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VarmintBlaster just poked his nose into the Pittsburgh sub-forum to make a pitch for the suburbs over the city because the city has a 3% earned income tax while most suburbs only have a 1% tax. The lower property taxes and lower commuting costs of living in the city MORE THAN ACCOUNT for that 2% savings in wage taxes.
Yup - I got an itch to check out that sub-forum for a couple of laughs.
You first stated that you took a $3,000 pay cut to move, but after you re-calculated the very high 3% wage tax levied by Pburgh that amount bumped up to $4,400..
Once again, you ASSUME quite abit about property taxes and lower commuting costs.
It's your choice to toss so much personal info on an internet site, but IMO you are a fool to do so. You should get off Facebook and get a life.
As far as your homophobic contentions about NEPA - you make quite a stretch about your encounters in Avoca & Dupont - you have no idea if they were residents or simply passing through.
I'm not a homophobe, but if I saw you "making out with a guy on a city street" like you posted in the Pittsburgh subforum, I'd be tempted to toss a bottle at you...
The credibility of being an actual resident of Scranton; born, raised, educated within city limits. I actually own a home in Scranton, not "I can see the city lights from my parent's home in the next county". I pay taxes to the city. I raise a family here. I have actually done, not talked about doing.
I'm serious, George. I saw an article a few weeks ago in which a 92-year-driver ran over an 88-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair (or vice-versa) in Downtown Wilkes-Barre, and my heart sank. Quite likely neither one of them should have been operating their vehicles unsupervised in a busy urban environment because neither had reflexes that would be quick enough to prevent an accident like that from happening when if younger people were in the situation the impact would have likely been able to have been avoided. I hear all the time about seniors who have to choose between heating their homes (often very LARGE older homes that they've lived in for years---mostly empty) or paying for medicine. If they downsized perhaps they COULD afford their medications?
I know I still have a long ways to go until I'm an octogenarian myself, George, but when that time comes I'll do what's best for the commnity---sell my home and turn over my car keys and license. I'm not that stubborn to want to be a burden upon anyone by not being able to keep my home up to neighborhood standards or by hitting my gas pedal instead of my brake pedal and smashing through a storefront (a constant occurrence in NEPA when I lived there).
I'm sure TBT is gonna erase this, close down the thread & issue infractions for being "off-topic", but let me elaborate since I haven't pestered her in a long time....
It's very easy when we're "young" to plan & envision exactly what's gonna be in the future. Then, as the years roll by, life seems to wear away/get in the way of/change perspective of/eradicate the best laid plans of mice & men. Every day the Lord gives us a sunrise has the same effect on us as flowing water over stone....each day changes us slightly due to the life experience of the day. There's no getting around it or bypassing it. In 30 years, you're gonna have a radically different world-view than you have now. (If I'm still around, I fully plan to toot my horn & say "I told ya so"!!! )
I've always said you're very mature for your age Paul, but there's a BIG difference between "maturity" & "life experience". Prime example is your past 9 months. See how just that "less than a year" can re-mold your emotions/psyche/outlook?? Multiply that times 30. Or 50!!
Don't think what you "plan" is set in stone. You'll be surprised how just one life experience can re-plan your plans for you...
Yup - I got an itch to check out that sub-forum for a couple of laughs.
You, several on the NoVA sub-forum, etc. I don't understand why Pittsburgh is such a laughing-stock to you people. It was just rated the "Best City to Relocate To", has been consistently-rated "America's Most Livable City", and ranks very highly on many other lists and charts, too. What's a laughing-stock to me? People who bend over and pay $550,000 for hideous vinyl-sided McMansions on cul-de-sacs here in the NoVA exurbs when they could buy a beautiful historic home with loads of character for under $100,000 in Pittsburgh.
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You first stated that you took a $3,000 pay cut to move, but after you re-calculated the very high 3% wage tax levied by Pburgh that amount bumped up to $4,400..
I didn't "recalculate" anything. I had already taken that full $4,400 into account. I can still rent an apartment in a NICE NEIGHBORHOOD in the CITY for HALF THE PRICE I'm paying now to rent an apartment in a QUESTIONABLE NEIGHBORHOOD in the OUTER SUBURBS of DC. It's a no-brainer to me. Instead of needing an oil change every two months with all the driving I do here I will be doing MUCH less driving.
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Once again, you ASSUME quite abit about property taxes and lower commuting costs.
I can WALK from Mt. Washington to my Downtown skyscraper. Commuting costs? ZERO. Driving back-and-forth from the suburbs and paying to park downtown? $$$ Taking the subway in from the suburbs? $$$ Taking the bus in from the suburbs? $$$ Property taxes DO tend to be considerably higher in MOST other parts of Allegheny County. The property taxes in Mt. Lebanon in particular would make those whining about the "high taxes" in Scranton eat crow.
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It's your choice to toss so much personal info on an internet site, but IMO you are a fool to do so. You should get off Facebook and get a life.
"Get off Facebook and get a life?" You DO realize you just spoke for 90% of the people on this sub-forum who also have Facebook accounts, right? You DO realize that over a half-BILLION people now have a Facebook, right? The only ones who don't have them are either those who prefer to remain as private as possible, those who think it's a waste of time, or those who aren't familiar with the Internet/have access to the Internet. I'll toss as much or as little online as I care to. I have no secrets. I'm one of the most honest and OPEN people you'll ever meet. Full disclosure is my policy.
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As far as your homophobic contentions about NEPA - you make quite a stretch about your encounters in Avoca & Dupont - you have no idea if they were residents or simply passing through.
Yes. NEPA gets tons of teenagers who come to Avoca to "vacation" on Main Street. Maybe they came all the way from Omaha to eat at Colarusso's? Maybe they wanted Ed to cut their hair at the Lyons Barber Shop so much they drove in from Missoula? These have all been the products of parents who are likely just as homophobic and indoctrinated their posterity to be just as narrow-minded.
