Riding around

[@Luminousplayer]

of course a pandemic is not enough to cover "bussiness interruption clauses" the whole country is on lockdown?, nothing is prohibiting you from moving to another country and re-opening, claim invalid.

[@billwilson3665]

Metro Atlanta is still for the most part wide open. Traffic is 75% of pre scamdemic levels.

[@rossmanngroup]

If this isn't a good argument for insurance being a useless scam, I don't know what is. As I have said in many of my videos, pay for the bare legal minimum requirements to be in compliance with your lease and local laws, not a penny more, because they will never f****** pay you. Don't break the law, don't try to scared by without the insurance required of You by law, but don't have any disillusion about it ever paying you. Those premiums are money flushed down the drain so some insurance salesperson or executive can have a nice car

[@sasanian]

Just make your own country :)))))

[@muteman2432]

"just make your own patreon, youtube, e c o n o m y" -the True and Blind Laissez-Faire Capitalist

[@Spaceman-jo5mz]

@@rossmanngroup NAILED IT.

[@JohnIsett]

These bike ride monologues are really fun, Louis. Keep 'em up! Best wishes.

[@infiltr80r]

Bicycle Rants™ by Louis Rossmann.

[@infiltr80r]

@@anonymous11011 Apple wasn't mentioned even once in this video I believe.

[@johnperkins630]

I am not sure its even a rant. More like just thinking out loud. Honestly I can see his viewpoints after having done several jobs in NYC and several in NY state. I wouldnt want to live there, but it is a place that pre covid that I enjoyed working for 3 to 6 monthsat a time. Beyond that it got old really fast. To this day I want to go back and visit but the new policies the mayor has put in place will keep me from even working there.

[@joshm264]

_Bike Talks™_

[@petepeter1857]

As a 50 year vet of the city, if that's a summer Friday night, the future ain't bright 🥴

[@DanielRichards644]

and just wait till they have to fully defund the police because they simply don't have the money or the trains stop running because they can't keep up the maintenance, the city is fucked

[@Saxon360]

"All I ask is that you don't kill me." Congratulations! you managed to successfully sum up thousands of years of philosophy into one easy to understand sentence. I think we can all go home now. Civilization is complete.

[@XenoSpyro]

Ah, that's why it's falling apart.

[@ehsnils]

I just realize that people say that the taxes in Europe are so bad, but when I hear about the property tax shit then I realize that it's just a question of where the taxes are drained in the money flow.

[@jmonsted]

Don't forget that a lot of the money spent on taxes in Europe buys you stuff that Americans have to pay themselves, like health care. I live in the most heavily taxed country in the world (Denmark, though we may have lost that "crown" lately) and our average standard of living seems higher than in the US.

[@gondolagripes1674]

@@jmonsted for me, it would be a balancing act of whether I use the services taxes pay for or whether I'd like to pay for it myself the one or two times I'd use it. And, I like the idea of owning some land and property but be able to afford it.

[@jmonsted]

@@gondolagripes1674 For us, it's not so much "do i need it" as "does someone need it". It makes no sense to have people go bankrupt because they got into an accident or caught a disease. It's just common decency to be a little less selfish and we end up paying like half as much for health care per person, compared to US health insurance premiums and fees. We have 62.7% home ownership rate vs 65.3% in the US. That's not a significant difference. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate

[@andyb6851]

People overgeneralize, there are large differences in tax burden between different EU countries, just as there are between different US states. There's New York and there's Nevada, just like there's Sweden and there's Latvia.

[@gondolagripes1674]

@@jmonsted then we fundimentally disagree. I'd say I'm an individualist then. The tax rate on a 10 acre plot of land in the middle of nowhere is more of what I like. Health insurance is legalized robbery in the us. There are too many ignorant people to get it changed. But, most of the market innovation that comes from healthcare comes from the us and is given out for free to smaller countries that don't have as much to pay for things like defense, and who have a much much higher population density. There's always 2 sides to the same coin. The best system is going to be a market with morals. Alot of the government services in the USA are really bad, so if we did healthcare like that it would be a disaster. And our citizens aren't healthy enough to make it work properly.

[@tafellappen8551]

Louis riding over the storm drain grates without apparent crippling fear of like phone or keys jumping into it is the kind of confidence i aspire to.

[@NoMirrorReflection]

What could anyone expect from a city known as The Big Apple. Overpriced crap.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Big borer worm? Big rotten spots?

