what I never got is why golfers and golf course management companies are obsessed with sticking their courses right in the middle of cities. It makes sense that they'd want it to be easy to travel to the course. But golf originated as a rural game that people played on the treeless rolling hills of eastern Scotland. So, why not continue that? There's plenty of space available outside cities, especially in the US, and to me it just makes sense to put golf courses there.
Like there's a golf course right in the middle of the town I live in and it's just such a nuisance for everybody. It's next to a freeway too so I can't imagine it's very pleasant to play on it. It blocks so many roads and is right in the middle of an area that is almost overflowing with housing necessity. There's another one that serves my town but it's on the outskirts, probably a 20 minute drive or 45 minutes by bus. As far as I can tell, it's never really upset anybody, not nearly as much as the one right in the middle.
hey so i read all your comments here and I feel like it would have been far less of a waste of your time (and others) to just ignore the whole capitalism thing and answer what you'd do with your free time if you had more free time.
As long as you meet the dozens of credentials to work for a place, as well as the 5 to 10 hidden ones they don't tell you about in the job listing or the interview.
Rock climbing. I got into over summer but I only have time to go once or twice a week at most. And that's just indoors. A whole outdoor trip would take way too much of my time, time that I don't have.
There's a pretty big goodwill store where I live but word on the street is the prices aren't thrift competitive anymore. The real big block thrift is value village but the parking is terrible and there's no way to get there by bus without walking for a mile
Interesting. I went to a thrift store yesterday which sparked this question, and they didn't have any old consoles but they did have some original xbox and some ps2 games. Nothing really great though like Halo or anything. Just the older Maddens. I think somebody donated their madden collection.
There was one unusually tall tree in my neighborhood. Probably twice the height of every other tree, and the trees here are already tall since im in the pacific northwest. Idk what species. Bunch of workers had to fell it lately though sadly. I think the roots had rotted away or something and it was structurally unsound, and they were afraid it would crush the houses.
I deliver pIzza and all of our in-store routing software is tied to Google. It's a good GPS but it gets so much wrong. During rushes it's the job of the managers to route us on doubles or triples and I've gotten routed on badly-chosen doubles (i.e. 3 miles from each other) because Google thought the addresses were right next to each other. Sometimes it's a customer issue, like a typo on the website but most of the time it's Google being dumb.
There are a couple websites that display all of the US road signs approved by the federal government. Some cool stuff on there. Wikipedia does it too but I like the organization of the websites.
In Return of the Obra Dinn you play an insurance claims investigator. You can magically view the moment of somebody's death and hear the audio prior to it to aid in your investigation of a ghost ship.
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what I never got is why golfers and golf course management companies are obsessed with sticking their courses right in the middle of cities. It makes sense that they'd want it to be easy to travel to the course. But golf originated as a rural game that people played on the treeless rolling hills of eastern Scotland. So, why not continue that? There's plenty of space available outside cities, especially in the US, and to me it just makes sense to put golf courses there.
Like there's a golf course right in the middle of the town I live in and it's just such a nuisance for everybody. It's next to a freeway too so I can't imagine it's very pleasant to play on it. It blocks so many roads and is right in the middle of an area that is almost overflowing with housing necessity. There's another one that serves my town but it's on the outskirts, probably a 20 minute drive or 45 minutes by bus. As far as I can tell, it's never really upset anybody, not nearly as much as the one right in the middle.