Seattle

[SPK145]

Dan Crenshaw

I just want to remind all that when you create an “autonomous zone,” you don’t get to demand a long list of supplies from the orderly capitalist society that you are rebelling against.

Kind of defeats the meaning of “autonomous.”
#SeattleAutonomousZone

 

[Section112]

Before Covid I usually flew out to the Seattle area multiple times a year. First of all it is beautiful and the air there is so clean and fresh I love the climate and many things about Seattle. But the people there and many politicians are nuts.

Across the lake in Kirkland and Redmond they have parks that families used to go to and play with their kids. They made a number of these parks safe drug zones. What does that mean? It means someone can drive a car (yes I said drive and that means drive out after too) or walk into the park, shoot up or do any illegal drug they want and no one will bother them. Now the families near those parks do not take their kids there because they are afraid they will step on a used needle. A client of mine lives there and when his son has a soccer game now in one of those parks or near them, the parents get arm in arm and walk slowly across the field 4 times (2 times back and forth) and look for needles before they let their kids play on the field. And the scary part is they find needles all the time. This is progressive/liberal America at its finest and the Seattle area has completely lost it IMO. The climate is beautiful and the economy is too, but I could never ever live there.

 

[HALL85]

Taking the long view on this, some of these cities are really going to have a hard time recovering from the combination of the coronavirus and these riots and takeovers. We are already seeing commercial and residential real estate in New York changing. Amazon and Microsoft are looking to move jobs out of Seattle.Travel and tourism is also going to drop tremendously as well. They are definitely going to be some winners and losers that will have long-term effects.

 

[SPK145]

Taking the long view on this, some of these cities are really going to have a hard time recovering from the combination of the coronavirus and these riots and takeovers. We are already seeing commercial and residential real estate in New York changing. Amazon and Microsoft are looking to move jobs out of Seattle.Travel and tourism is also going to drop tremendously as well. They are definitely going to be some winners and losers that will have long-term effects.

They'll ask for a federal bailout like they are already doing. Hopefully the feds hang up the phone on them.

 

[shu09]

Before Covid I usually flew out to the Seattle area multiple times a year. First of all it is beautiful and the air there is so clean and fresh I love the climate and many things about Seattle. But the people there and many politicians are nuts.

Across the lake in Kirkland and Redmond they have parks that families used to go to and play with their kids. They made a number of these parks safe drug zones. What does that mean? It means someone can drive a car (yes I said drive and that means drive out after too) or walk into the park, shoot up or do any illegal drug they want and no one will bother them. Now the families near those parks do not take their kids there because they are afraid they will step on a used needle. A client of mine lives there and when his son has a soccer game now in one of those parks or near them, the parents get arm in arm and walk slowly across the field 4 times (2 times back and forth) and look for needles before they let their kids play on the field. And the scary part is they find needles all the time. This is progressive/liberal America at its finest and the Seattle area has completely lost it IMO. The climate is beautiful and the economy is too, but I could never ever live there.

This is what these wackos want across the whole country. We can't let it happen.

 

[shu09]

Taking the long view on this, some of these cities are really going to have a hard time recovering from the combination of the coronavirus and these riots and takeovers. We are already seeing commercial and residential real estate in New York changing. Amazon and Microsoft are looking to move jobs out of Seattle.Travel and tourism is also going to drop tremendously as well. They are definitely going to be some winners and losers that will have long-term effects.

They are making their own bed and don't even know it.

 

[Pirata]

On a lighter note, I have my Conch Republic flag flying in my backyard to remember the 1982 uprising.

Rebels are we....born to be free.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...e-from-the-us-by-dropping-conch-fritter-bombs

 

[HALL85]

On a lighter note, I have my Conch Republic flag flying in my backyard to remember the 1982 uprising.

Rebels are we....born to be free.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...e-from-the-us-by-dropping-conch-fritter-bombs

Why am I not surprised....

 

[HALL85]

West Coast version of Occupy Wall Street.

 

[HALL85]

So my daughter and her fiancé who live in Brooklyn now made the decision to buy a home in New Jersey. Both of their companies are essentially going to 80% work from home; and the attraction of living in Brooklyn has diminished significantly.

They looked at a cute starter home in Maplewood last weekend that listed for $630,000. Multiple bidders and it ended up going for over $150,000 over what it listed for. Any homes in towns on the train or bus line are getting snapped up immediately.