[@AndyDillbeck]

@@MonkeyJedi99 he means the computer, not the fruit.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@AndyDillbeck That too.

[@max10eb]

I leaved in NJ for a few years. I like the mix of stores and homes, just like nyc. so when i need my nyc fix i just watch these videos., Thx for sharing Luis.

[@fingolfin117baal2]

I left?

[@n00bie96]

@@fingolfin117baal2 lived*

[@fingolfin117baal2]

@@n00bie96 A right ^^

[@max10eb]

@@fingolfin117baal2 i lived in queens for 2 years, and nj for 1 year. then we moved again to another state.

[@johnclarke4989]

listening to your thoughts on life , whilst riding through New York is fantastic..... thanks for sharing 👍👍😎

[@robinsattahip2376]

Thank you, I was born in Suffern, NY and lived in Mahwah New Jersey which was beautiful as a young child. Your comments on taxes in other videos and this view of New York saved me the cost of ever returning for a visit. That picture of half the street wasted is the kind of government harassment I can do without.

[@thedoorjam]

Thanks for the video. I really like seeing your bike videos. Great clarity today too.

So lemme get this straight: a bunch of people wear masks to go to an outdoor restaurant only to take them off and be crowded together with a bunch of strangers milling around.

[@fioree2532]

Barry Allard lmao, big brain

[@juliancumming6893]

Well as per the rules they can do that but they can't have a single person inside the building even if they were distanced, the current policies are major flawed

[@SummerSausage1]

The problem with moving a small business is the employees. They likely wouldn't move with you, and finding new employees that actually care isn't that easy.

[@RJT80]

Their emotional attachment to the job I pay them to do doesn't matter to me. Be here at a certain time, work, get paid. See you tomorrow. These places that are taxed to the hilt are going to collapse. Entire countries are. So at that point nobody is going to pay to get their MacBook fixed. They are either not going to need it anymore or will go buy a $200 Chromebook. No business model is safe after this in places like NY. Not even real estate which was always recession proof.

[@FrayedString]

You're right, as Louis admitted in the video he knows that the current people he has are the "right" kind of people; but at the same time his other points are valid also - there are a lot of downsides for him staying in NYC financially. There are also great employees to be found in places other than NYC, sure it would take time and energy to find those people but it's not impossible and the massive financial benefits could allow Louis the time and flexibility to find those people once he moved. I think Louis is also the right kind of person as a boss that he may be able to help foster that kind of attitude in an employee that may not have otherwise had it when they were first hired.

[@DanielRichards644]

If you don't have a customer base and there is nothing to do in the city because everything is closed you might find people more willing to GTFO, big business's realized they can work better remotely and not pay insane rents on offices, cities are dying since everything worth doing in cities is shut down.

[@rexlex1736]

Your bike tours are fantastic! Thank you!

[@rexlex1736]

"All I ask is that you don't kill me." Now, that is a great song title!

[@fredweather3366]

Odd that I've heard you mention Brookfield at least four times. Have you been there? I live a few miles west in Delafield. You can't go wrong in Wisconsin. Freedom. Space. I have three acres and 300 watts per channel. Bet you can't do that in a Brooklyn apartment. I left the SoCal congestion 30 years ago (born there) and would never go back. I can't imagine dealing with the shit in NYC (especially now). It's a great place to visit but that's it. One thing you'll miss here is the variety of dining and culture. Necessary? You choose. I've always said... You need a small NYC storefront to overnight your walk in business to your new location out of the city. Leave that toilet. Do it.

[@madkvideo]

The "small NY shop and moving to other place" plan is a great idea. I'd say go for it.

[@dindog22]

I really enjoy these bicycle tours of New York City

[@dec0mposing]

Jar of Flies is one of my all time favourite albums, a Friday night in with you sounds way better than going out!

[@GilmerJohn]

Back in the 70s when NYC started to revive the "outdoor" restaurants quite a few places started to extend the season by putting up "tents" over the outside tables. They extended the season to thanksgiving!

[@twillman1ify]

These ride around vids are awesome! Keep them coming, stay safe Louis.

[@fingolfin117baal2]

Thank you Louis, great video. A lot to consider. If you leave New York, then you wouldn't find as many Mac users. But you wouldn't have to pay the high tax of living in NY. Safer, healthier and affordable.

[@soopergenyus]

"My bike goes vroom!" - that needs to go on a tshirt / coffee mug.

