Hi, I'll be staying in South Korea from late October to early November and I'm looking to book places to stay, but would like to plan around any special events.
My first question is, will Halloween still be widely celebrated after the Itaewon tragedy? And if so will it actually be on the 31st October (Tuesday) or do people celebrate on the weekend?
Secondly, is there a date for the Busan fireworks festival, Jinju Namgang Yudeung (Lantern) Festival or any other festivals that are worth attending?
Thank you

I have posted in here before but I was dealing with my mothers passing and a fiancées murder so I was a bit incoherent. I am again clearly (hopefully) stating the issues and asking for advice. Thank you in advanced for reading.
I own a SFH in Central Florida with an HOA. In 2020 they changed management companies. The new management company stated I had not paid fees to the previous management company. However the old companies accounting was incorrect. My mother (who I co-owned the home with) passed in May of 2020 and because she paid the HOA fees with her account it was taking a long time to get proof.
I Waited for the paperwork did not contact the HOA until the end of 2020 because I was not in the right mental state. My fault I know. I told the management company I was behind in fees and wanted to make a payment plan.
Now we only pay twice a year and the fees are about 600 a year. After my mothers death her funeral and with COVID I wanted to establish a payment plan.
We were in talks for a payment plan at the beginning of September and then they filed a lien.
I was shocked. Asked them why it was filed if we were doing a payment arrangement? Well we agreed I’d pay all HOA assessments they said were owed (even the two years they other property management company stated I owed) and they would remove the lien.
I agreed and paid it at once just to get it over with. I just kept other costs down for a few months.
2021 comes around, HOA assessments are paid. I am served a foreclosure in April 2021. Come to find out they did not honor our agreement and the layers were charging fees the entire time. This means I now owed over 3k in fees.
We (property management lawyers and I) discuss this again and came to a second agreement where I would split lawyers fees with the HOA. Guess how that went? They switched management companies a second time because of to many financial mistakes (like mine).
The new management company now wants me to pay 6k in fees, filed foreclosure again and, I had to hire a new lawyer.
Lawyer says I have no case because they had no legal responsibility to honor any agreement we made.
I am about to do a payment arrangement with the management company. However, do I have any recourse against the HOA or management company?
As a separate issue - The HOA has been treating the neighborhood like their own dictatorship. They (President CP and two other members) are harassing residents (e.g., screaming at me for walking my dog, jumping fences to take pictures of people’s backyards going through peoples trash) so much so that the local Police Department has advised us to file orders of protection. The president has also had his grown children chase residents with metal pipes due to disagreements.
Can these people be removed from the board? Can we get the HOA dissolved?
Florida has very strong HOA laws. Is there anything that can be done in either situation? Thank you.

I own a SFH in Central Florida with an HOA. In 2020 they changed management companies. The new management company stated I had not paid fees, however that was an error. My mother (who I co-owned the home with) passed in May of 2020.
Because she paid the HOA fees with her account it was taking a long time to get proof. I did not contact the HOA until the end of 2020 because I was not in the right mental state. My fault I know. I stated I was behind in fees and wanted to make a payment plan.
Now we only pay twice a year and the fees are about 600 a year. After my mothers death her funeral and with COVID I wanted to establish a payment plan.
We were in talks for a payment plan at the beginning of September and then they filed a lien.
I was shocked. Asked them why it was filed if we were doing a payment arrangement? Well we agreed I’d pay all HOA assessments they said were owed (even the two years they other property management company stated I’d owed) and they would remove the lien.
I agreed and paid it at once just to get it over with. I just kept other costs down for a few months.
2021 comes around, HOA assessments are paid. I am served a foreclosure in April 2021. Come to find out they did not honor our agreement and the layers were charging fees the entire time and now I owed over 3k in fees.
We discuss this again and came to a second agreement where I would split lawyers fees with the HOA. Guess how that went? They switched management companies again because of to many financial mistakes (like mine).
The new management company now wants me to pay 6k in fees, filed foreclosure again and, I had to hire a new lawyer.
Lawyer says I have no case because they had no legal responsibility to honor any agreement we make.
I am about to do a payment arrangement but do I have any recourse against the HOA or management company?
As a separate issue - The HOA has been treating the neighborhood like their own dictatorship. They are harassing residents le.g., screaming at me for walking my dog, jumping fences to take pictures of people’s backyards and other issues) so much so that the local Police Department has advised us to file orders of protection.
Florida has very strong HOA laws. Is there anything that can be done in either situation? Thank you.

