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TheHonorableSavage t1_iu0i5hr wrote

Reply to comment by SkiingAway in ‘A 24-hour neighborhood’: Wu outlines plans to bring downtown Boston back to life - The Boston Globe by TouchDownBurrito

The local residents protested insomnia cookies of all places staying open later.

I can’t imagine the progress they will have if the local cookie shop is considered a den of debauchery after midnight.

I don’t even know who lives in DTC. They could put a 24 hour circus there and 10 people would notice. Walking around at night feels like I am Legend.

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bostonaliens t1_iu0xk9t wrote

DTX is made up of college students, millionaires in the millennium tower and homeless crackheads. Truly the best Boston has to offer.

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AceyPuppy t1_iu1hvpi wrote

Exactly what makes Boston the most diverse city in America.

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Eire4ever37 t1_iu3c6xh wrote

Don’t forget the 11 and 12 year olds that are kicking the crap out of people

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snoogins355 t1_iu24zk8 wrote

With housing prices they way it is, it's getting there

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TurnsOutImAScientist t1_iu43rez wrote

Elderly lady next door to me is probably permanently in “rehab”, can’t make it up a flight of stairs, and probably isn’t ever gonna sell the triple decker she owns. Her next of kin will have to do it. I’m thinking there must be tons of situations like this across town where seniors who by all means should be moving out for health/accessibility reasons just won’t.

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Laureltess t1_iu4o2jl wrote

A few months ago there was an article where a bunch of retirees were complaining that they had nowhere to “downsize” to because all the small houses were bought by developers and demolished, and they refuse to live in apartments, so they’re refusing to sell their family-sized houses. They’re complaining about a problem THEY created, and the rest of us suffer because retirees don’t want to live in anything but unattached homes.

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TurnsOutImAScientist t1_iu4zsdg wrote

And then when the median baby boomer has died of old age in a couple of decades, the younger generations won't have built as much wealth and won't be able to compete with corporations attempting to shift the country from individual homeownership to renting.

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whatsabrooin t1_iu0sdx3 wrote

People haven’t experienced true freedom until they’ve gone out for cookies and a slurpee at 3am.

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MiscellaneousBeef t1_iu245j9 wrote

I am a resident of DTX. It's not the local residents as a whole, it's the weird dweebs who show up to these meetings. Dweebs have an advantage because they enjoy tracking when these meetings will happen, they enjoy going to these meetings, and they also dislike people doing other things. Meanwhile people who like to do things have to divide their time between doing things and all the energy it takes to battle dweebs.

Consider when El Jefe Tacqueria was prevented from opening until 2AM because it "may disturb students." It certainly wasn't the students, who actually live there, who stopped that from happening.

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Otterfan t1_iu5szwq wrote

> "may disturb students."

When the Mission Brookline dispensary was under review, one of the local NIMBY's warned that it "might expose Boston University students to marijuana."

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BOSHunterCO t1_iu214lv wrote

What sick individual would have an issue with late night cookies?

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Chappy_Sinclair1 t1_iu1izuz wrote

Old people still have scars from the Theater District back in the day

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