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I'm not a homophobe, but if I saw you "making out with a guy on a city street" like you posted in the Pittsburgh subforum, I'd be tempted to toss a bottle at you...
Nice way to take something out of context. I arrived in Pittsburgh back in July for a first date with a promising catch that had been recommended to me very highly by a mutual friend of ours. I parked on the street, and he met me on the sidewalk in front of his building. He was so excited to see me he immediately grabbed me and started making out with me before I pushed him away from me and told him how uncomfortable I was with public displays of affection (not to mention the fact that it was our FIRST DATE!) He proceeded to smack my derriere, give me a "reach-around" through my jeans, etc. throughout the evening, and I blew up at him each time he did it. Not ALL of us are "in your face" about the way we are.
In all fairness, though, would you throw a bottle at a heterosexual couple kissing on the sidewalk? Did you hear about the brou-ha-ha in Raleigh where the lesbian couple was kicked out of the mall because they kissed? How many heterosexual couples had also kissed in the mall that day and were not escorted off the premises? As long as homophobia exists in this country you're NEVER going to shut us up.
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Cut & Run - Expert via Absenteeism..
Huh?
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o.k. mod - have at it.
She won't. She'll delete mine for defending myself and then post a snarky reply in the thread about me being the one who derailed it.
I'm sure TBT is gonna erase this, close down the thread & issue infractions for being "off-topic", but let me elaborate since I haven't pestered her in a long time....
It's very easy when we're "young" to plan & envision exactly what's gonna be in the future. Then, as the years roll by, life seems to wear away/get in the way of/change perspective of/eradicate the best laid plans of mice & men. Every day the Lord gives us a sunrise has the same effect on us as flowing water over stone....each day changes us slightly due to the life experience of the day. There's no getting around it or bypassing it. In 30 years, you're gonna have a radically different world-view than you have now. (If I'm still around, I fully plan to toot my horn & say "I told ya so"!!! )
I've always said you're very mature for your age Paul, but there's a BIG difference between "maturity" & "life experience". Prime example is your past 9 months. See how just that "less than a year" can re-mold your emotions/psyche/outlook?? Multiply that times 30. Or 50!!
Don't think what you "plan" is set in stone. You'll be surprised how just one life experience can re-plan your plans for you...
I understand many of the points you're making, George, and I know long-term plans can and often will have to be change to adapt to changing circumstances in life. My maturity is to my own detriment, George. It's a horrible burden and a curse. I attract guys in their 30s to me so much that I have to swat them away like flies to honey, but guys my own age find my maturity to be a turn-off because they only care about boozin' it up or gettin' laid---nothing else (then again I know guys in their 40s who only care about those two things, too). I'm already looking to buy a house in a couple of years, get my MPA, adopt a dog, find a mate, and adopt children.
P.S. May I suggest you please don't take the "age" things so personally? You're YOUNG! For God's sake I'm 23 and don't even get carded anymore! What does that tell you about ME? You're only as old as you act. You're over twice my age and act like you're YOUNGER than me. Relish in that. I can't reverse my own premature aging.
Little boy? Presuming the "89" in your screenname is the year you graduated high school, then that means you were probably born in the 1970-1972 era, which puts you in your late-30s to around 40. I'm 23. That's not THAT much of an age gap.
There. I clarified my position. Scranton DOES have a very weathered, neglected, and distressed appearance to it in MANY neighborhoods where elderly people who can no longer afford to properly maintain their homes also refuse to move into nursing homes to let a new buyer breathe new life into their residences. For those who are going to pounce on me for being "insensitive towards the elderly" also bear in mind that once I become too aged or destitute to either properly maintain my home or even drive for that matter I plan to move into a nursing home and surrender my driver's license, respectively.
What credibility did YOU ever have, exactly?
Wow, that's very easy for you to say at 23 that you will go into a nursing home when you're elderly. What i said at 23 isn't what i'm saying now, it's called growing. That was a very insensitive remark, and again shows your age. You have a very arrogant attitude since you've decided to move to "utopia". I'm sure it'll come down a few notches once you've been there a few months.
P.S. May I suggest you please don't take the "age" things so personally? You're YOUNG! For God's sake I'm 23 and don't even get carded anymore! What does that tell you about ME? You're only as old as you act. You're over twice my age and act like you're YOUNGER than me. Relish in that. I can't reverse my own premature aging.
LOL!! Believe me Paul, I DON'T take any "age thing" personally!! If someone thinks I'm "old", that's THEIR problem....underneath it all, I'm still 20 & rock & rollin'!!! (though the spandex wouldn't look quite as good as 30 years ago...but I digress...)
I just stated that you being 23, when you're 53 (or 63 or 73 or 83) it will have changed your views/opinions/circumstances & your best-laid plans will also be altered. That's it. Nothing more.
P.S. You need to get off the "poor me" syndrome that you're "prematurely aged". If the ones your own age aren't interested, you haven't yet met the ones your own age who are interested...think about it Grasshopper...
George,
My old byline was you can lead a horse to water.....
But you sure as HELL can buy them a drink!!!
OH CRAP!!! TBT's gonna have a freakin' field day with this one!!! She won't have time to watch any baseball games with all the deletes/closings/warnings/infractions/etc etc etc etc...!!
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These have all been the products of parents who are likely just as homophobic and indoctrinated their posterity to be just as narrow-minded. 
He proceeded to smack my derriere, give me a "reach-around" through my jeans, etc. throughout the evening, and I blew up at him each time he did it. Not ALL of us are "in your face" about the way we are.
She won't have time to watch any baseball games with all the deletes/closings/warnings/infractions/etc etc etc etc...!!