 

[anon_ezos2e9wn1ob0]

Wow 150 over ask, that's insane.

 

[Bud Boomer]

Would love to help but I've already donated all my cigarettes, lighters, portable solar chargers and tracfone minutes cards to other causes.

 

[SPK145]

Would love to help but I've already donated all my cigarettes, lighters, portable solar chargers and tracfone minutes cards to other causes.

You’re all heart, LOL!

Please help the Republic of Wokeistan.

 

[SHUSA]

Dan Crenshaw

I just want to remind all that when you create an “autonomous zone,” you don’t get to demand a long list of supplies from the orderly capitalist society that you are rebelling against.

Kind of defeats the meaning of “autonomous.”
#SeattleAutonomousZone

im convinced this HAS to be a huge troll job. If not, its really just <10 people who are absolutely NUTS. it didnt have support from anybody. i mean just look at this

 

[donnie_baseball]

Dan Crenshaw

I just want to remind all that when you create an “autonomous zone,” you don’t get to demand a long list of supplies from the orderly capitalist society that you are rebelling against.

Kind of defeats the meaning of “autonomous.”
#SeattleAutonomousZone

Hilarious. What a bunch of BobbieSolo's

 

[Merge]

So my daughter and her fiancé who live in Brooklyn now made the decision to buy a home in New Jersey. Both of their companies are essentially going to 80% work from home; and the attraction of living in Brooklyn has diminished significantly.

They looked at a cute starter home in Maplewood last weekend that listed for $630,000. Multiple bidders and it ended up going for over $150,000 over what it listed for. Any homes in towns on the train or bus line are getting snapped up immediately.

Yikes. They sticking to Maplewood?
It's funny how many people I have talked to that moved to my town (Fanwood) from Brooklyn who looked at Maplewood first but got priced out. Always comes up since we used to live in Maplewood.

 

[thehall07]

Yikes. They sticking to Maplewood?
It's funny how many people I have talked to that moved to my town (Fanwood) from Brooklyn who looked at Maplewood first but got priced out. Always comes up since we used to live in Maplewood.

Maplewood is the new hot town, these bidding wars are nuts.

 

[donnie_baseball]

Maplewood is the new hot town, these bidding wars are nuts.

Particularly to people from Brooklyn, for some reason.

 

[thehall07]

Particularly to people from Brooklyn, for some reason.

Yup was just talking to my friend who grew up there and said it’s a direct line of moving from Bk to maplewood lol... the new park slope!

 

[Merge]

It's the pizza. Arturo's is so good.

 

[shu09]

No idea why people flock to Essex County. Outrageous property taxes.

Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren, Sussex much more affordable.

 

[HALL85]

Particularly to people from Brooklyn, for some reason.

I will have to tell them that… LOL.

 

[thehall07]

No idea why people flock to Essex County. Outrageous property taxes.

Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren, Sussex much more affordable.

A lot of people work in the city so train and commute are important to them

 

[shu09]

A lot of people work in the city so train and commute are important to them

Plenty of train lines run out to the areas I mentioned, as far west as Hackettstown, Gladstone and High Bridge.

Only Sussex and Warren counties are not directly on a train line, but people could drive to stations in Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon if they had to.

 

[HALL85]

A lot of people work in the city so train and commute are important to them

Which is their rationale. They will only have to commute one, maybe two days per week going forward, but wanted to be on a train line about 30 minutes from Manhattan.

On another front, speaking with a couple this week that lives in SF (one in finance and one in technology...both work for companies that have gone to WFH. They were told that if you do come back to the office, plan on another hour to get to your office (temperature checks, logging in in the lobby, max three to an elevator.)

 

[hbkmyr]

Plenty of train lines run out to the areas I mentioned, as far west as Hackettstown, Gladstone and High Bridge.

Only Sussex and Warren counties are not directly on a train line, but people could drive to stations in Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon if they had to.

It’s about a 2-hour commute to High Bridge. It’s 40 to Maplewood. This is based on today’s schedule from Penn Starion. So you’re essentially spending two hours on the train to get home to fall asleep. You’d probably almost never see your kids awake during the week.

 

[HALL85]

It’s about a 2-hour commute to High Bridge. It’s 40 to Maplewood. This is based on today’s schedule from Penn Starion. So you’re essentially spending two hours on the train to get home to fall asleep. You’d probably almost never see your kids awake during the week.

But if you only have to do that once or twice a week, it’s not that bad.

