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Me and my significant other are moving to Nashua. We've lived in NH before up in Dover about 2 years ago, moved to a different state, and heading back to NH due to a nice job offer. The job is in Nashua by the airport. Although we lived in the state and one of us grew up in NH, we never spent much time in the southern portion of the state. What would be some areas to look into for apartments that are within 30 minute drive of the city? hoping for rent to be around 1,800 - 2,200 range.

I literally only watch Lud live stream on YouTube. I’m not well versed in the streaming twitch culture. Is streamer U like one big staged thing? I’m seeing Kai Cenat flying a helicopter and hopping in a police car to go catch people who went to a club. I’m seeing multiple physical fights. I’m seeing guys throw tubs of milk in rooms. Some borderline se*ual assault. It’s all feeling like a project X movie. Lud is just chillin, teaching, dapping everyone up. But there’s some serious chaotic disorder for this event… unless I’m missing something and it’s all planned and acted out. Like how are police ok with this, how did this college let this happen? just such a weird thing to observe.

edit: yes throwing out “borderline SA” was way to flippant. The clip that was going around from day 1 was baited as it being an unwanted touching but it was just a touch on the shoulder. It was settled so definitely don’t want to label anything with that serious title when in reality there was none of that.

me and my Significant other both work remote and we enjoy our current budget of only spending a little under $1,600 for rent. we want a change of scenery from our current location. Both mid 20s, don't have kids, and don't want to buy a house. Some preferences we have but are not deal breakers are- we like the sun so probably no crazy New England style winters we used to deal with. I like some type of walkability around the neighborhood. i also want to try to be in or close to a larger city.

would love to hear of some ideas that mainly fit our budget but potentially incorporate our small Wishlist.

currently in Wilmington and it just isn’t what me and my significant other thought it would be. We don’t have exact things we’re looking for but we have some ideas / preferences but they aren’t deal breakers. I want something with more going on. A larger city or area to explore. I like to go on walks from my apartment so some form of walkability. My significant other likes the sun, which I know it has a good amount of, and she works in hotels which I think also won’t be a problem in the area.

I know it can’t be expensive but I’ve lived in LA so I'm used to higher prices and we’re good at budgeting. We were considering San Diego but that's is gonna be a hard sell for my SO as she’s more of an east coast person. She is from New England.

we’re both mid 20s who are not looking to buy a house or have kids to worry about.

Would love to hear people’s recent experiences in the area. Maybe give some good areas to check out if we were to visit. Just overall thoughts on the area.

edit: I do want to add- I grew up in Virginia Beach for most of my childhood. I have family that lives an hour north of Baltimore so I’ve been in the region a bit but have only ever driven through DC, never got off the highway.

So I got 0% for migraines and this was the reason in the decision letter:

Service connection for migraine including migraine variants has been established as directly related to military service. (38 CFR 3.303, 38 CFR 3.304) The effective date of this grant is May 10, 2025. Service connection has been established from the day after your discharge from active duty. When a claim is received within one year of discharge, or an Intent to File (ITF) is received within one year of discharge with a substantially complete claim received within one year of that ITF, the effective date is the day after discharge. (38 CFR 3.155, 38 CFR 3.400) A non compensable evaluation is assigned from May 10, 2025. We have assigned a 0 percent evaluation for your migraine including migraine variants based on: • Less frequent attacks A higher evaluation of 10 percent is not warranted for migraines unless the evidence shows: • Characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over last several months. (38 CFR 4.120, 38 CFR 4.124a.

I can see it says "Less frequent attacks" but I have been consistent in all my medical notes that I get 2-3 weekly so this was confusing. I did a FOIA request and just got it back. In the DBQ I can see the question "Does the veteran have prostrating and prolonged attacks of migraines" And they checked "Yes" Followed by the question "If yes how frequent over the past few months" And they checked "with less frequent attacks" so that seems to be what the rater went off of. They also said it doesn't affect my work. Just seems to be a bad DBQ that goes against my medical records.

Should the follow up just be a standard higher level review?

I got my decision letter today. Everything looked pretty good except for one claim that is service connected but rated at 0 and their reasoning just contradicts what is repeated many times in my service records and post service records. If I had to guess, the c&p exam sucked and the DBQ was just not good and the rater only looked at that. I did a FOIA request for the exams to verify but not gotta go back to the circus again and jump through the hoops again. Anyone else have something similar happen?

Uploaded my first one back in April when my claim was just submitted. In it I was very generous in saying I had to change careers and now work remotely. In reality, I am living off my savings while day trading. Now here I am a few months later still living off my savings, no employment, and trading just isn't working out to make any steady income. I have my c&p exam tomorrow and would like to bring an updated personal statement just changing the sentence about my employment. I can upload it as evidence as well but I dont want to raise any eyebrows having multiple personal statements for a single issue. Saw someone upload a newer version and just added a clarification note at the top, not sure if that's the way to go. Any help would be appreciated!

me and my Significant Other (both mid 20s) are planning on moving here in a few months. Denver seems to be the leader because it fits what we’re looking for and we’re not having to sacrifice too much. I work from home at the moment and my SO works in hotels. She is looking for a reasonably good job market which Denver seems to have for her role, lots of sun to tan which Denver also has, plus it’s cheaper than where we currently live.

the more I think about how much sense Denver makes for us, I keep coming back to SoCal. I lived in LA for a few years and was dirt poor time so I couldn’t enjoy it. I know San Diego will have the sun and hotels / hospitality career opportunities. The biggest thing that would hold us back (mainly my SO) is the cost of living. I know it’s crazy, we recently took a quick trip to DisneyLand in LA so she got to see the gas prices. I know rent will be a lot. Food is probably more expensive. But in terms of happiness and quality of life, I know it would probably make us more happy. we love going to explore in the sun, get coffee, go to markets, I like to surf and skate.

how do you balance cost vs happiness? Like it’s just some good weather, I could have more money in the bank each month if I just gave up some good weather. Anyone have experience making these decisions? Which one did you go with?

