The immediate area around the Shawmut T station offers street parking for non-residents on Friday after 4 pm until Monday 10 am. A few blocks away you can park earlier on Friday.

Depends on whether the staircase is within your apartment, and on the reason for the beep. It could beep because it's at the end of its service life. Smoke alarms need to be replaced every 10 years and that's on your landlord.

The RMV turned a friend of mine away because he had less than 12 months left, but now that I'm looking into it I'm starting to think you'll get a license till June. The 12 months should be measured from the start of your stay, not from when you apply for a license. Take a printout of this with you:

> the applicant must provide acceptable documentation demonstrating that his or her current authorized stay in the United States is for a period of at least 12 months. The period of at least 12 months shall be measured from the beginning of the applicant's current authorized stay, or from the beginning of the applicant's prior authorized stay if it immediately precedes the current authorized stay without interruption, whichever is earlier.

To get a license you need to have valid immigration status for 12 more months and a visa stamp that's valid for 12 more months. So you need to wait for your extension to be granted and get a new visa stamp (this still has to be done abroad) before you are eligible. You can also wait until July 1st. I'm sorry for the bad news :(

There is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to the edges. Nothing an hour of Youtube doesn't teach. And don't skimp on paint or tools. Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams unless you like to apply a few extra coats.

All in the same color, or with decorations? Do the walls currently have a darker paint? Are there any holes that need spackling?

It's not exactly a secret, it's even on the official MBTA map.

> Maps never recommends using the concourse or anything like that

Probably because it almost never makes sense to switch from the orange line to the green line if you're not coming from the north (and then you'd switch at North Station or Haymarket).

When it's busy, it's faster to take the concourse to get from the Red Line to the Orange Line, but you need to be in the right carriage and know exactly where you're going.

Depends on the tree but I think it's pretty dried out by now. Per https://archive.is/SUgzy

> The tree must be alive. Goats won’t eat dead trees.

https://archive.is/TeMQP

> “If your tree is dried out and dead we cannot accept those,” according to Channell Homestead. “Sorry.”

Or get an inspection from the city's Board of Health. Read chapter 8 of https://www.masslegalhelp.org/legal-tactics

Yeah, you missed it. I was going to propose cutting it up and putting it in paper bags (lol) but leaf & yard waste collection is suspended until April. I think the only option is to have it collected as waste.

https://archive.is/SUgzy

Did your landlord offer alternative housing that month, like did she put you in a different unit or a hotel? What does the lease say about fire? By which date did the landlord break the lease?

> Beth Israel have every single day and time slot (90 days worth) booked for all their Neurologists until March? Yeah okay seems legitimate.

They don't, they have plenty of open slots even this week but they will fill up with more urgent cases. When your referral comes in they will make an assessment and schedule you accordingly. When I had a PPO plan, I tried to see a specialist for something urgent but was quoted 3 months. It was something urgent care couldn't deal with but it wasn't life threatening so ER wasn't appropriate either. I got a referral and was seen the next week.

PCPs also have plenty of availability. I can get an appointment with my PCP a week from now for non urgent care. New patient appointments are artificially delayed because onboarding a new patient takes longer than seeing a regular patient and to keep waiting times acceptable for current patients.

I second looking on Craigslist. New quality furniture is expensive, but expensive furniture isn't always good quality (looking at you Crate&Barrel and West Elm). Costco furniture and the higher end pieces at Ikea are good quality but the choice is a bit limited.

World Market in Framingham has both and they would even ship it (but Amazon would too).

That's the MBTA. You cannot use a CharlieCard (which is the official name of the plastic card) on most commuter rail lines because they don't have CharlieCard readers. The only exception is the Fairmount Line which runs a pilot in Zone 1A where a machine on the platform can print a proof-of-payment based on your CharlieCard.

It takes a Braintree train about 110 minutes to do a full loop. An Ashmont train could do it in 95 but to stay intermixed they also take 110 minutes. 17 red line trains show up on the tracker right now. That means that at best there is one train every 6.5 minutes.

The reason it often takes longer is because the trains are not spaced out evenly. All the MBTA has to do is keep trains 6.5 minutes apart which requires more synchronization between trains than just running each individual train as fast as possible only held back by the train in front. It's implemented in other major cities with a functioning metro system.

Easiest? Get movers. Cheapest? One-way car rentals typically add a cost per mile so driving back may save costs. U-Haul always has a mileage fee.

A minivan fits a lot more than an SUV.

It already dropped 100k since 9/30. Poor developers from Rockwood Construction purchased a lot with a dated house a year ago for 575k hoping they could get rich quick.

Did it end up being 50% more expensive? Uber isn't always cheaper than a taxi anymore.