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Just recently we thought there was algae on the floor of the contact chambers. Well upon cleaning it there wasn’t algae. The snails were 6” thick at the bottom of the contact chambers. This is the first time we have seen this. Any ideas on why all the sudden all these snails? Located in central Florida.

Our little girl is due mid- end of June. Pregnancy has been pretty easy but of course who knows how the birth will go.
I like to stay active, go on walks, go to the beach, hit up the zoo, maybe a food festival or two. Things that are family friendly, which is great!
Curious how you all bounced back into getting out of the house. Of course a lot is dependent on my recovery, how the baby is, etc. Hoping we’re not stuck inside all summer or limited to staying very close to the house.

Original itinerary here for reference. We planned this trip primarily with Halal food in mind, along with regular sight-seeing locations + shopping for Switch games, clothes, and souvenirs
Overall notes / Takeaways * I rate our trip a 9/10. It was a great time with the authentic halal Japanese food, seeing all the cool sights & places, and experiencing a very nice environment + culture.

• The amount of researching / pre-planning can be a double-edged sword. Things that were unexpected were some of the best experiences. At the same time, if we tightened our itinerary and squared away some details better: we could have saved some cash, lessened on-the-spot deliberations / route planning; and perhaps, squeezed a few more places to visit.
  
• This is where the 1 point ding comes in, especially not realizing until after-the-fact that the 14 day JR Pass was not cost efficient for us, especially with our hotel locations utilizing local lines + purchasing two separate pieces of luggage whereas instead, we should have just brought them from home. (If we had our luggage situation better planned, we would have shopped a bit differently.) This 1 point ding is not a deal breaker at all, and we’re still super happy with the trip.
  
• For our trip with the Halal dietary restriction, it would have been helpful to pickup a sim card for a Japanese phone # to make some reservations ourselves and taxi’ing around in Kyoto when we got tired of walking around. At the end of some of the shopping trips, the 10-15 minute walk back to the hotels were very tiring, and the cost estimates on Google didn’t seem too expensive for short trips.
  

First part of the trip - East side of Tokyo: Asakusa FRI 5/5 Arrival HND arrival was around 2pm, and we got to the hotel around 6:30pm. From there: We were able to start off our trip with Ramen for dinner @ Ayam-ya Halal Ramen Tokyo –> Senjo-jii and Nakamise Street at night (which was not crowded at all at night)

• Airport sidenotes: If you do the JapanWeb form online, make sure to complete it all the way until you get the QR code. I had started the day prior, but didn’t realized I left it incomplete. So we had to step out of line to manually hand-write. Also, we didn’t realize there’s two sets of lines / forms: the first for customs entry and second for customs declarations.
  
• SAT May 6: Edo Castle Ruins –> Tokyo Station (Ghibli, JUMP, Pokemon stores which were all super packed with long lines) –> (walked to Ginza and attempted late lunch at Ginza Tendon Itsuki, but line was too long and we went to MOS burger instead) → Tokyo Skytree Mall (first Takoyaki for my wife here! Some souvenir shopping here) –> Akihabara at night for videogame/anime trinket shopping → Antep Kebab Akihabara for dinner
  
• Sun May 7: Ueno Park –> Akihabara again –> Sushi lunch @ Sushiken Asakusa –> (skip daytime Senso-jii due to rain, and instead return to hotel) –> Yakiniku @ Wagyu Yakiniku Panga –> Rescue Cat Cafe Asakusa Nekoen
  
• Mon May 8: Early AM laundry @ hotel (only did this once), chill (play some Switch games) & Depart hotel (decided against baggage transport this time) –> Tokyo Station and some Ekiben from Ekibenya Matsuri –> Shinkansen
  

Notable Highlights Part 1:

• Ueno Park was our favorite part from this portion of the trip - even though it was raining, there were so many unexpected sights! We thought Edo Castle Ruins would be closer to like how Ueno Park was.
  
