Lmao, Orange.

Very sorry about your illness. Check this out https://medicareadvocacy.org/under-65-project/#is%20available

Yes you can 😁

Most ski areas sell daily lift tickets that are good from the minute they open in the morning until the minute they close in the afternoon. Some ski areas offer night skiing as well. This is usually included in the daily lift ticket price or you can purchase a ticket that lets you ski from 4pm until close depending on the ski area (usually around 4 hours of skiing for substantially less than a full day ticket). There are exceptions to this such as discounted half day tickets or discounted tickets that only allow access to beginner areas.

During Covid, in an attempt to reduce crowding, Wachusett broke up their business hours into four blocks. I don’t remember the exact time frame of each one, but they were 3.5-4 hours each of memory served. The problem was, they didn’t reduce the price accordingly. So instead of ~$100 to ski from 8am until the lights shut off at night, you were paying ~$70 to ski from 8:30 to noon.

My numbers are probably off a little since I don’t typically ski Wachusett during the day, but people were upset that it felt like paying more to ski less. I don’t have much of an opinion one way or the other, I bought the night skiing pass last season for $160 and went about 20 times. Best value I’ve ever found for skiing. Besides, Wachusett is convenient, that’s gonna cost a premium.

Hope this helped!

It was done to limit crowds during Covid and now makes them $$$

ooooh weird

North Adams? Sure. Mass MoCA is great.

Adams? Sorry, no. Claiming Greylock is lol. You have to leave Adams to get there by road. And the Cheshire reservoir is, uh, in Cheshire. As is most of the Ashuwillticook trail.

And who is underrating Great Barrington? It's absolutely packed with tourists all summer.

I went Friday night and yesterday. With the cold temps after the warm days it was icy yesterday and probably worse today.

I hadn’t skied in 15 years and we got our 4yo on skis this year. We’ve been going to Wachusett because of the distance, but you’re right, it’s pricy. We’ll probably going to get a season pass next year, we’re not likely to make the long drives to NH/VT/ME next year with a 5yo who can only handle a few hours.

And that’s really how they get away with it - proximity to Boston.

You buy tickets for a session - roughly 3-4 hours. If you want to ski longer, you buy multiple sessions. They’re roughly time blocks like 7-11, 11-3, 3-7, 7-10

You used to just buy a ticket for the whole day.

Belchertown!!!

Thank you! It looks like I’ll claim it next year because they just finished installation.

The payment to purchase was cheaper than my electric bill. Plus this place still has oil heat and we plan to switch it over soon so our electric bill was just gonna increase. And the oil bill has been awful. We have kept the house in the 50s all winter to cut cost. We are from the south originally so the wife has frozen all winter 😆

So by switching to solar and changing out the heating system we will save a ton of money. On top of going green. It’s a win win for us .

The affordable care act prohibits insurers from denying you based on a pre-existing condition.If you have filed for SSDI, if you have enough work history you will be eligible for Medicare. Masshealth is income based like any other Medicaid

Not sure about the rebate, but it’s always heartening to hear someone interested in green energy!

Have you applied for SSI Disability? If you can't work because of your health (Should be pretty easy to get an oncologist to sign off on that) it will give you some income.

I’m not going to watch it!

Why are you on this sub

Stupid, what are they stoned?

Why not just pay the workers 2x because a ton of people will buy around/on that day so paying the bills is good because most MA dispos planned on $4k wholesale and it's now $1300.

You're gonna hate this

Amazing Superstores closed too

I would recommend looking at the energy/sustainability space. Lots of work, and while your engineering skills may be a bit rusty, I suspect that you can build a a good story to map your skills as a teacher into a project management role which is always in demand. I would suggest talking to a professional coach to help build and practice that story.

Son says they’re pretty good. They did get @15” of snow with that storm last week

Not a person who has ever been on Masshealth, just a healthcare provider who deals with people that are. As far as I am aware you cannot be denied coverage in Massachusetts for health conditions as it is the law. As long as your income is below a certain point and you can certify it, you will get coverage from one of the providers of medicaid, full stop. If you exist in Mass and don’t live anywhere else you will be covered, homeless people can get covered in and subscribe in-hospital. And in my experience our medicaid actually does a better job at approving necessary care.

How're conditions rn, any good?

I am so sorry to hear of your illness and hope you find great medical care here.

There are some issues such as do you have any savings, income, as you may be able to get on Medicaid. You may also qualify because of your medical issues and if it prevents you from working.

I would move up here first so that you can have a MA address. Can you stay with family, or get your own place? Since MA mandates health insurance, you should talk with someone at the heath connector to get an idea of what you qualify for. They will be able to give you the information you need, and if there is any residency requirements, could you afford paying for health insurance for a year? The health connector should be able to pro-rate policies based on income.

I would also get any health diagnosis in writing from your current doctor as you may need to provide proof of illness. Please be aware that sometimes Medicaid plays hardball, and may deny coverage, but that does not mean that you cannot appeal and usually with the right documents most people get accepted.

This sounds like a lot of work, so I hope family is able to help. Stay strong.