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degggendorf t1_jeh4xyo wrote

Reply to comment by Locksmith-Pitiful in Is it possible to live in Rhode Island on 50K-55K? by SwagKing1011

> You don't respond in the first place claiming your house is 2k a month when you bought it years ago

They were quantifying their housing spend so OP could take that into account. In no way were they saying that OP could buy a house with a $2k mortgage today. They didn't even make claims about affordability for OP, just laid out their situation for OP to judge.

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degggendorf t1_jeh4fuo wrote

Reply to comment by Locksmith-Pitiful in Is it possible to live in Rhode Island on 50K-55K? by SwagKing1011

You responded to a person saying their mortgage was 2k and said they must live in a shack, and asked for examples of non-shacks for that price. OP buying a house now is irrelevant to that point. It seems like you just forgot that people could buy things in the past, and now you're moving the goalposts rather than just admitting you were mistaken and being a jerk.

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dollrussian t1_jeh4cfq wrote

Reply to comment by glennjersey in Mass shootings in the US since 2009. A mass shooting is defined as any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed. Since 2009, there have been 306 mass shootings, resulting in 1710 people shot and killed and 1087 people shot and wounded. ---NONE IN RHODE ISLAND! by wyzapped

oh my god, shut UP. Our right to free speech is about to be taken away by the RESTRICT act anyways.

literally, shut up. kids are DYING and all youre doing is whining about guns because you have to just have your boom boom toy that you have no reason to own besides the false sense of security it gives you.

why i'm even bothering to respond to you, i dont know. have your hunting riffles, have your hand guns, but somethings gotta give.

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degggendorf t1_jeh3xfk wrote

Reply to comment by pmk0286 in Is it possible to live in Rhode Island on 50K-55K? by SwagKing1011

Right on with Aldi, it's so good that every other grocery store is ruined for me. Hard to find anything, and when I do find what I want I'm appalled by the price.

As for internet, FIOS has been great for us if it's available in your/OP's area. $39.99/month all-in for 300/300 MBIT up/down. Has never changed since we signed up like 3 years ago. Turns out, competition is good and when Verizon has to fight Cox and others, we win.

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degggendorf t1_jeh3gm3 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Is it possible to live in Rhode Island on 50K-55K? by SwagKing1011

>show me a single instance of where you only need to pay 2k / month for a fucking reasonable house in Rhode island

I didn't downvote, but if I qualify: my mortgage including tax and insurance is $1,710.72 on a 2,700 SF 4 bed/3 bath.

It is so incredibly unfair to anyone who has to buy now over even just a few years ago like us. The house across the street from us that is comparable to ours (or if anything, worse) just sold for literally double what we bought ours for in 2018.

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degggendorf t1_jeh09t6 wrote

Reply to comment by Professional-Ask-630 in Meter replacement carries $200M shock: Rhode Island Energy’s advanced metering proposal ‘costs would be borne by ratepayers’ by york100

Those are perfect examples. How much does your TV cost to run? How much more (or less) are you spending with a "smart" fridge over a "dumb" one? What is the value of that vampire current when everything is "off"? Literally, tell me. Dollars and cents. How much is it for you? How much less will you spend if you set the AC to 76 instead of 74? How much does a shower cost per minute? How much do you save taking a "hot" shower instead of a "scalding hot" shower?

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