Nope, I bike or take public transportation since that’s the reasonable thing to do in a major metropolitan area. Granted though, gotta pay sticker price for that T pass.

But, it does? That’s the whole point of it? The median literally tells you that half of the apartments are more expensive and half are cheaper.

Sure. But that’s a 1/100 find. The average and median rent for 1 bedrooms in Boston is significantly above that.

Sorry to tell you, but the times of $1800 1 bedrooms in Boston are over too.

Saw a bunch of them last year walking over BCs campus.

But it wasn’t. No one knew what was in the ground. Hell, there were bombs all over the place still, they even find them regularly during construction work right now. They needed to build as much housing as possible in as little time as possible. The building material was often the rubble from destroyed buildings. Electricity was rebuilt quickly as well. Germany had a fully function electricity network again within a few years after the war. With utility poles like the US, cause it had to be fast. Then, in the 70s, the conscious decision was made to put them underground. Germany was fully rebuild by then already. Saying that decision 30 years after the war is connected to the build up is simply wrong. Another great way to show this rebuild argument doesn’t make sense is simply using another country as example: Switzerland. They also mainly have underground powerlines and we’re not destroyed during the war at all. Now, I have to say that I do not know anything about the history about this in Switzerland, but their underground lines are for sure not based on rebuilding the country from rubbles. Denmark is the same as well.

Well. The person before me mentioned it can’t be done. I showed an example that it can. Sorry I hurt your “America is always the best” brain with it.

Nope. Power lines were put underground in the 70s. Germany had been rebuild by then and was deep into the Wirtschaftswunder.

And you think nothing was buried in Germany when they did it there?

Edit: just to clarify. The government has a pretty damn good idea what’s buried where here. Hence calling them before you dig. They can tell what’s there. Germany didn’t even know. Plans were gone after WW2, if they even existed from before. And there were bombs from the war everywhere as well. They still got it done.

Massachusetts has a similar population density to Germany. Every tiny village in Germany has their power lines underground. Nothing to “fucking lol” about. It’s doable.

Bringing up a great point: those rats nest of wiring shouldn’t be above the street in main metro areas to begin with. Just put them underground and avoid all the power outages every minor storm.

Whole Foods has blocks of both sweetened and unsweetened chocolate. It’s on the pricier side though.

As a European living in Boston, i agree that this statement is accurate.