• Getting lucky at the halal yakiniku place for dinner without a reservation! Being there at open and the rain may have helped.
  

Notable Mid-light:

• Going to Akibahara twice since the first time where second trip ended up mostly window shopping. The first night, I tried using Google Translate photos on the rows of Switch videogames. This was not efficient, and after the first night, learned it was better to physically and manually go through each game and ask the cashiers if they had specific games with photos/screenshots instead.
  
• We went to different stores each day, and it was really only the first night where we actually bought stuff. I did not find collector Switch steelbooks which I was specifically keeping an eye out for. We didn’t find much luck anime trinkets we wanted here, and instead found those at the next part of our trip.
  
• Notable Low-light: Even though the mall was fun for shopping and there was a festival ongoing, we were unable to reserve actual Tokyo Skytree Towers tickets. This stung a bit since this was after missing lunch at our original place. IIRC, I got stuck on the mobile webpage where it asked for a phone # that needed to be a JP #...although checking now, it doesn’t seem to ask for it.
  

Second part of the trip: Kyoto * Mon May 8 continued: Hotel arrival around 4pm –> Downtown Kyoto shopping (Surugaya) and clothes @ Coco → 7/11 dinner (taxi here would have been really helpful to go to once of the local restaurants, as I started getting foot pains)

• Tues May 9: Gion & Nanzaka, light street food for lunch, including better street Takoyaki –>(skip Philosopher's Path and Central Kyoto area) –> went straight to Kinkakuji –> Downtown Kyoto (luggage, insole, not much luck at more games/anime trinkets at this time) –> South Asian @ MABRUR for early dinner –> called it an early afternoon due to fatigue/foot pain (finally installed the insoles this night with borrowed scissors from front desk)
  
• Wed May 10: Bus to Arashiyama –> Bamboo Forest –> (Missed the Sagano train, did not appear open) –> chill at the Katsura riverside instead → Japanese curry @ Yosiya –> Monkey Forest Hike –> (skip boat ride due to closure / high water levels) –> Fushimi Inari –> chill at Kamo River on our return to hotel –> called it an early afternoon with private onsen reservation waiting for us at hotel
  
• Thurs May 11: chill (play more switch games) and pack in the AM (we used luggage transfer this time) → Ramen @ Ayam Ya Karasuma Kyoto prior to Kyoto departure (which turned out to be her favorite meal from this whole trip) –> Back to Shinkansen
  

Notable Highlights Part 2: * Experiencing all the nature on WED was our favorite part of this portion, especially the rivers! We did not realize the “20 minute walk” would end up a 45 minute hike as we were not prepared, but it was a very fun going up and taking breaks at all the stops.

• We did not expect downtown Kyoto to be as lively and cool at night as we saw it, since we mostly researched the traditional parts of this city beforehand; and we did not expect Kyoto to be where we’d get a lot of our shopping done. The Surugaya here had the most Switch games I purchased at best prices (and the anime bins for trinkets as souvenirs, my wife had a lot of fun here); Gion had a lot of other souvenirs; and downtown had a lot of clothes.
  
• Notable Low-light*: fatigue and foot pain at the end of those days when we did a lot of shopping, especially traveling between different stores (not all of which didn’t have what we were looking for, like the extra Bookoffs and Lashingbangs we visited). Some benches really would have helped. We did buy Dr. Schwartz insoles and cooling pads for our feets at the pharmacy stores here, which helped with some exhaustion, but not all.
  

