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My neighborhood is a mix of projects and Luxury brand new apartments in Brooklyn and is really close to Manhattan. I went to a website and saw the crime report for my neighborhood and it’s bad. I wont even walk down my street alone after reading it. I saw kids spray-painting death-threats on building at 3PM last Sunday afternoon (saved the non-emergency police phone #).

I just want suggestions on what I can do, who I can vote for to change the upcoming areas in Brooklyn. I work from 6pm-4am and really don’t want to get robbed or raped when I get home because the garage doesn’t always shut due to other tenants. I have ADT install security, but that only keeps my home safe. I want ideas on how to make neighborhoods better because it’s really sad driving by the projects and they have to have a 300 ft tall NYPD security box to control the violence.

I own a luxury apartment over looking the river thames. My neighbour who lives above me asked for my permission in order to keep a dog there. Being the dog lover that I am I had no problem whatsoever with this and permission was granted.

2 years on, one has had enough of this mutt. It barks all too often when they are at work and one is at home with his studies. At one point, I found myself entertaining one by lightly tapping the ceiling with a broom handle. This sent the dog into an extremely hyperactive, albeit aggressive mood. I could hear tables being knocked over and lamps smashed as the dog tried to stop the racket one was creating. I then became very tired of hearing the scolding the dog received upon his owners return from work.

Just this morning I informed my neighbours I was not happy with the noise the dog was making and demanded she ‘get rid’. She cited that this was unfair as she had now bonded with the dog and it would be heart breaking to give up. Then came the tears. Unfortunately for her, I am a man and ‘turning on the waterworks’ doesn’t wash with me. The fact she tried to ‘play me’ angered me even more and I am even more determined this dog is either given a new home or destroyed.

I stand by my decision. Is this fair?

I was hoping that I could get some advice. I am 23 years old (still living @ home). During my senior year in high school I started a consumer electronics wholesale distribution company which I managed before and after school each day. After I graduated in 2005, I was able to put 100% of my attention into the company. Since then my company has done extremely well and I’m really impressed with the results. The company is very successful and it definitely has a bright future ahead of itself.
Knowing what I know in business and running a very, very successful company, I was able to skip college. My company has done so well that I was able to purchase a brand new 2006 car and pay it in full back in 2008. Just to give you an idea. Now, here’s the thing. My top 3 spots where I want to relocate to and possibly live in.

They are,
a) Orlando, FL
b) Redlands, California (about 1 hour from LA I believe)
c) Toronto, ON (Canada)

I still am undecided but here’s what I was thinking. Tell me if this is good or bad idea.

1.) Orlando has very luxury apartments called “55 West” managed by ZRS Management. I called them this week, I could get an apartment with AWESOME views on the 27th Floor for just $1400/month. It would be just for me and it 825 sq feet. Here’s a picture of what it looks like: http://www.zrsapartments.com/55West/orlando-fl-apartments.asp.

I’m seriously thinking of moving out. I can do what I want when I need to do it. I have my own privacy and I would be living in the heart of Orlando in a business district. Lots of places that I need to go to would be close by where I would be living. Honestly, this sounds very exciting to me and for $1400/month on the 27th floor with such luxuriant apartments; I almost feel that I’m skipping out on a huge opportunity by not doing this. I could try it for 12 months, then I could go to California and try a luxuriant apartment there to see which place I like the most.

2.) Should I ever consider buying a home? I was thinking why not buy apartments. This way you have the flexibility to move whenever you want.

I haven’t talked to my own family about this, and that is because I’m a very independent person. I just would like to know if anyone would be willing to give me some advice here because I thought about it all week long and I can’t decide what I should or shouldn’t do.

The main thing is if you think I should move to Orlando into the 55 West Apartments. It sounds way too exciting to me. I just don’t know what to do…..I’m stuck in a very difficult decision and would really appreciate the advice of others. Thank you!
Kristen, thanks for your repsonse, that helps!! Let me know when you get there, I’d like to hear from you again.