[@CTCTraining1]

Cycle Therapy with Louis .... just love ‘em

[@grantrennie]

Hello Louis 👋 thanks for the great video, am enjoying the cycle around and catch up

[@acalthu]

Love this video Louis. Please continue making more, these glimpses of NYC you provide us with are the closest I'll probably ever come to experiencing the real thing.

[@Blackobluna]

That story about the guy who tried to buy you out reminds me of my last job. Worked concrete, we were a subcontractor for [AREA CONCRETE COMPANY]. Literally behind their shop, [OTHER CONCRETE COMPANY] was doing quite well, having multiple shops, and building a new barn to house their fleet of concrete pumps. Turns out, OCC had a sit down with ACC like 15 years ago, and ACC totally snubbed OCC, said "We don't view you as legitimate competition." OCC is doing much better, while ACC struggles.

[@radunegrescu8081]

New York is starting to look like European medieval Cities more and more :)))))

[@NoMirrorReflection]

Some great insightful friday night thoughts & life reflections, mann. Bumpy ride... Great video. Always philosophical. Always learning and thinking. Keep it up.

[@ElectricDon]

Hi Louis look after yourself we here in Melbourne Australia are under curfew 20:00- 05.00 daily

[@HyperHorse]

Matt Carroll You're an idiot. The stupid young people wouldn't do the right thing and social distancing etc. Be thankful you have a Labor government in Victoria,

[@Godsavethecrumpets]

@@somedumbozzie1539 no amount of increased budget would be enough for a unknowable pandemic

[@ElectricDon]

Hyper Horse Yep very happy to have a decision maker and daily communicative pressers from Dan. As for those countries that have tried the ostrich approach good luck so far with nearly 2million dead I am happy with the Victorian Labor governments approach

[@ElectricDon]

Marcin Berman It’s not only old people that die and the long term health issues are an unknown factor that will affect everyone who had it and recovered

[@ElectricDon]

wantafanta01 Yeah and the Right wing care so much about everyone 🤥

[@liborchmelik8712]

I absolutely love those philosophic bike rides

[@KMNixon]

Open a second store in a town you want to move into and faze out the old location, or if it's successful at both, then branch out. YES. More financial headaches. I know.

[@rolandmatters1619]

Melbourne, Australia is just about a ghost town and is definitely a ghost town from 8pm to 5am due to a curfew.

[@acalthu]

My country imposed a 24 hour curfew during March itself, to curb the spread, and continued it for nearly 4 months. We're reaping the benefits now, the country is open, commercial activity has resumed, people are being cautious, but the spread has been 100% contained.

[@DanielRichards644]

well yeah when you have Nazi SS for cops choking people or body slamming them for not wearing a mask you are damn right people aren't going outside.

[@DanielRichards644]

@@acalthu until it slips back into the country and you get another outbreak before anyone realizes what happened and you have to keep doing these lockdowns every time until a vaccine comes along.

[@davidturk6170]

Looks like I’ll be in Brooklyn (near you) to help my son move out. He loves the city, but came to the conclusion that it’s not worth paying extra for a relatively shutdown NYC.

[@davedennis6042]

I always learn something watching these. You just don't understand how educational these videos are. The depth of reality from a common person's point of view. Now I understand why those people write graffiti on those buildings.

[@Andrewmarkbaker]

Taxis the same the world over. Really enjoy these journeys. The socialisation needs you talk about....totally get that.

[@droozilla8803]

Thanks for the look at the Village area, I haven't been doing deliveries in the City since the MTA decided it didn't want to do work. Used to do a lot around your old shop. 'Used to' unfortunately being key.

[@easyki84]

You could come to Berlin. Your kind of a celebrity here. You could open a big repair shop here. I'm sure everyone with an apple device would come to you. You would grow really fast and become rich fast.

[@hansonel]

Berlin is a great, affordable city. One of my favorite cities in the EU. Average rent is generally cheaper than Chicago too- and it's way more affordable than NYC. Though, restarting his repair business there and learning German might be a bit tricky... I think Louis is leaning toward relocating to Delaware.

[@jayhill2193]

@@hansonel May I ask where you are from? Cause outside of Berlin at least in Germany, the city has a terrible reputation not all to different from NYC I'd say. Expensive, dirty, bad standard of living, too much of the wrong people and all stacked up on each other. I gotta be fair, I was in Berlin and it wasn't all bad (staying out of the worst parts like Kreuzberg definitely helps), but I could never imagine living there. Also a note on the language part, as with every major city you can get along with English perfectly fine, so you can really take your time learning German. I'd guess the urge to learn the local language would come from curiosity rather than necessity.