Last part of the trip: Shibuya/Shinjuku * Thurs May 11 continued: Reach Shibuya @ 6:30pm → Shibuya Scramble once –> Walk to Yakiniku @ GYUMON –> back to Shibuya Scramble and see Hachiko + Tower Record –> grab Chestnuts –> Starbucks at night with upper view of Shibuya crossing

• Fri May 12: Diet Building Observatory (no luck with viewing Mt. Fuji due to clouds, even on the Shinkansen rides) –> Ramen @ Honolu Shinjukugyoenmae –> Friday Congregational Prayer @ Tokyo Camii Center –> Harajuku & Takeshita Street (heavy snack with fried cheese stick + cotton candy) → back to Shibuya Crossing → Shibuya Mega Don Quijote (lots of shopping here) –> (missed the Pokemon Center) → picked up some takehome kebab from near Shibuya crossing → back to the hotel early afternoon/night due to rain and bags full of purchases
  
• SAT May 13: Shinjuku Bookoff (notable for large inventory, but not too cheap compared to Surugaya Kyoto) –> Omoide Ally short walk –> Godzilla @ Toho –> Kabukicho short walk (was looking for the large entrance side, but did not find) –> Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden (just the north part, mainly the Botanical Garden) –> Ramen @ Honolu Shinjukugyoenmae –> Nakano Broadway –> Golden Gai (was super crowded, left halfway) –> Uniqlo –> Shinjuku Don Quijote (mainly for luggage scale that we missed) –> Surugaya –> Subway for dinner since we were not able to get in Zen restaurant for vegetarian or seafood okonomiyaki
  
• Sun May 14: Tokyo Tower (one of the only reservations we made) –> Tsujiki Outer Market for light lunch (we ate only at places with small/no lines, everywhere else was packed) –> Odaiba & Diver City Mall + Gundam Base + Gundam Unicorn –> skip lunch for some crepes and banana smoothie, even though there were halal meat places around → (skip teamLabs that we didn’t end up reserving for) → Surugaya Shinjuku (last shot at games/trinkets) –> last Ramen @ Honolu Shinjukugyoenmae –> sad walk back to hotel, but also relief knowing that we’ll be done with all the walking soon.
  
• Mon May 15: finish packing –> taxi to airport (through Booking.com where we made hotel bookings) –> kebab lunch @ Mrs. Istanbul (had to utilize bus transfer between terminals after luggage dropoff) → final souvenir snack shopping inside airport → Depart back home to LAX!
  

Notable Highlights Part 3:

• The Ramen with the Fried Chicken @ Honolu Shinjukugyoenmae was my favorite meal, especially coming back to it so many times!
  
• Friday congregational prayer at Tokyo Camii Center: the sermon was done in 4 different languages (Arabic first, then Japanese, then Melay I think, then English) - that impressed me along with its architecture. It was such a peaceful and familiar experience in a new environment. They gave out some food after (rice+natto I believe plus sesame ball sweets I believe), although we passed since we were still full.
  
• Shibuya Scramble was always fun to walk across! Busiest crosswalk in the world!
  
• Tower Tokyo tour was the nicest tower experience that I’ve had (they served us Lemonade!) and my wife got to take a photo with the Tokyo Tower Mascot, Noppon.
  
• Mega Don Quijote at Shibuya to finish up the bulk of our shopping, especially on souvenirs! Especially picking up Zelda Tears of Kingdom at release day!
  
• Gundam Base & live Gundan Unicorn transformation @ Odaiba Diver City! My wife went into it mostly blind, and was very impressed.
  

Noteable Mid-light: Harajuka and Takeshita street were cool to window browse, but we didn’t find anything we actually wanted to purchase here. It made me realize, like our second time at Akihabara, that window shopping isn’t as fun as actual shopping. -Aside from the Gundam @ Odaiba, we didn’t get too excited about anything else here. If we visited here first / sooner, we may have had a better time (along with keeping an eye out for more Gundam merch earlier throughout the trip). There was a nearby amusement center that was on our original plan to visit too. But at this point, I think we ran out of gas.
Notable Low-light: * The last hotel for me, especially with its location being furthest out from nearest station and not being as nice as the first two hotel.

• The Subway sandwiches (shrimp and tuna respectively) were pretty sad on SAT, although the potato fries they gave were okay (we forgot to ask for ketchup). There was another halal yakiniku place nearby that we stopped by in front of, but decided against it as we wanted something quicker / more casual.
  
