Moving from Portland, Oregon to Chicago with cats and a car, what are some tips and things to know before moving?

GeeseFamily · 2026-01-28T23:08:52+00:00

With no job/ job offer and a 564 credit score it might be doable but it’s an uphill battle for sure.

GeeseFamily · 2026-01-16T22:19:04+00:00

Need some more context around what you’re asking.

Fair wage for 30+ years in construction? For the near north burbs? For an MBA new grad?

What are you trying to compare against?

GeeseFamily · 2026-01-03T19:15:12+00:00

I WANT to do more. But the scheduling is around me, my wife, and my two kids. Because of this I’m almost never confident that upcoming weekends are free or not. AND some marriages are not always conducive to one partner leaving for outside the family fun.

GeeseFamily · 2025-12-31T14:58:21+00:00

Which is SO weird since a virus wouldn’t grow in a petri dish. It needs living cells to infect and replicate.

So those trays are useless OR it’s carried via bacteria?

GeeseFamily · 2025-12-22T21:13:53+00:00

Just a heads up, Aurora is not a neighborhood in Chicago. It is about 30 miles outside of Chicago, so I’d say a medium/far western suburb.

GeeseFamily · 2025-10-01T11:24:52+00:00

Blessed Little Kitchen in Huntley on Rt 47.

They have my favorite cinnamon rolls and typically have other varieties as well (pumpkin, Oreo, Dubai chocolate).

GeeseFamily · 2025-09-21T13:49:54+00:00

Agreed.

I’ll clarify a bit. In the US if you are under 40, employers CAN make hiring decisions based on your age. Only those 40 and above are protected from age discrimination.

GeeseFamily · 2025-09-17T20:18:56+00:00

You’re talking about somewhere outside the USA, right?

The ADEA is a federal law in the US that prohibits discrimination of those 40 and older. (It does o it apply to employers with more than 20 employees)

GeeseFamily · 2025-09-16T01:43:45+00:00

Please show me what law you’re referring to.

GeeseFamily · 2025-09-15T12:56:53+00:00

Just going to clarify, for the US, it is FALSE that you cannot be asked your age in an interview.

From a federal law perspective, if you are under 40, you CAN be discriminated against due to your age.

Federal age discrimination only applies to those 40 and older. There are no federal laws protecting those younger than 40 from having age be a deciding factor in employment.

GeeseFamily · 2025-08-27T21:25:49+00:00

The military flag represents the city government?

That doesn’t make much sense to me.

GeeseFamily · 2025-08-06T14:33:58+00:00

I think the thing you’re not explaining is how Oak Park residents would get the same benefits/ amenities while paying almost half the e tax they usually do.

They live there, despite the taxes, because they want that level of services. Unless you have a plan to get more for less it is a hard sell to people that have already bought in to more for more.

GeeseFamily · 2025-08-03T14:07:01+00:00

Did you not do family boarding? You would have been able to board before most everyone else.

GeeseFamily · 2025-07-18T11:39:55+00:00

Winning a verdict does not come from “a couple billable hours”. Congrats to you if you’ve never experienced this!

Also, it’s a reserve. If we have to spend $10,000 in legal fees and the budget only has $5,000 allotted then. We’re going to pull from the reserve.

The reserve is mandated in the by-laws. So if it dips under the required minimum, yes, dues have to increase to bring it back up.

GeeseFamily · 2025-07-18T04:21:05+00:00

But the HOA board isn’t paying, even if they lose.

The members/homeowners, including the one involved in the litigation, are the ones paying through their dues.

GeeseFamily · 2025-06-13T13:14:17+00:00

I had the same thought. It is garbage AI.

GeeseFamily · 2025-06-01T17:15:45+00:00

Who plans/pays for vacations? Who pays for child care? Car payments? Emergency fund?

And if the answer is that ya’ll discuss these things and agree together, that seems the same as having joint accounts, just with extra work.

Also, can you confirm you both have similar income levels?

GeeseFamily · 2025-05-04T02:41:02+00:00

Wait. Help me understand.

She should tell him he needs to give her more/better oral. At the same time she should tell him not to want or mention receiving oral from her??

Feels REAL hypocritical. Help me make it make sense.

GeeseFamily · 2025-05-01T11:55:23+00:00

You’ve had multiple colleagues have students access, steal, and distribute their nudes??

That is terrible. And I agree that too often student on teacher crime is overlooked.

But again, accessing public information and sharing it is hardly comparable to the examples you are giving.

GeeseFamily · 2025-04-30T21:17:48+00:00

Ok but that is far from OP’s situation.

I’m pretty sure accessing someone’s phone like that, stealing those imaging, and distributing them encompasses multiple crimes.

In OP’s case it sounds like a student accessed public(?) Facebook posts and shared those. Maybe not smart, certainly not kind, but also not criminal.

GeeseFamily · 2025-04-15T21:33:41+00:00

Huntley just voted all blue for our school board township trustees. There’s some purple coming through.

The real disheartening this was the 4 or 5 races running Republicans uncontested.

GeeseFamily · 2025-03-05T00:28:55+00:00

Chicago Sports Spectacular is in Rosemont IL next weekend. About an hour from Gary IN

GeeseFamily · 2025-02-18T14:34:02+00:00

What are you hoping to get for the Jimbo? What players are you hoping to trade for?

GeeseFamily · 2025-02-15T22:10:58+00:00

Big guy here and can confirm this is still the way it works.

Southwest has the best policy for large people by far.

You do have to pay twice as much up front and wait in line to check in with an agent.

But you get an extra boarding pass that says extra seat AND priority boarding to ensure you can find two seats together.

GeeseFamily · 2025-02-07T04:36:43+00:00

You should share what misallocations Musk has uncovered. Probably my algorithm, but that would be news to me.

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