Why not do both? It's a crisis so lets treat it like one. We can slow down when gen-Z feels they can own a home at some point in their life.

Oh there you go, thanks for straightening me out. I worked at Chelsea high, sometimes the kids would play in the salt piles on the way to school, come in all crusted with salt.

Any “romantic” restaurant, on Valentines Day specifically (preferably 7:00), that requires a credit card to book, but then rushes you out the door in 1hr 26m. Bonus if the tables are spaced 1 foot away from each other and they sell you an overpriced bottle of wine that you can’t possibly finish before they’re handing you your coat and showing you the door.

After, stand awkwardly outside of the restaurant with no backup plan. (Or go to Lucky’s or Silvertones or Anchovies afterward and laugh about your shitty dinner, and probably end up truly bonding with your date over cheap whiskey gingers. But that’s actually not a bad idea so don’t do that. Stick with awkward.)

Good brick looks much better than the best fiber cement, but bad brick can be much, much worse than the hackiest fiber cement installation. Think of the column bases of City Hall, or the average 1960s public housing project--acres of nothing but running bond red brick. No depth, no detail, just monolithic liminal space hell, like somebody was intentionally trying to build the backrooms IRL. Brick and architectural minimalism just don't mix.

To make brick look good you have to have contrasting brick bond patterns, actual lintels or arches above doors and windows (not some fake looking row of vertical bricks), actual sills that protrude beyond windows and aren't made of brick, and some depth to the brickwork. At least corbel the cornice, for goodness's sake.

I was a docent dame at the state house and it’s the best free tour you can get

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I'm pretty sure the solution isn't low density housing in places that people don't want to live. It's great if you want to live in more rural areas, but they are rural for a reason, lower desire to be there. I actually like being able to walk outside my door, and walk to a coffee shop. I like that I can walk to all of my friends. I like that I can come home from work in my car, and then never touch it again.

The solution is to let people build higher density housing in places that people want to live.

Fire and Ice

“Then you go somewhere cheap and dingy” …. Now I am interested! Where?

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Step one, don’t say beantown

Maybe we could just start by letting people that own property already build first, before unleashing the overwhelmingly corruption free and extremely efficient Massachusetts state upon the problem?

But, but, the rhyme says...

Saddest part is this Braintree development is exactly what we need to see more of - in many ways it’s the perfect project to increase housing density.

Its impact on traffic is negligible, since it’s already within the overall mall area. It has no (I think) direct residential neighbors to piss off, in terms of “context”. It doesn’t require tearing down any existing residential.

Fighting against it is amazingly idiotic.

Quincy has plenty of housing that is this density, and it’s doing just fine. Hasn’t changed anything fundamental about the city.

If price is your highest priority, it'll be hard to beat La Quinta in Assembly Row unless you go way farther out. Or you could spend another $50 to be in a more interesting neighborhood.

Oh the free seals rock when it's more than 20 degrees out, I watch them for 5 minutes every day on my way home from work

That's assuming static demand and no induced demand effect. Probably need even more to cover the shift due to induced demand.

Free seals!!!!!

Malden had a bad reputation; whenever I told a local I moved there I got lots of shocked looks. But Malden is great! It's friendly, there's lots of great restaurants and shops and stuff, and it is not completely gentrified into oblivion yet.

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Tip 1) don't ever call it "beantown" End of list

My parents insisted on at least one MB trip when visiting from the west coast. Totally cheap date. They just loved hearing the stockers and checkers chat away in legit Boston accents and picking things out that were unusual to them to take home.

Going to a grocery store is almost always on my list for vacation. Great way to see how people live everyday.

I usually do the North Station run during the winter and Provincetown during the summer but I do that one every once and awhile. Say good morning to my guy Vance who is working crew tomorrow!

Cheers

I went on one that was so incredible that the concession workers closed their tills and went to the railings. Breeching whales soaking people, mama nursing her calf. So cool.