Marys was going downhill even before the pandemic started. It used to be incredible. MuLan is a block down the road and infinitely better. 5 spices house is also very good.

We called the police because there were 4 guys cooking up heroin and shooting up at Dana Park in broad daylight. The police didn't show, but Animal Control came to investigate a call about an off leash dog in the tot lot. And she scurried out of that park ASAP.

My street is almost entirely Audi's, Subarus, and the F150's of every contractor working on every other house.

My wife and I got to go from Mary's several months ago. They had the tables set up like a fort so you could only get into the door and no further to pick up your order. I asked if it was because of covid, but it was to keep the junkies out. They were always asking to use the bathroom (to shoot up).

Sad, we've been going there since we started dating many, many years ago. I still know the phone number by heart!

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Someone living in a tent could probably use them. I always feel weird about approaching homeless camps to offer things but I usually find very grateful recipients.

If I lived closer I’d take them, for when company comes. I just moved in and am low on textiles due to having mold in a previous dwelling. I’m at aquarium.

Cambridge has multiple Buy Nothing groups on Facebook. I highly recommend posting there!

Yeah that’s been my experience too would just be a shame for them to go to waste since they are so new

I have not had any luck getting anyone to accept donated pillows around here, which I get.

The city will pick these items up for recycling. Schedule a mattress pickup here -

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/mattressrecycling

and clothing/textile pickup here -

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/textilesrecycling

There is also a collection bin for clothing and textile recycling at the corner of Broadway and Fayette St. (possibly other locations too but this is the only one I know of).

Perhaps https://www.furnishinghopema.org/furniture ?

Can't speak to the comforter and pillows but most places in Massachusetts will not/cannot take used mattresses as donations. If you run a search here, it looks like the option closest to the city is out in Walpole.

That said, Cambridge will pick them up for free as part of their mattress recycling program. You can find out more here.

Whatever you do, just don't be one of those derps who dumps their used mattress in front of a Salvation Army in the middle of the night on their way out of town.

In addition to donating, there's the option of just putting them up on Facebook marketplace, craigslist, or one of the buy nothing Facebook groups.

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>The local population is exceptionally socially progressive

...except for property taxes, zoning/housing/building, etc. e.g., I'd rephrase this as they're very progressive-brand-conscious regardless of the realities as everything turns into a bank branch.

Road & Track had a good writeup as to how Subaru became pretty entrenched in the area compared to other brands:

>With initial curiosity-driven demand dried up, and the Consumer Reports review echoing maliciously, U.S. Subaru sales ground to a halt.
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>In 1971, Subaru of America embarked on an ambitious plan to outrun the bad review. As co-founder Bricklin told Automotive News in a rollicking interview earlier this year, "Somebody called me and said, 'Have you seen Consumer Reports?' I said, 'What's Consumer Reports?' [...] At the time, they had a circulation of half a million. So I thought, so what? Half a million people saw it, out of how many million in the United States?"
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>So Subaru of America decided to focus on markets where Consumer Reports had less sway—as Automotive News puts it, "small towns where the reputation of the local dealer was more important than awareness of the brand he was selling." The American importer targeted rural regions far away from the big cities. Places like Vermont, Minnesota, Washington state, New Hampshire and western Pennsylvania—where hardworking people on a budget might be willing to try a relatively-unknown brand offering cheap, frugal transportation.

You then had the 1973 oil embargo and subaru's use of 4-wheel drive in a family car kind of sealing the deal.

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Wow that guy is a guy is a huge dickhead!!!! Calling animal control on some woman walking her dog.

Compared to Nissan, Ford, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Kia (at least here in the states)

Mazda is reliable as well, not only Toyota and Honda. And maybe even Subaru, which is very popular in Cambridge.

Did you just call Volkswagen a 'lesser' brand? Compared to what?

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Yep, tons of Subarus in my neighborhood

Zone valves. More than once. Our system is a year or two older than yours, a Baxi. The plumber who recommended it and installed it didn't offer a maintenance plan and then vanished once he was done and paid, leaving a system that had been installed incorrectly and we had to get other plumbers in to correct his work. Then we had to hunt down a plumber who would work on Baxi units specifically, because that brand isn't in wide use in the U.S. So we got off to a bad start, and our issues aren't all down to the hard water, but as first-time owners in Cambridge, it presented an extra learning curve.

Maybe also let the local police know before you start pointing a pistol shaped thing at people in public. Wouldn't want a misunderstanding

Maybe put on a hi-vis jacket