We can get western wildfire smoke in our sunsets so I think Ohio is in play….

Late one night (actually early am) my son did this at a burger joint drive-through. The girl he was with was very impressed and my son was happy until he looked in the rear view mirror and saw he just bought a cop his meal. Expected to get pulled over but fortunately didn't.

That can't be true, some other guy told me only Eastern Mass is crazy expensive and western is reasonable. He was very adamant.

One bedrooms in friggen Upton in a new development are $2000 for a one bedroom. I grew up there- it’s insanity.

This is 100%. It all starts at the home and if the home fails, there's a high chance it will fail the kids as well. I went through the Chelsea school system, not known for a very good school system at all but we had two very good parents that pushed us to succeed. Long story short, all three of us graduated from the Chelsea school system and all got our degrees from college and now live in Topsfield, Andover and Stoughton (my younger bro is still single so school system for him doesn't matter, unlike my sister and I who have kids).

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Well maybe the person in front just gives the cashier a $10 bill and say put that $10 towards the next people in line?

Just get a post hole diggers and go to town. Once you get the holes dug it’s pretty easy work.

Sure. Have a good one.

And to sit on the very unlikely possibility that we're in any danger from it in Massachusetts is fear-mongering.

Not really too concerned but to say it isn't a possibility is kinda odd.

If you want to be afraid then that's on you, but the science isn't supporting your very loose argument.

This I pay about 1700 a month for my infant at a home daycare in metro west

At 80k in western Mass... What's stopping you from succeeding?

I wouldn't say it's insanity. Massachusetts is a very desirable place to live and people want to be here. Homes aren't being built fast enough to accommodate with locals wanting to purchase their own home and people moving here from other states. Competition high, housing is in high demand.

Homes are being built but not fast enough.

Okay, so it came from Texas or Oklahoma, but not Ohio. Got it.

600 miles is about 6 hours travel time by wind alone. It's foolish to think their isn't a possibility it wouldn't cause air problems or particles falling. It rained last night, that's a condensation nuclei. Chemicals go up, cling to a cloud that starts to precipitate and it falls back down.

How about you do both? One's for the future, one's for now.

Have you ever thought about trying a year at a boarding school? There's a lot in MA and you can live at the school for free and get food etc as well. Good way to try out the state while obtaining whatever paperwork you need for public school And save money/travel while you figure out where you want to be more long term?

To be honest. I love reading posts like these and immediately started laughing my ass off when you mentioned living close to Boston on a teacher's salary.

Honestly. Your best option would be Western Massachusetts specifically the City of Springfield. This city had a bad reputation something like 20 years ago, hell in 2011 it was bad but today Springfield is an amazing place to live in.

There is so much diversity, history and things to do. Oh and the jobs, lots and lots and lots of jobs. Specially in the public sector.

It is surprisingly affordable not as much as it used to be in 2019 but it is a lot more affordable than Worcester or Boston Metro.

People from other states have this idea that the further away from the city the cheaper it gets... that is not true in Massachusetts, people here value their privacy. The further you go the more expensive it gets. The cities are the usually the cheapest areas to live in with the exception being Boston Metro

Check out Springfield and it's surrounding towns. Don't listen to the people who shit on this city. Most of them don't live there or have never even visited they mostly mouth off what someone else has told them.

This city has changed so much, there is so much money being invested here. You have access with a relatively short drive to Boston, NYC, Hartford, Upstate NY, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire.

If you are adamant on living near Boston, your cheapest option will be to rent a room which are going for about $1000 at the moment.

Western Mass is the place to be in my opinion.

I love living in this state. This winter was extremely mild if we could even have called it a winter. But most winters here are harsh. Even with the harsh winters we chose to live hete because the quality of life is high, the incomes are high, the quality education is high even on public schools. There is good public support that the state provides (with your tax dollars) to get you back on your feet if you fall on hard times. Like Mass health and the FMLA.

Overall this state is awesome and wherever you chose to go you will succeed.

Note that we have a lot of traffic. This is true. We moved out of Chelsea Mass because the traffic was awful it was fucking awful. A ten minute drive without traffic was usually 50 minutes bumper to bumper at peak hour.

Traffic used to be light in Springfield but after covid hit holy shit we had so many people move here. The traffic has definitely picked up.

The houses here are still affordable on a 45k yr wage. Have a good time searching for your next place to live.

I completely agree with you!

I’m talking about all the posts today of people pretending to not know why there is weird rain but also curious enough to post it on Reddit of all places.

This is just a campaign to stir up fear, doubt, and uncertainty - ripens the harvest for exploit.

People around here think I'm actually apologizing when my Midwestern "Ope, Sorry!" slips out.

This is from 9 days ago.

Calling it ash from a two weeks ago train derailment is the scare tactic. It's dust from an OK dust storm two days ago.