Oh, the husband of a missing woman is acting suspiciously and might be responsible for her disappearance? How unbelievably shocking. Also, if this guy was convicted of fraud in 2021, why wasn’t he sent to prison?

If you lived in the metro west area before going back to the UK try this group. https://www.familypromisemetrowest.org

Can you break these bills out by therms per day to normalize them? If you take the gas, used history and divide the therms by the days, you can come up with an average terms per day used. And you can see how much is being driven by there being 40 days in this current bill. That only accounts for a portion of the huge difference, but it does it account for some of it.

Your average therms per day in December 21 was 4.75. In December 22, it was 8.55. If you can approach the gas company with that difference, that very clearly shows that something has changed drastically, that is unrelated to the difference between 28 days in the December bill for 2021 and the 40 days in the December bill for 2022. You could also check the average daily temperature for the billing for each December bill. Document all that and email it to someone at national grid and if I were you, I would also contact your state representative and tell them that you are having trouble resolving an exceptionally high heating bill and let national grid know that you are doing that.

It does sound like your perception is not 100% clear. The suburbs are fine. Been living here for many years. There is natural wear and tear on all roads and sidewalks. Upkeep and repair takes time and money. And there’s never enough of either.

Palmer

Maybe Attleboro which is somewhere around halfway between Raynham and Providence. If you’re looking for nightlife stuff, Providence is your best bet. The towns around Raynham are basically suburbs, not a lot of nightlife. Or just live in Raynham or Taunton, have a super short commute, you’ll only be about a half hour from Providence.

I thought it was just me because people really don’t talk about it. It’s freaking traumatic to go grocery shopping. I was in the store over the weekend and I just happen to notice that a bag of Fritos is $5.19. A bag of Fritos. Note that I did not buy a bag of Fritos it just caught my eye, I’m too poor to afford such luxuries!

I’m not sure exactly why you are mentioning Framingham when you work out of Boston? Is the idea that it’s possible your partner could commute from Framingham to Amherst because that’s not realistic. At all.

You mentioned that you will only have one car. How will that work? On the days that you need to go to Logan, is the idea that you would take the car and your partner would stay at home? And they would not need to get to school on that day? I’m going to assume that’s the case.

My recommendation is that you look for somewhere close to the pike in western mass. If you’re close to the pike, that gives you the best shot at getting into Logan. Ludlow would be about 30 minutes to Amherst and 90+ minutes to Boston depending on time of day. Add up to an hour if you are going at rush hour.

Ludlow has no wine bars and nothing whatsoever is hip about it. But it is convenient for your purposes. Palmer is another option. Keep in mind for your purposes of getting into Boston you want to be as close to the mass pike as you can be.

West of Boston, try Harvard, Bolton, Berlin, Hudson, Stow. These are nice towns with a lot of open space and big home lots. But not so rural that you can’t find a fancy coffee place easily.

No proximity to the airport but With your budget and desire for land, you can’t get that within a 30 minute drive to the airport. Frankly a 30 minute drive to the airport would be coming from Arlington maybe, if you were lucky with traffic. And you have a postage stamp yard. So it’s just deciding what’s important to you. If you want an acre of land, you’re going to have a long drive to the airport. You have to get pretty far from Boston to find houses with that type of land for that price.

I checked my Comcast guide today and it shows WBZ playing Jeopardy and wheel as usual… If that’s a lie I’m gonna flip out.

Are you fucking kidding me? The Matt Amy Mattea show tomorrow is going to be preempted by election coverage? I’m apoplectic.

Eastern Point, Gloucester

I think one article I read said that they owned the house together at one point. It’s a pretty strange situation. Lots of litigation about a foreclosure and this bizarre story about The guy trying to insulate his house with some type of insulating paint that was a complete scam and then he sued the HVAC guy because his house was too cold and too warm…. I think there must just be reams of legal documents around this house. https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/insulating-ceramic-paint-distributor-falls-for-his-own-grifter-tale