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Median rent right now is $2k. Rule of thumb is 1/3 or less of income spent on housing. So that's $6k a month. With comes out to 72k a year, pretty close.

All these articles act like workers have become so uppity and demanding but all they want is to live reasonably.

Yeah "just" got hacked 3 days ago lmao

I would consider a new dentist, and probably a sedation dentist if you have issues with numbing.

Depending on what you are having done, there is also laser dentistry. And my dentist has some special drill where he has done shallow cavities for me with no novacaine and I didn't feel shit except the usual drilling/pressure feeling.

This dentist just sounds shitty. Yes you were tensing up but you already told them a bunch of times you were in pain. They should have had a plan in place that y'all had agreed upon for dealing with a situation where the lidocaine wears off. Or maybe schedule you at a time where there are no other patients so they could go as fast as possible with no interruptions. Maybe I am expecting too much here but my dentist is the bomb and would easily do that for someone.

I feel like going through each other's phones is a line that, if I need to cross, then the relationship is dead. I no longer trust my partner. Even if I go through his phone and he's not cheating I just admitted the trust is gone anyway. It doesn't sound like a healthy relationship to me.

And yes I acknowledge some relationships have an open phone policy like this, but that's not applicable in a situation where you are creeping through someone's phone without consent.

Billionaires are out here flying around to avoid traffic (ie Elon Musk) and people are out here shitting on me for my 1 trip a year to visit my family

If y'all wanna buy me a house out there and pay my moving costs so I don't have to fly anymore to see them then I welcome the opportunity

Yeah on our first trip after COVID I was like "we haven't gone anywhere in a couple years, maybe I could spring for first class with my credit card points. NOPE

First class is on average 6x more. I thought it would be like double.

I've flown business class once for work when I was bumped up, but only for a 1 hour flight lol 😭

That kitchen is amazing. It's so weird. It's like a show kitchen in the middle of nowhere in your house lmao

Pet food. I have done a lot of research into the pet industry in general and there are a lot of things being sold for pets that are literally unsafe for them. Like cages that are too small, treats that aren't safe for them, chew toys full of toxic shit they shouldn't invest, food that is the equivalent of McDonald's every day, etc

Don't get me wrong, there's good quality pet food you can get fairly cheap and bad quality pet food you can get that is very expensive. It comes down to research. But if you're just grabbing whatever is cheapest is most likely setting you up for potential health issues down the line.

This is speaking as someone who has experienced this with both cats and rabbits. The cheapest food for rabbits is usually full of alfalfa and whatever else weird ass colorful shit they threw in there that is not healthy for adult rabbits. And cat food is usually too high in carbs, too high in salt, or both. Diabetes and kidney failure in cats fucking sucks, it's not worth it.

We have good butter and cheap ass store brand butter and I alternate depending on how much you will be able to taste the butter in the recipe

Spam your resume on whatever job searching sites you can, if you haven't already. The best way to get work is via networking or recruiters hitting you up. You're gonna have to shift through a lot of shitty recruiters with shitty positions but good stuff does show up every once in a while.

Could you hire someone to clean so then you get some of your free time back?

I used to be in a similar situation with a 1.5-2 hour commute each way and I totally understand where you are coming from. It's not worth moving to have a short commute if you will hate where you live. You just need to be annoying and tell everyone and their mom you're looking for remote work.

The way a lot of these NFTs fucked themselves over was promising something in addition to the NFT, like a game or whatever, that they never delivered on. If it was always "buy link to monkey pictures" and that's it they could probably get away with it no problem