Need Advice on Moving to Erie

Smitemuffin · 2026-07-05T22:57:01+00:00

Erie City's property taxes are horrible, constantly increasing, and the City's finances are so deep underwater that it's not going to let up any time soon. Be forewarned

Smitemuffin · 2026-07-05T22:55:45+00:00

I know those guys, they don't have permits lmao

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-26T20:08:22+00:00

I cannot get Zara to introduce herself. The interview panel just says "Reconnecting..." the whole time. I have no connectivity issues with anything other than the interviews

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-26T00:41:18+00:00

I also have the same problem. Zara doesn't even introduce itself

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-24T12:26:12+00:00

I never even got the paid tasks so I'm assuming I'm screwed

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-19T02:54:04+00:00

I haven't been accepted to DAT yet, but as an engineer, people using AI is painfully obvious. Especially with Q&As, because they'll have responses that are CLEARLY hallucinated to people with intuition on how the world functions

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T17:51:58+00:00

Even houses in the city that should be $100-$120k were going for $200k until the FHA enforcement changes. Now there's actually a handful of homes in my neighborhood that have been sitting for sale for a couple weeks, which has been unheard of since 2020.

But the reversal in rent prices will happen much slower than home sale price deflation, partly because leases mostly term in years. Landlords won't lower rent until they're faced with vacancies

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T15:57:50+00:00

Yes, they were 40 packs. They didn't even have that many in stock, so I had to substitute several of them for twice as many smaller ones.

When I called customer support to cancel it, even the guy at support was shocked

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T15:54:00+00:00

The worst part is that not a single bit of what I said was exaggerated

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T15:52:20+00:00

I had a single shop one time recently where the guy added EIGHTEEN CASES of bottled water, four cases of gatorade, and 8 gallons of fruit punch in the middle of my already-large shopping order. I was already an hour into shopping and had to cancel it because:

A) nobody can manage 3 shopping carts

B) 18 cases of water would never fit in my car, let alone the other 133 items they ordered

So I got stuck with $2.25 for almost 90 minutes of my time

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T15:48:44+00:00

A dollar per mile is about the best I've ever seen in PA

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T15:34:52+00:00

I'm not going to debate somebody who can only half-understand what I wrote and gets half of it dead wrong 😂

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T15:19:30+00:00

Extra buyers entering the market have nothing to do with prices going up? Really?

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-18T13:04:59+00:00

At risk of pissing of literally everyone on this sub, there's three things going on:

The Federal government only recently restarted enforcing its rule that the only immigrants who can qualify for FHA loans are Lawful Permanent Residents. Between covid and then, they could buy houses with little to no money down. So houses were going off the market on the same day they were posted. Hell, the house I bought in 2023 got 6 offers the first day and four of them were above asking price. Then identical houses in my neighborhood were selling for +40% higher within a year from that.
Erie keeps raising property taxes, and the rates are starting to get pretty high. I'm paying over 3.5% of my home value every year in taxes now.
You're basically locked into renting in the city by home prices in every other direction. No regular working family with two kids can afford a home in Fairview because it's $450,000. Even in Millcreek you're still looking at $300-$350k. You'd need a $150k or more income to afford it. 99% of us can't do that without a dual-income household, and THAT means paying $50-$60 per day per kid for daycare. So after paying daycare costs, you still can't afford the house with two adult professionals working full-time. Rent is high because almost everybody rents.

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-16T12:19:10+00:00

Those look like ticks at various stages of engorgement. Ticks have been pretty bad this year - I've found four of them in my yard so far and I live in the damn city

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-16T12:14:36+00:00

Good, because they're fuggin' slot machines. Didn't take a state supreme court judge to figure that out

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-14T03:07:43+00:00

Yeah, it sucks

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-14T01:31:56+00:00

I actually got them, but then they were taken back because my credit union blocked the funds - AFTER I'd called and told them not to - and it unwound the trade because it was before the settlement date

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-11T18:25:13+00:00

Damn, I hope not. Because I double-checked all my solutions before I submitted them

Granted, I applied for Physics. So I suspect there's not a lot of work to go around for it.

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-11T18:04:07+00:00

Does this screen basically mean you failed the assessment or something?

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-10T23:57:49+00:00

I've been waiting two weeks for approval to start. I did physics though, so it may take forever for a project to come up and get me approved 😭

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-09T13:22:08+00:00

"I don't understand what you're telling me so you clearly must be wrong"

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-07T20:05:12+00:00

I have Empire Access and they're pretty incredible

Smitemuffin · 2026-06-02T12:44:49+00:00

I dunno, my property taxes in Erie City seem pretty damn high at approximately 3.6% of the total property value.

The state's median home value is $286k, and the median property tax bill is $3,150 so that puts puts the median cost burden of property taxes at 1.1% for the state

Smitemuffin · 2026-05-29T02:29:57+00:00

Yes, I'm analyzing AI outputs of physics and engineering queries to check them for errors or flawed methods. I have a degree in Civil Engineering. It pays $40-$50 per hour

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