Different_Ad7655

Different_Ad7655 t1_jd352af wrote

Just stay on the highway and don't go exploring through a more rural crossing. Perhaps entry into Canada is easy this way but wow I got the third degree coming back over the two lane crossing near richford Vermont in the Northeast Kingdom. Took me more than an hour of searching and I was the only car. Stay on 89.

Manchester still has French parishes but it is rare that you still hear it on the street anymore as it was in the '60s when I was growing up. I know plenty that speak French but do not use it anymore.. Better luck if you go all the way up to Berlin, more isolated. But yes others have stated at that point just go to Quebec

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jcfvuaa wrote

“Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.” (Heinrich Heine ) So prophetically stated in the Rhineland in 1822.. “where they burn books , eventually they will also burn people..“.

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jcdr88s wrote

I plowed snow for almost 40 years in New Hampshire and in the last 10 years that I worked that snow rain line continue to move north more and more. But it's nice to see with this storm it's exactly where it used to be for decades right at 495 before you cross into New Hampshire. It was always sleet just before that and then snow into Salem

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jc7yd1e wrote

Parts are dense and then there are sections that look just like New England only without utility lines lol. Of course even in the dentist areas we don't bother to bury the lines and it makes a tragic mess. I remember in Manchester during the ice storm , perhaps 2012 ? the city was out on one large part of the west side for two complete weeks because trees took down the lines. Not to mention how ugly they are. Anytime you go to a town center south of the border the difference is immediately apparent in the town center or the main roads where the lines are buried.. It's just a matter of will and appropriation, one little stretch at a time

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jc7xrcp wrote

Oh my god but we're talking about New Hampshire and New England, nor do we do in Texas, or any other manageable location... and you do it one mile at a time. Perhaps where there's barely anybody it would be a lot cheaper to do , just as we built roadways or not do it at all. I'm driving the strip right now as we talk in Kansas.. much of Texas the same The wide open prairies the same with California. But we don't do it anywhere except every now and then in a part of a city center or here and there are village.. It's a cannot do attitude

It's this same mentality can't do can't do to expensive oh my God that has left it the way it's been since it's inception. Jesus Christ even Poland has most of its line buried when I go back to visit the family

It's simply takes a will and allocating the funds to do it. This is what Germany did after world war II 1 km at a time and the same could be done in New Hampshire but no no, always the scare tactic

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jc7548p wrote

It's called the absurd situation in America that we have never muscled up and spent the money to bury the power lines. It looks so goddamn third world after you come back from a place in Europe. There has always been all sorts of whining from the public service companies, and politicians in a zillion reasons why this or that can't be done, but of course it is done all over the place and everybody benefits. It's a very expensive process to do initially but not only are the lines more secure underground, but then the roads are a thousand times more beautiful without them polesand then the constant problem of downlines every time the weather farts. It's amazing how advanced and how incredibly awkward America is in some things

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jc4enxx wrote

Well all I can tell you, after almost 40 years of commercially snow plowing, it's going to snow in March, often very significant snowfall, nawth eastuhs in March, heavy and wet and possibly as late as early April absolutely nothing new.. turn off the TV and just sit back and enjoy it. Just be surprised

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jc1e6et wrote

Oh God, if everybody in New England especially Northern New England would retire this pathetic neologism that was invented 30 years ago or so nor'easter. Come on come on come on. If you're going to speak like a New Englander you're going to drop the R's at least. This piece of crap nor'easter word never existed was invented by some weather guy and more importantly perpetuated by the weather channel. Oh it grates on my ears every time I hear it.. If anything pronounce it nawth eastuh. Come on take back your home turf and do not except this import. NAWTH EASTUH. That should be the proper pronunciation of such a storm system as it always was before the silliness took over 25 years or so ago

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jbhwxqk wrote

Looks like a pretty even vote to me . And as far as obeying their master hmmmm I think you don't have to look far for the pitcherof Donald Kool-Aid. I could only wish that Democrats listened to their "masters" and voted as a block. If that were the case we would certainly control the house

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jaezn2d wrote

Right, and he got pissed. If they had been no gun involved maybe he might have sucker punched the guy back out on the street and it would have just been assault or something like that. That's exactly the whole point. He brought a gun. Or God forbid, just left. But no no way too much testosterone for that

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Different_Ad7655 t1_ja93uqj wrote

That's positive because in my mind as I stated this is a key part of such sustainable housing. Whether it is subsidized or Freehold, it's good to have a stake in the community, and be able to walk at least partially to where you want to be. After all if you're selecting a small house you already are are Limited in funds probably and one of the great indictments of our society is how much you have to spend on Transportation to get where you have to be, not where you want to be. The poor, especially with kids, the elderly the infirmed all get screwed

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Different_Ad7655 t1_ja8k6eg wrote

I'm always amazed that tiny houses are trotted out as if they have just been invented. All you have to do is go up and down the East Coast to any older city and you will find plenty of tiny houses, row upon row of them many of them incredibly derelict where nobody wants them anymore.. I'm not against any houses at all, in fact I'm looking for a relative small house for myself at the moment in New England, but I would much rather see people reinvest in what is already existing then rather sprawling across the landscape with new stuff. There is so much of it to be had, in the "wrong" neighborhoods. Florida or up and down the whole coast or probably into the Midwest. It's time that rather than building new, there's new interest in a measured gentrification if you will or renovation or repopulation of areas of concentrated growth... The warning is there for these new tiny developments wherever they may be. If they're populated with people that have little money , Little werewithal, what will happen of them once the first generation leaves or moves on.. housing should be more than just a roof over your head, but part of a community and this is what's missing sorely in the US. This understanding of how to knit all of this stuff back into the fabric of a real urban life, place you can walk to work, find employment and live in a real neighborhood

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Different_Ad7655 t1_ja6wvpq wrote

March is off in a very very snowy month. I certainly remember significant blizzard northeaster-type snowfall in mid-March and certainly all the way to early April. Sometimes what we get now is it and sometimes it just continues, no way of knowing

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Different_Ad7655 t1_ja4aack wrote

Well I think we are describing is just the American tourist in general and the hideous reputation they have abroad. New Hampshire is the host state out of stateers are the guest, the tourist. I don't think it's so particular to Massachusetts but rather as a state the generic over there in American abroad, the Karen, fortunately not everybody's like that

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