Ehhhh Wilbraham has a lot of "Well I went to high school here and am still here in my 30's" vibe. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice area but as someone starting a family around here I feel like a kind of permanent outsider in a way that I don't in the towns further north.

Where do you start from to kayak? Do they rent them or you need your own?

I love the grape 🍇 jelly.

>West of 495 is much more politically conservative until you hit the Berkshire

Someone should tell Northhampton/Amherst etc. It's LGBT mecca. I'm a stay a home mom and meet more lesbian couples out here than I did in Boston.

My husband does close to the Belchertown to Cambridge commute a few times a week and it really isn't that bad. If it dropped to once a week we'd be sitting pretty. Honestly commuting around Boston is such a shit show you don't actually loose that much more time, he's only getting home like 30 min later then he was when we lived in Acton and our money is going siginificantly further. The biggest thing is having a workplace that is flexible on when you arrive/leave to avoid the worst of the traffic.

Yeah, it would have to pass a home inspection/appraisal. It depends on how much they need to borrow, income coming in, credit rating, how bad the condition of the house is. A lot of factors. A long shot.

Thoughts and prayers for the heating oil and natural gas companies.....BUH BYE..

> Is the expectation that when/if you have to get a new job or want to get a new job, you will only look at jobs that are remote? And is that realistic?

Yep, the cat is out of the bag with the tech industry. I might need to take a small hit in pay but it's worth it long term.

All of the hot air.... ;P

My husband actually makes very close to that commute a couple of days of the week. Not fun but it's not horrific. If it was like one day a week or less I'd call that very doable.

Yeah, I moved from Louisiana and everyone has been great! Except for that one pharmacist. Seriously,I have heard more people talk about the rudeness up here than I have experienced it. I think its a tactic to prevent people from coming up here lol.

I'm not sure you can get a mortgage on a property with major structural damage unless you can prove you have the cash to repair it. Put yourself in the bank's position... would you loan money on a house that's likely to collapse?

I just switched from plastic straws to paper ones so we're good. No need to panic anymore.

Rosa brothers in swampscott

Sounds like you can't go on social media without being wrong. A lot of people have that problem, unfortunately. But young people aren't using it by virtue of being young. I get it - you don't have the perspective necessary. It isn't your fault.

Traffic lights.

Which is fine. My cousins from Alabama say it all the time too. They're from Alabama, though. If they started saying "wicked" or something else obvious to our region, I'd raise an eyebrow at least.

I've been seeing some different flowers since early Feb.

As someone who grew up in south Hadley, lived in upton after college, I’d say south Hadley was a little better. I didn’t really care for upton and found it boring. But that’s my preference

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They have one too the best breweries (Treehouse) in the US, If you’re into that type of thing.

I've been finding ticks on my horses occasionally all winter. It's going to be nightmare fuel this year.

Lived there for a few years. Really not much to do unless you want to drive to Providence or Worcester and there aren’t really any good food/restaurant options around.

We got tired of driving 30+ min to find good food or something to do.

It is very quiet though.

It's small and quiet and out of the way. All of those can be either a pro or a con depending on your situation.

AGREE!