I just changed my auto policy since mine is up today. I went from $1540/year to $1290/year. Saved $250. Pays to shop around.

Used to commute from the burbs to Brookline for work. 45 mins to go to 12mi. Just torture.

There are even swingers clubs in Providence.

Seriously, Boston's "adult" nightlife is in chastity at this point. Rent too expensive to be able to live alone and bump uglies with someone (good luck trying to do with (multiple) roomies. Hardly any strip clubs (amusingly, most of them male stripper clubs) and I don't think there are any sex clubs in Boston.

Pastrami?

Yep. It's a bit similar to having Amtrak "ship" your car on a longhaul train. Not cheap but worth it for some.

I see a few signs of hers around. I imagine they're GQP types.

Why I try to get a ride to the airport over parking and riding. Logan is just awful for parking.

Even for my own home, to do a gut job and an addition is nearly the cost of a teardown and building something new. Really the only reason to do the former is if temporarily relocating isn't an option.

Oh I agree.

On a related tangent, once you stop seeing construction cranes in the skyline, that means your city is in decline.

That's how a lot of other major cities have schools/universities. Even when I studied abroad at RMIT, I had classes way up on the 16th floor. I just chalk it up as more NIMBYism being anti-skyscraper and wanting to keep some silly provincial feeling instead of being a world class city.

Most of Newbury St is owned by a consortium based in South Carolina. They give no fucks about Boston.

Said this before but the only way the N-S raillink happens is if Amtrak wants it to. It will be built for its benefit, not the MBTA's.

The Needham Line especially should run like a subway though.

The Age of the CBD (Central Business District) is over. You need more mixed development aka housing, so CBDs don't become ghost towns. They're already empty on the weekends and now they're pretty empty on the weekdays. Those restaurants/retailers aren't gonna stay in business if people are WFH.

I'm sure someone will make a snide comment but I am also 100% fine with the housing in Financial District being all luxury housing.

Laws without consequences are just mere suggestions.

The big issue with the Needham Line is that it's mostly one-track so the entire Line, track and stations, would need to be redone to be added to the OL.

I think West Roxbury would be transformed if the Needham Line was merged into the Orange Line.

WhatsApp is where a lot of the "users" are but it doesn't really generate that much money.

Pretty much agree.

Especially with Boston proper, there really isn't any land that isn't already developed and if there is, there's a very good reason why it isn't (geological, toxic, preserved, etc.) The only real option for growth is to build up.

>I think we’re going to see the government having to step in with incentives to make it worth their while before housing development picks back up.

What eventually will need to happen is eminent domain property, especially near transit, to build denser housing. It's wildly unpopular but necessary.

I imagine with the looming recession, companies are trying to determine the best way forward with layoffs. I'm guessing the full remote workers will be the first ones laid off.

Same reason why daycare costs exploded.

Depends where you live. In rural America it will be coming pretty quickly as the brain drain from said states continues to accelerate.

This is all Bouy's fault.

That's like shooting fish in a barrel for the FBI. Just add the commenters to the watch list.

I'm expecting a 70-30 landslide for Healey.

Now if only we can ban NH ads from airing on Boston stations.

What the hell is CallID?