DeliPaper

DeliPaper t1_jeb74x9 wrote

Shutting down S&W because people around Boston hate guns is the most obvious recent one. But truly, it goes all the way back to the time they bought greenbacks for pennies on the dollar from farmers because they knew the feds were about to pay them out.

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DeliPaper t1_jeb2qyh wrote

>I don't know what that has to do with development in Worcester or other cities, however.

You think they want to commute 2-3 hours each way while paying hefty tolls because I-90 is the only viable road every day? If their need for work could be handled by Worcester or Springfield, it would dramatically improve their lives.

>I also don't know how the state governs development in Boston but not in Worcester.

Whenever any policy is up for discussion, they choose to pursue Boston's wants and desires over everyone else's needs, which is how eleven gotten into this pickle to begin with.

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DeliPaper t1_jeb2241 wrote

Not quite how the market works. What it actually does is inflate pay, which ripples along the chain and further inflates pay umtil sole services are priced out. And prices go up everywhere else. I know people who commute from Palmer to Boston daily because housing in Boston is too expensive

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DeliPaper t1_jears7h wrote

The economic engine of Norway was mineral wealth. But by investing the money wisely in other sectors, they now have far more sources of income.

If a minute amount of that money went to developing Springfield, Pittsfield, and Worcester as independent cities with their own economic engines instead of payong for ever-scarcer land in Boston, imagine the possibilities.

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DeliPaper t1_je5a4wr wrote

>Based on the history of our conversations, though a lease was not signed, I was led to expect to move in.  I have let my current landlord know that I will be moving, my child is transferring schools and now the new tenet is due in my unit very shortly.  I am essentially left in a place of homelessness.

>I've found their lack of communication and action appalling in general.

>What can I do?

Call a lawyer. This is called promissory estoppel. You made choices any reasonable person would have based on the discussion. You may be able to force them to give you an apartment.

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