[@easyki84]

@@jayhill2193 I'm living in Berlin (my whole life) . And visited New York. Berlin and New York have nothing in common.

[@ASOIAF-Henrik]

Or you could live in any other German city and would be better off. I somehow doubt that a libertarian leaning person like Louis would like to live in a city that is ruled by a coalition of socialists, green socialists and socialists who call themselfes social democrats.

[@easyki84]

@@ASOIAF-Henrik lol where do you that from?

[@joeclarke9782]

Thanks for the tour of NYC. Closest I will ever come again to the Big Apple.

[@imchris5000]

remember the movie escape from new york? its a documentary about the future

[@aazjo]

Take Jason from @STS Telecom for example. He moved cross country and is still swamped in mail-in repair. He has a really nice web-based system for tracking and job management. You can do it Louis. If I didn't already have a great career that I love, I would be doing repair full-time. I'm happy to do it as a hobby right now. Just fixed five MacBooks using your videos. Thanks.

[@haanc2]

Yes, come to Bear! We have FiOS, we're close enough to NYC that UPS/FEDEX Ground ships here overnight, and there's plenty of commercial storefront and light industrial space around here. The only Apple store in the state is also about 10-15 minutes away, so you might be able to draw some people away from there over their extreme repair prices. Plenty of Mac users at University of Delaware, too - whenever they open back up.

[@SerratedPVP]

This was pretty relaxing, I enjoyed listening to you rant.

[@SoupyOatmeal]

Louis I love you and I love your content , that being said , you have issues with life in NYC. So do I that's why 50 years ago I left NY State and have not been back. Good luck to you , and I hope , God Bless.

[@DaedalEVE]

I moved to DE a couple years ago. Saved a couple hundred thousand $ building a house here over where I was. Where you are looking (Bear) is even more expensive than where I am... but even the most expensive places in DE are far less than NYC. Everything is close really. You are in a couple hours driving distance of anything you want to do. Philly, Bmore, DC, NYC, Atlantic City, TONS of beaches everywhere.

[@tastytechaddictsmtb]

You need a shock pump, they’re 10-15 dollars on eBay. The capacity on a shock is tiny so any other pump would screw the shock

[@bn880]

How would it screw the shock if it couldn't reach the high pressures anyway :p

[@tastytechaddictsmtb]

bn880 no idea but Iv seen it done, no idea what caused it

[@bn880]

@@tastytechaddictsmtb Good to know, maybe something to it.

[@cliffshockley4406]

I've always said my dream was to buy a 3 unit commercial building that, the rent for 1 unit pays almost the full mortgage bill. That way my store's rent would be nearly free. If I rent out that 2nd unit, I'm making a profit on rent every month. (I'd set up that way, because retail unit sometimes stay vacant awhile)

[@DanielRichards644]

and the third unit is residential so you live on the second floor so you have no commute to work other then a flight of stairs?

[@pamm2230]

You might want to do a survey of your customers as to whether they would do mail in to your business when they are walk in? Actually due to the virus many people are getting used to doing things differently than before. Lots of business being done online, grocery and store shopping online with car pickup. Keep exploring alternate locations possibly where the whether is nice year round. Love all your videos.

[@Xmetalfanx]

as always but especially with all that is going on now ... thank you (@ your mentality as a business owner) to not only think of one aspect of what is best for your business but also (unlike some business owners, that would move and not care what happens to their employees) your employess and how it would effect them too

[@elbuggo]

Thank you for reporting.

[@John-nt3dk]

THE best content on this channel. I especially like it when he goes fast on bridges.