 

[HALL85]

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/3-dead-18-shot-in-rash-of-weekend-violence-in-nyc/991031/

Sign of things to come when you deemphasize police authority?

 

[cernjSHU]

No idea why people flock to Essex County. Outrageous property taxes.

Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren, Sussex much more affordable.

The bidding wars in Montclair are ridiculous. Open house on weekends and sold always over asking by Wednesday. After losing out on my fifth house in which I bid $60k over asking and it went $170k over asking, I finally decided to move out of Montclair which is a town that I love. But the price of houses and property taxes are ridiculous. Moved 6 minuets away to Caldwell where the taxes are half what they are in Montclair, great pizza in Tony D and Angelonis, and I am $6 Uber ride away from Downtown Montclair.

 

[HALL85]

The bidding wars in Montclair are ridiculous. Open house on weekends and sold always over asking by Wednesday. After losing out on my fifth house in which I bid $60k over asking and it went $170k over asking, I finally decided to move out of Montclair which is a town that I love. But the price of houses and property taxes are ridiculous. Moved 6 minuets away to Caldwell where the taxes are half what they are in Montclair, great pizza in Tony D and Angelonis, and I am $6 Uber ride away from Downtown Montclair.

Our first house was in West Caldwell...great town.

 

[Pirata]

The bus ride from the Lehigh Valley (PA) to NYC is just under 2 hours. I know people who have done than commute 4-5 days per week.

Draw a 2 hour circle around Manhattan.

 

[anon_ezos2e9wn1ob0]

Do companies pay THAT much more in NYC than the Parsippany area? Living in West jersey you can have a great house for under 300K, early retirement or a 2nd home isn't a pipe dream when you're not dropping 700K on a primary home.

 

[hbkmyr]

But if you only have to do that once or twice a week, it’s not that bad.

I don’t want to spend 4 hours on a train any day of the week

 

[HALL85]

I don’t want to spend 4 hours on a train any day of the week

Based on the way real estate is moving, you are the exception.

 

[hbkmyr]

Based on the way real estate is moving, you are the exception.

I work in real estate with communities throughout the state. There’s been no significant shift of buyers heading to outer locations in areas such as Warren, Hunterdon and Monmouth Counties.

 

[HALL85]

I work in real estate with communities throughout the state. There’s been no significant shift of buyers heading to outer locations in areas such as Warren, Hunterdon and Monmouth Counties.

We are in Hunterdon and you are dead wrong

 

[anon_ezos2e9wn1ob0]

Based on the way

I work in real estate with communities throughout the state. There’s been no significant shift of buyers heading to outer locations in areas such as Warren, Hunterdon and Monmouth Counties.

Yeah I am in Sussx county and real estate agents are begging for people to list homes because demand far exceeds inventory.

 

[hbkmyr]

We’ll see what happens. Those buyers in outer regions were not people who were typically commuting into the City in the first place. It’s the sellers from traditional commuter hotbeds moving west, or people moving in from rentals in Morristown, etc. As more companies finalize what return to work plans look like that could change. I still think those who have work centers in manhattan will primarily head to places like maplewood, Westfield, etc.

 

[Section112]

The for sale sign going up in Randolph usually have an under contract sign the day they get put I.

The bidding wars in Montclair are ridiculous. Open house on weekends and sold always over asking by Wednesday. After losing out on my fifth house in which I bid $60k over asking and it went $170k over asking, I finally decided to move out of Montclair which is a town that I love. But the price of houses and property taxes are ridiculous. Moved 6 minuets away to Caldwell where the taxes are half what they are in Montclair, great pizza in Tony D and Angelonis, and I am $6 Uber ride away from Downtown Montclair.

Caldwell is a solid town. Angelonis is very good. We’ve had some good meals sitting outside at Stephanie’s (BYOB). Cloverleaf has a decent Sunday brunch too. You can get to all the really good Montclair restaurants easily and save a ton in taxes. Smart move and schools are just as good if not better.

 

[HALL85]

The for sale sign going up in Randolph usually have an under contract sign the day they get put I.

Caldwell is a solid town. Angelonis is very good. We’ve had some good meals sitting outside at Stephanie’s (BYOB). Cloverleaf has a decent Sunday brunch too. You can get to all the really good Montclair restaurants easily and save a ton in taxes. Smart move and schools are just as good if not better.

When we lived there Ken Daneko owned a restaurant (Mezzanote) which was ok. It was a great town to raise kids.