Northeast metro area (NYC/NJ), haven’t owned a car in about 25 years. Mainly walk to places but I also take the train/bus as needed.
When I go out to the suburbs via train I do usually end up driving around with family. (their car)
Metro area is HCOL but not having a car has saved me a huge amount of money, people tend to act like the car is a separate expense not related to the rest of your bills like rent/property taxes, utilities, all that.
Groceries for me personally has gone up, not everything but I’m seeing small price bumps slowly hit different products. Right now it looks like the cost of coffee has gone up at most of the supermarkets I go to. And other random foods I buy like noodles/sauces from asia are slightly more expensive.
At work the tariffs are even more noticeable. We import food products from Europe and Asia to wholesale to U.S. customers that eventually sell retail to their customers. Since pretty much all the import costs have gone up we’ve increased the wholesale prices our customers pay across the board. That does mean the customers ordering this stuff to sell retail on their end will have to increase the final retail costs of the product, or absorb some of the cost if they can.
Yup I was going to comment the same. The physical passport might be useful after the fact once you’re in ICE holding being processed after x amount of hours/days. But then again at that point they would look you up in their systems so having the physical passport in your wallet may end up being a waste of time anyway.
The fact is if the ICE goon squad you encounter feels like arresting and detaining US citizens they’re going to do it.
And that’s assuming the ICE goons don’t make up charges of assaulting them or similar, in which case I’m not sure if those US citizens being charged get released with a future court date or are detained indefinitely.