I mean if she's been good to your friend for years, then that's probably a pretty good sign. Trying to squeeze you for a broker's fee in a possibly illegal manner is just fucking weird though.

Yeah this is complete tomfoolery. Kind of a red flag from the landlord - if they're looking to screw OP this way, what else can they expect down the road? Probably not much, but worth considering.

There's always a heavy police presence in DTX, what on God's green earth are you on about?

Right? Imagine if he opened his first speech like this:

"Look, this thing is a fucking turd, and I'm not gonna pretend polishing it is gonna help. You're gonna have to learn to enjoy shit sandwiches, losers. If anyone here actually cared about mass transit you wouldn't have let it get to this point. I have half a mind to privatize the entire thing and turn the tunnels into lab space."

Complete with the obligatory rampant hostility towards anyone asking that sort of question on this sub.

"Learn how to google" "use the sidebar idiot" "$11K? Go live in the seaport you finance/tech bro douchebag" "Don't move here, we're full"

MBTA Guy: You know what? Fine. Fix your damn trains on your own.

r/Boston: "No not like that."

They're so useless and annoying.

IIRC some Back Bay parking spots have crept into the $300K range, so put that in your pipe and see how it smokes.

Edit: link for the lazy https://jalopnik.com/a-375-000-parking-space-in-boston-is-for-sale-1847683583

Nah you're just a grouch.

Cool. Keep thinking you're special and like, totally rad. I'm sure a ton of people disagree with you, which only makes you so much cooler.

Yeah it totally sucked, it definitely doesn't deserve the 8.3/10 rating it has on IMDB. What a shitty movie that totally doesn't have great character development. Everybody loves it, but you're right to shit on it because you're so fucking cool

Oh the free seals rock when it's more than 20 degrees out, I watch them for 5 minutes every day on my way home from work

Easy. Start off at Gov't Center and walk down to the North End - this will take you through a couple great wind tunnels in the blistering cold. Have a late lunch/early dinner at La Famiglia Spagnuolo's. This way you're probably timing it so that your date is starving, and you're taking them to one of the lowest rated restaurants in the state to boot. Suggest the Aquarium as an after-meal activity, but then refuse to enter it and just look at the seals outside. Bonus points if you can get a water taxi to drive you around in the frigid wastes of the harbor afterwards.

So I suppose I should have clarified that maybe I was thinking more on the scale of people both from/in MA and people moving here with no context. I agree with you that anyone with a modicum of awareness from the greater Boston area knows that it isn't GoodwillhuntingLand anymore.

Southie is somehow thought of as both desirable and as an abject shithole at the same time. It either gets mentioned as a hip and trendy neighborhood or as a destitute working-class hellhole. Whereas in reality it's neither, it's just a very vanilla milquetoast little area with nothing special going for it. People rate it as -10 or +10, but it's really just a 0 on that scale.

True, but to be fair I think they're like one mismanaged building away from drawing arsonists to their properties

I mean nobody would build a 2000 unit building in a town that doesn't have water/sewage/gas to support it. You think they're just gonna slap up a building without functioning toilets, heat, or water? And if they somehow miraculously pull that off, that the building will be occupied?

And yeah, you're right, the issue ISN'T lack of demand. It's lack of supply. Hence the zoning proposition.

I was thinking the same thing. This reeks to high heaven of some sort of idiotic conservative thought process. I'm willing to bet OP would turn down a unit with an induction stove like a moron.

Catching an error isn't gross incompetence, it's recognizing a mistake and addressing it. No?

I'm gonna start selling high-grip rubber pants at Wellington.

You won't find gated communities in Boston. You might be thinking of a building with a doorman or concierge, which is also kind of rare, but it at least kind of exists in the sense that some of the luxury developments have similar services. The good news is that Boston is pretty safe, so needing to live in a "gated" area is not really a real necessity here. You might get lucky in your price range to find a 1-bed in a professionally managed building in Back Bay, which seems right up your alley given the limited info in your post. One thing to keep in mind is that A TON of Boston apartments are leased on a 9/1-8/31 cycle, so inventory will be low the further away from September you are. That being said, the places that ARE available off-cycle tend to be significantly discounted since they're empty and landlords want to fill them fast.

Walking, really. It's stupid that they aren't connected, but Boston does stupid really well sometimes.

Wow what a helpful comment. Never miss an opportunity to tell people they should have known what you already knew, and suspect many others already knew for quite some time, even though it does nothing to answer their question or offer any assistance to them.

> This doesn't feel like the best place to ask this question though given that it's not about turkeys, dunkies, the T, or bicyclists.

I propose that we encourage people to post things outside of the same lazy 4 meme topics on this sub. Post dunkies kek on r/HomeImprovement instead.

Some guy: "Hey, we'd like to do work for you that will increase the value of your condo, at no cost to you, along with it greatly improving our quality of life".

The neighbors: "No fucking thanks, idiot".

I will never understand some people.

It's actually Cumebridge.