If only internalized misogyny and women hating each other in an effort to make themselves "not like other girls" weren't a thing.

I should have clarified - I'm a lesbian, so yep, also a woman. :D

Cat Sebastian, btw, is great. She writes primarily LGTBQ romances, with lots of diverse characters (racially, developmentally, bodily), and she's freakin' funny besides. I tend to really enjoy her stuff.

I find most M/F romances extremely alienating, in that I can never relate to the female characters. But People We Meet on Vacation was the exception, and it was also a lot of fun.

CoHo is not really my style at all, but that being said:

Lots of female readers enjoy her work, and people just fucking LOVE shitting all over ANYTHING women like or take pleasure in.

Anyone who's calling you "fake and uneducated" for the crime of fucking reading popular fiction can get fucked themselves. There's no reward for reading "deeper" books. Shitting all over what people enjoy in an attempt to make themselves feel important for their supposedly more "advanced" tastes is asshole behavior.

Read what you like, enjoy what you like. There's no prize at the end of any of this.

Well, I'm gay, so I primarily read gay romances if I'm in the mood for romance. A few that I liked are:

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake (Bisexual romance, lots of well-written characters and family themes.)

The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian (It's.. a lot better than the title suggests. Historical fiction with adventure and mystery!)

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (M/F. Love interests are best friends and gradually fall in love over a decade of vacations together.)

Like you, I don't read romances that portray abusive behaviors as loving and typical, and I'm also very picky about what romances I read at all.

No, you're fucking not completely fine. This has been a huge issue in NJ for the past 10+ years.

Don't do it.

They used to tell people to get the tank filled with sand and certify it as abandoned. HOWEVER, and there are multiple cases about this (just look them up), if there is any contaminated land, it doesn't matter that it was certified abandoned if it's still in the ground. YOU ARE ON THE HOOK FOR IT, and you will pay thousands of dollars to fix it.

My partner's former boss had this issue, and they ended up paying nearly 100k to resolve it. It was a fucking nightmare.

When we made offers on houses, we stipulated that the owner had to remove the tank. If they said the tank was removed, we pulled the permits to prove it, hired a company to do a tank search, and had the soil tested for contamination.

Again, don't buy a house that has a sand-filled tank if you're not willing to do the above.

Well, maybe if everything there wasn't so fucking expensive - when I can get the same bathmat at Target for significantly less - they wouldn't be having this problem now, would they?

Most towns in Bergen County, I'd wager

Ranch Market 99 in Hackensack has a pretty kicking authentic food court, and some of the smaller restaurants (like Hot Fish) around the plaza are pretty good.