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I have a quarter acre, essentially nothing, and I pay $40 per mow, and mows go from April til November. It's all going to depend on where you are and the size of your property.

Petition doesn't have any real value so it doesn't matter anyway. You did hit the nail on the head though. The mom's story was awful, and as a parent I hate to hear it and think only of my own kids, but like you said it is only one side of the story, and a side with what may be considered a vested interest.

Someone comes to your work and says things you consider to be untrue publicly. What would you do?

You can check. Google "NJ anchor status," because I can't remember the link and if I leave typing this comment I'll never come back.

And obviously go-karts while there.

Nothing new. Not just retirement communities, anywhere where at-risk populations reside, be they geriatric or mental health, etc. Bridgewater successfully put an ordinance in place (can't recall the specifics) to try to hep the problem, but still we rolled buses in the wee hours for absolute bullshit calls.

And at the end of the day no ordinance in place will have any teeth, because you can't stop people from dialing 911. So what happens? Volunteer squad sends ambulance, costs hundreds of dollars for nothing call, donations wane, membership declines, volunteer ambulance service ceases to exist, hospital swoops in, end. And so the abuse of emergency services leads to $900-1800 ambulance rides to a "non-profit" hospital.

This one feels legitimate to me, considering I'm seeing more than just shovels in the ground too. I also know nothing.

Just knock down homes and pave over rivers.

Just to add on this, FEMA flood maps are due for a change very, very soon. They should be out already. IDA did a number on everything, and out of an abundance of caution I'd add 2 feet, at least to everything, as crazy as that sounds. NJ Hazard Mitigation plans are due 2025, and they'll need up-to-date maps to prepare them. So it should all be coming down the pike.

Yeah, sucks to think there's something else that would potentially hold up buying a home now.

Him and the dude who took out his summer clothes. Buffoons.

Or it'll be that shitty heavy snow that the kids can't enjoy, and I'm stuck shoveling in the rain, I hurt my back, I get addicted to pills, my wife leaves me and takes the kids, I am forced out of my own home, I end up living under the bridge by the Y. Hope it's not that.

I'll blame the wind. I was driving the other day watching a cleanup dude try to throw stuff into his truck and the wind just ripping it out of his hands. I tell my kids that some litter is just bad people, but some other litter is just stuff the wind took, and it gets stuck in a windstop somewhere.

If you are yellow car, I implore you to also have some awareness. It is not your responsibility but it never hurts to just slow down a bit to let someone over or whatever.

Red deserves nothing short of a painful death though.

I went and checked his Ballotopedia. Seems like an all right dude. Don't like it all, never going to. Really seems focused on vets and first responders.

The affordable housing stuff can go either way, but I like the idea of assessing a town's water and sewer, as well as public services, before forcing a town to just add thousands of units in order to meet an obligation or else lose all rights to builders remedy. The pendulum has swung way too far in favor of developers and needs to swing back, but not at the expense of actually producing affordable housing.

He sponsored a bill to make May LEO and CO month. A whole month? Really?

There's turtleback zoo in West Orange. Could swing by and wave at the Prudential center on your way into the ironbound afterward for some Portuguese food as well.

Diggerland is in south jersey, but if I know anything about Ontario license plates, you're heading down last AC, so it'd be out of the way to head west. Not sure what kind of time you'll be spending.

I forgot to add, I've done and will be doing drive from Jersey to Montreal a bunch. Once you exit Jersey, either from here to Montreal or to Toronto or Ottawa, there's very little to do. Maybe from Ottawa for Niagara you can visit the Finger Lakes, but for an 8 year old, it won't be too fun. Straight through from Niagara is about 6-7h. And upstate NY cops are the worst. So not a great ride, is what I'm saying. Flying, however, to Montreal, for example, you end up hardly saving time over driving, if you just chug through the trip.

I was 24 maybe, 2011. My mom was moving to JC to a one-bedroom and so I got the boot. Was making maybe 40k, thinking it was great. Moved in with a friend, paid $700 a month, but also took on other bills associated with living alone and 40k went from seeming great to not so great, so decided I needed to stop half-assing my work and start whole-assing it. Moved into another place, two roommates in a 3BR in New Brunswick. Saved more. 2014 came and I bought my home, met my now wife, etc. etc.

Had fun living with roommates. Had fun before I had my kids. Have fun now with kids, but it's a shitload more work, but also incredibly rewarding.

I will let my kids stay with me long enough to get financially comfortable. I won't force them out (unless God forbid they get hooked on drugs, and then you can't enable them) and leave them to financial instability. I was fortunate enough to get my house in 2014, when prices were low, my initial mortgage was at 4.25%, and has since come down even further. Just absolutely lucky and I try to not take it for granted, so my goal is to set my kids up as well as I can so they don't have to take on unnecessary stress, because stress is a killer.

Yeah, I could've been more clear. If a third party is opening the road for whatever reason, it's on their dime, presumably from some escrow. If the municipality is, it's from a different pool of taxpayer dollars.

Yeah, agree with everything you said. The law, that can be changed, and it was like, what a decade or two ago? But at the end of the day, folks are definitely less inclined to tell a cop to fuck off.

Yeah, I'm not suggesting I agree with the whole practice. Personally, I think some dude who's new to construction is perfectly capable of standing and holding a flag or something for about $100 less an hour than a cop. But I also imagine that there is some benefit to having a cop doing it versus just some kid with a flag.

And those are jobs paid for by non-tax dollars. Work a road crew? Money is coming from whoever opened the road. Working a street fair? Whoever put on the fair pays. How one accrues three times their salary doing that, I'm not sure, but perhaps for someone in a director's position they get higher rates of pay to take part in these things.

And non-tax dollars presumably includes grant funding as well.

It's a mess isn't it? Cheap and unlivable or expensive as fuck. There is no middle. Living past 85 is not on my to do list.

No nightlife? What about the Top o the Hill Tavern?!

Better than Irvington for sure.

I'm from the area so if you can clarify what you're looking for I'd love to share some opinions.

I think cleanup and environmental issues have come a very long way since the 80s and 90s. Or I hope. God, I hope.

NJ is definitely polluted. America was built on the back of NJ industry. NJ has not begin given its just due in regard to the hundreds of sites that are essentially unusable at this point, and it's a shame because there is a growing dearth of land in proximity to places people work.

To the OC of this chain, cleanups vary from site to site. Sometimes there's digs. Sometimes there's monitoring and capping. It really depends on what's there. If it's buried household waste, essentially, capping it and preventing it from being disturbed, placing monitoring wells downstream to monitor for any impacts to groundwater, you kind of cover all the bases.

And that's a simplistic recap, but at the end of the day you identify what's there, identify if and where it's going, and from there you determine the course of action.

I hope I get an opportunity to steal this from you sometime, that's fantastic.