Maybe they just understand addiction is a lot more complicated than you are making it and ruining their lives and endangering them by calling the police doesn't actually make the problem go away, it just disappears people into for profit prisons.

Why do you automatically assume the dealer must be a minority? Homicide rates have gotten dramatically worse since police have gotten softer on crime the last few years. Especially for black men. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-22/pandemic-murder-wave-fell-most-heavily-on-young-black-men

Def network at the open mics in the area too. Most musicians around here are pretty active, lots of cover acts too that can point you in the right direction.

Don't call the cops... pretty much ever. They don't help anyone and more often than not they needlessly escalate the situation. See if there are any social workers in your area who help with addiction.

OP, you can ask BGE to check your gas meter. BGE also partners with a third-party company that comes to your house and does an energy savings assessment free of charge.

Contact the DAT district action team, they’ll need additional probably cause for a warrant.

Tipping for service at a restaurant is not new by any stretch of the imagination.

I think that all businesses should pay their workers a living wage, and that we should move away from tipping for anything.

However, I live in reality and understand that if I choose to dine out in the USA that there is a standing social contract older than any of us that the server earns their living from tips. Until that changes, you are an asshole for not tipping, for any reason.

No. Hollins/Union Square

You’ll have some of the usual culture/lifestyle adjustment for someone coming from a more rural area to a more urban area, but lots of people do it every year (I think historically most of the entire original population of the Hampden neighborhood working in the mills came from West Virginia).

Also, lots of people live just outside the city limits first to test the waters. Worth checking out.

Is this fed hill?

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This is totally my own experience and I don't want to speak for others who have worked with agents. Just my perspective.

So with our agency, they typically take 10% off the top. I'm not sure what other agencies charge, but its usually 10-15%. Our standard rate is $1000 AFTER they take their cut. That rate changes depending on the venue, our history with the venue, etc. But for the bit they take vs how much work goes into booking gigs and the other business bs, it's so much easier to let someone else do it. Especially if you have other musical outlets that are more originals based (like my bandmates and I have), the cover band becomes more for the love of playing and gigging and not so much about the money. So it's easier to rationalize having an agent.

I know a lot of bands are dismissive of agents and I don't disagree with many of their points, but it's different as a cover band working with an agent vs an original band. We've found it highly worth it.

I totally understand where you’re coming from (after all, to a certain extent, heat transfer is heat transfer, right?). Oil-filled heaters find their cost savings through the use of the oil as a heat sink and generally having better thermostat performance in part because of that heat sink. Overall, it’s a more controlled and consistent power draw, and they do apparently seem to use less electricity overall. they also turn on and off less, so the wear on breakers (especially the old fashioned ones) is less.

As anecdote, I’ve run about 30 oil heaters at once in a very large building successfully for months on pretty old wiring. Every coil-based heater I tried to introduce into the mix blew out a breaker within a day. I don’t have direct personal data on the relative long-term power consumption during that period.

I’m not really sure what to say otherwise. Could I be wrong? Absolutely.

Yeah it sound kind of NIMBY to me and you want to talk to the manager, I like people keeping the housing prices reasonable. I assume it's not just like an old busy body as they would be more than happy to talk to the police. Asking for an alternative shows some amount of care but like also mind your business unless they are trying to sell you drugs.

what’s wrong with Rosedale?

This I can get behind, in spite of my earlier snarky comment. I've lived car-free in Baltimore for 12 years. Choosing a neighborhood carefully is important (though sounds like you'll still have a car). Biggest hassle is groceries- Baltimore has a real challenge in access to groceries, so look where the grocery stores are in order to start looking for housing- some popular neighborhoods have no grocery access, so you end up still basically car dependent. It's great to be walkable to groceries, and even if you still have a car you'll want a decent transit line or two nearby, you can download the Transit app to see what your transit options are near where you are looking. Walkable neighborhoods with grocery stores and some transit access could include Hampden, Charles Village, Mt. Vernon/Midtown, Station North, Downtown, Locus Point (parts of Fed Hill as well, groceries being the issue here); parts of Fells (again, groceries are a problem); Canton.

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What do you define as a drug house?

Me too!!

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What drug do you think they are a house of?

This is great info! Thank you so much! Any idea what booking agencies charge? do they take a % cut?

Oil-filled electric heaters are still electric heaters. They will use the same amount of energy to generate a BTU of heat.

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