bike touring is kinda its own training, your body gets into a rhythm especially starting out easier and with a rest day in there, and doing it parallel to an amtrak line does provide bailouts just in case it doesn't
the erie canal path is now quite extensively connected as part of the 'empire state trail' & there are plenty of b&b/hotel options along it and it's pretty easy to get to with a bike from milwaukee by amtrak from chicago (and thus mke)
also chock full of great blue herons
some newish trails/protected lanes but still plenty of gaps
it's like 80% trail between Chicago and Minneapolis which I did last summer
I rode my road bike 200 kilometers on Saturday in kit and my ebike 16 miles round trip to work yesterday, they are both nice ways to get around and get outside and to get some exercise
It would have been Sears, parent company of Prodigy
(But also I do buy many AmazonBasics brand items and regularly find them satisificing)
also knowledge of what a housing market looks like when supply is sufficient to meet demand rather than in severe shortage for generations
as a milwaukee to nyc transplant i bring the gospel of sewer socialism with me
Also the C&NW grade separated mainline RoW that's dramatically underutilized as just a bike trail through some of its densest neighborhoods
The Speedrail lines going west from Milwaukee had substantial grade separation/private RoW
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Do you have any plans to run this same analysis on the AAMUP area as the development proceeds? There's substantial construction already completed and in progress
Not needing to own a car and having some form of low-cost stable tenure in an NYC apartment can be very good for one's savings rate if one has remotely frugal habits
We've only melted like 30% of what's solid into air so far
tragically us civilians during world war ii had to make do with fresh food because the military needed all the canned food
sent a variant telling them that san diego's public spacesdesigned to grind humans into hamburger meat are one of the main reasons i got the hell out
They pay standard property taxes in NYC but standard property taxes in NYC are extremely dysfunctional
"fuck the g-rods, I want the machines that are makin' 'em"
they fill up normal trash cans way too quickly so easy to just set up something to handle them if it's a park by a pizza place
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That's like a 199 seat NYC City Council
I have also been fortunate enough to be protected from inflationary shocks in housing by NYC's rent stabilization
As a person who came of economic age in the aftermath of 2008 I was planning on the tech bubble popping in 2015 or so and saving accordingly, so the fact that things have kept on chugging since (even with the 2022-2023 pullback, during which I also needed to get a job) has been a pleasant surprise
I recently learned my parents only managed to get the house I was raised in because it was stuck on the market into the fall/winter after the 1987 flash crash, and they sold out of a neighborhood that was declining during the Reagan Recession and has basically never recovered since
I mean 1848 ended up not working out great (I guess other than my ancestors getting the hell out of the Rhineland to lib out in Wisconsin)
Gonna go with Transylvania cuz I went to Unitarian church in Waukesha County and Transylvania is where the Unitarians are in the old Kingdom of Hungary
I mean I basically followed the Dick Florida playbook and it worked out better than I had any right to expect it to, but that's because he defined "creative class" incredibly broadly to include software engineers
The other side of that is that the experience of seeing housing prices go up since 2020 is very unpleasant and novel for my high school classmates who stayed in Milwaukee, since they'd been stagnant since before we were born
Growing up in Milwaukee which, like a lot of the upper Midwest had a really bad time in the 80s and didn't really recover until the late 2010s means I romanticize my parents' time a lot less than people from, say, SF
along with the now-permanent sectoral recession in journalism, the field has also been concentrating in a few very expensive cities like NYC/SF/DC— "buy a nice house as a reporter at a Milwaukee newspaper" is no longer meaningfully an option
