Cheaper than that for sure.

If you want to share how much you currently pay for housing and what you make as a nurse at what level, you can probably get the best comparisons

I feel like “expensive” is relative, especially considering I’m currently paying Orange County CA prices 😥

Just drive a little ways south to DC and the surrounding suburbs, you’ll easily find much more expensive areas not far from here…which is why we moved here after living 12 years in the DC area.

Ikr? Lousy snowflakes!

Very expensive but very nice place to live and raise a family. The winters are fairly mild overall with little meaningful snow or ice each year maybe 2-5 days worth. Really it’s usually only January-early March where we get super cold days and any potential accumulation

Black ice can happen anywhere. You gotta watch out for that oppressive white snow

I would ask about policies at hospitals or other locations you are looking at. I have a neighbor in healthcare who sometimes rides out storms near (at?) Her hospital.

We do get some wintry weather, and we get some icy mornings when we get melting during the day and refreeze at night. We also do not spend as much as more northern states on snow/ice removal, as we don't get their frequency of winter weather.

The weather wouldn't be the make it break it for me. Columbia is a suburban city. It is easy to live here day to day if finances allow, but that is a change from your current life visit and decide if the feel is what you want.

We often exaggerate the seriousness of the weather here. It was only rain on Thursday.

I’d say 3-4 times a year there’s a bit of slushy rain/snow. Maybe another 3-4 times straight snow. We rarely get just straight ice but it has happened.

The cost of living in Columbia can be quite high. Depending on where you decide to live.

Cost of living is lower compared to what? NYC? Silicon Valley? Columbia is pretty darned expensive.

Black Ice happens a lot when the road is super cold and it rains. The pretreatment they spray helps a lot but it's really not a huge deal just let off the gas and ride it out.

Nurses pay, not part

this! the fact that the scooters were left in the middle of walkways, parking lots, and once on the edge of the road (so much for helping with traffic??) made me not want to support them :(

I was at the mall the other day and saw a little rectangle painted on the pavement for scooter parking.

I honestly didn’t even notice they’d vanished

Which is fine with me. I'll gladly pay taxes to encourage alternative transportation and reducing vehicle congestion.

The price for the scooters can’t be ”free”. If Howard County subsidizes the program so that scooter users don’t have to pay, the cost will be borne by Howard County taxpayers.

I hope they bring it back as well. Would love to see the price reduced or made free by Howard County. The price was pretty expensive and I know there were times where I contemplated taking it, but the price made the value not worth it and ended up driving to my location. If the price was cheaper, would have pulled a vehicle off the road and helped reduce traffic in the area

My problem is similar to most complaints about undocked scooters - being left everywhere. I bike a lot around Lake Kitt and downtown, and having to swerve to avoid wrecking because someone left a scooter in the middle of the trail. Not a good look.

So while they might have been fun, like so many things, a few people not thinking ruins opinions.

Thanks for the info, I hope they get a lot of good feedback. I enjoyed and got a lot of use out of the scooters

I really enjoyed the program so I hope they bring it back

Pilot ended right after Thanksgiving. Public comment/feedback will be gathered until 12/23 here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ScooterPilot2022

They’ll assess whether to extend the contract based on that.

I wonder which landfill they went into.

My understanding is it was just a pilot project and test for the area.

Now that you mention it, I haven’t seen the pile blocking the trail around Wilde lake and crosswalk across LPP the past few weeks.

During the Jimmy Buffet concert, you could smell a certain aroma...

But seriously, It is not bad, and concerts are over by 10 or so.

It is vegan only including the milk for coffee, right?

DMT?