Doctors love diagnosing women with "female hysteria" and sentencing them to death.

Watch out for the foundation issue plaguing central MA homes. Definitely don't do anything stupid like waive inspection on homes that may be affected.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/is-your-house-a-ticking-time-bomb-thousands-of-mass-homes-at-risk-for-crumbling-concrete/40012159

Papa Genos baby!

Average rent is more like $2K for a studio or 1br, not $3K. You're probably just looking at big apartment complexes. A majority of Boston's housing stock is made up of 3 unit buildings called triple deckers, which you'll find on Facebook, Craigslist etc. Anything new will ask for luxury prices.

That being said, passion exploitation and trust fund kids are a very real thing in the museum / nonprofit space. A lot of places pay poverty wages on the belief that you're doing what you love and should be "honored" to work for such a prestigious institution. And for every struggling college grad who asks for a survivable wage, there's three more trust fund kids who will gladly take that minimum wage entry level job and ask mommy and daddy for help with rent.

Or a parking spot.

Time in the market beats timing the market. If you really have your heart set on Boston and can afford to buy now, you should just go outside the metro area until you can find something you can afford and buy. Build up that equity, then if the situation improves in Boston, cash out the equity and buy in Boston. If not, stay where you are.

If you're ready to buy now and keep waiting, you're going to lose in the end with inflation eating away at that down payment.

The article says they had a group of call firefighters but it sounds like they left. So their solution is to voluntell cops to play firefighter.

There's a $75K household asset limit, meaning there's a limit to how much you can save for a down payment.

I feel like I'm missing something with that program. I looked into it and with the asset and down payment limits, I wouldn't be able to afford the high mortgage payment.

True but Springfield and Worcester aren't exactly tech hubs.

I've been considering buying in Northampton or Easthampton but I'm really nervous about the long term prospect of remote work. I work in tech and did just switch jobs to remote with occasional (once or twice a month) sites in Boston. I do wonder if it will last though. Like at Future companies.

Putting down a huge down payment (like close to 50 percent) is the only way buying a $600k+ home on $110k household income makes any mathematical sense. A lot of people who do this tap into family weath or an inheritance for the down payment.

>Most regular households earning $100k with kids have a shitty commute and live at least 40 minutes away by car.

What's wild is they end up paying a second mortgage on a soul crushing 4+ hour commute instead. I calculated the cost at commuting into Boston from 50 miles outside the city at around $2,000 a month.

I make $95K and I'm able to buy a SFH in New Bedford or west of Worcester. If I want to be "closer" to Boston I can just barely afford a basic 1br condo in Lowell.

tl;dr Shit's fucked.

And school districts can't hire anyone either. A couple friends are paras and they're getting pulled in to cover whole classes, leaving students who need 1:1 coverage to fend for themselves. All for $1000 a month take home.

And then hope you don't throw out your back and become permanently disabled before you're able to pay back those debts. A lot of people who glamorize the trades fail to take the risks and morbidity into account.

You should tell your bosses they need to pay more. On that salary your prospective employee will only qualify for an $1,100 apartment. Good luck finding that anywhere near Waltham! Even a room with multiple roommates goes for more than that these days.

>Same thing at home, if someone breaks in and threatens you you’re supposed to get out if you can, if you’re cornered and have no other option then you can stab them in the face with a soldering iron.

Most of what you said is correct except this part. The inside of your home is the only place you don't have a duty to retreat before using force against an attacker.

The whole "casino" thing came about during the Great Recession as a way to create jobs in a struggling region. I do wonder if the plan will get the same level of enthusiasm it got in 2009.

I put the snow shovel away. That means we should get 3 feet of snow next week.

I don't think there's any single commuter rail train that is 2.25 hours. What commuter rail station are you looking at? The stations in the "Fall River area" aren't open yet.

The closest station near there is Middleboro/Lakeville. Assuming worst case- that station to Forest Hills, is 1.5 hours.

I saw someone get pulled over on 128 on Tuesday. Lived here my whole life and I don't think I've ever seen a state trooper in the act of pulling someone over.

I did find other examples of revocation letters and it looks like the same basic letterhead format.

It also has the letter I in place of the 1 in 617... although 617-635 does appear to be the prefix for City Hall numbers.

It's a HUGE hassle for anything complex like that. I gave up trying to recover my deceased grandfather's account because they wouldn't accept the estate paperwork.