Just got gifted an e bike (an Aipas m2 pro if anyone cares). I don't wanna ride through the streets like these kids do everywhere begging to get hit by cars. I don't know anything about e bikes but it seems like it has big enough tires to do some off roading but can also just cruise on pavement. Are there any nice spots I can go to for a ride?

i suppose I gotta add that I can ride a bike and can ride this thing no problem, just not familiar with what they’re capable of.

been in step 3 for 40 days now with no update. i am aware the process dan take quite a long time but I was just wondering what other people’s experiences are with getting your c&p exams scheduled. I’ve see some posts of peoples claims flying through the steps in a matter of a few weeks. Im only claiming 3 things and have uploaded all my STRs and personal statements.

Currently live in Wilmington NC with my gf and were not looking to renew our lease. What we're looking for in a new city:

-big city. My gf works in hotels so a big city / tourism is a must for that field.

-reasonably affordable rent. I've seen on here that rent has been going down in some cases. Our range is around 1500.
-walkability is one of my musts and from what I can see, Denver has some nice pockets of it.

The things holding us back form fully committing are-

1. The weather. We lived in New England and are trying to avoid those types of winters (just dark and cold and depressing). And my gf loves the sun and to tan and I'm not sure how the area is with that.
2. sketchiness. Online there are lots of doom and gloom about the safeness of the area. I can see its getting better obviously I don't want to move us to a place filled with homeless and just bad areas when we're trying to go for a walk or go to the mall.

We're both mid 20s. We don't drink so breweries and alcohol is not something we care about. We like to get out and do things on our days off. If that's going to a market or visit a new town or go hiking. We like having things to do. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

edit: I’d like to add that 1500 is the range but we have the means to spend more for the right spot. Also we don’t necessarily have to live directly downtown, just in proximity to a large city so suburbs are totally fine for us.

Currently live in Wilmington NC with my gf and were not looking to renew our lease. What we're looking for in a new city:

-big city. My gf works in hotels so a big city / tourism is a must for that field.

-reasonably affordable rent. I've seen on here that rent has been going down in some cases. Our range is around 1500.
-walkability is one of my musts and from what I can see, Denver has some nice pockets of it.

The things holding us back form fully committing are-

1. The weather. We lived in New England and are trying to avoid those types of winters (just dark and cold and depressing). And my gf loves the sun and to tan and I'm not sure how the area is with that.

2. sketchiness. Online there are lots of doom and gloom about the safeness of the area. I can see its getting better obviously I don't want to move us to a place filled with homeless (we've had some bad run ins with that in New England) and just bad areas when we're trying to go for a walk or go to the mall.

We're both mid 20s. We don't drink so breweries and alcohol is not something we care about. We like to get out and do things on our days off. If that's going to a market or visit a new town or go hiking. We like having things to do. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

me and my significant other are looking to move come fall. we currently live in Wilmington NC and we’re not loving it. We want to be closer to a bigger city, preferably some walkability, a job market that isn’t completely non existent (my SO works in hotels and I work remote), and an apartment for about 1500, more if the place is worth it.

biggest challenge is that we like the sun and being close to the ocean but every big city in the south is just overcrowded and horrible wages. literally every city in FL has these problems. I know we probably will have to compromise a bit and that’s ok.

denver looks affordable and jobs in hospitality pay more then here in Wilmington but the weather and no ocean is a glaring issue. San Diego is expensive but looks like it’ll check off most of our boxes but that’s a huge move and we’ve only ever been east coast people.

any thoughts on some places we may be overlooking or just thoughts in general would be greatly appreciated!

I use thinkorswim at the moment but their fees for futures are too high so I am in the process of switching to ibkr because of their lower fees. When I made my account I entered the same information as thinkorswim in terms of my experience and income but on trading permissions I got put in cooldown to retry in a month. I waited the month and when I hit retry it just instantly submitted another application that got me put back in cooldown.

From what I could find online I shouldn't even be able to see futures tickers like NQ and ES however on the ibkr desktop app I am able to search tickers and even select contracts. I don't want to transfer money from my current broker to ibkr just to test if I can place a trade. So I just want to know if I am able to trade futures? and if not, what do I need to do differently when im able to reapply? Sorry if this is a beginner question.

been on step 3 since April 15th and on the April 17th they said they We made a request outside the VA: “service treatment records.”

I know they’re required to request your STR but I’ve uploaded my entire STR as evidence. I haven’t had anyone reach out to schedule c&p exams yet. Just wondering how long should I wait before I reach out to see what’s going on? I know you can get hung up on any step for quite some time, just seeing what other people’s experiences are.

edit: I’m just asking about other peoples experiences. I’m very much aware this is a long process.