Since you already bought the bike, just try it and see what happens

https://www.mbta.com/schedules/CR-Worcester/timetable

The trains with the bike symbols are good for you otherwise you won't be allowed.

Can we not make the MA subreddits a "please use my sports betting referral code" place?

Ultimately there is no way to make it significantly better just due to raw distance. You really should look for a different job if moving is completely out of the question as your post suggested. Figure out your monthly travel cost currently and see if you can find anything closer that is at least the same earning or within the margin of what you spend to travel to and from Amherst.

It's not the right kind of housing we should be building. I'm all for high density, but we need condos rather than apartments.

Basically a building practice that died during the 2008 recession and we've all been baited and switched that apartment complexes are the only option.

I mean there are high rise residential buildings that are condos rather than apartments. It seems like people simply forget that it's possible to have a construction company that isn't also a management company.

There's a way to build density but actually give the occupants actual ownership. That's my problem with all the new developments. How is it going to help someone to buy a living space when they spend about the same, if not more to rent than a mortgage?

Equity from an owned unit is so fundamentally important for wealth building over the decades you live in a space. Sure people have space to live but are essentially kept at a huge financial disadvantage by living in apartments vs condos.

Eh, it's not really singularly NIMBYs, as much as that's a convenient Boogeyman. Boston has had an insane growth/interest since the growth of software, biotech industries, and the complete beautification of the city with the completion of the Big Dig in 2008. Software industry didn't really become a thing in Boston until the mid aughts as well.

It's much easier to say "boo NIMBYS", sure but it's a much more complicated mix of factors that are less than 2 decades in the making.

Man, I wish there was a better way to solve the housing crisis aside from essentially selling all newly zoned residential land to corporate development/management companies.

We're not creating more housing as much as we are selling huge amounts of land to developers who will simply charge above market rate because they have an outsized impact on price setting.

You're not a PoS as you described. This stuff happens when you're young and it feels like a much bigger issue because relationships are a new, exciting thing you're just learning about.

Talk to your dad. He's 100% going to understand and can probably give you some advice, or at least another person to talk to. The worst thing you can do is sit and stew about it. Drama problems feel 100% worse if you don't have someone to talk to. Even if they can't fix it/help, just talking about it aloud helps you deal with it.

Trust me, things are going to be okay.

• Where is the nearest box of tissues?
• Do you have any paper napkins around from take out food?
• Where is the nearest roll of paper towels? (Don't flush those)
• Do you have 2 seashells?

Find a friend who will drive you and (more importantly) pick you up.

Offer them what you'd spend on an Uber and return the favor when they need a lift to the airport.

Other than that, probably something like Logan Express but that is a complete PitA compared to a friend.

A lot of companies have 3-day in office now. Mondays and Fridays are the days most people who have that option WFH.

Peak r/Boston post and commentary.

Let's dunk on Brookline and call them NIMBYs for no reason because some of them are experiencing new rat infestations.

From an awareness pov, I don't see this as an issue. I'm sure a bunch of people saw these signs and were like "I knew it wasn't just me".

Needham St is pretty much fucked yearly with all the new construction and the weight of trucks used. Add in water main repairs, fire hydrant line repairs, you end up with the road being in bad shape pretty much yearly.

Until they're majorly done with large developments, Needham Street is gonna be a crappy road.

The deceptive wording for Q4 made it so a bunch of people I know didn't realize voting no was the correct answer of you want to keep giving licenses to undocumented people.

That's basically the problem with the modern GOP and thus makes them almost uniformly unelectable.

Basically the last remaining non psychotic Republicans are ones like Baker who are on their way out.

Thanks for the correction! I must have been thinking of State Senate only (and then still wrong, just only off by one)

Tried to DM you haha it's their free baggage assistance system.

Acela is not it worth it between NYC and BOS. The track improvement to run the Acela meant the NERegional can run faster (125mph in some sections) this means the Acela is only 30min faster between here and NYC just because of the extra stops.

Book far in advance and it's usually cheap.

Pro tip, red caps on the way home. Makes getting on at NYC easy AF and it's free

Honestly I'd love if there was a reasonable republican who wasn't part of the current GOP. Aka a Baker replacement. One of the best parts of MA has been that we've been a little slower on reactionary politics compared to other deep blue states.

MA state legislature only has 2 republicans so ultimately the legislature has democratic control to do whatever the hell they want, but I do like the idea of some semblance of an outside POV when passing new legislation. The only problem is that the GOP has completely made themselves unelectable and have put themselves on the wrong side of almost every social issue.

A classic r/Boston take

A turkey with a Dunkin cup as a hat.