Started a new job in January. I take Oak Grove to Back Bay everyday to work between 7:00-8:30AM. I’ve only had to wait 15min at most. Then I take it from Back Bay to Oak Grove between 3:30-5:00PM. It’s at max been a 10min wait. The orange line has been running pretty decent. Im surprised you had to wait that long for a train but the night trains are probably much worse.

My co-workers on the red line had their 30-40min commutes take an hour and a half to 2 hours.

Edit: fixed 3:30-5:00AM to PM

They choosing to rent now? I’m curious to what people are doing after they sell. My sister-in/law just sold her condo but now has to live with her in-laws.

This sold by me a couple of years ago https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20-Berkeley-St-Melrose-MA-02176/56288913_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

That’s amazing. We’re around $1600 a month for our toddler.

It’s $76/day for our toddler and $97/day for our infant just northeast of Boston. It ends up being $3000-$3600 a month for the 2 of them depending upon the month. We send them 5 days a week.

Banks do cash equivalent loans even when rates are higher? Also how often is this scenario happening? Because the new home they are buying for $800k was also likely $500k before the market took off. It’s unlikely they are getting a better house unless they are moving to a new city where the housing market didn’t take off.

That has to be for a single room. That’s way too cheap for Dorchester.

I’ll at least say this. Just because Zillow, Redfin, and other sites say your home value has gone up doesn’t mean it will actually sell at that price. Our home value went up a year after we bought it. We made a small profit but not anywhere near the estimate.

My son was tested for the flu because he was sick. If he tested positive then they would have prescribed him anti viral meds. They also would have prescribed my daughter preventive meds. There’s a difference and depending upon your health history a doctor would prescribe you the appropriate meds.

You may have had the flu but plenty of people call random virus the flu that are not actually the flu. My daughter had a high fever for 2 weeks right before my son was born. It was never the flu and they eventually found out it was an adenovirus.

If some one has kids and doesn’t expect them to get sick their literally living in a dream world. My kid has gotten sick from plenty of other kids and vice versa. It sounds like you haven’t ever had to deal with daycare during Covid.

We lost $4000 because our daughter went to daycare for 4 days but we paid for two months. But our daughter never went back to that daycare because we weee forced to move. Anytime a kid has any symptoms we were forced to pull them out until they were negative or cleared by a doctor. We’ve paid thousands of dollars for childcare that our kids were unable to attend.

Pre-Covid this wouldn’t have been as big of an issue. If our doctor clears are kid I’m sending them because regardless we are forced to pay for the day. Staying home too often eventually leads to unpaid sick days while still needing to pay for daycare. I’m sending my kid in if the doctor clears it every time.

Strong fever indicates many things.

Because the flu can be treated with anti-viral unlike the common cold. 🤦‍♂️

Can you explain? My wife is a teacher. She gets only so many paid sick days. Going without pay would hurt us financially. Mostly because of daycare itself. Because we either send the kids to daycare that we pay for or she takes too many sick days and we can’t pay for daycare. If we don’t pay daycare we lose our spot. If we can’t send our kids to for daycare then one of us needs to quit our jobs. If one of us needs to quit our jobs it makes it difficult to pay for our bills.

I’m just wondering how you’ve made these sacrifices unless your partner makes a significant amount of money that allows you to live life without worrying about money.

Many people can’t afford not to send their kids to school. My kids are in daycare. As soon as they are fever free I’m sending them in. We can’t afford to take so much time off unfortunately.

The Flu will normally knock you on your ass. My whole family has been sick for a couple of months. RSV, Covid, and Pneumonia. My kids have been tested for the flu and no one had it. Many people call the typical cold the “flu” when in reality they don’t have it.

Worcester is west for me.

495

I rarely smoke but when I’d o stuff from the dispensary is still too potent for me. I enjoyed the act of smoking but can barely handle more than a hit or two. I wish I could grow or buy weed that was only 5-10% THC.

Can take up until mid-December.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/chapter-62f-taxpayer-refunds

“and you should receive your refund by mid-December of 2022”

Of course people don’t want to lower their property value. Especially if they just bought a house. No one wants to be upside down ona mortgage. Even more so if they’ve done work. I’m not talking landlords though just home owners living in their own homes.