u/Mountainpirategirl

Venting because house buying is a mess anyway but now I’m getting priced out of trailer parks, or should I say “manufactured neighborhoods”, as the HOA fees in most are three times what the mortgage is. None of them have pools, community centers, street lighting, sidewalks, communal mailboxes, and more than half don’t even have gravel or paved roads. It’s already nuts they’re selling a 1992 single wide with half the roof missing for $100k on less than 1/4acre but then to have a $1000 a month HOA fees for “community maintenance”???? It’s a dirt road with a sign up front and ten single wides or trailers falling into the clay soil. One of them had a really nice sign that advertised “newly painted community entrance” with the first house behind it literally collapsed in still from Helene. Not that a grand is ever worth it but come on, it’s a trailer park not a luxury neighborhood. Does the fee come with built in security for when Debra’s meth lab blows up next door?
Also I’m not talking about the lot lease, that’s a separate charge. My friend said they’re trying to keep them vacant so they’ll be allowed to tear them all down and sell the land but idk if that’s gonna happen. People just seem to buy them with twelve other people. Idk thanks for letting me rant because what the hell.

Yes yes data center bad, be nicer if they didn’t ruin water and land. I ask out of curiosity and desire to learn not to justify building more. A good ole porch chat on a hot Sunday evening.
Ethics of the data centers aside could data centers be used to process water for human consumption or use? I’m not sure how they use the water aside from going through tubes to cool them but if it has to be clean to be used and gets really hot would that sterilize the water? Could the water get hot enough to be used for steam powering stuff? Would rain collection from their roofs be a reasonable way to cool them or would that do more harm? Would it be possible for them to create their own circuit at some point (ex, collect water, clean water, cool stuff, steam water, make power, repeat)?

Do y’all track your fitness in your bullet journal? I have a pretty barebones one that I forget about. Not even sure how I want it formatted, I don’t track water but I want to track workouts, steps, weight. I’d rather monthly spreads but workouts probably need to be weekly unless it’s gonna be tiny.

How often do you clean your brushes, sponges, and reusable makeup remover pads? How do you make sure they all dry without getting musty or moldy? Do you have a routine or schedule?

I seem to wait until everything looks unrecognizable to clean and that’s not cool. My skin deserves better.

Also do y’all have favorite reusable makeup removing wipes or pads? I need more than three little rounds.

Thank you 💛

I’m a firm believer in minding my own business. Especially in apartments because everyone is just trying to live their lives and just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s bad. However I’ve lived here almost two years and it’s gotten so bad being here I can’t do nothing. I also don’t want to start shit and make living here worse in other ways.

Layout: townhouses, with small front yards not separated with a sidewalk a ft from the doors and windows, small backyards separated on the sides by tall 6ft long fences with a sidewalk at the end of the fences then a cliff and stairs to the tiny back parking lot. I am between two townhouses.

Early issues: (like all within the first 3months) the neighbors on one side get drunk 24/7/365 scream yell cry and argue every night, they stand outside my front window and try to comment on what they hear me listening to or talking about, one of them listens through the walls and makes weird comments about our sex life (we are super self conscious and know nobody can hear us… since then we literally do it standing in silence), they come and sit on my chairs in my backyard even though everyone has them, the other side neighbors talk loud as hell on their phones outside all afternoon and some mornings, always try to have conversations with us when we are outside, ask for food when we grill.

New issues: both sides have been feeding stray cats, they pee all over the front sidewalk and my SO has to go through the back now because it makes his eyes burn, they leave the food outside and the ants are going crazy over them, the cats have started eating my herbs, one of them keeps leaving wet food cans outside and they smell, the cans also get dragged around and the lawn care people run over them and they fling into things, one of them has been giving the kids from the end unit (the adults in that unit avoid the neighbors harder than I do) toys and chalk which gets left in the lot or on the stairs, the kids won’t pick up because their pare told then to stop bringing junk home and the neighbors say it’s not their issue.

Advice needed: what do I do? I understand I live in an undesirable location and have to put up with stuff others may not but I can’t just avoid stuff anymore. My dead dad’s truck is getting dented, I can’t go outside without being harassed or vomiting from the stink, I’ve lived in silence and fear in my own home for almost two years, I’m so tired, I can’t move, I also can’t handle them being actively mad at me.