Rents
Operational plumbing is NOT to be taken lightly… just try to go about your day if the water is turned off (something our building is experiencing with the new construction goin’ on around us).
Thanks to Jude, who provided panel 2…
Operational plumbing is NOT to be taken lightly… just try to go about your day if the water is turned off (something our building is experiencing with the new construction goin’ on around us).
Thanks to Jude, who provided panel 2…
Toilets: the pinnacle of human civilisation.
Seriously, try not using your toilet for a while. You’ll never take them for granted again.
I’ll agree with you to a point, Small Dave. But the invention of toilet PAPER is very close behind. It’s the difference between my being able to be left-handed instead of forced into being right-handed.
From Widipedia:
Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty’s paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty’s Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the inventor’s name. Original advertisements for the product used the tagline “The greatest necessity of the age! Gayetty’s medicated paper for the water-closet.”
In my area the problem isn’t so much rents for one-bedrooms, it’s the lack of their existence. Seriously, in a 20-mile radius, there are exactly 3 places that even have them.
It’s not you, Randie. Rents have gone way up for one bedroom apartments.
A co-worker once asked me about local apartments. She said, “It’s gotta be nice, it’s gotta be secure and it’s gotta be cheap.” I had a good laugh over that one.
Nah, Pete, there’s lots of stuff you can wash your butt with and I think paper is one of the less efficient. Now bidets, I wish THOSE were more popular in my country.
There are plenty of places that are nice, secure, cheap, and already occupied.
Dave/Pete… If you’ve ever been on the Underground tour of Seattle… you not only appreciate the importance of toilets (Crappers… really… that was his name, Thomas Crapper, flushing toilet inventer)… AND a series of pipes that don’t just dump into the bay… that would, er… eventually come back at you when the tides rose… smart plumbing… also very important.
Chug… Forced suburbia? and commuter-ness… that’s not right!
Yat/Mary… yah… that’s EXACTLY what Randie is looking for. We can all laugh, too…
Dave…. I am with you! France is full of the things… it’s a sensible invention.
Rents have gone way up, period. I’m paying almost 50% of my take-home pay on rent, for a *rental share*. If I rented a 1-bedroom place in a safe (but not trendy) neighborhood, I would be paying more than 65% of my take-home pay. If I rent further out in the boonies, the lower cost of rent is offset by the increased cost of gas spent driving to where I need to go on a daily basis. It is seriously whack what rent prices are compared to what people earn if they aren’t working in high-tech.
JC… the rents get higher the closer you get to Silicon Valley and San Fran… It’s amazing to me that someone could afford the ridiculous rents an mortgages in and around these cities… think of how hard it would be for a struggling artist to do this? SHeesh!