All those tapestries in castles? Hung for exactly that reason (and also to deal with drafts). :)

seriously, why is everyone always looking for Faith Clark's family??

Salt on a wound

This is slightly extreme but the premise isn’t uncommon.

If you bought a $500,000 house a few years ago you’d prefer the city thinks it’s only worth $450,000 because that’s what you’ll be taxed on, but you’d like to think the value is increasing and you could sell it for $550,000 tomorrow.

The city’s assessment is pretty much always less than sales comps.

One of Trumps lawsuits is based on an elaborate scheme of basically this very thing.

You misunderstand. I don't hate it. Bad art awesome. I like it. I literally hope we keep it forever and will be disappointed if they give into public pressure and bring it down. What other city has two massive bronze arms holding up a big flaccid schlong? That's a thing to brag about and show people. The only thing we need to do to improve it is to give it a good nick name. "Two arms holding aloft a big floppy dong" is just too long to say.

OP is discussing etiquette, not law. Anyone rising that way is a dickhead. even if we want to discuss law, the way a lot of people drive their scooters is reckless and riders on the sidewalk are supposed to indicate that they're passing instead of whipping around at the last second with no indication.

Depends on whether the staircase is within your apartment, and on the reason for the beep. It could beep because it's at the end of its service life. Smoke alarms need to be replaced every 10 years and that's on your landlord.

They're not making more land. They're not making more houses. There's no way to wait this out. The middle class will collapse before housing prices do

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It’s crazy. I was looking at a house all the way out in Medway. Nice little two bedroom. They want $414k, okay fine. Then I looked at the price history - the house was purchased for half that in 2019.

My income has gone up a little since 2019 but not enough to keep with with these prices.

Bank assessments or city assessments? City assessments are very typically below market sale rate (which is what bank assessments look at).

When I first moved here and was taking D line from Brookline, everyone would hold up their hand in the air and the driver would open all the doors and we would shuffle in. About a week later I realized they were holding their passes up and I had been riding for free lol.

Chuck Norris was riding that scooter, backwards, on one leg, making a grilled cheese.

That's Pout

“Let them eat cake neighborhood character”

Thank you 😊

Very nice work officers.

Build build build, NIMBYs can get bent.

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I like that BPD is focusing on intelligence/disruption rather than street chases but it seems like this is not as urgent as it was a year or two ago when BPD was regularly:

• Using MA fire/building codes regarding "storage of gas powered vehicles near "dwellings"" to bust and cite the houses where these bikes are stored. Of course when it came time to issue the citation nobody on site was willing to declare themselves the owners of these vehicles so they were seized
• Working with other city cops like the thing they did with Dedham PD where they waited in a parking lot and busted the "mothership" cargo truck that was delivering a boxtruck full of bikes to unload at their staging area

Basically this is good news but 40 bikes is nothing. In other years they were seizing those quantities every other month during summer it seemed like

But to be honest this is an escalating race of evade and detect. Just the fact that these gangs were using box trucks as motherships to "deploy" their fleets of vehicles in out of the way staging grounds away from Boston proper kinda blew my mind as it was actually a good tactic

There already is one

It's because your local city councilors and state representatives get 74 calls per week from retired senior citizens and 6 calls per week from young people trying to start a family.

Bikes and scooters are technically allowed on the sidewalk almost everywhere in Cambridge: I think everywhere they are prohibited has signage indicating so.

Obviously pedestrians have the right of way on the sidewalk with no exception though.

As an aside, going >jogging pace on the sidewalk sounds absolutely bone-jarringly miserable, and I don't understand why anyone would.

lol, thanks for the validation. I texted and talked to bunch of friends and family when I signed up for the 12.69 and suggested they do too... Only one did; the rest were like blank stares.