• Though not part of the actual trip, on upon LAX arrival: the lack of cleanliness, customer service and organization were immediately noticeable, which reflected on how nice Tokyo & Kyoto were!
  

Other notes

• Biggest shoutout to my wife for being with me and her patience, especially while Switch game hunting and being chaotic while planning!
  
• Hotels: all our hotels were listed as 3 star hotels. We learned that every minute walk closer to the nearest station(s) really makes a difference – i.e. a 5 min walk back to the hotel wasn’t as bad as a 7-8 minute walk, and 10-12 minute walks back where the worst. We did keep an eye on square footage for the rooms (wanted to avoid less than 150 feet² for 2 people). We averaged around $95 USD per night.
  
• Henna Tokyo Hotel - Asakusa was a very nice hotel, especially with the animated front desk and great first time with bidets and warm toilet seats which the other hotels did not have. 183 feet² which felt small but sufficient.
  
• Second hotel - Kyomachiya Ryokan Sakura Urushitei in Kyoto - was a bit further from local bus points, but this was also a very nice hotel, especially as a Ryokan with great customer service and hidden shelve compartments in the room. We also did not expect a 2nd floor for the private garden view, which was also very nice. 156 feet² would have been small by itself, but pretty sure this does not account for the 2nd floor.
  
• Our last hotel, Cloud Himalaya felt like a re-designed local apartment, so it didn’t feel as nice, but it was the most spacious @ 291 feet². It was the furthest away from the local stops/stations. It was a low-light for me, especially compared to the first two hotels. My wife thought it was okay though: she thought it was comfy and the space inside the room made up for it.
  
• -Local Transportation: We only got on the wrong train once, and it was on our first night when leaving HND airport. For the rest of the trip, we didn’t have much issues. The learning curve for us was short to navigate the trains with GoogleMap, by looking at train departure times on our phone directions and platform # to match info listed on the electronic train station boards that have or switch into English.
  
• Even if we took an extra min or two to verify the train/bus to take, and we missed a train that was right in front of us, the trains were frequent enough such that it wasn’t a long delay – usually 5-8 mins at most. Having very little reservations in our itinerary helped in this aspect.
  
• The GoogleMaps LIVE view on directions was a useful feature in finding bus stops, especially in Kyoto and Shibuya/Shinjuku.
  
• Phone Plan: We decided against one Ubigi and one Airalo data plan and just got two Ubigi data plans. Overall, we used only 4-5 GBs each out of the 10 GBs available. Ubigi worked well throughout the 10 days. As noted earlier, having a JP phone # would have been helpful.
  
• Flights: standard flight experience with Delta - around $750 USD roundtrip for each of us. The lack of space didn’t bother us too much except when fumbling around with the meal trays. We requested special accommodations for Halal food on the HND inbound flight, and they provided vegan food which we didn’t enjoy that much (i.e. PICKLE SANDWICH!).
  
• On the return flight to LAX, we did not put in any special accommodations and had a better time with their regular vegetarian food (although the pasta salad was very creamy and the Hagan Dazs they gave were slightly melted).
  
• Language: We were able to get away with just using from sumimasen and arigato for the most part, and used English/non-verbal language most of the trip otherwise.
  

*more review/input on food commented in original plan here

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Good morning, Reddit. Long time lurker, first time poster.
We, meaning me (32F) and my wife (31F) currently live in Central Florida. Our lease will be up in November, and we are looking at moving options to get out of the state when that happens. We don't feel very comfortable or safe here any longer and our primary focus would be to find somewhere where we can feel safe to walk around, go out and do things, etc. So above anything else, that is #1.
Other things we're interested in finding are being able to have all or at least some other seasons besides hot and steamy. Not having to watch out for anything and everything that can bite, eat or sting you. Over hurricane prepping. Over closed-minded people.
We don't necessarily like small towns, but we don't want to live in a huge city either. Our current city is 60k and we don't mind the size. It's still close to other larger cities within an hour or two. Affordability is pretty important since we will both have to start over job wise when we move.
Thank you in advance! Any advice or feedback appreciated.

