https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/23498215/ev-tax-credit-2023-heat-pumps-solar

Yeah we’re not ready to shut gas off entirely - still radiator dependent but would def go induction stove if possible as the first step! Thx!

They weren’t before Covid but they said still put it in with recyclables because something about using the broken glass for something else? I’ll find the story. And the whole recycling market has bottomed out for lack of buyers and also because the whole plastics industry has fooled us into thinking most plastics can be recycled (most still can’t) but it’s better than nothing?https://ecori.org/2018-4-8-glass-recycling-still-a-problem-in-ri-and-region/

Fyi most PVD (although not all) recycling cans have a BLUE top dating to the original retrofit when they introduced single stream recycling. And since most houses have one can I’d disagree there’ll be a lot of room. Multi fam houses have more cans since it’s 1 can per unit but there’s no guarantee they’ll be curbside unless there’s something in it if not already largely filled. . FYI Rhode Island doesn’t recycle glass anymore so don’t bother with that. So not a perfect plan but better than chucking it all in the garbage. Most of the green bins are just garbage and defeat the point of the drive/time/effort from nP.

That too! But tenants can use a broker for free for rentals so use that! I know in nyc tenants pay a massive fee - not sure re bos but the landlord pays the fee in PVD so why not right? Also most small landlords (multi fams and owner occupied buildings) of which there are a ton on east side esp don’t want to pay the fee either and more often than not are on Craigslist. I’ve seen tenants apply with one name and email and then bait and switch on Zillow all the time. Never had that on Craigslist - at worst it’s people not reading closely (ie no dogs and they have a dog). Zillow turns into actually (and this is a quote) I live in Sweden and can I pay cash upfront for three months without signing a lease and clearly a fake email. So you can see why zillow (and all the other syndicated sites) seem dicier. They are! And most small landlords don’t want to fork over a fee equivalent to a months rent to an agent. I mean some do sure but most don’t unless it’s an agency’s listing anyway or a big corporation who doesn’t care to begin with.

Zillow sucks. I work in real estate. The interface (for both rentals and purchases) is clunky and terrible and not worth the energy to convert to a deal. If you’re coming to work at brown (grad school or med school) their off campus listing service is worth A look as well. But yes go right to brokers sites and Craigslist. Apartments.com also meh in terms of results and rarely has anything you can’t find on CL anyway because everyone crossposts.

brokers in RI are paid their fee by the landlord not the tenant so consulting a broker is worth doing. Craigslist works in our neighborhood and generally reflects more of what’s available at least on the east side (rather than zillow). There’s more stuff available in spring because folks like staying on the brown / med school cycle - this time of year there’s just not much turning over by comparison. Most brokers on Zillow also x post on craigslist anyway so either go to their brokerage websites directly or look on Craigslist. Zillow is a disaster under the hood and lots of folks around here (that aren’t corporate landlords) avoid it.

Yes that’s outside of rush hours for sure. You could do that in 45 minutes that time of day depending on where in needham you where the office is. I’d start to get to know 109 and Rt 1 back ways instead of 95 as backup options. After 3 it starts to get slow again (going out of Boston) so you should be good!

Depending on where in needham you can take 95 and then get on rt 1 / providence highway. Alas the commuter rail “can’t get there from here” because it’s a separate train line from this direction but you’re not wrong about it being cheaper here! Basically everything between bos and Pvd is solid suburbia which if that’s the vibe you want go for it. But for perspective extended fam that lives in Mansfield / Sharon drives to PVD to go out / farmers market etc. so good schools but it’s def geared towards non-urban living and not cheap.

Brown u. pool has community member ships and the pool is really nice. The schedule might get harder to work around once classes start again (swimming and diving have certain hours blocked off) but there’s definite lap times.

So move to EP with its abundance of trump signs and Gadsen flags and confederate flags? Ok. Noted. See what you’re going for there.

Well that’s some townie bullshit but you do you.

East side, fox point (although avoid streets right around brown for undergrad noise filtering purposes and west side around dexter park. I’d start there

We're more dependent on NG than some states but any state (or country) that uses a large amount of NG is feeling it. You're being myopic. I'm not pretending it's not happening I'm just tired of the "everything sucks here because of x reason and everyone's going to move" thing that Rhode Islanders tend to drag out about literally anything here that isn't based in fact. Does it suck? Yes. Does it only suck for energy in Rhode Island? No. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/28/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state-election.html

They are now. Natural gas prices everywhere (literally went up and RIE announced a big rate hike that went into effect in the fall. But it’s literally a global issue right none. Not RI specific.

It’s actually not. It’s slightly bigger than Yosemite - by a hair basically but it is.

I know they are popular but I find them bland and underbaked across the board. Insomnia cookies is equally disappointing.

It’s basically the next intersection down from Where the boulevard bike path splits so I think that counts.

Open door health - they’re great.

So because there’s only a “few” of them you can speed by them when it’s even darker out? Nice attitude. Also the school near us 80% of the kids are there after school anyway.

Kids are at after care and sports until 530 so people and kids are still leaving the building until close to 6 hence the timing.

This. Ffs people it’s a school zone and you are actually speeding if the camera goes off. By quite a margin.

Did it flash on you and not the next person? It comes in the email sometimes up to a month later.

I know for a fact our entire street (albeit a small one) has all turned over their lines since we’ve lived here and the city replaced the mains they lead to. I’m just suggesting ask the owner / landlord.

Old house but new pipes as is our entire street. Ask your landlord before you spend money on a filter / esp more freaking plastic ones. It’s not hard to figure out where the old pipes are and the city has done a bunch of replacements already over the last 6/7 years. It’s way better than it was and the water quality in the city is actually quite good. Cloudy water might be a more local problem (ie just your house or a bad aerator or something else going on.)