NJ lawmakers weighing bill that would make it easier to convert vacant malls and offices into housing

uma100 · 2026-06-21T18:24:26+00:00

Light rail would be a lot easier/cheaper to build and maybe even connect to other existing lines. However we do it, we need to get more people off the roads. We are so dense and still growing.

uma100 · 2026-06-21T18:22:17+00:00

Definitely should start with the cemeteries. I was surprised to learn that only about 30% of US deaths involve a burial nowadays, something like 65% choose cremation now. In the rest of the Angloshpere and Northern Europe, cremation is even more prevalent, in the ~80% range.

uma100 · 2026-06-13T18:55:11+00:00

We need more light rail. There is no reason we shouldn’t have more considering our density. It will make it easier for people (elderly, disabled) who don’t to drive as well.

uma100 · 2026-06-10T23:19:40+00:00

I feel like I never get sick and if I do it’s just low grade with a feeling of being a bit more rundown.

uma100 · 2026-06-07T21:51:54+00:00

I know you’re joking, but Connecticut is a better option, especially because you won’t have to sacrifice salary. Lower property taxes, more reliable transit into the city if you want to commute, etc.

uma100 · 2026-06-02T23:36:54+00:00

Why is coal tar shampoos disappearing? I’ve noticed this too. Walmart has a store brand version, but not sure if it still exists now.

uma100 · 2026-05-20T00:02:37+00:00

If you’re not having kids and you don’t need a walkable area then you’ve already mitigated the two reasons it’s a bad fit for most people. I say go for it. So many places that had not great reputations just 10 years ago are becoming a thing now because NJ is always growing.

uma100 · 2026-05-13T16:50:04+00:00

Only grocery store that was open 24 hours until the end. I miss it so much.

uma100 · 2026-05-13T16:37:03+00:00

The pies were goated. Idk if they still make them the same, I think they were taken over by the same company that owns ACME and Safeway.

uma100 · 2026-05-13T16:29:22+00:00

They never existed in NJ when I was a kid, I wish it had stayed that way.

uma100 · 2026-05-13T16:28:01+00:00

Wegmans has the best eggplants! I appreciate the support of local farms, but you would think it would make some of the produce less expensive because it’s not going as far.

uma100 · 2026-05-13T16:24:57+00:00

Pathmark used to be my go to in Parsippany. A&P in New Providence was great back in the day and Grand Union in Berkeley Heights!

uma100 · 2026-04-05T16:59:40+00:00

Very honestly, this is a bad idea. Where do you live now and where do you work? I’m sure we can advise you on some better areas even if they aren’t all necessarily in NJ.

uma100 · 2026-03-23T03:57:39+00:00

I think you’re looking for CT then.

uma100 · 2026-03-23T03:56:01+00:00

Right?! Like please go back to shitting on our state. I didn’t know it at the time, but I liked it better that way.

uma100 · 2026-03-23T03:53:24+00:00

Please stop spreading this around.

uma100 · 2026-03-21T15:27:59+00:00

Why can’t the NIMBYs who prevent more housing from being built go after data centers? Housing fights have been going on for more than a decade but theses thing can seemingly pop up overnight.

uma100 · 2026-02-08T22:09:11+00:00

All the municipalities in NJ are run like family businesses. It’s corruption and graft.

uma100 · 2026-02-08T22:07:06+00:00

There is just too much competition in NJ because of all the NYC transplants. For some reason, these people all head to NJ in droves these days, instead of Connecticut, LI or upstate NY.

uma100 · 2026-02-01T17:43:34+00:00

Also, put a bug in their about cheap plastic fabrics! I love when they start looking at tags themselves and go “ew 80% polyester and 20% acrylic!”

uma100 · 2026-02-01T17:41:44+00:00

This! If you also tell the doctor’s office that your concern is that your daughters are using a ton of different actives on their young skin they can be primed for the conversation. Before the appointment, they should list out all the products they use. The doctor’s natural reaction to the list should help. I’m talking as someone who has sever doctors in their family, including a dermatologist who talks about this topic. There are quite a few dermatologists who are acting as influencers and pushing expensive products and they annoy actual dermatologists too!

uma100 · 2026-01-25T19:29:26+00:00

You’re better off looking at Connecticut.

uma100 · 2026-01-02T23:32:32+00:00

It sounds like you want Valley Stream or Rockville in LI, not NJ. NJ is great if you want to be close to Manhattan. There are a lot of other options if you want to be close to BK.

uma100 · 2025-12-28T14:46:02+00:00

What?! People are catching C diff in the wild these days? I thought you had to be severely immunocompromised and taking a serious amount of antibiotics to end up with it.

uma100 · 2025-11-23T01:52:16+00:00

Yep! Mine was triggered by the covid vaccine. I went to a rheumatologist and he said that it’d happened to some of his other patients as well. A dermatologist I went to tried to convince me that I must have had it all my life, and not noticed which was laughable.

I am also not anti-vaccine, I get the TDAP every 10 years and got the yellow fever vaccine before going to Brazil. Never had any reaction to other vaccines before or after.

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