There are definitely some perks of living close to a big city: like proximity to bigger airports, happening places, lot more friends, lot more visitors and places for you to visit, better infrastructures, etc. But there might be some downsides, even if it’s negligible in comparison to the benefits you reap. I discovered one of them yesterday.
I am a big fan of public library, in fact I love anything that’s public: public transport, public TV, public radio, etc. When I was in Lafayette, I used to borrow a lot from the public library; books, CD’s, and mostly DVD’s. They all were free, you could keep DVD’s for a week, and after that it was $1 fine per day.
Yesterday I went to Baltimore County Public Library to borrow couple of DVD’s. The rate was $2.30 for a DVD (you can keep it for 2 days), after that there was a fine of $2.30 per day. I was surprised with the cost, especially when I pay four times the state tax that I used to pay in Louisiana. What baffled me more was who would want to get DVD’s from this library when you can get newer releases in the Redbox for $1.06 (rate of a DVD per day)? Also, when the older movies nowadays are readily available on the web.
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i miss lafayette
Do you really Bigya? Last I remember was you ever trying to get out of there
Seriously, I too miss some aspects of Lafayette. Especially the mild winters, shorter commute to work, friendly people, crawfish, and LSU fanatics
For me the biggest issue is with shops. I like to be able to buy whatever I want, wheneve I want. Don’t want a drive to the supermarket to tunr into an hour long journey.
Then why don’t you return to Lafayette? If Lousiana has no state tax, then 4 times or 100 times it’s still zero, LOL. You are making us fool in that case, shame shame puppy shame, LOL.
What do you want? You want to stay in Manhattan and need the rent of the apartment, costs of commodities, and taxes lower than or equal to in Lafayette? That’s foolish, LOL.
HAHAHA LMAO EVEN THE COMMENT IS MODERATED? THAT MEANS ANY COMMENT CRITICIZING THE POST WITH OR WITHOUT HUMOR S DELETED? SHAME SHAME THAT’S LAME AND HYPOCRITICAL, LOL.
ScubaDriver,
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Regarding this post:
Most public services are run from tax payers money. I had issue with this public library which had inefficient checkout fees for DVD. Just in case you missed that point, I foresaw their movie renting service unsustainable, and I being a big fan of public service would hate to see them cut their services because of in-usage.