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Has anyone done this? Ideas for where to look? Northampton, Amherst, Lennox? Looking for someplace with good cultural scene, decent restaurants and access to hiking. Thoughts?

Charlie's and Crescent City are great when I want an old school steakhouse experience, but I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Ideas?

Ok r/printSF, let's have some fun. We are more than a quarter of the way through the 21st Century. Pick your top five SF books of the 21st Century thus far (i.e. published after 12/31/2000). Use whatever criteria you want (your favorites, five best representative of the styles of the decade, five greatest works, even though you didn't enjoy them all, etc.). Just remember to tell us what criteria you're using!

Thanks r/printSF for turning me on to There is No Antimemetics Division. It really was a compelling read for me. It's a puzzle story where the puzzle keeps changing as you put the pieces together. It's really clever and creative. I'm not going to spoil it by going into details on the plot, as I think going in blind elevated the reading experience for me. Well worth reading if you haven't picked it up yet.

Has anyone here either moved to New England or relocated within New England for retirement? I lived and worked on Boston's Northshore for 35 years and miss it during the summer and fall (not so much in the winter and spring). While it is a great place when the weather cooperates, I recognize that it is expensive, crowded and the weather and darkness can be pretty awful from January to March. Obvious candidate locations are Cape Cod, Cape Ann, coastal Maine and Lake Winnipesaukee, but I can see living just about anywhere in New England as a possibility.

I've now attended the English language services at St. Stephen's on Napoleon and St. Patrick's on Camp and I find the services to be really different than my experiences in New England and the Great Lakes portion of the Midwest. Like virtually all of the music is in Latin, lots of incense, the priest at St. Patrick's mostly had his back to the congregation and faced the altar, a lot of the responses were sung rather than recited, a couple of women were wearing kerchiefs and the priests wore birettas when processing out at the end of mass. The whole vibe felt very pre-Vatican II to me. Is this a New Orleans thing, just these parishes, Catholicism in Louisiana or a Catholicism in the South thing? Thanks!

Yes, I know Elizabeth's has shorter hours, but let's say your friend is in from out of town and you're looking for a neighborhood restaurant for lunch or brunch.

Goal is to add weight training to a decent walking regime.

I used Quicken religiously for 15 years until they switched their model from buy a disk every 3 years to subscription model. I then relied on Fidelity Full View which has been ok, but not great. They did a big revision a few months ago and I find it more difficult to use now.

I need something that will track my personal finances in one place, the way Quicken was when I used it. I want a total net worth picture, the ability to pull in use, interest and dividend data from banks and brokerages. I also would like something that does automatic spending categorization, with the ability to correct mis-categorization. I'm willing to pay for something robust, but would also like to look at free services with good security that can get the job done. Thanks.

Edit: I set up Monarch Money. This is what I'm looking for. 30% discount on first year, for total cost of $70 per year. 1 week free to decide whether you want to cancel or not. So far, it looks good.

Yes it's 89 degrees and I'm looking for retail shops with loose tea. And no, tea is not a euphemism. I'm looking for real tea, grown in Ceylon, thrown in the harbor in Boston, consumed in quantity in England. That kind of tea.

Same temperature all the time or do you change it at night?

Edit: Wow, big range of temperatures! I've been liking 77 during the day and 76 at night.

You know, a retched hive of scum and villainy, populated by smugglers, practitioners of hokey religions and people who carry ancient weapons. And wookies.

South Florida, USVI and Maui come to mind, but would like specific suggestions for towns and small cities to look at. Would even be open to New England if there was a sufficiently robust dive community.

I'm sitting on 200,000 coal. Should I get Nottingham? My alternatives are save for Defence or get one of Halford, Tulsa, Carnot or Z-44. Or just keep accumulating for a future release. Nottingham seems ok in right situation and I think it's getting a repair soon?

Edit: Sorry, I should have been clearer. I have every coal ship except those mentioned above.

Edit 2: Looks like it's either Tulsa or see if the new Spanish commander is available for coal.