"By the way we're also making you King of Housing. Good luck."

It's like if Hebbert won a stuffed bear at a carnival for knocking over some milk bottles

Work from home let people get further away from Boston than they would have originally. The fed found that WFH contributed 60% of the pandemic housing price increases. It essentially unlocked a huge amount of boston money all at once, and boston hasn't built anywhere near enough for the last 40 years (and won't anytime soon with its ridiculous zoning and ADU rules).

https://www.businessinsider.com/remote-work-raised-housing-prices-real-estate-market-federal-reserve-2022-9

In general I’d choose Chicago over New Haven but if you are at yale and prefer the program there you should be fine. If your program has a lot of students (forestry, law, mba, nursing, md) there will be plenty of social opportunities and the graduate pub is a good place to meet people from other programs if your program is smaller. I can’t specifically speak to the Asian community outside of witnessing several Asian friends from my program seeming to have a number of Asian friends outside of our program.

Four pairs.

Far be it for me to judge someone for having the odd infant or two in the freezer, but four is right out

Babies didn’t show up for work

As an accidental current owner of a block of completely unsweetened whole foods chocolate i’d recommend reading the label closely.

Make sure that it’s sweetened

Thanks, I feel similarly about selling and hopefully will be in a comparable position in a decade.

Damn, that’s awesome, congrats. Are you there for the duration or do you see yourself using the equity for a down payment somewhere else and renting both sides eventually? I’m curious because I bought a duplex in boston last year and am considering my long-term options.

Well done, this is the dream. Is it also near the green line? And what do you get for the second apartment?

You might be paying taxes for your entire building.

They don't allow you to have bees in here