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

Only recently discovered your bike-monologue.series. This is performance art, stream of consciousness creativity. That’s when inspiration comes, on the move. Think you’re really into something here... 👍🎬

[@jeremyjinglebell2762]

Hi Louis. I travelled to US in 1996 as camp counsellor in Pensylvania. I always tell my friends in Europe since then that what I remember from New York is it is one big huuuuge dirty swamp. I did not feel well there and how I undertand you now :-) But thanks to you I learned how bad reality is even with property tax. This is crazy. Really crazy. It confirms only how the hell wealth is wrongly asymetrically distributed namely in US society. I mean I hate communists and communism. But hearing for several years your videos and videos from other youtubers namely from LA for example, San Francisco, seeing all the homeless people. God hell. I wolud not want to live in such a city not for all the money I could earn there. What is the money for when people canbnot go outsicde freely and have to cope with dirt and violence. I like your videos, your thoughts, you go deep into the problems. namely the series about crippled real estate market. I cannot understand how intelligent someone must be that he rather waits 3 years with empty property than to lease it for several bucks to someone who looks he could be there for some yeras without worries. Because they even do not want to do the renovation of the premises on their own cost, then their decission is economical suidice. Hell the people have to be rich to afford have the real estate advertised for 1, 2, 3 years or to change the tetnants every 5 months... Stupid stupid. But so many stupid people in one city ? My head cannot take it. And I never thought about regulating this but in NY it smells like this city becomes complete slum. I just pray that this trend does not come to Prague sooner or later. Tourism already pushed out normal people out of the centre. I always laughed at when some "communists" tried to regulate what landlord may or may not do with his property. But looking at NYC I slowly slowly imagine that certain regulations shall apply not to arrive at the hell from which there is no return.

[@virgilwilliams2378]

Discorama record shop use to be right next door. I miss that place.

[@KRich408]

That must be why my cousin won't sell the house they inherited in Old Bridge NJ and move to Pennsylvania! I moved out of Elizabeth Jersey in 1984 to Pennsylvania and never looked back! I was born there of no fault of my own NJ is crazy expensive .

[@jimmybon9314]

Its been like that ages... high taxation in NJ with really bad infrastructure.. makes no sense.

[@jangelelcangry]

Property tax should be abolished. Property tax is the real definition of Taxation is Theft.

[@rossmanngroup]

I agree solely because of the way it works. If you move into a house that is a shithole and a blight on the neighborhood, work to improve it with your own two hands every day for a year, your reward when the tax assessor comes by for making the neighborhood look better and improving its housing stock is having more of your money taken. It makes no f****** sense whatsoever. It's a financial incentive to not improve neighborhood property. With income tax, you pay more taxes as you make more money, but you're still making more money. With property tax, even if you raise the value of your property buy $200,000, if you live there long enough, the taxes that you pay on the improved property will outweigh the profit you make from selling the property a higher price due to the improvements you've made to it. It genuinely makes no sense to me.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

The tax that irritates me more is excise. In Massachusetts, it is a "temporary" tax from WW2 that has continued to fill town coffers seventy years later.

[@jangelelcangry]

@The Compiler Also Property taxes doesn't discriminate whether there's a pandemic, a recession, or early retirement. Taxes are like diodes, only works one way.

[@TheknightofGod-KOG]

I liked seeing NY God bless

When or if it comes back, there's a lot of pent-up partying that's gonna happen. House parties are just a safety valve.

[@kshipperX]

You were wondering if you cam run your business on "Mail in" ...but how many of your customers want to see you when the bring in their repair? They enjoy the banter maybe? That's what I find with my customers. They enjoy the back and forth during the repair process and with "Mail in" only that would be missing yah?

[@OMGAnotherday]

I’m old, and I was never happy with the lockdown!

[@Technoben211]

Well then you have a death wish. Old people are most at risk for COVID-19.

[@tokeeptrackofrandomsubs5899]

@@Technoben211 L N never stated actually disagreeing with the lockdown to get community spread to a manageable level (although that last part of the objective kinda seems to have failed in many places of the US). It's entirely reasonable to not be happy with a lockdown and also at the same time accepting it as being a useful public health measure. I don't think there are many people who were actually "happy with the lockdown", even if you normally don't have many social contacts or go to restaurants and such it still puts restrictions on what you can do those rare times such a person does leave the house to do something.

[@DanielRichards644]

@@tokeeptrackofrandomsubs5899 I still don't buy the lockdowns doing anything other then making people take it more seriously, the lockdowns didn't slow the spread, the social distancing, mask wearing where what slowed it, the upticks came when the rioters started marching by the tens of thousands and so they forced a bunch of places into heading in the direction of herd immunity whether they wanted to or not, ultimately more people will be lost due to starvation and other economic impacts due to the lockdowns then the virus will ever kill. Being against the lockdown doesn't mean not doing anything at all to slow the spread, the social distancing, limited number of people in buildings to accommodate social distancing and masks where all we really needed, most deaths are coming from nursing homes, my mom caught it from the patients she was working with in the nursing home and my dad is going to get tested in a few hours since he was visiting her when she got tested. If we had a better protocol to screen to prevent it from getting into nursing homes many more people would be alive.

