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Reasons why New York Sucks

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lefty

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I had to buy a new one last year. It cost me $1,600 installed. There is a place in Queens that does rebuilds of them for like $300, but the downside is you have to uninstall it and take it to them.

That might be easier than trying to get a guy to come here.
i enjoy the fact that i know some good contractors and carpenters.

Dude, I would wife swap with you for a week just to get some contractors here.

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Dude, I would wife swap with you for a week just to get some contractors here.

lefty


homie you've got my number (actually i don't think so, but email and PM, yes). Always worth shooting a note and seeing what happens.
 

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it was actually part of our apartment search. "well that counter top is bullshit, I'll see what that Chinese place has in stock and see if Luke can install"
 

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A reliable, reasonable contractor is right up there with a good lawyer and doctor.
 

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At least the I-Bankers have interesting things to talk about in their respective industries (less tech). A lot of these tech people are in La-La Land and don't understand how, like, real businesses work.


They seem to divide into two categories; those who needlessly buy every expensive thing they can find and those that live like a mountain man and become the ultra crunchy.

Like a tech version of Daniel Boone.
 

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When I own a home I will learn the ways of the trades so I won't need no contractor.
 

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You think that.

I personally like paying people to do things for me so I don't have to.
 
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For the work that requires skill it takes some time before you are really up to speed on each task.
 

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You think that.

I personally like paying people to do things for me so I don't have to.


I'm with you on this. I know there are people that do not think like me but "home" is where I go to relax and pursue leisure activities not a place I want anything resembling work to happen. My brother is the opposite of me; he's a union clock puncher and takes great pride in doing things like installing a new toilet. It's not that these things are technically that difficult it's just jobs always snowball and never are completed without hitches. No thanks, I'll pay some other clock puncher to do things for me.
 

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Strolling around NYC as an erstwhile denizen is exhilarating at first and then, invariably, melancholia inducing.

/emo
 
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