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Think of the condo tower that collapsed in Surfside, FL in 2021. There were 136 units in the building, and the bill for the structural repairs that were about to start on it was $15M. The smallest assessed share for that work was $80,190, and it got larger based on unit size. Getting hit with...

What I'm seeing in my city is that smaller, perfectly liveable existing homes are being targeted as tear-downs to be replaced with homes 3X the size and up to 4X the price. What's typical is that the house & lot sells for $250K, and is replaced with one that sells for $875K. Normally you are...

Tried all that; didn't work because I cannot save the file as-is to the phone's storage; the phone balks at that. Using a cable doesn't work because the phone app that created the file uses an odd format that Windows can't seem to recognize at all (I also tried saving it to the phone's micro-SD...

I'm guessing that the point of *this* Blue Milk is more about getting kids to agree to drink their milk, rather than any desire to actually replicate the flavor of the stuff available in the parks. Kids tend to love blue foods, for some reason.

Post Office here does photos (at $15/per), but only for a total of about 4 hours per week, and those appointments are booked up months in advance. The public library here has a photo booth setup at 2 of the branches, that one is $13 to do, but doesn't work for anyone shorter than 5'. AAA used...

While it doesn't have to be a utility bill, my state does specify that you must show a postmarked document issued within the past 6 months, and that it must be addressed by name to the applicant, on letterhead and sent from an "official" source such a government agency, established school, or...

It's insanely ironic that the gold standard for US ID is the passport, but a "RealID" driver's license makes you jump through a lot more hoops than getting a passport. The PITA of the DIY photo standards notwithstanding, the passport is MUCH easier to get. In most states it's especially...

Most post offices do them (and if you are renewing for someone under age 16 you cannot renew by mail, only in person), but if you need to go to the post office. then you'll need to make an appointment for most of them, as they have cut the hours when passport processing is available. The post...

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Ours was lovely; it was fall and the leaves had turned, and it was very cozy with fireplaces everywhere and lots of good French food. (Our only hitch was that we had used every bit of our vacation time, and DH realized on the day before we needed to fly home...

I would think that for aging in place, a lift would be a more economical option than zero entry, which takes up an awful lot of space. You could have the structural and electrical components for a lift built-in but not actually add the lift itself unless you needed it.

I stay up all night everytime before a trip if the entire family is going. If I'm traveling alone, not an issue. (I keep duplicate sets of toiletries in every suitcase so I don't have to pack them each time, but DH *constantly* messes with my system so I have to keep re-checking and re-packing...

First off; many people seem to have run with the idea that because this clerk acted innappropriately, that she must be on the spectrum. As I said in my previous post, it's unlikely given the facts as we know them, but I want to reiterate that even if she is on the spectrum, autism is not a...

That price gap would be due to the cost of ice rental for games and practices. It's the biggest expense in team-based ice sports, and you seldom really have control over it; you pay what the rinks charge. (There are vanishingly few high schools that actually have their own rinks, mostly...

I'd advise NOT transferring to your overseas flight in Chicago or Dallas. Get as close to your destination as you can within the US for the first leg so as to break the flight lengths more evenly. I don't know if your destination is northern or southern Europe; but we fly to the UK and Ireland...

As the parent of a adult high-functioning autistic individual, I think that had the employee stopped with just the first comment, then it would make some sense,, but the threat part was very uncharacteristic of someone on the spectrum in such a situation. It's very typical for an autistic...

Montreal and Quebec City. I'll be going in a couple of months with DD as she's considering going to school there; not sure yet if DH can come along, as he might have to work. We haven't been back since our honeymoon, as I've become less cold-tolerant as I've gotten older, and also, for some...

My niece was part of this one. One of my other nieces, 20 years older, refused to be seen in public with her wearing those jeans, not because of the width, but the length; it was part of the style that they had to be dragging the ground, and she was constantly tripping and dragging mud...

You can limit how many are sold in a given day, though, which is the truly effective way to do it. Not all in one go in the morning, but dribbling out availability during the day. I think that resort guests should get a limited number of skip-the-line opportunities during a given day, which...

The food-order system is pretty much the only pandemic-era change that I think was a success. It's nice to be able to order food while in a ride-line and then go pick it up without wasting any time standing in a food line, too.

The channel has been re-routed and opened to limited shallow-draft traffic as of yesterday afternoon. This allows barges to get through and move cargo out to other ports; the first vessel through was a tug pushing a bargeload of jet fuel for the Air Force. (The depth of the channel on this...