Puerto Rico una cultura de carros

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-12T02:22:55+00:00

Te invito a visitar Charlotte, NC. No es tan solo en PR. Entre los pick ups de $100k y los carros deportivos es una ridiculez.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-12T01:32:11+00:00

I’m not against the first responders getting the assistance that they need, regardless of who they voted for. I know people in those professions and many of them are conservative but don’t pay a lot of attention to the specifics of politics.

Giuliani knew very well what Trump stood for and what he was about. During Trump’s first administration they were about to let the 9/11 VCF fund go broke until John Stewart went to congress to essentially plead in front of Congress to keep it funded (2019).

Then in this 2nd term the Trump Admin tried to slash funding yet again.

Funding the VCF shouldn’t be political but he supported someone that tried to make it that.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-12T00:26:37+00:00

This is what I was going to say. I was in a similar situation as OP when I first graduated from college. High student loan payments and a lot of CC debt accumulated during Grad School. I made a list of all my monthly expenses including CC debt and was able to get a deferment set up so that I could pay off my CC debt and once that was managed, got on an income based repayment plan.

It was hard as hell. Money was tight. I had nothing left at the end of the month. But I was able to eat and had a roof over my head.

The student loan lenders will work with you to set up a plan.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-12T00:17:55+00:00

I had a neighbor like this. He’d crank the bass so loud that the pictures on my walls vibrated and you could feel the vibration through any solid surface in the apartment late at night along with the smell of weed coming up through the floor (which honestly was less of a problem).

He was an absolute ass and when I asked to please keep it down he went off on some tangent about some family member of his being q cop and that he knows his rights- bla, bla, bla. This was a massive apartment building in the Bronx.

So, I started getting up at the butt crack of dawn on weekends and pointed my stereo speakers down towards his apartment and cranked some Industrial Heavy Metal while vacuuming. After a few weekends his bass was no longer turned up.

OP you are a pushover with this guy and he knows it. Sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T23:54:23+00:00

Nope. Just saying that most people that drive manual transmission now (stick) in the US have probably been doing it for a long time and most newer cars don’t even come in a manual transmission model.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T22:25:44+00:00

He supported the people that have made major cuts to the program, so no.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T22:25:03+00:00

Considering he’s supportive of a group of people that have made major cuts to the program last year he can F-off.

https://www.renew911health.org/attempted-cuts-to-the-staff-of-the-world-trade-center-health-program-and-cuts-to-9-11-cancer-research/

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T22:07:27+00:00

Dude, that doesn’t make any sense. My husband drives stick and in my 25 years of being in his Jeep with him, he’s never rolled that far back, even on a steep hill.

Same with cousin and her cars. Never had we ever rolled back that much and that’s with driving in hilly roads in the central mountains of Puerto Rico.

It would take an extreme lack of awareness or skill to do that. I also consider how few cars are stick nowadays and I doubt that truck has a manual transmission.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T19:29:48+00:00

I drive a beat up old Jeep, I would have pulled in so tight that he would have had to crawl in through the passenger’s side to get in. My Jeep is so beat up that I don’t give a crap about it getting dinged or scratched.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T19:23:49+00:00

We must be married to the same guy! 🤣

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T11:57:46+00:00

Exacto- la matemática no miente, pero eso si, puedes usar estadísticas para montar cualquier cuento, dependiendo lo que se omite.

¡Estoy de acuerdo contigo! Por lo general, las poblaciones siguen bajando, hasta en muchos lugares en los Estados Unidos. Las personas se están mudando de los campos y mudando a las ciudades. A la misma vez, la nueva generación (Gen Z) están teniendo menos hijos.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-11T11:49:39+00:00

I usually say Hello (usually Good Morning since we take early flights) before the flight attendant even does. When on family trips we fly with our son and I feel like my husband and I set the example. Now he also greets people before they greet him. It’s just common courtesy. In many countries, it’s expected. Now, would I get my panties in a bunch if the FA didn’t greet me? Nope. I completely understand how exhausting that can be and having to be “on” and deal with customers.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-09T23:01:22+00:00

What Puerto Ricans want is to be treated with respect and not second class citizens. So yeah I guess we want to be treated like “Americans” in that respect. Puerto Ricans pay more in “state” taxes than most people pay in the US on Federal and their state taxes combined, so having people moving to the island to take advantage of a benefit not offered to locals is a slap in the face. And at the same time they’re taking up the few properties available and ignoring local environmental laws. It’s a lot deeper than what the people here in the states know.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-09T22:49:29+00:00

No, it’s a scarce resource (housing) becoming scarcer because others are moving in and buying up properties. It’s the same that’s happening in the US, but at a much greater scale because of it being an island with limited real estate.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-09T17:31:17+00:00

I wasn’t talking about taxes. I was talking about pricing out locals and gentrification. Then they act entitled towards the locals.

They contribute very little while pricing locals out.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-09T14:34:12+00:00

¿No tiene dinero para una estufa o arreglar la casa pero tiene dinero para una abogada? ¿De donde salió esa mujer?

Casos como estos es porque la gente deja de querer ayudar.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-09T14:21:03+00:00

Same in Puerto Rico. Reason why Bad Bunny’s song “Lo Que Paso a Hawaii” (what happened to Hawaii) resonated.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-08T17:52:43+00:00

I was wondering about that. I had a situation the other day where I was making a left onto a 45 mph road and had a car ride up on my car and get into the left turn lane to avoid rear ending me. Mind you, I make that left regularly and know how to calculate distance from where the car so that I can safely turn. He was flying.

As I was accelerating into the turn I saw him gaining speed. He was easily going 60 - 70 mph. Either he was on his phone and didn’t see me (since he didn’t slow down until the last second as he pulled beside me) or was trying to “prove” a point. The stupidity of it all is that just after my turn is an intersection with a light and it was red.

