Bullshit. Rich people bay want exclusive neighborhoods but they do also want neighboring towns to house their workers. Housing scarcity throughout the region is not something they desire

Hey, I’m with you in spirit - trying to make a recipe that calls for “Savoy” Cabbage 🤪

But seriously, I’m in the camp of being fascinated learning about a town I hadn’t heard of. I may not pay much attention to what I drive past, since I’ve taken rt 2 many times and always pay attention to Florida, MA

Getting back on track : Waltham, very little. It was mostly rain so the accumulation didn’t last long, but I’m not sure I ever saw the ground entirely covered. I got a new snow blower last fall and have only been able to use itonce

Prolly not. Language peeves are weird: why am I ok with this, but people using “less” instead of “fewer” or “amount” instead of “number” really annoy me. People are not volumes, they’re units.

I don’t know why this was downvoted, but yes, a lot of the time the mattress delivered will take your old one. Sometimes free. Sometimes charge

No, the confusing part is that when Apple released this feature, there were so many people saying it already existed on Android.

But it’s only useful to commute into Boston: are there really people willing to commute farther than that?

Personally I’d like to see high speed trains from Boston to Worcester and Springfield, and wonder if they are big enough to support the beginnings of a train system. While that wouldn’t directly support rural areas, it would be supporting a much higher percentage of residents plus putting transit in reach of more people

I’m not convinced Boston really does get outsized investment in infrastructure. Of course it gets most, since most of the people are there, most of the taxable income is there, and maybe that will always seem unfair. But does the metro area really get the most funding per capita, or per taxable income?

Infrastructure in rural areas benefits a lot fewer people who bring in a lot less tax income. Maybe your rickety town bridge that only serves a dozen cars a day is relatively more expensive than the Zakim bridge serving tens of thousands

Uber is a private company so really doesn’t count. Taxis are a private use of government granted monopoly so might, depending on where the shortage is caused.

Bus or other public service is firmly in the hands of local government

I don’t know enough about rural MA but in other places an underlying issue is lack of a town center. If it’s entirely rural, there’s just no way to effectively provide transit. However even the smallest towns can have a center, a cluster of destinations or higher density living. Could that be a pre-requisite?

Massachusetts is a leader on medical stuff in several different ways, so building on one of our strong points would be a great idea

There was that thread about Boston workdays only having 52% of pre-pandemic activity. Although I don’t know how that would explain decades of deferred maintenance

It seems like your points 4 and 5 are they need to do more marketing.

> They need more … professionals

As a parent of kids entering college, I suggest service programs to help pay off student loans. I know such things exist but usually only for places that are the extremes. However for whatever reason you don’t have enough doctored, you may attract more by advertising a student loan benefir

What a painful process! Could you have initiated any f it before traveling?

You could easily argue that ex-president would have been better off if only a specific marketing department had access to social media. You could also argue that with his being the center of the universe and prioritizing loyalty over honesty, competency, etc, that he would be on board with the general idea even if he didn’t think it applies to him

For those cases where the executive thinks they don’t need any filters (I’m looking at you, Musk), I suppose that still fits the criteria of the only exceptions being those whose job it is.

“Now”? How the eff are people allowed social media on their employer device to begin with?

I suppose my employer doesn’t specifically ban tik Tok, but that’s because only work related apps are allowed. With how cheap and ubiquitous laptops and smart phones are, I don’t se how this even comes up

It seems consistent with his previous behavior

I can’t claim to have made any contributions to the internet but ive been using it since before it was the internet. I did not have anything to do with the creation of email and was not an early adopter, but I was using email for years before this guy “invented” it. This was a huge issue back then when he tried suing to enforce his “invention”. I remember sending in references to previous email systems to help collect proof against his claims

Yeah, I’m looking apfor update pictures. Yesterday it was rainy, but the overnight low here in a suburb was 11°, so what does all that water look like now?

I never do anymore , since my car was keyed because I bought someone a meal instead of giving “just $5 so I can eat”.

A couple issues with “helping” them

• you’re only helping one person at a time and it may not go very far. An appropriate service can help that money go further to help more

• while there are way too many people that could use a hand, the most extroverted/aggressive pan handlers, with the most profitable locations, are likely to be a scammer. Donating to the appropriate service is more likely for your money to get to the truly needy, and you won’t skip out on someone quietly suffering

That’s too bad. Amazing how a minor change in pin placement on a map can completely change the story

REI in Natick has had this for years. What happens when it snows? My car stays clear and dry, and I can safely walk up to it without fear of slipping.

It is true that they do a poor job of clearing that parking lot, but the actual parking spots are good

And right up next to the highway, so there really not much nature to harm, nor residents to impact

No one would want land there, for any price. It’s a small piece between a power line right of way and the highway. There’s not really a place to develop an entrance nor a tiny neighborhood. It’s wasted space, so solar is a great use of it

Thanks, I came here to ask if anyone knew that.

From where the pin landed, it looks like this is between a power line right of way and the highway. What a perfect spot: does not affect any homes, nor any “wild” area!

The headline says “horrified” but the article talks about reasonable setbacks, and replanting trees. One guy complains, but if it’s really on the other side of the existing power line right of way, I don’t see how he can complain it affects him.

Edit: the pin in the map link above landed between the power lines and highway but the comment below stated it is planned for the residential side of the property. Completely changed the story

If the school tried to contact me about the violation of someone filming minors, you better believe I’d be more concerned about how they got in the school

Sure enough

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