One Thing I Love About Living in Burlington
While watching the slow decline of a city I’ve lived in for 22 years is upsetting, and living next to a drug dealing hotspot and gathering place for degenerate chaos comes with its fair share of problems, there is one unexpected benefit:
I never have to worry about unloading old junk.
All you have to do is put the broken item on your porch before you go to bed, and it will magically disappear overnight.
The key is to leave it on your porch, not the greenbelt. If you leave it on the greenbelt, it might sit there for a few days. But if you leave it on your porch, it is guaranteed to vanish within the evening.
The downside is that you also can’t leave anything on your porch that you don’t want stolen. That’s why my hanging planters are duct taped to their hooks, a sad lesson I learned years ago.
Porch storing bike owners, you better have complete faith that your lock is there for you and won’t eventually give itself over to the sweet embrace of the bolt cutters.
Also, if anyone out there is in the market for a used TV, steer clear of a 43-inch Panasonic from 2012. It’s broken, and the seller probably doesn’t realize that yet.