I would also look at Maynard. I think the Globe rated our school system as top for home value:school value. We’re also an Assabet school founding community so students get preference for entrance.

Depends how much you value your free time. I used to enjoy driving, but traffic really became super bad for my route starting around 2015ish. I had to give up my very fun manual transmission car because I spent my entire commute stepping on the clutch pedal and my leg was just sore at the end of the day. Eventually even though the commuter rail was slightly more time, I realized I could read a book, listen to a podcast or browse Reddit for a couple hours a day during my commute. I got home relaxed and ready to get on with my evening and I never went back to driving, even during the pandemic.

Depends how much you value your free time. I used to enjoy driving, but traffic really became super bad for my route starting around 2015ish. I had to give up my very fun manual transmission car because I spent my entire commute stepping on the clutch pedal and my leg was just sore at the end of the day. Eventually even though the commuter rail was slightly more time, I realized I could read a book, listen to a podcast or browse Reddit for a couple hours a day during my commute. I got home relaxed and ready to get on with my evening and I never went back to driving, even during the pandemic.

Depends how much you value your free time. I used to enjoy driving, but traffic really became super bad for my route starting around 2015ish. I had to give up my very fun manual transmission car because I spent my entire commute stepping on the clutch pedal and my leg was just sore at the end of the day. Eventually even though the commuter rail was slightly more time, I realized I could read a book, listen to a podcast or browse Reddit for a couple hours a day during my commute. I got home relaxed and ready to get on with my evening and I never went back to driving, even during the pandemic.

It’s a terrible situation. VT needs workers, but the infrastructure isn’t there to support increased density of housing. I have seen nothing about making things easier for affordable housing at either the state or federal levels. The invisible hand of commerce seems to not be working.

A bit of a catch-22- workers needed but no place to live. If you’re in the building trades, you need high wages to compete for housing but that drives rates, making construction of houses more expensive. Rinse and repeat. There are solutions to this but it’s a matter of political priorities.

I wonder when all the demand for housing will actually turn into supply of housing? Right now I feel like home builders would make a killing. There’s huge demand for reasonably priced homes and apartments but I don’t see any new houses going up.

Personally I think the housing shortage is more of an affordable housing shortage. Boston doesn’t seem to like to build high density housing so we’re not keeping up with natural growth let alone all the people who move here to work. NIMBY’s seem to ruin everything.

All those people commuting to Boston every day are definitely still working at 85. It’s amazing really.

It’s all the colleges and post-college job opportunities in medicine, finance and technology. While COL is high, compensation is also usually high, because getting people to stay is notoriously difficult because of housing costs and terrible winters.

One of my favorite burgers at a local restaurant is named “The Vermonster” at a local restaurant maple bacon, Cabot cheese, thin apple slices.

My dog would totally ask me if I had ten bucks if she saw this. And could talk.

I could only imagine what certain political parties would do if that happened. Letting “communist” Canadians freely cross the border with their legalized devils cabbage! The horror. CuckerTarlson would be asking a lot of questions.

The “damned customs issue” would require a lot more inspectors on both sides of the border and facilities for the inspections. It’s not going to be on any political radar unless there’s real money to be made. I don’t see a huge net influx of tourists coming from Canada happening anytime soon given the current global economy.

Do it twice. I started doing this recently and I have ~1 foot drifts of leaves. This summer during the height of the drought, my lawn was still green. The leaf mulch helps so much with water absorption and nutrition.

The problem with repealing the Jones Act is a huge amount of ocean transport is controlled by Chinese and other un-friendly countries. If we don’t develop an domestic shipping industry soon, we’ll be beholden to foreign powers. Can you imagine a scenario where the USA attempted to intervene on the behalf of an ally and the result was no power or heat in New England. Our economy collapses and people panic. If we want gas from Texas, we need to pressure our elected officials to incentivize an American LNG fleet.

There are companies that recycle mattresses. Hopefully municipalities will start giving someplace for dropping off unwanted mattresses. Otherwise people might be tempted to dump them or leave them in storage.

Every defense attorney “Did you really try? I mean that’s what’s on the door of you car, right?”