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Replying to: ny540i6 (May 25, 2008 10:03 pm)
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Replying to: kdhspyder (May 26, 2008 4:54 am)
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Replying to: ny540i6 (May 25, 2008 10:07 pm) Can you and your wife get a full meal of chicken fajitas or carnitas for $7-$8 including tax and tip? We have 6 good Mexican places in our little town and only 4 gas stations. Cheapest gas is $4.15 at the Shell. A carne asada Burrito that is more than I can eat is $3.99. That includes chips, salsa and hot pickled carrots. We also have a Great Thai food restaurant that cooks everything fresh with NO MSG. Brooklyn Pizza is owned by a guy from NYC. He has real good thin crust Pizza. Still has NJ plates on his car, been here 3 years. He charges $18 for the Works, which seems high priced. But we like him so we splurge now and then. Have a great safe Memorial Day 
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Replying to: gagrice (May 26, 2008 5:39 am)  But seriously, if you know where to go, yes, you can find great, cheap eats. And a safe holiday to you and yours.
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Replying to: gagrice (May 25, 2008 5:36 pm) Local politics is neighborhood based, which generally means that only hyper local issues get managed. The mass transit system which is the oldest in the country, even older than NYC subway system, has long had enough clout to take care of itself, thankfully, but car traffic management has received only piecemeal support and then only with federal money. But, the "Big Digg", a $14 billion dollar project, is probably the last such road project of it's kind. Here come the bike trail projects! The vast majority of housing in middle class areas have only street parking. Some homes on my street only added off street parking 50 years after the original home was built. Picture bull dozers carving away chunks of the homes foundation walls to make room for a single car width driveways two cars long running into the back yard. Nothing gets torn down. A 150 old twenty room mansion on my street got bought for demolition. The neighbors literally marched to the local police station and in mob fashion said "No way". The mayor of Boston literally had to step in and provide money to the developer to move a three story, 20 room mansion in tact. And even after that projected finish, the developer left cars parking on the street. That's the picture of modern Boston folks should have. Cars ain't gonna ever go away and the ain't gonna ever get managed. Chaos reigns! |
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Replying to: gagrice (May 25, 2008 3:13 pm) 60.3 miles according to Yahoo. If the pickumup gets 20 mpg we are talking 6 gallons or about $24 round trip. Folks in the rural areas are definitely cutting back on their trips to town.
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Replying to: ny540i6 (May 26, 2008 5:46 am) It use to drive me crazy when I would go out to eat with friends in Anchorage. They always wanted to take me to one of the Mexican restaurants that had the "best" Mexican food. I would choke on the prices they charged. I usually ended up paying the bill. There is just no way in the world a Mexican meal is worth $12-$15. Same reason we rarely go out for Italian. Just no way that pasta can be worth the prices charged. I guess we are spoiled and cheap. Spent too many years in poverty to squander money. It does bother me to see Gen Y nieces and nephews racing around in blinged out Denalis & 4X4 PU trucks, while their parents slave to keep up with all the bills. The younger generation is in for a big shock when mom and dad cannot subsidize their high flying lifestyles. Many seem to have no economic sense. |
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Replying to: avalon02wh (May 26, 2008 7:10 am) |
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Replying to: avalon02wh (May 26, 2008 7:10 am) I think that's already been a way of life for rural residents for a long time. We have some friends down in Holly Brook, Va, which is up in the mountains. My uncle lived down there for a few years, when he had this fascination for mountain living...guess he took "Grizzly Adams" to heart! Anyway, the nearest semi-big town was Bluefield, West VA. I just mapquested it, and it's "only" a 21.3 mile trip. Mapquest thinks you could make it in 33 minutes. But I doubt if you're going to, with some of those mountain roads. I remember people down there would tend to go into Bluefield as rarely as possible. They'd buy as many groceries as would fit in their car, hopefully lasting them a couple weeks. And then, with the more perishable stuff like milk and such, they'd just buy from a local Mom & pop store. Lotta people raised chickens too, so they'd have fresh eggs. A lot of the people down there didn't have much money, so they learned to conserve and be resourceful long before fuel prices started to shoot up.
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