Currently none. But I lived with a partner in a small apartment for many years. I also lived in a townhouse well outside the city with the owner, and a second roommate, for a bit when I first moved down here.

You win the thread

https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/214482

I think some of these cameras are mounted and others are attached to the mobile units you’re seeing.

When I first moved to the area 13 years ago I lived in an apartment in Alexandria with two roommates for 4 years. Rent was in the low $700's

You get a lot of freedom to take risks and make less money when you've been making biglaw salary for a couple decades.

That's definitely the common thread in this thread: "I used all the money I made in my high-stress/high-pay job to subsidize my low-stress/low-pay work." Not a lot of "I was making $70k and now I'm an organic basket weaver" stories because those people don't have the luxury of dropping out of the rat race.

I live in Largo with my girl 👧🏽 in an apt. Before I lived in a house in Hyattsville with 3 roommates and the landlord living in the basement

Bruh this episode of your life sounds like Narcos-meets-Monty Python 😵‍💫 I dunno how it keeps getting wilder with every comment but d a m n

One at the moment (down from two).

My boss at the PMC was such a flim-flam man, he kept saying he was a helicopter pilot in Panama and that he ran guns and drugs for Noreaga and Ollie North. Except when I filled out paperwork for him I found out he was a logistics sergeant based in Montana. When I quit, he trying to help some guy buy a submarine base in Lithuania to convert into a commercial port, so he could run “security” for it.

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Either something the legislature came up with out of thin air, or maybe it was crafted with a slightly more logistical view. Can't say for sure, but it has been 3.5 years since this was enacted and MoCo has 80 buildings that are not compliant yet. However, not only do you have to think about the time it takes to retrofit but you also have to consider that all these sprinkler companies certified to work in Maryland are also tasked with new construction projects of all building types, not just high-rise residential.

Then include Baltimore and other cities that have these buildings that will have to meet the same guidelines, and add on additional time for permitting and processing paperwork. Once you factor all of that in, it's really not that difficult to see why the legislature put a deadline that was so far out. But they ran out of time before a major fire happened.

The National Fire Sprinklers Association had this article about retrofitting that talked about a project from nearly a decade ago in Philadelphia. While the residents of that property weren't inconvenienced much during the process, it still took nearly a year to complete. And that's just one building.

Yeah I'm surprised none of the chains have it (that I've been to so far). HEB's in Texas were bigger than the ones here, so my guess is that bulk spices aren't mainstream enough to be profitable for smaller grocery stores (if that makes sense).

It's definitely more environmentally friendly, so it's ironic they don't sell them like that at Whole Foods.

Making the same decision in md. Current plan is to set aside the money for removal and use the pool all summer. Then based on costs, effort, usage, and safety, we'll make the final call on removal. If we keep it, probably put the funds away long term as a separate major pool repair/removal option.

Definitely look at the quality it's in. You have a great visual metric at the moment, which is looking how the owners winterized it. Is it a normal bubble pool cover or something even jankier? That's less likely to be a well maintained pool. Is it the (frequently green), canvas-like special winter cover that gets screwed into the ground? Thats a sign they're actually taking care of it. It's not definitive, but I worked at pools and on pools and the effort put into winterizing was usually pretty indicative of management/ownership.

Sending appreciation for the work you all do from the Maryland suburbs!

Thank you for asking the question, I've been wondering this myself. Too bad none of the responses so far are close to me.

Thanks for being one of them

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Thanks for responding! Do you have any advice on how best to contest it? Is in person better? Any thing that I should definitely mention? Such a hefty fine as well

Welcome to DC! I’ve contested many tickets at that light. You should contest every ticket you receive in DC. Yes, we do have an issue with aggressive drivers but that doesn’t change the fact the whole city is one massive speed trap. The 50mph sign you saw is for the traffic on 295. You got off on the Kenilworth Ave exit which abruptly lowers the speed to 25 mph. Believe it or not, the markings that are there now are fairly new and were done after MANY community complaints. They might not let you off because of the markings, but I would still argue that they have a 50 mph sign still there meant to purposefully confuse you. Good luck!

Figure out if it’s been maintained well, if code requires a fence (and if you have to pay for that fence) and if you would be paying extra in your home owners insurance if you keep it. Also consider how much you would actually use it.

If you have another car in frame of the video and go to DMV then they will almost automatically throw it out as they can not distinguish which car was speeding.

Ok this is by far the wildest story in this thread. Congratulations...?

He just started recently. Starting out at 55k according to him. The metro pension is where he will really win out when compared to FERS.

They do, but they also represent like every big video game company. Microsoft (which is Bethesda now), Sony, Nintendo, Nvidia, Take-Two, Square Enix, you name it.

They basically run whats left of E3 and spend the rest of their time fighting copyright infringements and arguing how loot boxes arent gambling.