As an ugly woman, same.

Or $10 poker rake? 🤢

I wasn’t aware SF and LA were laughing stocks of America. Right wing talking points, sure. But these problems are systemic. They aren’t just happening in a few cities. Venture outside of the Northeast or west coast and see how you like the quality of life there… you won’t.

High quality of living, good social infrastructure, easy access, proper seasons, diverse industry, top educational resources, and great cultural resources... it's desirable to live here.

For example, you ever have to go to the ER at a specialized hospital here? You have people in the waiting room from three states away.

I do worry about Boston turning into San Fran, but industry is too diverse here to be entitled to one type of bro.

Not so much LA because LA sucks.

The only people who think San Francisco and LA are the “laughing stock of America” are conservatives who never leave their hometowns.

The only thing that makes Boston similar to either of those places is the cost of living. Rents and home prices are driven by demand so obviously there are plenty of people who still want to live here and can afford it.

Some people don’t get how this could be a human trafficking pitch which is understandable.

If you don’t get it:

Think about when you’ve genuinely been lost and asked for directions. What details do you include or ask for?

Directions. That’s it.

Something like “late for an appointment” maybe.

But people don’t:

• ask where people live
• ask for people to personally escort them there
• mention terms like “wealthy client”
• target young women traveling alone

I get asked for directions all the time, especially when the school year starts, because I work and commute near some major colleges. It’s always a question of how to get to a street or a building. They never ask where I live or ask me to walk them somewhere.

Never go to the secondary location.

You probably would see rent come down in some places as it's unlikely the closing of the gap would be uniform. Some places will actually hit their targets while others will fall short. Then you get people moving from the latter to the former.

MGH and Melrose-Wakefield....what's the 3rd?

lol have you ever been to LA / SF

West coast playing in a whole different league with their hobos.

You should check out Providence! It may be a better fit for you than Boston in terms of affordability and being a smaller city.

When I lived in Back Bay we’d go late at night, after the bars closed. We all owned skates just for that, and we’d stop home and get them then hop the boards at like 3am. Cops never bothered us but the stupid Zamboni chased us off more than once. Kinda weird to Zamboni at 3:00am, but it probably doubled as security because it worked lol.

Wasn't talking about people. Talking about bars.

You know you described a net positive outcome, right?

You and your neighbors are X. The people moving into the new, denser housing are Y. Y is obviously greater than X. So X people commute further, and Y people commute shorter.

>I moved here

So did thousands of others in the past 20 years. Why do you think rents and the cost of housing is so high (along with the availability of housing)?

>homeless and drug epidemic

Gentrification brought on by the people moving here wouldn't have anything to do with it, would it?

Literally cope

I finally did this the other day! Put the Maine Coon in a stroller and we shared some clam chowder, and had an awesome walk. I read him all the plaques. He peed on some old graves. It was a blast.

Came to give votes to these two ideas! We see them all the time… but the history is fun and these guys do a great job.

Agree on Pagu, had much higher expectations. One of the dishes was great, the others not so much, wanted better consistency with the quality given the hype and price.

You know there's a vast swath of Jewish Americans who don't keep Kosher to that extent right?

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There's an entire cuisine theory about how immigrants had to modify their food after coming to America because of available ingredients. And how that doesn't make it any less authentic, it's just changed the category of what's authentic. Trying to gatekeep what is and isn't authentic gets ridiculous fast, because how far back do you go? "Authentic" Italian food doesn't have tomatoes because they came from America, etc.

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Why have art when we can have a Capital One Lounge?

everything costs more in the city

boston is an upper mid tier city with a luxury pricetag

grew up here and have never left but the costs are really weighing on the benefits nowadays

No because we have 3 of the best hospitals in the world and a few top rated universities.

>Classify single family zoning as illegal redlining

wow what a stupid fucking comment