Way too far

Lol it’s not that bad

Just randomly replying to you. I hate where I bought and cry about it way to much. Great house bad location in MA. I love the diversity of thought here and most people on this platform would think I am some deplorable. This is a great area to settle but should I not sell to be in your friends situation?

Significant other’s family is from the area, and yes, I believe it’s a problem of long standing.

I looked into Trinity. Man, they were expensive. Shop around. They were a good 30K over other companies. They had a great financing rate, but I’d rather owe less at a higher rate. Leaves possibility of refinancing in the future and/or paying it down faster. The capper was the asshole sales guy acting incredulous when I said I had a much cheaper quote.

I think the problem is you accidentally hooked up your water filter to your municipalities strawberry&banana smoothie line.

Happens all the time.

Colorado is a little obsessed with Rhode Island.

I'm fine. We bought a house right before the pandemic, so we were lucky because we would not be able to buy a house right now. At least not without being house poor. We've got no kids and decent salaries, so the cost increases haven't bothered us, although our electric bill doubling was concerning.

I'm extremely worried about the future though, climate change societal collapse... hell if the Yellow Stone super volcano blows we're all toast (literally). I started getting into survivalism as a hobby, but that community is full of Trump lunatics.

Yeah, definitely feeling a bit of a pinch. Food is ridiculous, told my husband we need to stop eating. We are both retired, I’m thinking about picking up a part time job to help close the gap. I thought we would be all set for retirement but I’m seriously doubting that now.

Thank you!

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Planning on leaving myself. Housing market here is hosed. We could sell the house we bought for 265k years ago for 500k today. How can anyone that doesn't own a home already able to afford a house here?

Twice I’ve had to deal with it and twice I’ve had the worst experience imaginable. In BOTH cases I was back to work for more than a month before I saw any benefits paid out. I’ve had to deal with DUA and they’ve got their shit together for the most part, but PFML was absolutely comedically atrocious.

No email to send in color photos, fax or regular mail, no dedicated line to determine amount or schedule of payments, no supervisors or managers to escalate problems to, and no clue how to help when you finally get past the 20+ minute hold time.

Trying to hang in there. Food keeps going up, not just at the store but take out is like a mine field trying to find something affordable to eat.

Apply online. Also talk to dr or their staff and see what they know about getting approved.

I’ve found the opposite.

he’s at least trying to make it look like he’s trying

I would sooner die than leave Massachusetts. (New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maine don't count because they are rightful Massachusetts territory, Rhode Island too but it is a dump)

The grass is greenest here. But it's fucking expensive as hell grass

I found it to be easy enough to apply and receive payments when I was out of work after having a baby. I believe it took about 2 weeks for payments to start after I sent confirmation that the baby had been born. My employer had to confirm my leave after my application was sent in, but I didn’t have to get involved with that. But yeah if you are an employee in Massachusetts you pay into it, so you are eligible and should receive benefits no problem.

Better? No. Cheaper. And with less restrictive laws.

They want you to lease the panels. Basically, they become your new power company, likely at a lower rate than what you would pay national grid/eversource. However, they also then get all the benefits like tax incentives, net metering, and the SMART program, which the power company pays you for all the solar you generate. There are so many great benefits to purchasing/financing panels over leasing that it's a no brainer. Prices have come down a lot too since I got mine in 2018. I'd suggest using energy sage a d shop around for different prices amoung local and national installers. Don't lease.

They always lead with the big number to get the clicks, and then follow up with anecdotes to feed narratives. It’s understandable, but we would be better off looking at who is leaving from a demographic perspective. Is it mostly older retirees who’s plans to move were accelerated due to pandemic shifts? Is it families? And if so what income levels, millionaires or low income? Do these emigrants from mass different from historical trend in ways other than volume?

Shoot we are really talking about net population change, it could be mass (and other states) regularly ‘lose’ thousands of people of year but inflow Keeps the total population the same. It could be really what we are experiencing is a reduction in people coming to the state anew, but we won’t know because the Globe just cared about the top line number.

Completely agree. It’s expensive but the quality of life and generally intelligent and accepting society. Once the T is updated, 🔥. Like that will ever really happen…

My friend left after her divorce. She couldn’t afford to stay. The house she bought in NC was $160K where similar styles with the same amount of land up here would have cost her over $600k+ (she’s 25 miles from the ocean). She couldn’t even afford a paper thin wall condo for the price of $160k.