Accurate assessment and I'll add that even most of the conservatives that my path has crossed in home health believe in science and got their shots.

If the car is registered to them then it is fine to have an out of state plate. I did this for 5-6 years with a car of my mothers. Once/If the car is ever transferred to you it must be registered in your name. If the car needs an inspection it must be taken back to the state that it is registered in for the inspection.

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What was going on with that banned "mod"?

They’re all gross and overpriced. Tap water.

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I'm not one of these people who thinks NIMBYs are solely motivated by racist motives like "neighborhood character", they often have very strong, material interest reasons to oppose further development. Investing in infrastructure improvements is expensive and inconvenient, no doubt about it.

That's the thing though, everyone recognizes the need for additional housing and other associated infrastructure, but nobody wants to deal with it.

There's a growing recognition that the need is simply too great to allow this game of every town saying "not us though" anymore and to just ram this shit down everyone's throat at the state level. That's a good thing, tough shit about how much of a pain it's going to be for you (and honestly everyone).

The population is growing, infrastructure improvements are desperately needed and it's good for the state to make towns do this whether they want it or not. You're always free to move away if rural living is that important to you, but creating de-facto zero-growth, gated communities is not in the public interest.

It's at noho big Y at least

You are definitely going to enjoy MA! The teacher needs to look into the requirements here, as they are more rigorous (thankfully!) than many other states.

As others have mentioned, giving a dollar amount (for rent or purchase) would help us. Greater Boston is prohibitively expensive, but once you get outside of 495 things are more affordable. Littleton and Shirley have a lot to offer, or you could look further out near Northampton. I’d stay away from Springfield though.

Middleton Market Basket has it.

I just saw these at the Middleton Market Basket! But I think that in general each store has different inventory.

That's been the way it goes since Bunker Hill.

We have altered the deal. Pray we don't alter it any further.

The cost of living is the bad of Massachusetts. In particular, housing prices are insane. Depending on where you live and work, the commute times can be excessive. A 15 mile commute can take an hour and a half depending on where you live.

It sounds like you have a good idea of the benefits of living here, and I think if people can swing it financially, it’s worth the trade-off to get those benefits.

It doesn’t sound like your jobs are conducive to remote work, so in the western part of the state, I recommend the Springfield area because you can expand your potential work area into Hartford.

Because of the cost of housing, people can’t make meaningful recommendations without a sense of your budget for either an apartment or a house. If you need to look at the school system for kids, that comes in to play as well.

Looks like Linux-is-best was removed from Reddit

I quickly found articles as far back as 2019 saying Wisconsin was the leading grower in the States.

Wherever they want, but I mean they will put them in places that "make sense" for the town. They will also likely put them in parts of their town that already have apartments or density. I dont see anything on the official website that says it has to be new zones. Not sure about Holden though never been.

I’m an Outlander. Aka, west of the 495/91 interstates. It’s a different world through dragonland

They probably thought more people riding=more money for the T, while failing to consider that even if 50 million people packed into the T each day their funding would just get cut even more for a new highway and we would be back at square 1. Their thought process isn’t totally stupid, in a perfect world more riders WOULD equal more funding and better service. But we don’t live in a perfect world, we live in Massachusetts, where we canceled a gigantic public transport scheme (the urban ring project) because all the funding got directed towards the worlds most expensive example of induced demand. Who needs a project that’ll have a ridership of 300k per day and remove 50k cars from the road when we can build an highway that doesn’t actually fix the problem, and just puts it underground?

Maybe in 2023, we don't actually produce that much of anything except engineers and airplane parts

Anywhere in the state is good. Just know that we also have redneck towns. I would suggest living in or near an urban hub (Boston, Worcester, Springfield). Depends how close you want to be to the ocean. The closer you get to Boston the more outrageously expensive it is.

so you want to pay for building 100 new WWTPs and school additions in all these communities to "fix" the problem? It's not nimbyism that is fighting against this...its reality. A wastewater treatment plant costs millions. For a few hundred units this adds tens of thousands to the cost of each unit. Whereas Deer Island has plenty of capacity to add these same units at no additional cost. Same with the school problem. Most of the fix is in the urban core where the infrastructure already exists to handle it. An alternative is to pick one town to become a city and grow it...not little mini villas all over the state.

Just so you are aware your cost of living is going to double at least up here. I spent 5 years of my military time down there and agree with you on the podunk small town red neck stuff. I would have stayed but the job market was crap for me.

The original Dunkin donut (with the handle) is the best donut.

I’ll scoot up to Cumbie’s and grab ‘em a pack-a Newpwots

I think you will be very happy in Mass. Any place has it’s pros and cons but you seem to be choosing wisely. Without some general price range, it’s hard to recommend specific towns but the college towns tend to be most liberal.