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Why do my posts keep getting deleted for being "off topic" (they aren't if you actually follow the context of the conversation), but others who post about guns in the gay marriage thread are A-OK? Funny how it's always the liberals who are "off topic", it's almost as if there is bias involved.
Why do my posts keep getting deleted for being "off topic" (they aren't if you actually follow the context of the conversation), but others who post about guns in the gay marriage thread are A-OK? Funny how it's always the liberals who are "off topic", it's almost as if there is bias involved.
Do you honestly think that only yours get deleted?
I know that in certain threads where I supposedly am "off topic" other folks who also (by that criteria) are do not get deleted. Because I can still read them.
I know that in certain threads where I supposedly am "off topic" other folks who also (by that criteria) are do not get deleted. Because I can still read them.
That's funny, because I've actually said the same thing. I've even had a post deleted while the ones that it was in "direct response to" (same side topic) remained. So I guess it all depends on which side you are standing...
The Northeast has so much to offer, yet people are turning their backs from it, and for what? Strip malls? A swimming pool? Tract developments? Chain food? Ersatz, cheesy "town centers?" I just don't get it.
Just a few:
1. A chance for younger middle class families to own a decent home in a non-ghetto area.
2. Mild winters.
3. Job opportunities and a brighter overall future.
4. Nicer folk
5. Cheaper taxes, health care, gas, energy costs, insurance and most other things.
6. Roads that won't destroy your front end in the first 30,000 miles of ownership.
7. Southern cooking (although I'd miss the good seafood and Italian).
8. Better, more modern government offering the piece of mind that more of your tax dollars go back to YOU (schools, roads, etc.) as opposed to bloated pensions and overly generous welfare programs.
9. The women! (and most of my female friends seem to have a weakness for southern gentlemen and their accents and all).
10. Less provincialism (at least in the city areas).
It's too bad because RI has a lot to offer and could offer more if it really wanted to. It can't replicate some things like weather and cheap energy, but it can make itself more competitive in other ways. It could do a much better job at catering to working families, and not encouraging the bad behavior like it does. Instead of being a magnet for those that would improve the state, it is one for layabout losers from states to the immediate south. It's no accident that their choice for relocation is RI (and MA) as opposed to NH or VA. Just sayin...
While the state itself cannot change the angry and stressful vibe existing here, improving on some of those other things would make things a heck of a lot better for the working folk living here. A better future will diffuse some of the negativity, better roads will quell some of the road rage, and having less of one's paycheck confiscated to support the bad habits of those not even from here will help the morale and put a few more smiles on people's faces.
1. A chance for younger middle class families to own a decent home in a non-ghetto area.
I do.
2. Mild winters.
In other words painful summers.
3. Job opportunities and a brighter overall future.
I'm fine, thanks. Right to Work states can suck it.
4. Nicer folk
You're kidding, right? The intolerant yahoos aren't all that kind.
5. Cheaper taxes, health care, gas, energy costs, insurance and most other things.
In other words: Less of a safety net and a more "you're on your own and if you screw up too bad" mentality. Also my healthcare and insurance here happen to be way cheaper.
6. Roads that won't destroy your front end in the first 30,000 miles of ownership.
Car's on 55,000, still A-OK but thanks for your concern.
7. Southern cooking (although I'd miss the good seafood and Italian).
Restaurants here are waaaaay better than the mostly chains and crap they have down there.
8. Better, more modern government offering the piece of mind that more of your tax dollars go back to YOU (schools, roads, etc.) as opposed to bloated pensions and overly generous welfare programs.
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, that really doesn't even need a rebuttal.
9. The women! (and most of my female friends seem to have a weakness for southern gentlemen and their accents and all).
Met my wife up here after 25 years in Florida. But maybe you have a fetish.
10. Less provincialism (at least in the city areas).
Ah yes, the tolerant South where folks are so kind and there is such a bright future. (Full of STDs that is.)
A North Carolina state House committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban teenagers from having tests or even counseling for sexually transmitted diseases without a parent’s consent.
The House Health and Human Services Committee gave a favorable report to House Bill 693 by a vote of 14 to 8.
“That would be the strictest bill in the country because no other state requires parental consent for STD testing,” WRAL’s Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie noted on Tuesday.
“That would extend to school counselors,” WRAL report Mark Binker added. “So if you can imagine a confused teenager going into a school counselor’s office and that counselor not being able to talk to the child about what’s come up because he doesn’t have that notary sign off.”
“Doctors [are] also speaking up loudly against this bill,” Leslie pointed out. “They say it will keep kids from accessing care when they need it and could cost lives.”
