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☆ I'm fleeing Florida after almost 40 years because 'Rolls Royces, Range Rovers and Maseratis took over' and my home insurance skyrocketed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

David, 58, had loved the slow pace and friendly community in West Palm Beach, Florida, since 1987. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David, 58, who is moving to Savannah, Georgia, next year after almost 40 years living in West Palm Beach, Florida. We would drive down to see them, and West Palm Beach held some mystique to me. I spent nearly 40 years in West Palm BeachWhen I first came to West Palm Beach, I moved into this great little area that I fell in love with. I lived in a condo for two years, and then I bought property for $150,000 back in 1989 or 1990.

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☆ An L.A. Diner That’s Been Obsessing Over Its Burgers and Pies Since 1947
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Rico Gagliano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As a companion to T’s 212 series about New York institutions, the 213 column highlights beloved landmarks in and around Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the promise of speed denied. A city that teases the possibility of instant stardom, yet it can take years to land a SAG card. Los Angeles is the birthplace of In-N-Out Burger — its very name auguring swift satisfaction — where the drive-through lines stretch to infinity. And top of the list for me is the Apple Pan, established in 1947.

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☆ Italy is a bargain for vacationing Americans. Not so much for Italians
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Rimini, Italy. The Jersey Shore, but not Unlike Americans, Italians do not just plunk down their beach bag and dive in the ocean. A bargain for Americans, but not for Italians Italy is heavily reliant on tourism. For Americans, Europe in general but the smaller cities of Italy in particular are a great value. It's a bargain for Americans but, for most Italians, even those prices are out of reach.

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☆ Maserati's going electric while simultaneously reconnecting to its gas-powered past
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Next year, Maserati will reveal a fully electric sedan for which they will be no gas-powered version at all. So does Ferrari, Maserati’s sister brand until a few years ago when it was spun off under its own stock symbol. The Maserati Grecale SUV has an aggressive driving feel. Now that the spinoff of Ferrari has left Maserati the company’s only ultra-luxury brand, Grasso feels more is expected, he said. “We can only be at ease when Maserati’s profitability is above Stellantis’s profitability,” he said.

Some elements of the Jeep joint venture's failure are particular to Stellantis - and the former car groups that feature among its 14 brands. But data compiled for Reuters by consultancy LMC Automotive expose a problem shared by a number of other global carmakers: plummeting Chinese plant usage. Reuters GraphicsThe Jeep failure in China happened less than two years after Stellantis was formed by the merger of PSA and Fiat Chrysler. "Chinese companies actually have an early mover advantage because they embraced electrification faster than the foreign companies were willing to," he added. While fully-electric cars make up an average of 5% of models foreign carmakers sell in China, they account for 30% of Chinese carmakers' models, according to LMC data.

The people of Iran are in open revolt, this time led by courageous young women protesting the murder of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the morality police, and the law requiring they wear hijab. Most significantly, this current uprising over the murder of a Kurdish 22-year-old is being led by the young women of the TikTok generation. Pro-regime chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel” have been a staple of the rhetorical diet fed to the public. To that end, pro-Palestinian sympathy was ingrained in Iran’s propaganda via school textbooks, television programs, sports, cartoons, billboards and more. In 1979, the people of Iran yearned for a democratic revolution; instead, they got an Islamic dictatorship.

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