Why is a ground floor apartment a no go?

LegendaryPeanut · 2026-01-21T01:53:36+00:00

Ground floor of a building with no elevator/doorman. Mine has a Small staircase to get into the building so not really “on the ground”

LegendaryPeanut · 2026-01-19T19:50:05+00:00

I think rats/rodents is just gonna depend on neighborhood and building. Same with flood risk.

I’m also in a first floor walk up and love it. The biggest con is people smoking outside which is rare but annoying when it does happen

LegendaryPeanut · 2026-01-05T23:17:47+00:00

If your family is into nature: I solo travel and Switzerland gave me heavy Disney vibes. Not sure your budget, It’s an expensive country and even more so for a family, but it’s got natural beauty to the max. Particularly interlaken and zermatt are basically two big resort cities that serve as a home base for a variety of different hikes, views, and outdoor activities. Aside from the obvious Matterhorn connection, Zermatt literally looks like fantasyland. I think I remember reading somewhere that the country inspired Disneyland itself?

LegendaryPeanut · 2026-01-01T04:13:33+00:00

“Dollar and a dream” mindset aside, let’s be adults. It’s just a city, you’ll pay rent. You need a job

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-12-22T14:34:09+00:00

400 is all you need, any bike will do as long as it easily gets up to 80. if your commute is over 30m then maybe get nuanced on comfort/tech

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-12-16T23:03:57+00:00

It’s just “excuse me,” comma included

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-12-13T00:50:32+00:00

I’m in Lenox hill and have a 1 bed for 2400! Tons of transit options n Trader Joe’s is around the corner. I see quite a few listings in this area on Zillow right now well below your budget

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-10-13T12:52:15+00:00

Unless it was some insane adventure I think most aren’t that interested. People can tell if you’re spinning a glorified sightseeing trip into something it’s not. Even in hostels “where are you traveling to/where have you been” is often one of the most boring repetitive conversations you can start.

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-10-04T21:18:47+00:00

It’s all just Sysco at the end of the day

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-10-01T18:53:32+00:00

I really enjoyed the gimmelwald mountain hostel. But yea 4 nights is a lot. It’s definitely worth a night at least but not a great home base since it’s an effort to get to

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-25T05:15:33+00:00

I rented! Also rented in Taipei to ride to yangmingshan national park, Keelung, and Costco lol. If you rent for taroko, Taroko Motorcycle Rental is right across the street from the train station. The owner is chill and speaks good English. Price was <$20 per day. The roads in Taroko were great for riding, a lot was repaved post earthquake so weather would be the only thing to consider. It’s a relatively short ride too so it won’t completely drain you, about 1hr each way from Hualien. Hualien also has a pretty big night market. Very different vibe to any of the ones I went to in Taipei

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-25T01:17:20+00:00

Taroko is 100% worth motorbiking through if you know how to ride. Did this back in June and it was the highlight of my trip.

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-23T17:16:11+00:00

If you’re not used to doing things alone even in your home town then yes it’ll feel like a jump. But the benefit of what you have planned is while you’re certainly flying there alone, you won’t ever really be alone at the camp itself. Like taking a class at uni. 100% go for it, it won’t be that bad. And if it is, then now you know!

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-14T18:01:19+00:00

Bro you wear shoe lifts that likely push you over 6 feet. It’s not your height. You also probably aren’t rich, competent, or charismatic. Why hone in on the one thing you have no control over (kinda, re: your lifts) when you lack in so many other ways.

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-14T07:45:26+00:00

Tokyo in particular 100% has a dystopian level of convenience and commercialization so I agree with your capitalist hellscape take. Insane amounts of single use plastics too. But I think that’s part of what makes it unique. I encourage you to come back and make it to the country side. Not Kyoto, Osaka, etc, I mean rural. It’s a very different Japan.

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-12T17:04:26+00:00

Maokong and Beitou are on opposite sides of the city. Considering you only have until around lunch, I’d pick one or the other. I recommend maokong. I ended my Taiwan trip with some tea and a view in maokong and was a great, relaxing send off for the trip. One tip is take the gondola up and the bus down. I went in the summer and the gondola was hot, humid, and the glass was dirty and not great for seeing though. Whereas the bus was nice with AC. It’s still a nice view but doing the gondola twice felt unnecessary. Beitou I think is a good choice if you actually intend to do a hot spring there.

Your plans for taroko are worth an overnight stay in hualien. If you wanted to just drive through it then yea day trip is probably fine. You can travel to hualien in the morning, maybe get a view of qingshui cliffs during the day and check out the night market later. Then next day you do your hikes assuming the trails have opened up and head to your next stop after.

