If you are a Bank of America customer you have access to the ICA and the MFA for free the first weekend of every month

https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/museums-on-us-partners

It’s not a hustle, it’s just very labor intensive. You don’t have economies of scale in childcare, hence the high prices. That’s why most countries subsidize this.

This is not true. Their are only two costs that matter to a daycare center: labor (plus related taxes and benefits) and facilities (rent + cleaning and maintenance).

The labor is by far the largest cost area. When you factor in administrators and different shifts to cover the full-day, the effective ratio of adults to children is just so low. Then you factor in Boston rents and all the cleaning, etc and there’s not much left. Insurance is <$10k/year for a large-ish center, so a pretty small cost. (It’s not like these policies have to pay out almost ever. Tragedies are few and far between, thankfully.)

As for licenses, it’s a couple hundred bucks a year. Regulation is a bureaucratic pain and has some material admin cost in terms of man hours per month to log/track various things, but do you really want daycare to be unregulated? I don’t.

Source: I’m in the business

Edit: I should add, when I said “this is not true” I meant that about the license and insurance cost. It is absolutely is true that the workers are not paid enough, but that’s because there are no economies of scale in daycare so there just isn’t enough money to go around for workers. The industry needs to be permanently subsidized.

Lifetime fitness does day passes and some locations have big pools

If you want a long-ish walk, Southie from Broadway T to the beach and back has a nice mix of commerce, residential and nature.

Agreed. This was the best $250 I ever spent.

If it’s feasible to have laundry in unit (water and venting logistics allow it) then this is the way. However, as another user explained, the bylaw may be related to infrastructure limitations.

Not sure how relevant that is, except maybe that it contributed to her being quite thin. That’s generally a good thing for reducing all cause mortality, but when it comes to resilience against severe Covid or Flu, there is actually a J-shaped curve risk relative to BMI, and slightly overweight people actually have lower mortality rates.

In any event, this is an incredibly unlikely and tragic story. Hard to ascribe her death to anything more than horribly bad luck given her age and fitness level.

Lakers stink. Best remaining home game would be Golden State. Also New Orleans, Bucks or Memphis games would be a lot of fun. (All top teams with stars). Next tier: Philly, Nets, Cavs, Phoenix.