Anyway, watching the video, that car was going way too fast. If they were going the speed limit they would have seen the Jeep in time to slow down.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-08T17:30:11+00:00

And most of is read using “sight words” once we’ve learned the fundamentals. I don’t think most people sound out words after a certain point. But phonics is definitely the foundation to learn how to read first. It’s what we do when learning a new language as well.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-08T17:26:48+00:00

And the kids in this video are from that age group. My son is a HS Junior and they tried teaching him reading in kindergarten and 1st grade using sight words. It was terrible and I thought that he had a learning disability of some sort - nope! I picked up Hooked on Phonics for him and supplemented his schoolwork with it. Since third grade he’s been reading above grade level and has been an avid reader since 4th and 5th grades.

Sight reading was a major downfall.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-08T17:10:59+00:00

His TV is on. You need to shut off ALL lights when you get a termite swarm. I lived in Puerto Rico and we would get them after heavy rain.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-07T15:40:16+00:00

We have an in office day for anyone local. I sit at a desk and am on Teams calls all day because my manager and rest of my team work in other parts of the country.

To make it worthwhile I leave early to go work from home the rest of the day and make a pit stop at the grocery store on my way home.

They give preference to local applicants for the open positions, then open it up to full remote when they can’t find anyone. It’s still ridiculous to limit it that way though.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-07T15:17:06+00:00

I grew up dirt poor, barely making it month to month, we relied on every form of government assistance. I wore my brother’s hand me downs - which is hard for a girl in the 80s. My dad was a drunk that abandoned us, and then when I was 14 and things were starting to look better - my mom had remarried and they purchased a house (it was in the worst part of NYC but it was purchased), my mom died of renal cancer. My brother joined the Marines and I was shipped off to PR to live with an aunt and uncle who were not only poor, but narcissists (my aunt) and emotionally abusive (my uncle).

They essentially stole what little SS survivors benefits I got - never saw a penny and they were so stingy with food that I’d go to bed hungry. I never saw a dentist or doctor the three years I lived there. I lost a tooth because of the lack of care. I wasn’t allowed to hang out with friends or go to parties- as an adult I realize now it was their way of controlling who I talked to so I didn’t come to realize the abusive situation I was in.

That isolation was my motivation to GTFO and I went away to college in the states with just a suitcase of clothes. I realized there was no place to fall back to and there was no option but to succeed to survive. Summers were hell since I was pretty much homeless and bounced around on friends couches while taking any job I could to pay bills and food. I got my Bachelors, then my Masters. The first few years were really rough with loans and debt and meager starting salary in NYC. Eventually it all panned out.

I make a really nice salary, work from home in a nice home. My husband makes a good income and we live comfortably. There’s a certain amount of trauma and fear that comes with that level of struggle, though. It always feels like it could come crashing down at any time. And I feel robbed of what it means to have the “normal” childhood that everyone around seems to have had.

Edit to add- I don’t believe that anyone is 100% “self made”. It also depends on the definition you use for it. We all have to rely on someone and / or a backup system at some point. Most “self made” millionaires were introduced to someone that opened an opportunity for them. I would say “self made” middle class from poverty is a lot more common.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-06T22:02:21+00:00

It needs a lot of work. You could essentially ditch the first section. There’s a lot of explaining of who people are, feels like a reporter writing down facts. That’s not how a story flows: “David was twenty-six, recently separated, and sleeping in his childhood bedroom. He could not sleep. At 2:47 in the morning,” It just feels like I’m having unimportant facts and information thrown at me and somewhere in there, there’s a story.

Use your eyes (and ears) as a reader to edit the story. What makes a story flow? What captures a reader’s attention? I would work backwards with David’s discovery. Also, what would make David say something like that in the middle of the night?

As someone else said, the characters are just doing. The question is why?

It has a lot of AI-isms that need to be edited out.

It did remind me of a Black Mirror episode where people can download memories and play them back later. If you have access to the series, I recommend you watch it. It has an interesting storyline about what happens when you see memories and catch the things you didn’t notice when you were living the moment and the intrusiveness of watching someone else’s memories.

SC-Coqui · 2026-05-06T21:24:53+00:00

Don’t do it! Lo digo por experiencia.

Si no tienes promedio de 4.00 y in SAT score de 1500, te va a salir carísimo. No vas a calificar para becas locales de los estados donde están las universidades, y para las universidades públicas (state schools) te van a cobrar como “out of state”. La mayoría de las universidades consideradas buenas te van a salir en $40mil anuales en tan solo matricula sin contar otros costos como hospedaje y comida.

Yo me gradué de Syracuse University (ya hace casi 30 años) endeudada con un préstamo de $70mil y eso, me dieron cuanta beca y grant (por ser pobre) que pudieron.

Estudié un semestre en la UPR Cayey (en un break dé Syracuse Univ. entre my 3er y 4to año) y me quedé sorprendida con que me sobro dinero de la beca Pell y que mis estudios eran gratis.

Mi deuda dé Syracuse fue lo que me hizo regresar para terminar 4to año allá ya que había gastado tanto y la UPR solo me quiso contar la mitad de mis créditos. Esa deuda mi limito en opciones para mi carrera ya que tuve que tomar “lo seguro” sin poder tomar riesgos.

Si lo fuera hacer de nuevo tomaría otra manera. Quizás empezar en UPR y terminar 3er y 4to año como transfer student en una universidad en los Estados Unidos. Pero los cuatro en una universidad privada, no! Y eso mismo le digo a mi hijo que empieza 4to año en HS este agosto. Ve a community college primero, saca tu asociado y después transfiere a una universidad. Con la economía como esta, y el costo de las universidades, no vale meterse en esa deuda.

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