So this is my first music festival ever (I've gone 31 years of life wanting to go to one and FINALLY have the expendable money to do so and I want my first experience to be as fun/prepared as I can.) and I would like to know if anyone who has gone to this one or other festivals have any "Must Bring" items for a festival goer who plans on camping out the entire festival?
I've already made a list of necessary camping items that will be needed, but I find there's always things that someone forgets is important or things you wouldn't have even thought to bring if you haven't experienced the specific event before.
The items on my list are as follows:
Tent Cot/Sleeping Bag + Blankets & Pillow Lantern Cooler + Water Portable charging dock Toiletries + Towels + Shower Shoes Cleaning Supplies (Baby Wipes, Hand Sani, Skin Safe Cleaner) + Trash bags Personal Medication (Tylenol, + prescription medication) Sunscreen + Sun blocking hat Travel Chair 6-7 days worth of change of clothing. Extra pairs of underclothes + comfortable sleep wear for hot weather or cold weather if it rains or drops in temp at night.
I have other items that I would qualify as technically unnecessary like disposable cameras, a small speaker, small items for entertainment like a book or drawing items if we decide to hang out and relax instead of seeing whatever lineup happens to be there that we aren't interested in seeing, those kind of things.
My friend and I have already figured out our "Must See" bands that we are adamant on seeing and other bands be damned, so I just want to know if there's any items that you know for sure we should bring or things we should prepare for ahead of time that we aren't thinking of because of lack of experience.
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EDIT: Adding important items here that have been suggested so if anyone else looks here they can get the answers quickly.
Small PROPANE cook top 10x10 Tent for shade See Through bag/backpack for in festival Portable Fan Refillable Water Bottle Poncho for rain Shoes you can get dirty with no care Sun Umbrella Toilet Paper Tarps Ducktape Fold-able Table

Hello! As the name entails I'm looking for a platonic friend, I live in Central Florida and hope you do to so maybe we can do stuff together. I am a big gamer on PC and I infact have built 2 PCs. I'm definitely a nerd 🤓. I am engaged right now if that makes a difference. I am currently learning Spanish as a second language and I think I'm doing pretty well. If you speak both languages that would be awesome as well, but it is not by any means a prerequisite! Oh almost forgot I'm DEFINITELY an extrovert! 🤣

I had posted this as a comment awhile back and thought it would be useful to repost and hopefully get more additions for things I missed.
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Blueberry Festival: Greene, July 29
Spiedie Fest: Ostsingingo Park, August 4-6
Garlic Festival: Binghamton, August ???
LUMA Projection Arts Festival - Binghamton, September 8-9
Endicott Apple Festival: Endicott, Sept 16
Past Event
Culinary Arts Festival: SUNY Broome Culinary Center, April 16
Wine and Food Festival: Roberson, April 20
Earth Fest: Ross Park Zoo, April 22

Hi. This is probably way too early. I’m 22F, wanting to move down to the central Florida area. I’m from out of state; some recommended that I looked in school reddits. I’m looking to move around spring/summer of next year.
My name is Hannah. Some things Interested in: video games, Disney, drawing.
Things I absolutely will not tolerate: dishes being left in the sink for days/trash hanging out on the floor.

Hello All,
I find myself as an unexpected landlord, as I purchased a 2 bedroom townhome in Central Florida last July (intended to be a primary residence) as I was working remote. Unfortunately I and others were laid off in March of this year. I moved out of the home, and was able to secure new employment in Phoenix, where I rent an apartment and am today.
Note - I only put down 5% when I purchased, so I have little to no equity.
That said, I cannot continue to carry both a mortgage and rent. My realtor I used to buy the home said if I try to rent it, I will likely have a $400-500 net negative cashflow in the first two years. If I try to sell it, I will potentially break even, minus seller paid closing costs.
While I love the area I purchased in, I do not have interest in being an out of state landlord, and could see myself staying on the sideline from owning real estate for a year or two.
What would you suggest I do?