We have been together nearly 3 years. We’ve been married since 2/11. I love her very much . She’s just the worlds worst housekeeper. I work long hours. I average between 70-100 hours a week. I make a good living for us. I’m 27, she’s 22. I don’t make her work , she works because she wants to. She has a little part time job, 25-30 hours a week. As little as she works, she still refuses to keep the house clean. She’s kind of a slob. Theres always Coke cans on/under her night stand, there’s always dishes that need washing, there’s always clutter in the living room, there’s probably 5-6 loads of laundry that needs to be done right now as we speak. She claims that cleaning is a problem for her because she can’t get motivated. I have bought her anything I can think of to motivate her. Anytime she finds something she wants I always say “ok but please clean this house on your next day off”. About 3 weeks ago, I even went to the extreme and cleaned the ENTIRE apartment myself while she was at work. Top to bottom, side to side. Bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen, dishes, laundry, trash, EVERYTHING.she swore she’d maintain it. Well, that got thrown out the window. The apartment looks like junk again. I work very hard for what we have. We live in the nicest luxury apartments in town, I just paid to remodel the entire apartment. New brown leather furniture, two accent walls, new 55 inch HD Samsung tv. I pay for the best cable/Internet package available. I only say that, because I do everything I can to make her life as comfortable and luxury filled as possible. All I ask in return is a clean apartment when I come home from my 15-24hr work day. And up to this point, that’s something she’s not willing to do. I feel like it’s a slap in the face. I feel she doesn’t respect me or my contribution to our household. I don’t know what else to do. I’ve begged, pleaded, bribed, complained, etc etc etc. I’m all out of ideas.
Her parents house is very clean. She was an only child growing up, so her mom did all the cleaning for her. I think that’s a major part of the problem. Her mom always cleaned after her, so she’s never had to clean on her own. But trust me , she knows how. When I get upset enough, and she can see it’s obviously affecting me, she’ll clean the kitchen or something and say “I’ll do the living room tomorrow” .but it doesn’t happen. She’ll clean one room, then a couple/few days later clean another, then another. And by time she’s cleaned the last room, the first one is dirty again. I have talked til I’m blue in the face. She just doesn’t take me serious. She doesn’t want to talk about it, anytime I bring it up, she says “I know…I know”. It’s like she knows it upsets me, and she knows the house needs to be cleaned, but she doesn’t care enough about the house or my feelings, to do anything about it.

Ok to start this off I am a 24 year old single guy living alone. I come from a decently wealthy family. I moved away from home young and started working as an accountant. I dated a girl in that time for 7 years and spent a lot of time with her. I found out that she was pregnant (unexpected but what can you do about that), after she tells me this in less than 2 weeks she dumps me (about a year ago now) and by the end of that month she is with another guy. That kind of shocked me and I didn’t know what to do. After I contacted my parents about it they got very angry at me over the whole deal. Around that same time my salary was cut substantially (around 15-20%). This eventually forced me to sell my vehicle and cut most major luxury items from my life. As my salary was down and I am now single without the extra income from the ex. Fast forward to a few months ago and my grandfather was very sick I used to visit them every evening for dinner. I had to stop going there due to money slowly being depleted. Since I sold my vehicle I don’t have that to drive first of all and the fuel cost was getting a little high. My grandfather passed away 2 months ago and now my family seems very distant from me. My older brother happens to be getting married next month and he asked me to not come.
Now this past week I was 1 month late on my mortgage payment (had to borrow from a family member [which they were unhappy but I had a foreclosure statement unless paid]). Therefore I created a slight uneasy feeling with my family again.
Today, I received a phone call from the aforementioned ex and she said she is taking me to court for child support. I am not sure if I am even the father. I know they would do a paternity test but if I am, there is absolutely no way I could afford it. I am literally scraping by now. I have $159 to my name. With $2500 bills in a month.
I used to drive a very nice car in high school and college now I ride a bike to work and eat only 1-2 meals a day. I blame myself for all of this and for pushing everyone away including the few friends I had. I have lost roughly 52 lbs in a year by cutting down to 1 or 2 meals a day. I am extremely embarrassed and I’m not sure how my employer will view me getting possibly put on child support. Can someone give me some advice or point me in a direction I can get some advice. As every waking moment I think of just ending it all, I joke about it all the time with the 1 friend that is also a co-worker just to see his reactions. If this last much longer it will be just a matter of time before I join the suicide statistics.
Again I realize I was very “spoiled” growing up and I had a lot handed to me. Now that I have been having financial problems I see how much my family helped me. Since they now have somewhat disowned me as a member, I don’t know who to turn to. Sorry for this being so long and thank you to whoever may read it.

Hi
I hate the whole royal family , but the wedding is estimated at £5 Million ,

I dont like how the royal family have the AUDACITY to have this wedding , or spend so much when so many people in UK are suffering due to the Economic Recession. Some people are losing their homes , not able to repay morgages etc and they are spending a stupid amount on a wedding.

Spending so much of the publics money on something like that is NOT OK. I mean spend some of your own money , It is crazy that the royal family gets away with spending so much of the consumers money.

At least i would like the royal family to say thanks,once in a while. Just to say ive always maintained that we should keep the royal family , but they should not rely on soo much of the consumers money - Spend some of your own. Keep the tourists and not the extreme expense ,

I dont really see what they do ? Do any of them work ?

Well its nice to think that our money is able to keep these people in a life of luxury - driven in Bentleys , sending thier children to Eton , Designer clothing ,

NICE , And now they want us to “Celebrate ” with them , NO thanks

The Secret changed my life (I’m serious). My mom went from having nothing (not even a home) and living on welfare, to a nearly $1,000,000 home, and now living by the beach in California.

