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Borgata is the nicest but it's off boardwalk. Ocean went in where Revel lived for like a year and Revel was pretty palatial (but also has the stink of the Ray Rice incident). I still kinda prefer the Trop. Cuba Libre is decent cuban food in there and Carmine's I think is a branch of the NYC restaurant (but I might be talking out my ass on that).
Noted. Bogota is #2 on the list right now due to the distance but I'm sure I can Uber/Taxi to the Boardwalk. This may have bumped it.
Looking at that Cuba Libre menu has me salivating. That's on the list for sure.
We're planning a July trip to Disney World and plopped down deposits on everything and starting to make reservations. I'm skeptical about how smooth it will go but it's about kiddos more than me. We're also staying off-site and only doing three outta six days.
It was apparently June and not July. This gives you an idea of how I plan things. Leaving tomorrow morning early in the AM.
Just packed the kiddos and myself and can say without hesitation, this will make you a believer in birth control.
My sister, who doesn’t go to many concerts, went all the way to Hershey to see Justin Timberlake. While we rarely travel more than a couple hours for all the shows we go to.
Can anybody tell me anything about Harrisburg, PA? I’m thinking about applying for a job there.
I've lived here for almost 12 years now (plus did two internship stints in town in my younger days). What do you need to know? Feel free to PM me (or you probably have my email address too)!
Can anybody tell me anything about Harrisburg, PA? I’m thinking about applying for a job there.
I've lived here for almost 12 years now (plus did two internship stints in town in my younger days). What do you need to know? Feel free to PM me (or you probably have my email address too)!
Nothing specific really at this point. Just kind of generally wondering if you find it to be a nice place to live. Whether there’s anything about it that stands out that you really like or dislike.
I just saw the listing yesterday, and it’s open until August (job doesn’t start until next August), so right now, I’m just trying to think through whether I want to apply for it, and I figured any insight into the area might help with that decision.
I've lived here for almost 12 years now (plus did two internship stints in town in my younger days). What do you need to know? Feel free to PM me (or you probably have my email address too)!
Nothing specific really at this point. Just kind of generally wondering if you find it to be a nice place to live. Whether there’s anything about it that stands out that you really like or dislike.
I just saw the listing yesterday, and it’s open until August (job doesn’t start until next August), so right now, I’m just trying to think through whether I want to apply for it, and I figured any insight into the area might help with that decision.
It's a great little city - about 50k. It's the seat of state government obviously, and that has its plusses and minuses. The minuses being mostly that people have a sense of superiority when they work for the government (which is so stupid, it's stupid in DC so magnify this by like 100).
If you want to live in the city, there are a few good neighborhoods - we live in Midtown, and within a block we have the Midtown Cinema (arthouse), Susquehanna Art Museum, Broad St Market, Midtown Scholar (a fantastic used book store), and a bunch of restaurants and shops. We love the neighborhood. There are also good suburbs on either side of the Susquehanna, and the Susquehanna River and the surrounding mountains both adds a lot of scenic beauty, and gives options for fun activities (lots of people kayak, float, or boat on the river, the hiking is great - I live within 15 miles of the Appalachian Trail from southwest to northeast of the city).
We are trying to move, so maybe that doesn't seem like a ringing endorsement, but I've been here 12 years and all my wife's friends are in Philly, so when our jobs became permanently remote work we decided we should take advantage (house is going on the market in a few weeks).
Oh, another benefit to Harrisburg is the location - 1.5 hours to BWI (and Baltimore downtown is closer, airport is southwest of downtown), 2.5 hours or so to DC (depends on traffic), about 2 hours to Philly, about 3.5 hours to NYC, about 3 hours to Pittsburgh, about 4 hours to the Jersey shore, about 4 hours to Ocean City, MD/Delaware beaches...it has an airport big enough to fly out of, but has a train to the Philly airport and Philly/NYC trains in general...lots to like about the location.
Nothing specific really at this point. Just kind of generally wondering if you find it to be a nice place to live. Whether there’s anything about it that stands out that you really like or dislike.
