You can't wait it out. Saving money is being outpaced at the rate of interest rate and home price increases. If you aren't already in, you aren't going to be able to save your way in unless you start making 30% more annual salary.

A lot of us are utterly fucked by treating housing like investments and businesses. Eventually most people in our situation will get sick of endless rent increases and leave for cheaper locations. Boston either starts to fix this now or will see some serious exodus from the mid-high level salary ranges (140-200k) which represents a lot of Boston's workforce and then has knock-on effects on the service industry and small businesses.

We tried Milk Bar once, it was awful and the out of town person who had wanted to go apologized to us for suggesting it.

Unfortunately we're traveling down the more likely option 5) Do nothing, price out the middle and lower class and then watch as the region depresses in 10 to 15 years

I've yet to see an actual suggestion that would have resolved a person running at the police/others with a machete but people keep claiming the police overstepped their bounds.

Sometimes shit is just bad. You can't send unarmed negotiators without zero protection, especially in situations where the person has a dangerous weapon.

Don't buy what that person linked. They're terrible efficiency. If you're worried about installation and are considering getting a more efficient not to mention quieter unit I highly recommend https://www.midea.com/us/air-conditioners/window-air-conditioners/8000-btu-u-shaped-air-conditioner-maw08v1qwt

They're a little confusing the first time you install but are also braced by a mounted window bracket and have the window between the front and back of the unit, making it physically impossible to fall out with the window shut. The bracket also makes installation easier once you've read the instructions and done it once.

They're also much quieter and lighter than traditional units.

Hotel Marlow? What?

Not really a start, that's tax payer money going to a corporation with nearly zero competition.

Same, actually they cut my bill by $25 just to give me 6x the download speed. The service is fine but fuck them for making me play the game every year.

Tons of bullshit hidden fees too.

So? Illness costs the economy billions every year. A couple days off isn't going to hurt.

Are we going to get dart boards? Please say yes! This area is devoid of darts now!

Yeah I'm glad we're improving our infrastructure to make things safer. Still a ways to go though and I wish we'd spend more on our public transit infrastructure to meet the goal of getting the ever increasing number of cars off the road.

"I don't care what the law says I'm doing my own thing" really sums up every discussion about bikes/cars around here.

Counter evidence: I've been hit twice (once resulting in physical therapy) by bikes while crossing in a crosswalk while I have the right of way. Once in Boston near BU, and once in Central Square. Despite that, I still support bike lanes, I still support bus lanes, I still support all of it.

It doesn't change the fact that everyone is an asshole when transiting in this state and if you want the Idaho Stop to be a thing here then get it passed and in the books.

And just to be clear, for whatever reason, my primary and preferred mode of transit is the T

Yes, being unpredictable on the road makes it less safe. Do you enjoy people changing lanes without turn signals? What about turning on red when there is a no turn on red?

And your argument is beside the point when it's not legal in Mass. If it's safer, then make it a traffic law and then it can be taught and properly enforced when a car fucks up and hits a biker who practices it.

If you want it to be a law then get it on the ballot. Until then, you're unpredictable on the road and makes it less safe for everyone. Just because you disagree with current laws on stop signs and stop lights doesn't give you free reign to bypass them.

Whats the argument? Everyone ignores traffic laws in Cambridge because CPD doesn't enforce anything.

Cyclists ignore / break (take your pick) just as many traffic laws as drivers, there are just less of them and they (usually) can't hurt the other classes of people on the road, with pedestrians at the mercy of everyone. Everyone transits like an asshole these days.

Doesn't matter unless the Cambridge PD actually started enforcing traffic laws. Blocking the box, driving like a total asshole, running red lights, parking in no stopping zones, jumping the curb.

There is no end to you fellow Cambridge residents disregard for traffic laws no matter their mode of transportation.

A lot of the stations are nationally owned by one or two major companies.