Hey unfortunately I’m homeless I don’t have payment apps but my friend has cash app, if that works? If not it’s okay I appreciate the love :) just you offering means a lot

I'm using it in mid-cambrige. Speedtest.net reports ping=84ms, upload=10Mbps, download=37Mbps. Not great. I'm going to try Verizon next.

My mother was a drug addict I was born in LA and moved to MA when I was 7 for school and had to move from place to place I loved school actually and was really gifted I use to enter compitions around Boston for painting but after awhile when I entered high school I had to start working and usually wnytime I got paid I gave my mother my paycheck to take care of my sisters and her but my mother would mostly use it for drugs. I would get kicked out alot and have to sleep outside as I didn’t have many friends to crash with so that was my only option. I had a tent and a heater with a battery and would stay outside my highschool until it was time to go in,

I didn’t want my mother to loss custody of my younger sister but it became harder to hide the abuse as I would show up to school with bruises and other stuff so eventually my school got involved and they took my lil sister away and placed her into foster care, my grades suffered and when I graduated I basically had nothing. Most of my family are drug addicts so I never had much but wlot of the things I did have were always stolen and sold for drugs.

So now I just stay in Cambridge at the shelter at y2y and sometimes I’m lucky and make enough to get a hotel for a night or 2. All the money I do make I just send to my sister for her schooling and to help her I don’t keep really keep any of my pay ik that may sound stupid but I’d rather help her then myself at this point and protect her as I’m the only thing she has. She’s like my daughter because I have nothing it’s impossible to get ahead really. So I’d rather help her and make sure she graduates and gets to go to college.

I’m homeless due to being born in unfortunat circumstances but I still believe in god and pray everyday and love helping people :) I help the homeless around Harvard even though I’m homeless too. Srry if I misspelt a lot of words and my punctuation..it’s been awhile since I text

EV don’t solve most of the problems of cars such as noise, injuries and death, particulate matter from brakes and tires, waste of space for parking, etc. At a society level, the only practical vehicles are transit and bikes.

How did you end up homeless ?

Cambridge just voted to install electric vehicle charging stations: https://pb.cambridgema.gov/pb9_evchargers

This is a really important question. EVs are the future. We are crossing the tipping point where the total cost of ownership is better. Cambridge residents embrace technology and sustainability and have the resources to be early adopters. However owning them without a garage or driveway is not feasible.

I have a hard time predicting how and when EVs will become an obvious choice in towns where everyone parks on the street. Will the town make the huge investment in infrastructure? It doesn’t feel like a priority to me compared to public transportation and other investment priorities. Will grocery stores become charging locations? Why aren’t they yet? What is taking them so long?

+1 with off-street parking and an outlet = easy. Without off-street parking = hard

Drop your Venmo

Put your Venmo here if you can. Would love to support

I found a picture. Bamboo longboard

I have a long board I've barely used if you want it. I've always wanted to learn but never did. It's a zumiez board from years ago. DM me if you want it. :)

Thank you everyone for the support I have not used Reddit alor I was not expecting anyone to really reply to me

Hey I would also be willing to help with this. Do you have a Venmo/PayPal/etc.? Feel free to DM it to me or drop it here

Cars are impractical, walk, bike, use transit. Ice vs Electric is not the right question. Ask yourself do I really need a car or am I just getting one by default?

I would not recommend a complete EV based on your location. Tesla has a fantastic super charger station in the parking garage of the Cambridgeside galleria at Lechmere. I personally charge my car in my garage with a regular 120v outlet; don’t even need to upgrade the circuit. The electric load is less than a vacuum cleaner

I drive a Tesla and rely on street parking in Cambridge, without charging access. I don’t commute, so my battery use is fairly minimal and I’m happy taking a detour every few weeks to go charge at the (30mn) superchargers at the Galleria, or Assembly Square. There are also 220V (5-6 hour) chargers around town, but I find those impractically slow for me.

I usually tell people who ask that I don’t recommend having an EV without having a good way to charge them. Even a 110V (24 hour+) charger at home is fine. It’s just having “nothing” at home which can actually become fairly annoying.

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EV owner in Cambridge for the past six years. An easy place to charge is the main constraint. Or get a Tesla which has a more robust charging network. Such broad claims are largely misinformed.

Edit: holy cow OP, you have literally over a hundred car comments in the past 10 days

EV’s are impractical by nature and awful. ICE is fine, hybrid if you’re looking for more mpg.

Please tell me this is real 😭i have been homeless for 2 years my skateboard has been with me since high school it ment everything to me.

Tell them their aren’t many EV minivans. People in Cambridge are wealthy, many can afford EV and the infrastructure to install them. I suspect your cousin thinks of Cambridge as being all apartments and not condos and single homes. Do people in Cambridge all have solar panels, probably less likely but the overall wealth in Cambridge, while not evenly distributed, is still very high.

Really 🥲

Where and how can I get you a new board? I'd like to fix that. Plz dm.