I teach at an international school overseas, and I was thinking about coming back to Mass to teach. Is it really that bad? Would I be better off only looking at private and charter schools?

Teachers union is to blame and culture has taken a turn for the worst. People are nasty more than ever as opposed to 30 years ago. No respect for authority

As others have mentioned, home values are slightly less than surrounding communities (Wilmington for example, but Wilmington has better schools according to people who seem to know and is closer to Boston). I bet that means your home will gain even more value than surrounding towns over the next ten years. As people get priced out of towns like Wilmington, Reading etc., they will look to Tewksbury and that will drive up costs and the value of your house.

After this year, we're going to move away from La Nina and back to El Nino weather patterns which will cause the usual amounts of snow to fall.

We have gotten plenty of precipitation, it is just because of the wind currents that we've been spared the level that the rest of the country has been shit on this winter.

Village Pizza in Easthampton is very good. Papa George's too.

I used to walk my dog on the bridge and around the area. RIP old friend, you'll always be in my heart.

I know Baker tried to get it lowered to $250 (which is still twice as other New England states) but legislature didn't vote for it. This was a couple years ago, but I don't remember hearing why.

These ladies watch 3-5 kids at a time, so...and, btw, I'm an undocumented immigrant, so I don't make all the money in the world and I must find care for my son, so thank God for other Brazilian and Hispanic sitters.

Ah, I figured there were some strings attached.

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I was bullied and the administration did nothing. I once had a pocket knife pulled on me and they did nothing

The one time I got assaulted and then beat the fuck out of the kid, I was labeled the problem. The kid I fucked up went in to commit arson and destruction of property, but I’m the asshole apparently

Jerks ruin it for everyone. People use LLCs to avoid child support and taxes of all sorts. Property buyers use DOZENS of LLCs to obscure their actions. Basically Mass makes the business owner pay for it and doesn't subsidize it.

what isnt?

Way to exploit undocumented workers. If a documented nanny would make $30/hour, that's what they should be paying a "Brazilian/Hispanic sitter" too.

Athena’s in Amherst or Parthenon is south Hadley

so strange. think it's tied to Dunks?

skimmed over the study rq for you and they did not give any reasons or hypotheses, their goals were only to assess the change in temperature over time

Stay hot Mass

MA minimum tax for a Corps is $456 plus the annual report fee, so S Corps are actually more expensive in MA than LLC.

I agree it is prohibitive to new businesses being started.

Having said that I think if $500 a year puts your business in the red it wasn’t viable to begin with and you were for some reason assuming first year profitability in a new business.

People should stop watching Tik toks about starting an LLC drop shipping company for eBay or Amazon. And get a degree or a job.

You live in MA, and you are asking why our legislature did something and expecting some rational reasoning??? How long have you lived here??? lol, I'm being sarcastic/not sarcastic of course, but we could name endless laws that don't make any sense.

LLCs to have the protection of a C-corp with some tax advantages, so I'm sure it's partially that MA wants their due, maybe encourage you to go with the S-Corp.

Four Brothers Pizza in the Great Barrington area. Haven't been there in 20yrs tho'.

Why would thee be food riots? The watermelon I’m buying at Whole Foods in December isn’t grown in Swampscott. So what would people be rioting over? Not being able to make S’mores?

we're any reasons given as to why NE is warming faster than other areas of the world?

As several others have said, if you don't need the closer proximity to Boston, consider going further north for more bang for your buck. You'll have a hard time finding anything under 500k.

Otherwise, it's a conveniently located town. 30ish minutes from Boston (without traffic) and 30ish minutes from either Salem or Nashua, NH. Close to 93, 495, and rt 3.

Traffic on 38 sucks but if you learn the back roads, you can easily get around it most of the time.

You'll have your selection of various Market Baskets to shop at, all within a 10 minute max drive.

Stay away from motel 6 and the IHOP that is there.

And as someone also mentioned, the gun club is very active and you will hear it a lot if you choose a house nearby.

It is also very Republican (several neighbors still waving their Trump flags around), and God forbid you ask them to get rid of the Redmen mascot. Still has a very towny vibe, but there has been a shit ton of development over the last 10 years and a huge influx of new people.