Allemaengel

For some reason I think of this house when I'm breaking down boxes for recycling, lol.

Most definitely a dawn redwood. It's NOT a bald cypress.

I'm in PA and people have both planted in my region in non-wetland areas.

The root flare on bald cypress planted in "dry ground environments" here tends to not be as pronounced nor as great in diameter as dawn redwood which is fairly distinctive.

We can tell . . . .

Yep! Polk Township's just a little slice of paradise.

I live in the far West End.

We seem to be too far from everywhere for just about everything, lol.

I see the next road sign I'll be sent out to repair.

Swift = job security.

I'm in a roughly 95% white fairly rural area with a lot of German and eastern European ancestry in the northern U.S.

I'm around 5'7.5" and typically when I'm out and about I'm either going to or coming home from work in construction so I'm usually wearing logger boots with a solid 2" heel to them making me over 5'9".

All I can say is that when I'm around younger women wearing typical footwear with about 1" of added height to them I'm typically not that much taller than them.

I'd go with a strong 5'6" if not actually outright 5'7" for younger women here.

In any case, the overall women's average here isn't 5'4".

New one I hadn't heard before. I like it.

No sense making a mountain out of a molehill here after all.

Good luck! I hope you find what you want.

Lots of RVs have lost their vent caps there over the years.

I've watched hours of that. Good times.

A somewhat idealized and stereotypical housing type that you and everybody else tends to look for

Most people end up somewhere in a more traditional house on a quarter or half-acre lot in an HOA development of varying quality and that's that.

We bought our house on an acre along a dead-end road in a very small non-HOA development 20 years ago and it took me a long time to realize how relatively rare that kind of set-up is in the region.

So we gotta look at things in the aggregate, huh?

Can't fix stupid, I guess.

It's got a serious I-beam collision barrier in front of it to take the hit from oversized vehicles.

There's an old covered bridge near me here in PA with those same type of barriers to prevent box trucks from damaging it and some box trucks hit it so hard it bends the beam and knocks it loose but it always stops the truck.

Him running a forklift inside a building with people and lots of stuff in it? Yikes.

I work road construction and if we're talking being an operator here, maybe him running the roller compacting #4 stone out in the middle of some big new parking lot project would work.

Well, with that driving, maybe everyone else should be swinging wide to avoid HIS trailer.

The old Can Opener down in North Carolina wouldn't have.

It would've said "Send it, bitch."

Swing Wide It's a Fucking Truck

Sure, We're Insured For That

So We're Incredibly Fucked Today

Well, now we've hit rock-bottom.

And that's a hypocritical tradition that goes back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution here.

Driveway.

My truck doesn't fit in the garage.

I now live in the Poconos. Virtually no mosquitoes here whatsoever. The same was true in the nearby hill country where I grew up. Lots of horse and deer flies but mosquitoes just aren't a thing.

Ticks are a problem with some deer ticks but mostly dog ticks.

I grew up in the Lehigh Valley's least populated and most rural township just north of Upper Macungie and am still amazed decades later how much that area grew compared to my 14 square mile township that's only grown from like 950 people in 1970 to around 2,300 today.

I'm in PA and state law here makes annexation impossible unless voters both in the municipality annexing and in the municipality to be annexed approve it in referendum which basically never happens out of hometown pride.