The Aristocrats!

Rural west coast. It is more expensive here than the midwest states, but the state insurance is fantastic, so the access to medical care is worth it.

Edit: Population of 2k, for the record

I’m currently living in a slightly smaller house that’s valued at 250k. The roof leaks and the porch is falling apart, but the town has doubled in size since COVID, and so has the cost of housing.

Yeah, the store I’m thinking is a hypermarket sells groceries, but also clothing, toys, furniture, garden plants, tools, etc. We still call it a grocery store, lol.

My town’s store doesn’t even have its own bakery department or meat counter, but the bigger one next town over away has a bank branch and a starbucks inside, but doesn’t sell the range of the big one mentioned above.

Is that close to the grocery > supermarket > hypermarket scale?

Yeah, the walking infrastructure around here is incredibly weird. Like, my town converted an old rail right-of-way to a gravel trail, which is great, but… There’s this warehouse that used to connect to the rail line, so now the trail goes right through the middle of their parking lot/ shipping lanes. You have to cross a truck route to get to it from the residential area anyways, so it doesn’t get a lot of use.

Don’t mind me, I’m just looking for stuff to shove in his face later, because I’m kinda irritated by his claim too, lol.

Oh geeze, we don’t make a distinction between a supermarket and a grocery store either, lol. Most ‘grocery stores’ in the US are apparently supermarkets because they sell stuff like dog food and laundry detergent? I don’t think we have any stores that do just produce, at least not in the few states I’ve lived in.

Going off the wiki link, it looks like I have a hypermarket ~25km away.

What’s a hypermarket?

Yeah, I can’t stomach our tap water, so having to buy drinking water adds to my grocery weight. I guess that’s also not normal for most Europeans.

Good thing I’m soliciting a range of opinions instead of just believing my friend then, right?

Dang, that must be nice. The bus only comes by once every 4 hours for me, and it’s always standing-room only.

On the other hand, nothing wakes you up like standing on a bus going 80km/h on a bumpy road.

Does it have cargo space, or do they just let you take up passenger space? Is the tram not full?

Edit: didn’t see the edit lol

Does the tram allow cargo? My bus won’t let you take anything bigger than you can hold on your lap.

The next closest store is 16km away 😭

Good to know my friend is full of shit about this being the same for y’all.

Yeah. My microwave makes five beeps whenever the timer runs out, regardless if I open the door or not.

In terms of appliance beeping aggravation, I’ve yet to have one that tops an old slow cooker I had. When you turned it on, it just had a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep that lasted for multiple seconds and made me want to throw it out the window every time I had to use it. It was like a goddamn siren alerting the whole apartment complex to the possibility of pot roast in 4-8 hours.

Can confirm, got my scroll saw at a yard sale for $20

People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.

This is how you wind up with the ‘Waiter: Enjoy your food! Me: Thanks, you too!’ situation

To be fair, air mattresses are like shittier futons and don’t get moldy because you’re always moving them around.

Source: I used to live with this setup, only in a smaller room.

It’s a Grove Snail, and they come in a bunch of different colors. I mostly see the yellow ones, but I’ve seen one orange one and one pink one too!

I vaguely remember something about organelles inside a cell used to be seperate entities too