[@psikirbstorm]

Those bike highways look cool! Looks like scenic routes

[@TheOzarkWizard]

A honest business like you is needed around here. Move to Fayetteville. AR

[@unomax01]

This is the content I subbed for.

[@Soren59]

Amen

[@davidboyd8822]

Listening to you talk about the property taxes in these states make me wonder because the revolution was fought due to much less.

[@theboxers5755]

Your brake issue may be down to glazed pads. Try using a high grit (600 or higher) sand or Emery paper to just take face off of each pad. 3 or 4 strokes on each pad should be enough. It fixed my issue YMMV 😶

[@davidb6576]

No, you'd want course paper, around 180-220 to rough-up pads.

[@themcserdwar]

Louis, this is a great video. Loved every second of it. But then I'm from NY.

[@sabriath]

The question isn't about walk-in versus mail-in rates...but rather....how many of those walk-ins came specifically for YOU versus just finding the first thing on their travel? I would guess that you have a lot of fans of the business.....and yes, you get heavier traffic in NY, but you also have higher prices in NY. Think of it like this, imagine if you lost 50% of your walk-in customers.....but you can buy/own your building and pay only 1.2% in property tax, with a reasonable $75 a year business license, no sales tax, and a 6.6% income tax, 8.7% corporate tax. Versus you currently paying $14,000/mo rent (if i recall correctly), $125 a year business license, 4%-8.875% sales tax, 8.82% income tax, but a 7.1% corporate tax......with much shittier roads. Let's calculate the numbers based on a very nice building I saw listed in Newark, DE at 1.25 million (worst case scenario to give all benefits towards NYC) and ballparking your company gross profits to $1,000,000 a year. Delaware would cost you $15,000 a year in property tax, $75 license, and $87,000 corporate for a total of $8,506.25 per month....NYC costs you $168,000 renting, $125 licence and $71000 corporate for a total of $19,927 per month. That is half. Go further, your actually living situation would also be in a better position to make you AND your employees happier/wealthier. Currently, you probably pay yourself and employees something like $75,000 per year? I'm totally guessing considering prices of apartments in NYC are wildly sparse and if I narrow in on a $3,000 per month rent, and that normally is 45% of your payroll ratio. Regardless, at $75,000, you are looking at paying NYC $6,615 versus DE $4,950 for that....on top of usually 20% of your income is purchasing sales taxable items/services, you are looking at an additional $600 to $1300 for NY, while $0 for DE. Apartments in NYC, as mentioned, range quite a bit but average nearly that $3,000 per month, however, DE you can buy a home quite easily with your current capital and pay pennies in real estate (0.56% property tax). This is going from $3625 per month in living costs to below $700 per month. You can literally live off of half your current income comfortably and grow your business faster with the excess funds you don't have to sink into payroll. AND, you'll have parking spaces. I'm not trying to sell you on my state, but NYC is garbage. The top of DE is a pretty good spot because it connects to NJ, Philly, and a richy part of MD and still within a skip distance to NY....I doubt you'll lose that much walk-in business.

[@69runway]

I lived in Jersey and worked in Manhattan. Look into Atlanta or Charlotte. The weather is so much better and the people are well....nice. Just a thought.

[@davidvenegas6401]

I just did a midnight ride through Denver.

[@davvehallberg]

I just can't get over how dirty and grimy everything is in New York city,even the asphalt is dirty.it looks run down like it was abandoned years ago and the residents them self's are in charge of the cleaning of the streets and the buildings ! Me personally could never live like that,i value a clean surrounding,and you cannot have kids living in this filth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tokeeptrackofrandomsubs5899]

And now you get the luxery of outdoor dining between the bike lanes and car exhaust fumes! Not even the marginally filtered air from airconditioning inside restaurants. But you're not wrong, a lot of US cities to me as a foreigner don't appear like pleasant places to live in or travel through. Way too car centric in design, not enough considerations given to other modes of transport.

