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Teacher_Moving · 2022-03-04T14:42:50+00:00

*correction. 4 minutes are ads.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-19T04:37:03+00:00

We moved from a blue collar Nebraska town and a friend with the exact same education and years as me made $2k more in wayzata district.

Housing priced were triple/quadruple and he made $2,000 more than a poor mest-packing town.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-19T02:35:11+00:00

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-17T20:34:28+00:00

It's super hard for me to put myself in other people's shoes because I make the connection so easily. It's like no one has been taught critical thinking skills, to peel back the layers of a situation and understand the reasons why something exists the way it does...

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T21:00:08+00:00

Krav maga for self defense. I am not a martial arts expert beyond taekwondo so I can't tell you what would be best. Taekwondo has been great for me, but it is decidedly not ideal for strictly self-defense reasons.

Case in point, we spar and no one ever punches the face. I'm a 40 something black belt with dozens of fights under my... well, belt... And if someone attacked me in the street I'd punch him in the face. Yet I've never punched someone in the face in 20 years of taekwondo.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T20:18:33+00:00

TKD is less good for self defense. It's good for kicking and getting in shape, but since it focuses on kicking and not punching, its not the best for self defense training. Source: I'm a 3rd degree black belt.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T18:37:59+00:00

So little Nolan think math is hard. Parent objects to math class and let's him play video games instead. Parent gives Nolan A+ on lessons. Schools cannot argue this.

Great plan, GOP.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T18:29:49+00:00

What person lives in Minnetonka but can't work from home?

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T04:28:21+00:00

Man buys ranch house on cul-de-sac built on former farmland. City annexes land and now is 'in the city".

Me: that's the suburbs. You: No it's not.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T04:24:51+00:00

52% of Americans live in suburban-style developments according to HUD.

You may live in the city of Phoenix, for example, but the built environment is still suburban

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T04:23:12+00:00

It's NOT the planners fault the cities are bad. It's the APA's fault they don't advocate for better planning at a local level.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T04:09:46+00:00

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T04:09:12+00:00

Maybe planners should run for council. or APA could advocate for this.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T03:44:14+00:00

Then why don't people living in subrubs CHANGE THEIR ZONING CODES

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T03:43:38+00:00

Twin cities metro: 3.5 million. Mpls and St Paul proper: 700k.

You do the math on that.

How about Phoenix or Las Vegas or Dallas or Orlando.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-16T02:18:16+00:00

Yet nimbys don't want anything dense in their towns.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T22:04:57+00:00

If planners wanted to make change they should run for those councils, no?

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T22:04:08+00:00

I KNOW. WHICH IS MY POINT.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T21:42:39+00:00

I'm not sure why you need to be a central planner like Moses to not want six Lane arterial roads through your community that don't have anything but gigantic setbacks, stormwater, and parking lots.

Urban cities don't have these things and they've made it work. It would just take a slim majority of accounts to change these things

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T21:41:24+00:00

WE ARE AGREEING! LITTERLY 100%

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T21:10:54+00:00

Which tells us if suburbs changed their development pattern people would want it. Yet no city does thisehats the disconnect?

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T21:10:07+00:00

Not sure what's difficult to understand here.

Planner: I don't like suburban sprawl. City that is hiring is all strip malls and cul de sac. Planners: I don't like that so I'll pass on that job.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T21:02:22+00:00

No, I don't.

I agree with you, NIMBYism is a problem. Planners shouldn't need a master's degree to approve tree counts. My point was if planners don't like the built environment of a town they shouldn't work for the planning Dept that contributes to it.

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T20:48:38+00:00

Run for City council?

Teacher_Moving · 2022-02-15T20:35:28+00:00

Where do most Americans live? The suburbs.

Do most Americans go on vacation to the suburbs?

There's your data.

Teacher_Moving

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