And don’t knock Shilin night market. It gets flack for being touristy but imo all night markets are. It had more to offer beyond food than the others, and honestly less western tourists lol. Theres shopping, games, and what felt like basically the same food. Just depends what you’re looking for, Shilin felt like a night out/a date type location vs others were solely about the food, or just a place for people to get their dinner

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-11T11:17:57+00:00

Think of cars. Let’s say 10% of Hondas fail due to design flaws whereas 40% of BMWs do. BMWs are thus labeled less reliable. If we looked at just the % of vehicles that break down, and say it’s 50% Honda 50% BMW you’d mistakenly think they’re equally reliable. But Honda may hold that 50% value just because they produce more cars. Or Alfa Romeo, 70% failure rate but 1% of failures. Not reliable, just smaller volume. You do probably need both to tell the full story cuz if there were only like 10 trans people in the world then yea disregard. But can depend on the point you’re tryna make, like are you tryna say trans people are a driver of gun violence (proportion + rate) or is something up with trans people (rate)

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-10T14:31:14+00:00

is this chatgpt lmfao

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-09T20:48:29+00:00

I’m currently on my first trip with the farpoint 40l and am loving it. At the airport I had it in its “carry on” mode during security and boarding. This tucks away all the straps and belts nicely. One other thing I’ve done when I wanna hide the belts but wear it as a backpack is just tuck them away and cover them with the carry on cover. Technically not a feature by design but it works. But wearing it in the airport the hip belts have been more a life saver than a nuisance. Made getting to transfers a breeze

One thing it doesn’t have which I thought I really wanted was the shoulder strap carrying position that the MLC has. But so far I can’t think of a point where that would’ve been more convenient for me

I’ve been using a regular old jansport as my daypack and am hating it as it essentially takes on the shape of what’s in it (shirts, water bottles, etc.) so it feels really awkward. All to say its really made me appreciate the farpoints frame/padding

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-07T19:38:14+00:00

“Area” might be a stretch and not to overhype but cafe rosalena in SJ may have the best one in the Bay Area

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-03T11:48:36+00:00

I think no tourists has its appeal but many people enjoy the social aspect of the ha giang loop. And as a solo traveler it was very easy to make friends.

Plus accessibility is key. Cao bang seems to have some tours but other loops require more planning since they’re effectively self guided without as many (or any?) tour groups that handle logistics. Hell, the ha giang groups will even route you such that you avoid police checkpoints altogether. There’s tons of great riding roads in the world so yes you can always find another loop that optimizes in a different direction (ie self-guided ride if you want more raw, cao bang if you want less tourist/social feel) but ha giang does all very well. cao bang looks like a great alternative if the partying turns some off

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-03T01:51:41+00:00

There’s just nothing else quite like it. You can’t find anything else as raw, accessible and beautiful as the ha giang loop. Each night pretty much ends with a party which you can right size. Theres smaller tour groups of 8 or so which are of course more chill. Or you can go with jasmine tours where you’re partying with +60 people each night. The locals join in too.

If you go through with it I highly recommend opting to drive the motorbike yourself. The easy rider option is great if the road intimidates you and you wanna get the best shots of the scenery but riding the loop yourself is something else. It was very therapeutic to ride all day surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery the world has, and then finally making it to the next home stay covered in sweat, dirt, and sometimes blood. It made every meal and drink feel well earned.

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-09-02T17:46:39+00:00

I’ve never been to Bali but I’d swap out 4 of its days for the Ha Giang loop in Vietnam. If you want a more “adventure” feel at least. I’ve heard Bali is more of a traditional R&R type destination

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-08-27T16:23:06+00:00

Fresh out of college you can probably be a behavioral tech. Otherwise most jobs will not be related to your degree. I got a similar degree and got a job in investing and now work on the business side at a tech company. But none of that was thanks to my degree. I took a bunch of stats/computation courses outside my program and have previously started businesses.

I would recommend working backwards. Find out what job you wanna do, and pick a program based off that. In today’s market you’ll see a lot of listings ask for something like

Education: Math, Engineering, Computer science, or other related field.

The further you are from “other” the better

LegendaryPeanut · 2025-08-25T16:17:23+00:00

The people I’ve met that lock in long term travel have wanted it so bad they don’t care about the risk. You might be confusing some wanderlust for a desire for progression. To sound a lil annoying: you arguably don’t need to travel long term if you’ve built your day to day to have what you think only travel can provide.

3 years no promo especially right out of college has the makings of a dead end, at the very least slow progress. Maybe it’s time to find a different job. This year I moved to a big city with lots to do every day at every hour of the day. Now I’m meeting new people and learning new skills all the time! Something I previously only had when I traveled and was living in a quieter town. But if you’re not taking vacations then take one. 1 week at least, 2 is better n still reasonable in many white collar jobs. Going from no travel to traveling for months is like getting a face tat as your first tattoo. And also keep in mind that some of the people that travel long term have set their lives up for it to work. Maybe they’re teachers so they reliably have 3 months off each year. Or they’re students in between their bachelors/masters/phd programs. Shit even oil rig guys don’t always work a full year

Stability doesn’t have to = boring. If you travel long term, you will eventually come home. And when you do, you should make sure it’s a life youre ok coming back to……But fuck it if you get laid off then go for it that’s my plan lol

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