[@scrappy1859]

Man, New York looks run down 😯

[@-LCM]

@Louis - Keep a tiny phonebooth for walk ins, and mail/send anything above that capacity to your other location in Delaware or wherever ;)

[@carldawson5069]

Around 29 minute mark, "one way street", he is going only one way 😁

[@JoelCrager]

Thanks for sharing enjoy riding along with you. If I were you I would move out of the city to where you can enjoy your life more as the way you deserve for as you certainly deserve it. I would find a smaller walk in place to keep open there in the city like you were saying. Then promote your highest and most trustworthy employee you currently have and have them manage the city location to where you pop in a time or two a week just to check in on stuff. Meanwhile you could have setup a new shop to do the mail in and whatever walk in service you would get. That way you could be proud to go home each night to YOUR home and enjoy yourself as you should. From the way you are and work you deserve to do so. I wish you the best and hope you continue on your path. Be safe out there with all the stupid people.

[@DenHond]

A hand-pump for shocks (they’re a specialty item) shouldn’t cost more than $30-40, maybe not that bad of an investment.

[@eastcoastwatch672]

Go with a much smaller place (phone booth) for drop off and pickup with a NYC address and have repair place elsewhere next to your suburban home 🏡!

[@mrspark5784]

i really enjoy these videos

[@MrBoyinsin]

Just an fyi if you want to travel via bike. Amtrak allows bikes on their trains. That way you don't have to bike the large open parts in the middle.

[@atgred]

Thanks for the ride!!

[@letstrythat4279]

part of what makes the video interesting is the actual ride through NYC

[@JW-mx3qg]

Don’t know exactly why, but I do like these bike rambling trips! I actually learn on how the east coast is faring, and the thing I learned is: it’s like the Westcoast but less sensitive people

[@WilliamCooper2005]

I like to think that in a 100 years people will watch Louis’ bike rants to see what the city was like in 2020 and study the events of this year.

[@kevins4990]

your a real New Yorker. I was born in New Jersey but now living in sunny Florida

[@ydv1984]

Friday night rant... Moving New York City on a bicycle 😂😂😂🐭🐭🐭🐭

[@knucklechuck]

Got a precialps chainring on my bafang, definitley a huge upgrade over stock

[@acar3615]

Out Wet is nice. And if you think asymmetrically about living you could just buy a huge hangar, by the way its a fun google image search. I'm gonna do it when I finally start my charter business, but thats also because I hate commuting.

[@Dani98664]

Look into Pensacola, FL. It sounds like you would like it based on everything you said in this video.

[@ArmenianBot]

Don't forget to link that house too, I'm curious to see what it looks like

[@rossmanngroup]

www.zillow.com/homedetails/220-Silver-Birch-Ln-Bear-DE-19701/72892980_zpid/?

[@descendinggod9740]

@@rossmanngroup That house is beautiful omg. Can you imagine raising a family there? Not even when I dream its as nice as how that house looks

[@renderedpixels4300]

@@descendinggod9740 Here in sunny san diego 600k will get you a pretty average looking 2000sqft house on really no land 🤣

[@Gorgula]

@@rossmanngroup if this house slips away, it can be had in many places including Brookfield, WI (I've lived there). Good luck to you.

[@4Wilko]

@@rossmanngroup Whoa. We have that 800k nightmare in Flushing NY, and then we have this.

[@Bahamut_Mega]

I live in a large city in NV. Bought a 1,800sqft house in the city for $335K and my property tax is $1,300 a year. Such a crazy difference.

[@shadowbanned7575]

The highest causes of death still remain regardless. At a certain point we all have to face death anyway, and what kind of life is one living in constant fear. Do what you can to help, but be free...Live your life with some level of happiness in this unrelenting world.

[@fioree2532]

Error 2 I’m sorry you can’t agree with this persons sentiment and then backtrack on it. It’s either you are okay with living life knowing people are going to get hurt or you are not and people must shelter till it’s “gone”. There’s no in between. This person says they are done living in fear and want liberty despite knowing there are going to be people that get hurt and you are not for it and you rather save as much people as you can. Just say it as it is.

[@icecell]

@@amalgalmar you can always stay inside and have your groceries delivered. Cover yourself head to toe when dealing with a delivery man if you're paranoid enough. Sure, covid affects other people, but not being able to make a living affects other people as well. I'd rather choose how I die.