Through The Secret, I was able to study abroad, to meet certain people, to live a life filled with luxury items and good food. I was able to have the life I always wanted, and was even able to save a pigeon. Last week I used The Secret before a midterm, and I was the last one in the room when the teacher gave me the answers to the test!

The Secret has changed my life, and I am so grateful for everything! I try telling people about The Secret, but they just laugh me off. They say I am just lucky, that I come from money.

But how else could I live such a life…? I live on campus, I eat sushi and other good food everyday, I have Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Juicy Couture etc, I get to go to spas and travel the world, I get to live in such a beautiful place, and am surrounded by like-minded people. I attract faithful, kind, handsome, wealthy, well-traveled men.

People tell me they are jealous of me, but when I bring up The Secret they don’t take me seriously.
Why? Thank you!

Really need some help. I’m 22 years old and for years been close to my mum but the older I get, she seems to becoming verbally and on occasions physically abusive to me and its really taking its toll on me and upsetting me.

Today me, mum and dad took the dogs for a walk and I’m in wheelchair and the dog’s lead got tangled by accident, not my fault because the dog decided to tangle himself, she snatched the lead off me and called me a idiot and my dad didn’t even say anything and when I defended myself and said “At least I’m not a cocky cow” she came up to me and smacked me so hard on my arm and the hit stung and all I got from my dad “Emma, show your mother respect” but its fine for her to call me a idiot?

I didn’t talk to her for rest of the walk and was close to tears because she did what she did. The only person that has defended me is my grandmother and she has talked to my mum the way she treats me and all I get from my mum “Well she gets on my f*cking nerves” well thanks mum, I’m your daughter and I get on your nerves? I have no brothers are sisters to talk to, all my friends have jobs so don’t see them.

When I got home, we recently got a puppy and he happened to pee on the carpet and I didn’t see as I was doing something and she goes “F*ck sake, he’s p*ssed. Why didn’t you watch him you idiot?” I didn’t answer and she cleaned it up. I look after our puppy Monday to Thursday while she’s working and dad also, its not going to hurt her to do her share Friday and the weekend is it?

I don’t understand why she’s only starting to behave like this as I became an adult. I’m disabled and I always try my best with everything in the house and outside of the house, I’m looking for work after leaving college of 5 years, it just seems like NOTHING is good enough. Besides by calling me a idiot, she calls me a retard, she makes fun because I don’t have a boyfriend, accuses me of being gay which I’m not, she calls me lazy, you name it, she’s called me it.

Someone advice would be nice sometimes I get so close to lashing out at her.

My son is 12 months old and I am 5 months pregnant. My husband and I have been married for 3 years. Ever since I had my first son, we have had sex maybe once every two to three weeks. We argue every day and he comes home complaining. I’m not that much help either. I am a stay at home mother. He talks about how stressful his job is and that he shouldn’t have issues with me when he comes home. He gets mad when I ask him to wipe his feet at the door, but he asks me right when he gets home if I changed my son’s diaper that day! I change his diapers all day, so why would that be in question? Then he threatens to sleep in another room if I don’t put the baby to bed or I don’t watch a show with him. Lately our arguments have gotten so terrible where I either go for a walk outside or tell him to leave the house. I don’t know how much longer I can take this without our relationship ending, but it seems like the only happiness we are getting is from our son. I mean I want to get out of the house, but he wants to come home and relax. Recently, he went to his mom’s birthday party at a strip club, was out all night, and came home in the morning drunk. He promised me he wouldn’t do that again but today he went to the bar with his coworkers for 4 hours and lied to me about drinking. He is not home now, and I had to find out from his brother 20 minutes ago that he is at his mom’s house eating. Note: I am pregnant and haven’t ate anything for dinner yet. I am so stressed out, and I found out last week that my platelet count in my blood is low. This stress is starting to take its toll on my body. I just want us to be happy, the way we were before I got pregnant. We barely even touch each other anymore. Please help! I want to save my marriage!
Of course I change my son’s diapers, duh! What mother doesn’t? And I also go to school full time online. We both made an agreement when I was pregnant with my first that I would go to school full time while he works.

Hi
I hate the whole royal family , but the wedding is estimated at £5 Million ,

I dont like how the royal family have the AUDACITY to have this wedding , or spend so much when so many people in UK are suffering due to the Economic Recession. Some people are losing their homes , not able to repay morgages etc and they are spending a stupid amount on a wedding.

Spending so much of the publics money on something like that is NOT OK. I mean spend some of your own money , It is crazy that the royal family gets away with spending so much of the consumers money.

At least i would like the royal family to say thanks,once in a while. Just to say ive always maintained that we should keep the royal family , but they should not rely on soo much of the consumers money - Spend some of your own. Keep the tourists and not the extreme expense ,

I dont really see what they do ? Do any of them work ?

Well its nice to think that our money is able to keep these people in a life of luxury - driven in Bentleys , sending thier children to Eton , Designer clothing ,

NICE , And now they want us to “Celebrate ” with them , NO thanks