In laconia — it really did come down all day yesterday and harder than i’ve seen the last few months, but none of it stuck. Our covered porch never got visible snow because it just melted as soon as it hit the ground.

I didn’t know that, I’m a fairly recent import from FL, but they had really lax child labor laws there too. When I was a minor my managers at two different companies regularly broke break schedule laws even though I would remind them I had to take an unpaid break every 4 hours, I’d hit overtime and work overnights at one job because I didn’t have a traditional school schedule and could work different hours. At 16/17 years old. But it’s a little different than 10 year olds hitting the mines, hopefully it never goes to that again at least.

Yeah i pay for most of our groceries so my roomie can afford his half of the rent. But I make like 50% more than he does so I don’t mind doing it.

I mean laws are different now so realistically they’d probably just evict a family but even then for some low income people that could mean homelessness if they can’t find different housing, and most families are dual income these days anyways. But I just feel like it’s important to remember why company towns went away in the first place.

It’s becoming the norm for people to pay 50% of their wages or more in rent these days, it’s really fucked. And out of touch boomers will say it’s our fault we can’t afford homes.

Back when company towns were huge, they’d send someone to tell a man’s wife he’d died in the mines/factory/etc and they either needed to provide another worker (boy older than 10) or move within 7 days. If the child couldn’t be as productive as his father was, he’d get only half his dad’s wages so they’d still be fucked.

In this situation the cops wouldn’t have even needed to give up the information, they could have found the person’s contact info through the DMV and contacted them directly.

Thanks for this, this will be our first winter storm ever since moving from Florida. We are in Laconia so lucky us! I guess I’ll be making a quick grocery run in the morning so there’s absolutely no need to go anywhere.

My partner and I just moved to NH from FL, we went through avise properties and they have been amazing.

I have one, I work in insurance (2 weeks of licensing training my employer paid for). I got to bring my job with me to a state that doesn’t even require auto insurance. Though i don’t know if they would have hired me living in NH initially, I got hired in FL and moved about 9 months in.

It’s gonna be a lot harder to obtain a job in cybersecurity that’s fully remote, but for the time being i’m saving a lot of money and mental anguish getting out of florida.