conservatives and progressives in America don't want to pay for anything.

They think everything the govt does should be magically free.

Offering me a half-price ticket to ride a train that may or may not come (flip a coin) when I depend on that transportation for my livelihood...the price of the ticket really isn't the main issue at heart is it?

Not saying it's half-price but you get the point. I don't remember her running on the promise of half-baked band-aid solutions? Was that a commercial of hers that I missed?

No I was joking. Does this one only bring Subarus?

I’m sorry, but how is it “easy” to get a gun? Last time I checked I owed my hometown $100, 3 references, and ultimate discretion from the chief of police. I couldn’t even use a cigarette lighter when I was 12, nevermind find someone who could sell me an illegal firearm. This comes down to parenting.

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what did you say to me? Say it again you filthy transplant. Yeah i know your type. You probably have Connecticut plates and a Yankees sticker on your car. You brag about how close you live to Fenway Park, but then complain in the sub about how loud the concerts are. How about you and me meet in the parking lot of the 7-11 in Revere and settle this?

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As it should be. People don’t have that many options. The MBTA is one of the most poorly run public transit systems in the country.

KG was the only good part of that.

This feels a bit disingenuous to ask why the mayor of Boston only wants to cut fares in Boston and not Lynn.

You have to have a unique mailbox, otherwise you end up with images of everyone’s mail.

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Good. A solution that might actually work. Rent control is something that nearly every economist agrees is a bad policy.

In an ideal world, we would cut transit fares and raise gas taxes, tolls, and fees like other countries where progressives claim to want to emulate. However even suggesting raising gas prices here even by a couple of cents is like a third rail of politics. Even raising transit fares so the users have to pay for it would make sense for the average American voter but it will literally discourage transit usage as transit fares have increased faster with inflation than gas taxes have.

I used to call it West Roxboring. But yes, a driveway and a yard

The green/red intersection at Porter

The shared mail slot could potentially be an issue. Additionally if someone at that address already signed up for Informed Delivery, another person cannot (or least that used to be the case).

I think at least one part of the appeal to the post-college twenty-somethings who started to move there in droves was it having a "cool" reputation based on the Whitey Bulger mob history.

> Do you think my room can get as warm as the rest of the apartment if I just weatherproof the windows? Would using those weather strips and getting thermal curtains work

yes

>We have to agree to disagree. When we have a problem as big as our housing issue, no solution should be off the table because of "feels".

It's not feels. It's literally just looking at the past track record of the state executing literally any building project. Close your eyes and pick one, it's years late and wildly over budget.

>Your solution still requires the state to get involved

No, it actually doesn't. It requires cities and states that created the problem with their zoning laws to stop creating the problem. They only need to stop doing the bad thing that they are still doing RIGHT NOW, despite the housing crisis, to fix the housing crisis.

>However, if its not near public transit and its all high end luxury condos

Housing costs in Massachusetts have nothing to do with how "luxurious" our housing is. Leave Boston and travel around a little bit. Boston housing is not "luxurious" and too much luxury has nothing to do with our housing costs. We actually have literally some of the oldest, most poorly maintained, and least "luxurious" housing in this nation. The reason why literally all new housing is called "luxury" housing is because any house in the greater boston area with flat floors that won't give you splinters and a modern heating/cooling system can claim with a straight face to be "luxury". You literally can't make a new apartment that isn't "luxury", because literally anything new, no matter how spare, is "luxury" over the housing stock that it is replacing. The cost of housing in Boston has nothing to do with how nice it is. The only two things that matter to how much a new condo costs is where it is, and how big it is. Everything else is a rounding error.

>...being brought up as foreign investments, its basically useless.

This is a bogyman that only really exists in extremely high end housing sitting on top of sky scrappers. Housing in Boston is not expensive because of them damn foreigners buying housing and than insanely keeping it empty instead of renting it out.

There is one and only one reason why housing is expensive in the greater Boston area. That one and only reason is because it is literally illegal to build more dense housing. Every time you are in an dense and expensive area and see only three story building, they are that way because it is literally illegal to build them any taller and more dense. The states and towns that created this problem don't need to go build dense housing. They just need to let people that already own housing legally build dense housing. We don't need the state, which has proven it's absolute incompetence at large building projects, to jump in. They just need to get out of the way.

If the state has money burning holes in their pockets wants to do something productive to help the housing crisis, they should fix and expand public transit. I'm sure they will do it extremely late and over budget as they always do, but at least they would be do something that only the state can fix.

Last year I went through this guy: Gary Jorgensen. He's an "automotive consultant," whom my mechanic recommended.

He came to my house, we had a chat about what I was looking for. He did all the searching, brought a couple of cars to my house to test drive, handled the negotiations (he's got relationships with several dealerships in the area), paperwork, registration, etc. then brought the car I settled on to my house and took away the old one.

Fantastic experience. Paid him a thousand bucks, but what I paid for the car was ~$6k less than what it was listed for at the dealership, so I thought it was well worth it.

I think parts of the North End could be considered Tourist Traps, esp. Mike's. Agree with others in here thought that Mikes is underrated or overhated.

Hmm, I'm honestly not sure how I feel about skating here.

I love the location and charm of Frog Pond and absolutely worth going if you've never been. However, the skating experience itself is pretty subpar in my opinion...

The rink is so tiny that makes it impossible to avoid other skaters.

I might just be biased because every single time I rent skates, the skates feel so worn and don't fit properly.

Wish we also had warming huts or even a larger enclosed building to warm up / drop off gear like many other cities have.

This feels like an excellent in-fill project overall. Any idea when it will hit the ZBA? I'd make time to show up and support this project

The old saying about us being kind but not nice i feel holds true

Their food is great, but I've known multiple people who've had horrible experiences in the kitchen. The chef really seems to talk the talk about building a positive environment and then used straight-up abuse tactics with a good friend who worked there (e.g. hiring her with a promised salary and then once she'd quit her other job being told, "oh, maybe you'll make that eventually but we're going to start you off at roughly half that" and swearing up and down that she'd "make sure [my friend] never worked in another kitchen again" if she left Nightshade).

Kitchens aren't the friendliest places to work in general, but this shit was beyond the pale. It's so disappointing.