TheMrBoot

My wife and I are in the process of moving out to California for a new job. We’re going back to renting since, between the interest rates and general craziness that is the California housing market, a new house right now isn’t in the cards.

The apartment we’re renting allows you to pay using a credit card, but in the case of my Amex platinum they pass along the roughly 3% fee. I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth it to go ahead and eat the cost in terms of being able to get the additional MR. I’m guessing not (usually the highest I see is someone hitting just over 2 cpp here), but I wasn’t sure if there were any other benefits to the high annual spend beyond lounge guest access that I had

I'm going to be relocating to the west side/south bay area for a new job in north Redondo Beach this July and have been trying to get apartments lined up for a visit in the next couple of weeks. I've been trying to keep in mind the commute times and have been using google maps and waze based on the advice in comments/the megathreads, but the times I'm seeing there don't really line up from the comments I've seen online.

I've been looking at the Playa Vista/Culver City/MDR area for apartments since we were hoping to get something a bit nicer/more recently updated. I'm seeing less than 30 minutes for all of those areas on the directions I'd be taking at around 8am/5pm, whereas a lot of peopl

Seemed like some people in the other post about the storms today were stressed out about them or were annoyed with commercial weather companies driving clickbait and hype, so I thought I'd try to put together some useful links for people to keep tabs on things.

National Weather Service Forecasts

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Storm Prediction Center Convective Outlook/Today's Outlook

The forecasts posted here will give you info on w