Peak MBTA news that will surprise nobody at this point.

They'll just write off the shrinkage as business losses of course. Sucks when half the customers are on the nick but I'd rather we as a society dealt with the cost of living crisis rather than targeting petty theft.

Current service is a joke and a disgrace for a city that claims it is world class. I'm going with 2024.

The residency requirement is arbitrary and the invested argument doesn't work unless it's a tiny city. When I lived in Dorchester I felt invested in Cambridge because I worked there and Somerville because I spent a lot of time there. Places like West Roxbury and Charlestown whilst in the same city might as well have been on another planet and i had no idea and honestly little interest in the issues they faced.

I love how there can be a "world record" for a Boston specific thing lol. Nobody outside of Boston gives a fuck. It's like the "world series".

I prefer "fuck off" lol

Have you been to snowport? It is kinda lame.

Locals are not worth the effort anyway. I don't want to be friends with anyone who thinks Boston pizza is good lol

Tell me you've never been to Wembley without telling me. It used to take me 20-30 minutes to get to central London from Wembley. In fact even now at 3:30 am it would only take 45 minutes on a night bus.

You'd have to be pretty dense to actually think they will make the changes necessary to increase service enough to make a difference (electrification and an extra platform at Foxborough) in time for the world cup given the track record of infrastructure improvement timelines on the MBTA.

Yes Wembley isn't in central London but it's about 20-25 minutes from major central London rail termini (for example Paddington) and downtown London so not really comparable to The Foxboro time. The Foxboro train might only take 50 minutes but you're not adding in the wait for a train with MBTA headways, even if they do increase service.

With rising sea levels and more storms the first person to start a gondola business in the greater Boston area is going to make bank.

You don't think that someone distracts the cashier while another person installs the skimmer? It's not like these stores are overstaffed.

Wembley Stadium is in London. It is served directly by 3 different tube lines (Jubilee, Metropolitan and Bakerloo) as well as 4 different commuter rail lines and it's on about 15 bus routes. You can get out of there very fast after a match even with a 90,000 capacity crowd and comparing it to Foxborough is honestly laughable.

I said this when I saw that Foxborough was a venue. Overseas football fans aren't used to stadiums an hour outside the city that have no public transit except for one single train (not one train route just one individual train). It's going to be a shit experience for people to be stuck in parking lots and to not be able to drink because they need to drive back to Boston.

311 report "trash left in street, please collect".

Counting sheep on a windswept moorland in England because I'm visiting my parents lol. If I was at home I'd probably go to lamplighter.

Oh I'm European so I know both sides. The US healthcare system is a mess, with the for profit system and all the insurance companies, not to mention high costs. The fact that more money is spent on healthcare in the US but health outcomes are worse than in Europe is pretty damning. Had a friend who was a doctor from Australia say she had to leave because although the pay was way better the system just sucked so hard dealing with insurance etc and having patients who couldn't afford their care. Also people are not friendlier in Boston, you'd want the Midwest or south for that. Just search this sub for the many posts about "why is it so hard to make friends here".

I think if you were just getting a degree then going back to work in Switzerland you'd be good. I can't imagine wanting to work in the appalling US system long term when you are from Europe.

Interestingly Cambridge, MA was originally known as Newtowne. Once Harvard was founded, naming the town after the famous university city in England appealed to the citizens.

Can't give jobs to your cousins and your mate Sully if there aren't any jobs to hand out.

Watering the trees and plants and cleaning the streets?

Hamlet has really entwined roots. I've copy pasted below because I'll explain it poorly if I do it myself. It's also interesting that while hamlet has partly French routes, town is obviously old English (tun) and city comes from the Latin word civitas.

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) +‎ -let (“small”).

I grew up near a place in England called Cockwood lol