I'm not even worried about what it says about a person. We have a law about it, so it should be enforced, or we should get rid of the law. I don't understand how it's not enforced. Like at all.

I would get my windows tinted tomorrow if I wasn't worried about breaking the law, but every day I see people breaking that law I think to myself, maybe I should take that chance too.

Yes, but it's not a surprise they think like that when so many people do it.

If you go into any parking lot, one out of every 10 cars probably has something illegal. Whether it's mis aimed lights, window tint, license plate covers, bike racks that cover the plate, wheels that stick past the fenders, extra loud mufflers, things hanging from the rear view mirror, the list is massive. Since almost nothing ever happens to most people, the law feels pretty optional.

Oh that's probably just Hawkins national laboratory. No big deal, they are working on fences or gates or something like that.

Would you be surprised to find out that the US doesn't even break the top 50 countries in rates of homelessness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population

It's really not fair to make this one of "Americas problems" when it is a problem throughout the world and America does a better job than most.

> It’s possible some of the people complaining also contributed to the problem. There are a lot of people in general who lack self-awareness.

That is almost certainly the case. I worked in a Juvenile detention center in the early 90's and frequently the messiest people were the biggest complainers about mess.

Wait, do you think most wait staff make less than $15 an hour? You should come by r/talesfromyourserver

Not sure,sorry. I do believe most contractors test before you start. Northrop Grumman did. Northrop also did urine. I would expect them to be the same, but I don't want to give you bad information so take what I say as a general rule not as definite.

Yes, as a federal contractor they don't allow federally illegal drugs.

I have taken an Uber to brew at the zoo several times. Usually it's easy enough to get dropped off at the front, but getting out of there it's better to meet them at the entrance.