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Lol oh I'll get back to this, I'm just tired right now and just had a big dinner and want to do nothing. But yep. We've been gone a long time. But now It's worse than ever. One thing I'll say is we lived walking distance from where you were up toward the hills (I'll get a map screenshot and mark some stuff later), and it was pretty safe then. Never any problems. That area is very dangerous now. Where did you stay?
Keeping it to cars, I HATE the 4 cyl E Class lol.
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i could do blue or black for this car, maybe red too.
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I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC, love NYC.
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One would think that NYC, with its huge population, would have worse traffic than D.C., but that's not necessarily the case. A lot of people there simply don't own private cars, and get around by buses, subways, cabs, and Uber/Lyft.
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manhattan is the calm eye of the storm where rates are often surprisingly low... then directly outside the eye in the bronx and brooklyn premiums are the worst, and prices slowly fall again as you move out to queens and staten island
idk exactly why manhattan had such noticeably lower rates but going into that job i'd have thought the opposite
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If you think about it, that makes perfect sense. Much fewer private cars, very low speeds, most loss is probably property loss from theft which is covered by homeowners or renters insurance anyways.
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but still there's just SO much to hit between other cars, pedestrians, delivery bikes, those horse tour carriages lol... i was just surprised to see that at first
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One of my agents moved to FL a year ago, he has a Rivian. He is in town and was at the office today, drove his Rivian up from FL, he let me drive it today. I loved it! Rode well even on the 23s, very quiet...very impressive...
He stopped 4 times to charge for 30 minutes each over 800 miles...not bad...
He stopped 4 times to charge for 30 minutes each over 800 miles...not bad...
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So I watched the movie Blue Beetle tonight. And Toyota does the ultimate Tacoma product placement.
Movie spoiler ahead
Spoiler
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i watched Blue Beetle as well over the weekend and noticed the Taco. I also was laughing at the fact that the movie editors used a V8 audio track for it.
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This is the Rivian SUV, much more compelling vehicle to drive than a Hybrid F150. The trade off is no time spent at gas stations when not traveling. I would prefer not stopping for 2 hours during an 800 mile trip, but I would much rather have that Rivian day in and day out.
Personally I would never drive a trip that long anyways. Longest trip I would drive I would only have to stop once. Time is important which is why I would never drive to DC from FL lol
Having had a vehicle now for 2 months I plug in and unplug every time it’s parked, doesn’t bother us in the slightest
Personally I would never drive a trip that long anyways. Longest trip I would drive I would only have to stop once. Time is important which is why I would never drive to DC from FL lol
Having had a vehicle now for 2 months I plug in and unplug every time it’s parked, doesn’t bother us in the slightest
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