1. A chance for younger middle class families to own a decent home in a non-ghetto area.
2. Mild winters.
3. Job opportunities and a brighter overall future.
4. Nicer folk
5. Cheaper taxes, health care, gas, energy costs, insurance and most other things.
6. Roads that won't destroy your front end in the first 30,000 miles of ownership.
7. Southern cooking (although I'd miss the good seafood and Italian).
8. Better, more modern government offering the piece of mind that more of your tax dollars go back to YOU (schools, roads, etc.) as opposed to bloated pensions and overly generous welfare programs.
9. The women! (and most
of my female friends seem to have a weakness for southern gentlemen and their accents and all).
10. Less provincialism (at least in the city areas).
The bullets in red indicate subjective thinking. BTW, Miss Universe of 2012 wasn't from the South, she's from Rhode Island.
You know, to each their own. Like living in the South? Then live there.
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It's too bad because RI has a lot to offer and could offer more if it really wanted to. It can't replicate some things like weather and cheap energy, but it can make itself more competitive in other ways. It could do a much better job at catering to working families, and not encouraging the bad behavior like it does. Instead of being a magnet for those that would improve the state, it is one for layabout losers from states to the immediate south. It's no accident that their choice for relocation is RI (and MA) as opposed to NH or VA. Just sayin...
As to RI offering better, couldn't agree with you more. We are, unlike the unsophisticated South, are a diamond in the rough. Those currently in charge of economic development should be FIRED and replaced with go-getters. Our proximity to Boston and New York should be a magnet for companies. Our intellectual capital, which the South woefully lacks, should be a calling card for new development.
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While the state itself cannot change the angry and stressful vibe existing here, improving on some of those other things would make things a heck of a lot better for the working folk living here. A better future will diffuse some of the negativity, better roads will quell some of the road rage, and having less of one's paycheck confiscated to support the bad habits of those not even from here will help the morale and put a few more smiles on people's faces.
I'm a relative stranger here but I don't see negativity, I see inferiority. Only tangible progress will change that. But, with a truly unimaginative, status quo governor like Chafee and an Assembly filled with crooks, change won't be easy.
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Reason: off topic/hijacking
Ah yes, the tolerant South where folks are so kind and there is such a bright future. (Full of STDs that is.)
A North Carolina state House committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban teenagers from having tests or even counseling for sexually transmitted diseases without a parent’s consent.
The House Health and Human Services Committee gave a favorable report to House Bill 693 by a vote of 14 to 8.
“That would be the strictest bill in the country because no other state requires parental consent for STD testing,” WRAL’s Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie noted on Tuesday.
“That would extend to school counselors,” WRAL report Mark Binker added. “So if you can imagine a confused teenager going into a school counselor’s office and that counselor not being able to talk to the child about what’s come up because he doesn’t have that notary sign off.”
“Doctors [are] also speaking up loudly against this bill,” Leslie pointed out. “They say it will keep kids from accessing care when they need it and could cost lives.”
FL has a nice quality of life, that's on the list. I think many folks want a "blend" if they can find it. COL plus weather, plus job opportunities, some people move and follow their families, kids etc. Many articles point out that people are tired of the rat race of the northeast and that leads them to explore other options.
Many reasons for all choices in life. That's why Howard Johnson's made 28 flavors.
By what standard does Florida have a nice quality of life? That's one I've never heard before! Everyone I know who has moved to Florida has come running back as soon as they could. My sister-in-law is a teacher and was shocked at how far behind their schools are when she was living near Orlando. Kids told her straight out "Miss, we don't work that hard down here", when they weren't cursing her out.
Their housing crash was worse than RI's, and their unemployment is only a little better than here - helped greatly by the fact that the state is so heavily populated by retirees not seeing employment, no doubt. They do have the advantage of low taxes, but that's what attracts all those retirees who don't put anything back into the state.
But they also have guys who eat people's faces off for kicks, gators who would gladly eat those guys, insects larger than my head and sinkholes that would swallow my car. The horrendous humidity is broken up only by the occasional devastating hurricane and their crime rate exceeds RI's in every category but car theft - and that's just by a hair. Your likelihood of being a victim of violent crime in Florida - 1 in 194 - is way higher than RI's 1 in 404.
Now if you had said Charleston, SC - great city - you might have a point, but Florida?? Do we really rate LCOL above our safety, our education or our access to culture?
I'll give you one thing. Florida sports teams must be pretty great, because New Englanders go all the way down there to watch their games. Oh, wait...
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By what standard does Florida have a nice quality of life? That's one I've never heard before! Everyone I know who has moved to Florida has come running back as soon as they could. My sister-in-law is a teacher and was shocked at how far behind their schools are when she was living near Orlando. Kids told her straight out "Miss, we don't work that hard down here", when they weren't cursing her out.
Do we really rate LCOL above our safety, our education or our access to culture?
