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When I lived in LA, I would easily spend $300+\/month on gas alone – driving to SD, driving in LA traffic, driving to any concert venue in LA… During covid, gas prices near my apartment reached $6+\/gallon in Manhattan Beach:<\/p>\n\n\n
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Now that I’m back in SD and working from home, I hardly ever drive. I walk anywhere I can downtown, doordash my food, instacart my groceries. I even have to take a picture of where I parked my car in my apartment building’s sub-garage, bc a whole week could go by where I don’t drive my car, and I forget where I parked. <\/p>\n\n\n
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At my apartment in LA, I had a free assigned parking spot in a one-level parking garage in a building that was only three stories. Here in SD, I live in a six-story building, and the garage is multiple levels. It’s $40\/month for an unassigned parking spot and $240\/month (!) for an assigned spot. There’s always plenty of unassigned parking spots, plus I have a permanent handicap placard from when I had the stroke. I never have trouble finding parking, I just have trouble finding my car sometimes \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n
Gas prices have skyrocketed to over $8\/gallon in California<\/a> since this war with Iran started. During events and games at Petco Park<\/a>, the metered street parking is $10\/hour<\/a>! Jessie’s gonna park her car in my garage tomorrow, and we’re gonna walk to the Banana Ball<\/a> game at Petco.<\/p>\n It’s normally $15 for a day pass for visitors to park in my garage, but I just got one for Jess and it was $30! Not sure if it’s doubled bc there’s a special event nearby tomorrow, or if the price went up since I got a pass for Alicia last month. Ahh, the cost of living downtown \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n\n\n Contrary to popular belief, I don’t believe people should have to pay to see me LOL, so I’ll always park in a spot outside for you when I can and let you use my handi – the placard allows you to park in metered street parking at no cost (literally the only benefit of having a stroke, otherwise 0\/10 would not recommend).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I lived in LA, I would easily spend $300+\/month on gas alone – driving to SD, driving in LA traffic, driving to any concert venue in LA… During covid, gas prices near my apartment reached $6+\/gallon in Manhattan Beach: Now that I’m back in SD and working from home, I hardly ever drive. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,217,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chat","category-la","category-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367915"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367945,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367915\/revisions\/367945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"chat\"](\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/chat-parking.jpg\")
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