Salsa night is open to the public. I wandered in from the bar that used to be next door a few times and had a lot of fun.

Spaghetti, cannoli, improv comedy, lobster roll

If you’re staying in Boston overnight anyway, probably best to stay downtown, the price for parking nearby or an Uber to and from is going to be high enough that it will offset the value of staying further out. Plus, you can show your kid the city a little before or after. Omni parker house is right there.

It’s safe if you need to walk a bit further though, and there are plenty of reputable places in walking distance, just stay at any chain hotel and it’s going to be sol8d.

Sounds like an awesome trip with the little one

By the coast, 3-5 inches mixed with rain over the course of 30 hours means it could look like anything from a significant snow storm to nothing at all when it’s over. Makes sense for there to be a wide range of forecasted snow totals, even if they get it right, it might not look right to the people commuting the next few days.

It was a mediocre king book. He’s a compelling enough writer to keep me reading even when I know the book isn’t good, and there was some interesting world building mixed in with everything else in Fairy Tale sure. In the last 10 years it’s the second worst thing he’s written (behind sleeping beauties, and that was a project to get his kid published). That said, King has a pretty high floor, people finish his books even when they don’t like them, he’s got such talent for plot progression.

It was a fun read, it lacked a little dramatic tension as the ending never really seemed in doubt or ever uncertain. The journey was entertaining though.

Easy access to the center of city, looks like that neighborhood is also very close to Roslindale, walkable to Forest Hills. That stretch of Hyde park Ave doesn’t really have anything to do, I think there are a couple takeout restaurants and liquor stores, but also a lot of auto body shops and nail salons.

I’m all for rent control, but I also recognize the cost of building in Boston, and would generally not consider any new developments that are walkable to transit to be anything but luxury. Their sale prices will need to be over $1000/sqft to justify the effort of construction.

Where rents are now, even if increases for existing tenants are capped at 3% annually, there’s money to be made in most neighborhoods. I don’t like to see people who pay their rent reliably displaced out of greed.

If you’re near a road, you’re near transit, move far enough out and car+housing can be affordable. I think the perpetually young city of Boston needs a reality check every so often, that walkable living and eating/drinking out a few nights a week isn’t a sustainable lifestyle for most people, certainly not for people who also don’t want roommates. Demand is high and those amenities that make city living attractive are competing with housing for land under foot. Do people really want to live that way forever? It gets repetitive, doesn’t it?

I’d only return it if it was damaged to the point that I couldn’t read it or just really didn’t want to be holding it.

The thing about the traffic is, it’s like 8 lanes all the way to the highway from there. They could build 2000 units of new housing and it wouldn’t overwhelm the roads. The only exception is during the month around Christmas, but then the traffic is already a mess to the point that you’d hardly notice the added volume.

I think the length of the line is a part of the problem though, the number of trains needed to keep the line running frequently enough to make it convenient would be so high compared to ridership that it wouldn’t make sense as an investment in space and resources.

Honestly, unless it’s Dave or Buster complaining, I have a hard time believing anybody complaining can realistically complain about this development going up in “our neighborhood.”

The area is already set up to handle massive volume due to the mall, and there’s enough dead space all around to put physical plant support in place without any resident actually seeing anything except the designed exteriors of the buildings.

It will get built im sure, the declining fortunes of the mall are not good for Braintree’s bottom line, even if the loudest voices in the room are all negative.

Do people really live near the south shore plaza? There’s like a full mile on Granite st of parking lots supporting dead businesses.

Goodwill in Quincy is hit or miss, but I’d check them out, sometimes they’re loaded with old toys.

The yellow line seems a bit much, with that much line extension and intersection already, it’s probably better as a few local buses.

If they just extended the mattapan line and E line to Forest Hills, the city would be much better connected. Orange line out to Readville/West Roxbury would make sense and would be at least a little bit realistic, since there’s already right of way and track down those routes.

Adam’s St Milton, hutchinsons field. Park on the side of the road or step out and sit at the picnic table. You can get the Pizza from Montilios 2 miles down the road

Carla was in Winthrop or Revere I think, but she probably bounced around apartments for a while before finding her house on the flight path maybe Somerville in the 70s/80s.

Norm was an accountant, decent job, bar was near work not home, he’s taking the train out to Arlington/Melrose.

Sam lived in Back Bay, walk to work, walk to Fenway, lots of places nearby to meet women.

Woody was definitely a Somerville/Cambridge guy.

Diane’s in Harvard Square for sure

Frasier is in Beacon Hill

Cliff and Coach are both along the Red Line between Broadway and Savin Hill.

I was a member from 2016-2019, they canceled my membership with no issue when I asked. After the first year i wasn’t in a contract and was paying month to month anyway. I think a lot of the issues came from when they were forced to close during Covid for a very long time. The gyms themselves are typically clean and well equipped, and not crazy expensive for what they offer.

I watched good morning America or one of those shows during lockdown, and I swear they had a guy on who had the exact same books on his shelf that I do, in almost the same order. It wasn’t just like The Power Broker with it’s clearly identifiable title either. He had a graphic novel of slaughterhouse five next to the paperback, a bunch of pretty obscure European history books, the same set of authors for fiction. I never felt more basic.

Everything Winslow releases is an immediate but for me. He’s not some great author, but I never fail to have a good time reading his books. The Rhode Island gangster book he came out with last year was good too, I think he’s making that into a series or at least writing a sequel.

I haven’t read it since it was first released in English, but from what I recall the whole thing came together in the last part, but part 4 was a bit of a grind. I liked it a lot when I read it, but I was much more interested in long, loosely structured books at that age.

How much are you willing to pay?

Express trains, they’re a real pain if you’re not going to one of the stops they retain, or if you have headphones on, or if you’re on one of many redline cars with broken PA speakers.

Oil isn’t so much more expensive, it’s just a big hit every time they come fill the tank. Instead of having a steady monthly bill, you get basically no cost all summer and fall, then a few 600 dollar bills in the winters, then nothing again. If you have some flex in your income it doesn’t matter, you end up spending the same amount of money on heat. For some folks it’s a little easier to have monthly payments that never go above a couple hundred bucks even if annually it’s the same amount paid.

Look around the colleges, they’ll advertise around BU and Northeastern I’m sure. They’re easy enough to find in Western Mass that way at least.