[@KhooTengKwang]

That would be fine. Live free and all, but I don't want to die bedridden in a godforsaken hospital, drowning in my own lungs and possibly suffering psychosis from brain damage due to COVID-19. Sure, it is a real pain in the ass to live in fear and panic, having to disinfect yourself every damn time I come back from an outing, but if it means having an extra few years of living to do things I actually enjoy and want to do, and in good health, mind you as opposed to just having my life cut short not having accomplished anything in my life and dying a painful death, I'd rather choose to push through the momentary period of fear and panic before everything goes back to normal. I choose not to die suffering from a disease I can avoid by being careful. If I die from COVID-19 regardless, at least I can die knowing I tried my best doing what I could to live longer instead of doing nothing and hanging my ass out to get sodomised to death by the disease.

[@fioree2532]

Dusty 99 I wish I was smoking something hbu

[@fioree2532]

Mariam Shehab it wasn’t extreme until the state governments mandated it and put you in jail for not following it. There is no problem wearing mask, I believe culturally Americans should have more etiquette towards sickness. Example of this is Chinese countries who wear mask to in public. But I’m pointing out this hot political when governors released people out of jail and then put people not wearing mask in jail. Another point that I want to make is sanitation, it seems to be a joke now. When covid started people were washing their hands all the time but now i see men and women come out bathrooms with unwashed hands at the restaurant. Irrelevant to the argument but I’ve seen it and It’s beyond me. However my comment was regarding the original comment and error2. They are different sides of the spectrum one saying they are fed up and want liberty and one saying that’s okay but you are jeopardizing people. As long as we understand people are going to get hurt as COVID passes by then there is a between; that being wash hands wear mask and such but if you want none to get hurt then there is no in between and you favor the side of locking everything down. Off topic but 1000 people who work for the cdc and many state governments have publicly called for racism to be a a public health crisis and they are taking action for it. You may say something is not political but it is and you are the statistic and I am too. Watch Tim pool and time cast for a honest take on news because fuck fox, cnn, msnbc, and all the MSM businesses out there

[@imanslayer]

Nyc is the new Chicago and Chicago is the new Detroit

[@KrazyKrzysztof]

the dems have failed us this season

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Would that make Detroit the new Tikrit?

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@KrazyKrzysztof If you think any one political party has all the blame, or all the answers, you are being part of the problem.

[@Silentkiller2131]

I totally get what you're talking about when you address people partying with friends and spending nights at bars and restaurants. I always thought: I don't like it, but sure, I might end up liking it. In the end, I'm 20, almost 21, and I still don't care. I prefer a good day with a friend, simply talking and playing, maybe going to watch a movie or something. Partying will never be my thing haha, at least not in the near future !

[@johnbucci3730]

You should look at some areas of CT outside of Fairfield County. Wouldn't be a major move. There are some areas near Hartford that have the need and are wealthy-ish communities where apple products are the default. A really nice 2000 sq ft home is 350 with 8k taxes. And it's safe, amazing schools, no crime. I would be happy to show you around anytime. I do not recommend lower CT, that is basically an extension of Westchester County and keeping up with the Joneses and very expensive.

[@drkaustubhwagh9779]

Aaron clarey wrote reconnaissance man book after he traveled whole America to compare while living conditions and culture degradation..

[@cliffshockley4406]

By the way, the Apple Store for Northern DE is located at the Christiana Mall which is 8-9 miles from the University of Delaware in Newark. University of Delaware has an enrollment of 24,000 people. Certainly many of them own Macbooks. So, if you located a store within walking/biking distance, you'd have another competitive advantage over the Apple Store.

[@nonames841]

Louis.. Texas Property taxes 2-4k Nice home 200-300k with some land! Income tax 0 that's ZERO. Sales tax 8.25% Very welcome to the working man. (Red state) Thanks for all the videos!

[@frederikk.4187]

Yeah... big city life like NY, can be challenging to endure. I often think how rats become mega aggressive and start eating eachother if there are too many in given area and how maybe humans have a similar mechanism when living as closely together as the case is in big cities. It certainly doesn't bring out the best in us humans that's a fact.

[@vikrantsingh47]

i love these videos. you could have shown us you fixing the chain too

[@gogee8510]

What about moving out of town, but have a small drop off shop in town. You can have one staff their booking in the kit and then transporting to an out of town workshop where the work is done. Also, have a webcam in the drop off shop of the workshop where you can interact if necessary. I'm talking a very small outlet to show you're still in business. Old nice out of town warehouse will be great for a workshop.

[@DanielRichards644]

you gotta get further away then that man, the areas surrounding NYC are just stupid expensive, you gotta get many many miles from the cities.

[@jimjames335]

13:27 " all I ask is you not kill me" You might be asking too much