That's a 50% salary bump. Do it for a year, learn some new things, find a job making $70k. This is the time in your career where you can have slight inconveniences to accelerate your growth.

You don't even need to do anything. Someone can pay you for your services whether or not you have a formal business. You just have to report the income either way.

If you want the LLC for liability protection, you don't need to do legal zoom. You can just go to the sec of commonwealth website and fill it out yourself. Only takes a few minutes. https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/loginsystem/login_form.asp?FilingMethod=I

That's the bare minimum. Should prob still talk to an accountant and lawyer to set up the business properly and make sure you're getting tax benefits and obligations right.

My neighbor has giant pines on her side of my fence. Branches hang over my side. They've twice come down and broken my fence. I had a tree company come take a dead one down that was actually on her property and at risk of damaging mine and another neighbors and I paid for it. I asked if she wanted any others down when the tree guy was there and she said no.

Giant tree came down 2 years ago and is leaning against a tree in her yard. She tried to get me to pay for it. To be extra neighborly, I told her if she found someone, I would cover half the cost, but that I wasn't arranging work on her property.

Despite all this, she blames me for the leaning tree and stopped talking to me.

I don't know why I'm sharing this except to say that trees on property lines are a huge pain and you can't win no matter what you do.

If you're just comparing to Newton and Wesley, then of course they're going to be lower. But if you look at the data or read the report or see the maps, you'll see every area of our state has a generally high quality of life.

And I'm not referring to colleges. If Massachusetts were a country our school system would be top 5-10 in the world, and that's based on statewide test scores and analysis.

Jaws wont drop. Massachusetts is still far and away ahead of every other state. If you're poor in Massachusetts you still have access to top tier public schools with statewide accountability standards, you have health insurance and access to health care, and you have access to jobs.

If you're poor in other states you have nothing and no options.

Google for this paper for several county level maps, which show that even the worst counties in Mass are ahead of most of the counties in the south when we talk about literacy and food insecurity and poverty: "Determining the Development Status of United States Counties Based on Comparative and Spatial Analyses of Multivariate Criteria Using Geographic Information Systems" Lauren B. Wheeler & Eric C. Pappas

Thank you for the info! The last paragraph sums up my layperson's understanding.

Hopefully it won't ever gain first hand experience on this one 😂

Thank you for the info! Correct me if I'm wrong (genuinely asking here):

In Massachusetts bail is based on the ability and means to pay and the risk of flight, not on the severity of the crime. If the crime is severe enough, they have dangerousness/evidence hearings to determine if bail should be an option or not, correct? If there's risk/threat, they just don't have bail, right? Because bail isn't set up to be a mechanism to hold people and not everyone charged with a violent crime is denied bail, correct?

Basing it off my understanding of reading articles on the SJC ruling a few years ago, and not on any actual legal experience (hence why these are all questions more than statements)

https://www.molarilaw.com/blog/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-bail-must-be-affordable-defendants

You're proposing that someone lose their freedom over an accusation of a crime. Surely you can see the issue with that?

The purpose of bail, per the Constitution, is to ensure people show up to trial. Not punish them pre-trial. My understanding is there is a dangerousness hearing process to determine if the circumstances warrant not providing bail at all, based on the seriousness of the crime and evidence. But if you get bail, it has to be affordable but also expensive enough to make sure they show up to court*

• I am definitely not a lawyer so all corrections are welcome

So just put people in jail indefinitely on the word of the police?

That seems problematic.