u/remosiracha

Hi!

Moving to town from a place that basically has zero restrictions on anything. Every place we've looked at is 100 years old and has a fireplace inside and the last owners had a backyard firepit. I was excited to finally live somewhere again where I could have my own fireplace but then started seeing rules and laws about smoke.

Every law I saw mentioned wood STOVES and not fireplaces. The only info I could find was saying you can't use your fireplace during a burn ban, which I'm assuming means indoor and outdoor fireplaces or firepits.

It seems like there is a distinction between older stoves and that those rules don't apply to normal fireplaces in a house.

Just wanted to get some input on if we buy a house with a fireplace or a nice area to have a backyard BBQ and fire, will we have a swat team arrive and carry us away 😂

Every morning it feels like I'm waking up to another shooting and murder, another war starting, another animal going extinct or a policy gutting environmental protections and promoting corporations over communities and I wonder how this keeps being allowed to happen

Then I read the comments...

I know comments aren't representative of a community as a whole and should only represent a vocal minority online, but I hear them in person when going to the store, and I hear my coworkers echoing the same ideas.

Like the mosque shooting today, every random person in my town seems to be commenting on the local news post about it saying they deserved it and this country is better without "those people". Clicking on their profiles and it's someone that works at a car dealership, or a school, or a local construction company. This hate has infiltrated everything. It is no longer a fringe belief that people try to hide. They're totally fine with publicly admitting what people they think deserve to live.

Sort of a rant. But it's exhausting to keep seeing this every day knowing nothing is going to change and people are just getting worse.