"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling) 03/30/2019 at 22:35 • Filed to: Horrifying

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I was forced to turn my air conditioner on because it was hot this week. The weather is so bipolar that we have to run the house with a hot and cold limit, too.

Not my car, because I don’t have it set to those French units, plus I’m too lazy to go out there.

I hate the summer.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/30/2019 at 22:37

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Whenever I train people, I warn them,  “Eastside is wherever you live + 10 degrees after March.”

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/30/2019 at 22:41

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It’s -10 to -20 degrees prior to that transition, too.

I miss Bainbridge most of the year. Didn’t realize how good I had it, even when it got hot (which was nasty because until very recently there wasn’t much with A/C over there).

HammerheadFistpunch > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/30/2019 at 22:41

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Yup, this is the season I like having a heat pump option - set to temp and let it run one way or the other.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 03/30/2019 at 22:50

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I just have the A/C and heater both controlled by the Nest. It’s just weird to have half of the day heating and the other half cooling. Until I moved out here I spent 12 years living in places where winter was rarely cold enough for heat (those times you’d bundle up and light the fireplace) , then you had a long temperate period where you keep windows open, then it starts getting hot so you close the windows and turn on the A/C... I don’t like what it’s doing right now.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/30/2019 at 22:50

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Wow, you lived on Bainbridge? Because it is increasin gly — and nearly entirely -- fancy fucks now. Last time I was there I was like, “Couldn’t afford it, but yeah, I kind of get it.”

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/30/2019 at 22:55

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Yeah. Moved away a couple years ago. Stopped in Bellevue for a while before moving out here.

It’s crazy how radically it changed in the time I lived there. Literally went from a place where you could find a totally workable apartment for under $500 a month to any shelter whatsoever costs thousands a month. The old islanders have been mostly displaced in the last 4-5 years. Almost everyone that grew up there lives somewhere in North Kitsap now (Suquamish through Poulsbo, primarily), which has forced those areas out of the Stone Age. Suquamish was getting downright livable due to the influx of wealthier, but not wealthy, people moving in. It used to be a really rough place.

If I had the $200-250k to put down on a house there when I lived/worked there, I probably never would have left. It wasn’t unaffordable relative to over here, but the down payment was excessive. To get this place I live in now (which is relatively cheap), we still had to amass a pretty  substantial down payment, but started a lot closer than that...

HammerheadFistpunch > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/30/2019 at 23:01

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Spring isn’t my favorite time in Utah because its not great skiing (later) but too wet to bike and its almost a promise that it will rain down south.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/30/2019 at 23:02

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Everything is different.

Everyone who bought any residence in Seattle in 2015 has equity between 50 and 100%. Places that were miles of forest and meth houses (NE Redmond or North Creek   for example ) are now *the* destination for wealthy Chinese or Indian families. I spent money to stay in Everett. Stay in Everett! What a time to be alive...

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/31/2019 at 00:02

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When I moved to BI, the house I used to decide to do it was 4/3, 3000sq/ft, $395k,   and two blocks from my office. Literally so cheap that I expected to buy a similar one a year later once I recovered my savings from the move. That didn’t happen, prices skyrocketed within a year...

It has affected so many rough places, it’s true. Where have all the poor/addicted people gone, aside from the streets of all the major cities in the region?

DipodomysDeserti > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/31/2019 at 00:17

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Where you at? I’m in Phoenix and have had my doors open all week. Soaking in the mild temps before summer hits. We were at 86F today and my tortoise was out bathing in the sun.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/31/2019 at 00:29

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They're everywhere. There's even a large homeless camp on Camano Island. Many more shuffling between Skagit and Pierce in run down campers and RVs.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > DipodomysDeserti 03/31/2019 at 14:17

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Seattle, where it was nearly the temperature of the surface of the Cancer Lamp we orbit earlier this week.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/31/2019 at 14:18

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What’s funny is that even when I got to BI the place already had homeless people. Some had been there for years. They lived in the woods and the  locals were cool with them at the time.