Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Please don’t feed the bears.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Come on, man.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

No one could have predicted…

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Let’s finish the job.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

White supremacy is terrorism.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

This fight is for everything.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

People are weird.

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  1. 1.

    dr. bloor

    It’s fun, but anything that puts me in Queens needs some tweaking. I’m the ultimate Brooklyn snob.

  3. 3.

    The Sad Clam

    My SIL (who rents, being the consummate New Yorker) was just offered the “insider price” to buy her meh one bedroom apartment in the East Village (one of the more affordable places): $800,000. Plus taxes and monthly maintenance are high! Yay!

  8. 8.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Here is the City equation:

    The modern American city minus government benefits, say, in the case of hyper-inflation, equals free fire zone.

    Enjoy the $6 coffees. For this price, you do not even get free refills.

  9. 9.

    beltane

    I grew up in NYC and my two oldest children were born in Brooklyn. I cannot see being able to afford even thinking about living there again for the remainder of my life. This said, Brooklyn Heights is just about the most beautiful neighborhood in any city in any country.

  10. 10.

    Xboxershorts

    I love living in Flyover PA. I got an acre yard, a garage converted to a photo/video studio with a studio apartment over it (which is rented out), a picnic pavilion, a tool shed, a mountain stream …all for a mortgage of 350 a month and 750 a year in taxes.

    I live an hour from the nearest Walmart, and that’s ok with me too.

    Why anyone would choose to pay that kind of money to have thousands of people breathing down your neck at all times is beyond me.

    When I let the dog out to pee in the morning, I am free to pee off the stoop too!

    Now THAT’S freedom!

  13. 13.

    beltane

    @Mike Kay: I live in northern Vermont. Left NYC thirteen years ago. I liked living in the city, and I like living in a rural area, I simply cannot tolerate living in the suburbs (tried it briefly).

  17. 17.

    Hann1bal

    Hey, if I look out the window, I can see all the press vans in front of the Baldwin County Courthouse for the Ben Roethlisberger press conference. It’ll be interesting to see what comes from this.

  18. 18.

    David in NY

    OK, my neighborhood is not even on that list, and the reasonable plausible equivalents are in the bottom ten or 20. Oh well. On the other hand, I may soon trade in a house for a 2-bedroom apartment in the top ten or so.

  20. 20.

    geg6

    @Xboxershorts:

    Isn’t that “God’s Country?” LOL! I used to have a friend who had a farm in Gold. We used to go there on weekends and have huge pot and acid parties, way back in the late 70s/early 80s. There was a little bar in Coudersport whose patrons would just scowl every time we invaded the place, all hopped up and hippie-like.

    That said, it would seem that I would be destined to live in the East or West Village, with the Lower East Side, Park Slope, or Tribeca as alternate choices.

    Sounds about right to me.

  22. 22.

    Bnut

    Park Slope is gorgeous and safe, but as soon as my lease is up in August, this breeder haven is getting put in the rearview mirror for someplace that doesn’t cost me my one good leg.

  24. 24.

    roseyv

    Huh. No matter how important I made “affordability,” Brooklyn Heights kept coming out above Bay Ridge (often even at #1), despite the fact that rents are at least three times higher there.

    Odd.

    Also, what’s “creative capital?”

  25. 25.

    4jkb4ia

    Pulitzers out. McClatchy on Goldman Sachs robbed! NYT series on “Driven to Distraction” won instead. People should know that talking on cellphones in cars is dangerous without the series.

  26. 26.

    sparky

    @beltane: agreed. suburban life is pretty meh, IMO. better to be in the city or the country, assuming either is possible. i miss NYC sometimes, but i sure don’t miss what happened to Greenpoint, my old ‘hood.

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