I just saw the listing yesterday, and it’s open until August (job doesn’t start until next August), so right now, I’m just trying to think through whether I want to apply for it, and I figured any insight into the area might help with that decision.
It's a great little city - about 50k. It's the seat of state government obviously, and that has its plusses and minuses. The minuses being mostly that people have a sense of superiority when they work for the government (which is so stupid, it's stupid in DC so magnify this by like 100).
If you want to live in the city, there are a few good neighborhoods - we live in Midtown, and within a block we have the Midtown Cinema (arthouse), Susquehanna Art Museum, Broad St Market, Midtown Scholar (a fantastic used book store), and a bunch of restaurants and shops. We love the neighborhood. There are also good suburbs on either side of the Susquehanna, and the Susquehanna River and the surrounding mountains both adds a lot of scenic beauty, and gives options for fun activities (lots of people kayak, float, or boat on the river, the hiking is great - I live within 15 miles of the Appalachian Trail from southwest to northeast of the city).
We are trying to move, so maybe that doesn't seem like a ringing endorsement, but I've been here 12 years and all my wife's friends are in Philly, so when our jobs became permanently remote work we decided we should take advantage (house is going on the market in a few weeks).
Oh, another benefit to Harrisburg is the location - 1.5 hours to BWI (and Baltimore downtown is closer, airport is southwest of downtown), 2.5 hours or so to DC (depends on traffic), about 2 hours to Philly, about 3.5 hours to NYC, about 3 hours to Pittsburgh, about 4 hours to the Jersey shore, about 4 hours to Ocean City, MD/Delaware beaches...it has an airport big enough to fly out of, but has a train to the Philly airport and Philly/NYC trains in general...lots to like about the location.
Thanks! This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. My other question would be, how is the weather/climate there? One of the things we dislike the most about Georgia is the humidity in the summer. I see from the Wikipedia that it can get hot in the summer, but it seems that average temps even in the hottest months are not super hot? Also, neither of us has lived somewhere where it gets super cold. The coldest place we have lived was northern Nevada where it did snow occasionally, and it got pretty windy, but was generally pretty moderate. I don’t think I’d mind the cold at all, and Josh thinks he could deal with it, but I’m curious to hear about that from someone who lived there.
It's a great little city - about 50k. It's the seat of state government obviously, and that has its plusses and minuses. The minuses being mostly that people have a sense of superiority when they work for the government (which is so stupid, it's stupid in DC so magnify this by like 100).
If you want to live in the city, there are a few good neighborhoods - we live in Midtown, and within a block we have the Midtown Cinema (arthouse), Susquehanna Art Museum, Broad St Market, Midtown Scholar (a fantastic used book store), and a bunch of restaurants and shops. We love the neighborhood. There are also good suburbs on either side of the Susquehanna, and the Susquehanna River and the surrounding mountains both adds a lot of scenic beauty, and gives options for fun activities (lots of people kayak, float, or boat on the river, the hiking is great - I live within 15 miles of the Appalachian Trail from southwest to northeast of the city).
We are trying to move, so maybe that doesn't seem like a ringing endorsement, but I've been here 12 years and all my wife's friends are in Philly, so when our jobs became permanently remote work we decided we should take advantage (house is going on the market in a few weeks).
Oh, another benefit to Harrisburg is the location - 1.5 hours to BWI (and Baltimore downtown is closer, airport is southwest of downtown), 2.5 hours or so to DC (depends on traffic), about 2 hours to Philly, about 3.5 hours to NYC, about 3 hours to Pittsburgh, about 4 hours to the Jersey shore, about 4 hours to Ocean City, MD/Delaware beaches...it has an airport big enough to fly out of, but has a train to the Philly airport and Philly/NYC trains in general...lots to like about the location.
