"Sorry, you can't build a McDonald's here (even though there's plenty of demand to justify it). Legal Seafoods only (even though current owners paid McDonald's prices 50 years ago, and displaced No. 9 Park in the process)!"

Boston Creme Pie (they made the OG version — definitely popular with tourists but good overall)

Excuse me there tourist, you must not be familiar with the port city of Boston. Nobody here says Beantown. Please enjoy this documentary about our diverse aquatic life.

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shut up bot. We 100% call it beantown.

The Boston Public Library is so lovely! The courtyard is a great place to enjoy a lunch or catch up with a friend. And you can find quiet areas in both the old and newer parts of the library if that’s more your thing. I’ve taken several locals there and am always surprised when it’s their first time.

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But I thought Boston had no good food!!!

Salt and pepper.

>You think they're just gonna slap up a building without functioning toilets, heat, or water? And if they somehow miraculously pull that off, that the building will be occupied?

I'm sure Alpha management would be interested.

you first!

It's like saying why someone needs Legal Seafoods if there are 10 McDonald's nearby. 10x cheaper!

My understanding is that college sports betting will be allowed except for in-state schools like BC or UMass. However, betting will be allowed for in-state schools like them in some circumstances like March Madness..

What isn't allowed at all for college sports in Massachusetts is Daily Fantasy and that has been the case for a while now.

I actually have a speech impediment and have a problem with Rs and everyone at college thought it was a Boston accent.

It won’t be beautiful anymore if you cut down the forests and clog the area with more people.

North Billerica station already has multi-family units within the radius of the station, and is also pretty well used by those in the surrounding towns as well, considering Tewksbury, Lowell, Chelmsford etc

If you’re a beer person you can go pull up at one of the local establishments (Cambridge Brewing, Lamplighter, Aeronaut, Remnant) and mix and mingle there. Most of those also have scheduled social nights for various activities, like trivia and whatnot.

There are plenty of places in the Boston metro where we could build more densely and address the issue. I'd support rail access between Boston and western MA myself, but it's hard to see western MA being the real solution to the Boston area's housing crisis. It's not really close enough and there are places much closer that could add denser housing anyways.

Also, you're ignoring that a lot of people do want to live reasonably close to Boston and the ocean. I like the Berkshires but I don't really want to live there personally.

If a SFH is surrounded by 10 story apartment buildings that aren't vacant, you can be pretty damn sure that there is plenty of demand for 10 story apartment buildings.

> With apartment buildings built near every commuter rail station till the cape this will go away.

I don't see what the problem with this is. Why is demand for small towns full of SFHs a good thing? If Boston were built to the density of NYC, we'd be cheaper than NYC, and making close to NYC money too.

Shop around

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Clearly I’m a child but when it first goes into the water it’s exciting and fun!

Back in the 70s Ernie Boch sr. (The llama commercials) was the only person to buy into Japanese cars. He bought the rights to Subaru New England and as an AWD car it became a staple up here. Every Subaru dealer in New England has to pay EBJ for each one of those cars. He owns the port in RI and here in Boston. Also fuck EBJ

And EBJ gets a cut of every one of them.

I believe the Mission Hill area has one of the highest costs of car insurance in the area.

The Florentine cannoli from Mike’s is THE ONLY cannoli IMO lol