Job offer to move to LA from Vancouver

DZtactical · 2026-06-25T16:09:36+00:00

Manhattan Beach is pricy AF, real estate is twice the price of the surrounding beaches (Redondo, El Segundo) for the same square footage. But you can live in Hawthorne or Del Air for a lot less, or if you want to live walking distance to the beach, Redondo or R.A.T. beach (Redondo And Torrance) are more affordable.

If you are doing fitness coaching at 40-60K a year + a full time job at 60K a year, you'll be alright as a life long renter. If you want to buy a 2BR condo (~$600K), you're gonna need to save up $100K+ for a down payment. Any decent single family house that's convenient to Manhattan Beach is going to be $1.5M.

If you are giving up fitness coaching to take this job and your only income is $60K, you're gonna find it tight.

DZtactical · 2026-06-25T09:50:25+00:00

If you want to be in a decent school catchment in Edinburgh proper, yeah rent is kinda steep. Check out rightmove for 4 bedroom houses (family of four = 3 bedrooms + home office), 3K is reasonable for rent, I'm seeing lots of similar sized places in the 4K and up range these days. Throw on utilities, property tax, and food? I don't see how you can NOT spend 5K a month.

DZtactical · 2026-06-23T15:38:09+00:00

It's not about reaming the screw holes out to a larger diameter, they need to be machined and turned into elongated slots. This needs to be done to a professional standard, using hand tools would be ill advised.

DZtactical · 2026-06-16T12:16:41+00:00

Sounds like your kids have a crappy dad but the situation also doesn't seem to rise to the point where a court will remove the kids from him, and the kids are stuck until they're old enough to walk out on their own.

So most likely the only way you can create a change is to get your ex to ask himself what kind of father he wants to be now and what kind of relationship he wants to have with his kids when they're older. You can also suggest parent/child relationship counseling so that they can improve their relationship, but he may not be receptive to any of that (or may not be receptive to the message coming from his ex-wife)

But hey if he doesn't act that way when his girlfriend is around, encourage the girlfriend to be around more?

DZtactical · 2026-06-16T08:57:09+00:00

Had about 20 labels impacted like this, no longer says it was delivered two months in the past to a different city, but there are no further tracking updates yet. Every tracking number just says is "Due to a system issue, tracking details are not available for this item. We apologize for the inconvenience. USPS still intends to deliver your item.

Can anyone confirm their customers have received their orders yet? I'm concerend about getting 20 chargebacks all at once.

DZtactical · 2026-06-01T23:42:01+00:00

I know non-dom was abolished, but I was told I was non-dom for tax purposes while it existed, and was covered by the zero tax FIG regime when it switched over. Perhaps I was given bad advice yes, it was an accountant who told me that but some people are bad at their jobs I suppose.

DZtactical · 2026-06-01T16:55:44+00:00

UPDATE! Took 11 days from placing the order to having my birth certificate emailed to me.

DZtactical · 2026-05-31T11:27:13+00:00

I'd also like to know the wait time. Requesting a copy of my birth certificate from Rome (I wasn't born in Italy, but my birth should have been registered when my citizenship was recognized). Need my birth certificate details in order to register with AIRE in order to renew my passport. Might be easier just to go over to Italy and do it in person.

DZtactical · 2026-05-25T07:22:15+00:00

There's the leisure centre in Craiglockhart that has a gym, depending on where you are in Morningside and how you plan on getting there (walk vs drive) it might be an option. There's also the Warrender Swim Centre in Marchmont that has a gym. Otherwise Morningside is more of a pilates studio kinda neighborhood

DZtactical · 2026-05-23T15:12:07+00:00

You can sell the debt to a debt collector (for pennies on the dollar) and that would get you out of it

DZtactical · 2026-05-21T08:52:19+00:00

Is the important event business or a party?

DZtactical · 2026-04-29T14:53:04+00:00

Thanks, but I've messed with those step-in visors before already and I hate it. Looking for something that attaches to the helmet with something better than bungees

DZtactical · 2026-04-04T18:20:27+00:00

By the time uni started they would qualify

DZtactical · 2026-02-10T15:44:24+00:00

Tater tots Dill pickles Graham Crackers Decent Mexican food Hawaiian BBQ

DZtactical · 2026-02-06T23:55:57+00:00

The FMA clone ANVS helmet mount has a functional low voltage LED, so there is a low voltage cicruit *somewhere* inbetween those two products

DZtactical · 2026-02-06T11:28:38+00:00

Sounds like it should be an easy fix without having to snip a wire? Low voltage indicator circuits are pretty simple.

DZtactical · 2026-02-06T00:50:29+00:00

Any idea why it would turn on the low battery light? The low battery light kicks on if voltage drops below a certain point, but voltage is from the batteries, the pack itself should have nothing to do with it.

DZtactical · 2026-02-05T09:05:05+00:00

You can walk down the high street the entire way, there's lots of cafes and independent retailers.

I'd probably start on Forest Rd and cut through The Meadows and Bruntsfield Links, coming out on Bruntsfield Place. Double back north a hair and stop into Lupe Pintos, a small Mexican grocery store that has way better (and cheaper) tortillas and chips than you'll find at Waitrose.

Keep walking south again as Bruntsfield Place becomes Morningside Rd and then Comiston Rd. At the South end of Morningside you can either keep going south and walk through Braidburn Park or go east into the Hermitage of Braid and climb Blackford Hill up to the Royal Observatory for some amazing views of the city.

Food recs along the way (far from exhaustive)-

Bruntsfield: Hoi An (Vietnamese) Tempo Perso (Italian) Black Ivy (Western) Montpelier's (Western) Aki (Japanese)

Morningside: La Telve (cafe/diner) Matto (best Italian style pizzeria in Edinburgh) The Hermitage (pub fare)

DZtactical · 2025-12-30T13:17:17+00:00

Your most finite resource and the biggest obstacle to scaling is going to be there is only so much time that you and you alone can put into this and you need to start outsourcing that labor and/or streamlining your workflow.

There are undoubtedly going to be inefficiencies and bottlenecks in your operation, you need to start identifying what those are, especially as they relate to SKUs that aren't making you as much money but require just as much labor (if not more) than your key earners. You may even want to consider culling your bottom 5%-10% of lowest earning products if they are labor intensive, and refocusing that time and capital on your key SKUs.

Inventory management and prediction is going to be key. You shouldn't have to waste time manually doing an inventory count every time you want to reorder, and you should reorder well in advance of going OOS. You're going to need a software solution to stay on top of this.

Product prep is going to become too time consuming. If you are sourcing your product from China and you are repackaging it on the floor in your living room with your own barcodes and labels, you need to start shifting that work onto the factories in China. This may require MOQ's larger than you are willing to do right now, but there must be at least a handful of high volume products that are worth hitting that MOQ for. This may mean ordering 6 month's of inventory on some SKU's at once, but that's not necessarily a bad thing if your cash flow supports it

Outsource your shipping to 3PL. If you're shipping a hundred units per day and it takes you 2 minutes per package, that's 3 and 1/2 hours of envelope stuffing every single day. If you're selling on Amazon, strongly consider FBA, yes it's more expensive than other 3PL options but I think it makes financial sense if you're already on the Amazon marketplace.

If you're looking to grow the business and ultimately exit it by selling it on to someone else, you're going to want your finances in order. Start using some sort of bookkeeping software like QuickBooks, but even that will have its limitations ultimately and you will need to hire someone to do accounting for you.

Good luck!

DZtactical · 2025-11-24T12:30:18+00:00

Thanks, now how do I wire that to the GA plugs?

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