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Unbelivable. My house was 150k, both my boys graduated high school, they both had gpa's good enough for 4 years of college.
Sing it Steven. In my local forum you encounter people who are convinced the schools are all worthless except the one their precious snowflake attends, plus a few in the higher priced area.
It doesn't occur to them a parent can get involved in their child's education and homework. Volunteer at the school, etc. I'm sick of paying taxes to build more schools in the suburbs because existing schools have been abandoned by wimps. And they brag about being wimps as if it is a badge of honor! Of course the school board and administration need to go the extra mile to make all schools great, bur a core of involved parents can help a lot.
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Pizza is played out in my opinion and when I lived in New York I got my bagels from Shop Rite. Now I get the Thomas bagels from my local Food Lion, its just a bagel.
Shop Rite has THE WORST bagels ever! Ugh! Even in North Carolina, I can find better bagels than Shop Rite.
NC State is like the bad news bears of teams and have always been looking through the window to the historical, storied, basketball rivalry between Duke and Chapel Hill. To compensate for their lack of championships and really any significant place in the college basketball culture that makes the triangle their fans are super vocal and for some reason seem to think their enthusiasm can compensate for success.
It doesn't...
This.... is spot on.
ESPN didn't rank NC State fans the most delusional sports fanbase in the country for no reason.
I'll hand it to State that they don't have as many bandwagon fans as Carolina (admittedly) has....but that's because nobody should want to be associated with them if they aren't forced to by alumni status!
Shop Rite has THE WORST bagels ever! Ugh! Even in North Carolina, I can find better bagels than Shop Rite.
I liked Shop Rite, more so then A&P, Grand Union, Key Foods which is a northern version of Food Lion.Thomas bagels are good, the Lenders bagels arent bad but are too small and come frozen.
I start my day with a glass of juice, bowl of cereal, and half a buttered bagel or whole english muffin.
Sing it Steven. In my local forum you encounter people who are convinced the schools are all worthless except the one their precious snowflake attends, plus a few in the higher priced area.
It doesn't occur to them a parent can get involved in their child's education and homework. Volunteer at the school, etc. I'm sick of paying taxes to build more schools in the suburbs because existing schools have been abandoned by wimps. And they brag about being wimps as if it is a badge of honor! Of course the school board and administration need to go the extra mile to make all schools great, bur a core of involved parents can help a lot.
I agree. An education is a wonderful thing and most think education only means college, there are master electricians making 100,000 per year, college is not the only way to be successful.
The northern states host 4 of the top schools in the country with Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and MIT.
The south has an Ivy League as well but sometimes it is labeled as the Magnolia Seven, Duke, Vanderbilt, UVA, Williams and Mary are a few of those schools who make up that list.
You get out of education what you put into it, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are more white privilege type schools, your Brads, Buffy's, and Thurston's you'll find more of in those enviornments.
I went from NY to Va and had no problem adjusting to the southern culture, to be honest I like it better. Down here is not New York and honestly this obsession with pizza and bagels baffles me.
Pizza is played out in my opinion and when I lived in New York I got my bagels from Shop Rite. Now I get the Thomas bagels from my local Food Lion, its just a bagel.
NY, CT, NJ, they are all in trouble because they cannot continue to tax the people so heavily that they feel poor. The northern states are very democratic and if they dont change their ways ya'll might become the next Detroit.
The northern blue states are paying higher Federal taxes to support the needy red states. They pay more and take less.
Something I've always wondered... how many transplants realize once they get there that it's not the right fit for them and then move again? I see the stats and how there's a lot of influx into the area, but do you see a lot of people who give it a few months or years and then go somewhere else?
Ummmm. The feds tax us all, no matter what state we reside in, using the same tax code. Entitlements for poor people account but for a tiny fraction of the federal budget, no matter who gets them.
If the "blue states" pay more, it's because their residents make more. It's not because NE states are taxed at a higher federal rate than other states.
Let us not forget the large swaths of "red" in rural areas blue states. Pennsylvania is an excellent example.
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Something I've always wondered... how many transplants realize once they get there that it's not the right fit for them and then move again? I see the stats and how there's a lot of influx into the area, but do you see a lot of people who give it a few months or years and then go somewhere else?
Depends on how many can find jobs elsewhere, probably.
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I liked Shop Rite, more so then A&P, Grand Union, Key Foods which is a northern version of Food Lion.Thomas bagels are good, the Lenders bagels arent bad but are too small and come frozen.
I start my day with a glass of juice, bowl of cereal, and half a buttered bagel or whole english muffin.
Hah! And again.... Hah!
I'm no bagel snob, not even close. But there's more than a fine line between Thomas/Lenders and a legitimate, good bagel. Actually, it's more like a chasm of near epic proportions. I can (and have) made a strong argument that Brueggers makes about as good a bagel as anything I grew up with in NYC. But mass distribution and frozen bagels? No, nope, no way. Stating that "Lenders bagels aren't bad" in relation to a good bagel is the same as saying "DiGiorno's pizza isn't bad" in relation to a legitimate slice of pizza.
And I always thought Waldbaums was closer to Food Lion. Actually, whenever I walk into most Food Lions it makes me nostalgic for my childhood when my parents would go grocery shopping every Wednesday and it was a major event in our lives. Key Food always seemed little better than a corner bodega to me.
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