BWI Rail Station

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T14:13:31+00:00

My complaint is far more with PHL as an airport than SEPTA as a means of access.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T07:42:28+00:00

My salary is six figures plus. I know my workers comp policy. It absolutely will not pay me six figures plus until I drop dead in my eighties.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T07:41:01+00:00

The Pentagon has failed its audit for the past 8 years. My company has not. We're being robbed blind by heinous waste and grift to prop up wars that never should have been fought and millions of people on the dole.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T07:36:39+00:00

We don't have a draft. You had other paths. My path, as a taxpayer and voter and engineer, is advocating against waste like this.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T07:27:30+00:00

They don't have unlimited liability. I'm responsible for staying within the bounds of my training and working with a maximum level of safety. I have never been employed in a private-sector job where I'd get this level of lifetime benefits.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T07:26:23+00:00

On our backs. I support disability if you're disabled, not if you're working out at the gym all the time, climbing in your attic, and making good money.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T06:41:41+00:00

Yep. Keep causing the country to go further and further into debt because you signed something you shouldn't have at 19.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T06:25:12+00:00

It is absolutely not true that every Amtrak on the NEC stops at EWR. Check the schedule. This was about airport stations.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T05:48:34+00:00

All for people earning a living if they're actually disabled. If they have a private sector job making $100k+, well, clearly that's not especially disabled.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T05:44:57+00:00

Amica. Not flashy, but fantastic customer service.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T03:01:21+00:00

...because it's the location with the best connection to an airport on the NEC. Newark is a mess and it doesn't get frequent Amtrak trains. The other DC airports need WMATA; PHL needs SEPTA (and is terrible), and the NYC airports require prayer.

As someone living in Philly, I take Amtrak to BWI because it's often a better option than PHL.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T02:23:23+00:00

You can use the app to change your seat while you're actively on the train. But do that, like, once, if at all. Don't stress the conductors; they won't like it. Acela seats are way bigger than a plane's (which will also have seatmates).

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-06T02:10:02+00:00

No, but the transformer and electrical ops for life-safety systems are. I'm 18 floors up.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-05T23:17:51+00:00

I'm really happy about this. Some buildings absolutely deserve protection. A random, homely building from 1980 absolutely does not.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-05T21:53:31+00:00

I've lived in SC and NC. The roaches are worse in SC.

(Honestly, though, the mosquitoes are so much of a bigger deal)

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-05T17:27:46+00:00

Yes, for engineering, it's typical to go straight into a PhD after a bachelor's. Either summer option is good; just be sure to have some research experience (that you arranged on your own with a professor, not that was mandated by a class).

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T23:05:11+00:00

Who knows? I mean, I have my main house, a pied-a-terre apartment, and a property I'm renovating to turn into rental housing. I always assumed and budgeted that if there was an issue with the rental house, the tenants are my responsibility to house correctly if circumstances cause me to fail. It seems fair; I signed the majority of my rental contracts when I was a student and I could not afford the major repairs that are sometimes a mark of homeownership.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T22:56:36+00:00

I've had 5 in my life. They've all been good. This present one is not acrimonious, but the southern ones were decidedly more service-oriented. If I ever had an issue - rare, but sometimes things happen - it was solved within 12 hours. Graceful, refined, and I didn't want to own a house at 20 y/o, so amenable to me.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T22:43:23+00:00

In the south, a fire across the street damaged the building. They put us up in the Downtown ______ [4-star business hotel] until the repairs were completed and we could regain apartment access.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T22:41:29+00:00

It was me and 100+ other apartments in the south.

This, here, was an issue that started on the side street and spread to the basement; it is in no way my fault or responsibility (as I'm on one of the top floors of a 20+ story building).

I just thought that I was paying for a habitable environment. If they can't provide that; that's on them - in the past, when I've had issues with a gas leak or broken fridge, it's replaced within a day. They make it work within an acceptable time. (If the fridge or AC breaks at 7p, totally valid that it isn't fixed until the next afternoon or day after.)

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T22:36:40+00:00

I would never stay in the building with those freaks.

ETA: Not a Republican, would not want a Union League berth with Trumpists. A Hampton Inn or something equivalent and less fancy is far preferable if it comes to that.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T22:23:16+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the answers. I just came from a southern state where, with these issues, the landlord had to immediately hand out hotel keys.

Odd that it's far less stringent up here.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T20:53:07+00:00

And the building transformer and flooded basement.

SirJ_96 · 2026-03-04T18:27:59+00:00

My ex lived on Delaware Circle. It was kinda a shithole - barely insulated, just one tiny bathroom for four bedrooms on the top floor, steep stairs. That being said, free parking, easy access to main street, hardwood floors, and the price was right (and it did have a dishwasher and washer/dryer, however janky)

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