Thanks! This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. My other question would be, how is the weather/climate there? One of the things we dislike the most about Georgia is the humidity in the summer. I see from the Wikipedia that it can get hot in the summer, but it seems that average temps even in the hottest months are not super hot? Also, neither of us has lived somewhere where it gets super cold. The coldest place we have lived was northern Nevada where it did snow occasionally, and it got pretty windy, but was generally pretty moderate. I don’t think I’d mind the cold at all, and Josh thinks he could deal with it, but I’m curious to hear about that from someone who lived there.
We'll have a few weeks in the mid 90s with lots of humidity, it can be almost suffocating. But it's pretty variable - yesterday was 93 and humid, thunderstorm moved in and got some rain, my computer tells me it's 65 today (and grey). High 70s to mid 80s the next few days before getting up to 90 on Sunday and Monday.
In the winter, we'll get some snow - we've had a few big snow storms with 2-3 feet of snow at once (maybe every 3 years I've been here), will get a few other dustings. Cold-wise, have had some stretches of bone chilling cold - like single digits - but that's not the norm. I would guess the average in the winter months is between 28-35, and we've had some milder winters recently (mostly mild in terms of length of the bitter cold parts and amount of precipitation).
I would say weather wise I like it both better than Knoxville (because we get all of the seasons here) and Pittsburgh (because we get more sun than the 'burgh). Those are the three areas I've lived so all I can compare it to. Fall is really beautiful here with the mountains and water and leaves and all.
Post by potentpotables on Jun 22, 2021 22:25:20 GMT -5
All Hershey jokes aside, they've got great rollercoasters at Hershey Park, Chocolate World is a great place to kill time with little kids (and the souvenir store sells any Hershey's or Reese's item you'd ever want in the largest possible quantities you could imagine), and the Hershey Spa is divine - get just one treatment over there (with union workers - the local is Chocolate Workers local 464 I think, affiliated with BCTGM) and you can use the entire facility all day, which includes indoor and outdoor pools, sauna/steam, relaxation rooms, and Hershey's miniatures EVERYWHERE. Hersheypark Stadium also gets the biggest shows to come to Central PA - I've seen the Timberlake/Jay tour there, Macca, GnR, Bruno Mars...
Lastly, Troegs is within spitting distance of Hershey Park. They are a world class craft brewery, very popular attraction.
Hershey is a great town. We do our CSA from a farm halfway between Hburg and Hershey.
Post by Dave Maynar on Jun 24, 2021 8:12:56 GMT -5
The ladyfriend and I went to Asheville this past weekend. We didn't do anything that hasn't been recommended by everyone already, but we did stay at this campground which was fun times. It was great partially because it's weird/creative. It's also great bc it was convenient to downtown. We paid 80 something dollars for two nights and could be downtown in less than 10 minutes. They do have a neighbor who is a jerk, but given the disclosure about him beforehand, he ended up being funnier than threatening or annoying. We were laying in bed at midnight, and we suddenly hear a trumpet blast and him unintelligibly yelling. It got a solid laugh from us and didn't mess with sleep at all.
Post by garageland on Jun 24, 2021 11:44:32 GMT -5
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, this is a great bookstore” in any other place than Powell’s Books, you’ve never gone to Powell’s Bookstore.
Prepare to be amazed.
E: one of my old roommates was training for the Olympics and used to cycle to Oceanside every day. One day he bent a rim and another roommate and I went out to pick him up. It’s about an hour and a half drive and some of the prettiest in the country that I’ve seen.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jun 24, 2021 11:48:22 GMT -5
we are headed to sedona in november. pretty much have our activities decided upon: all the major "must do" hikes we can fit in, stargazing, probably do a hippie dippie woo woo spiritual vision quest of some kind. but i'm open to any suggestions anyone has. food especially, but open to activities.
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, this is a great bookstore” in any other place than Powell’s Books, you’ve never gone to Powell’s Bookstore.
Prepare to be amazed.
E: one of my old roommates was training for the Olympics and used to cycle to Oceanside every day. One day he bent a rim and another roommate and I went out to pick him up. It’s about an hour and a half drive and some of the prettiest in the country that I’ve seen.
Obviously not the bookstore you are talking about, but we went to a bookstore over the weekend for the first time in over a year. It was magical.
