I still leave mine running. I just make sure I hit the fob and lock it when I'm not in it.

I'm pretty sure beavers were always at it on the back side of Carbuncle Pond and the Moosup River out Route 14 in western Coventry near the Connecticut border, and that's why the road in got flooded decades ago and the original parking lot is inaccessible. I'm not sure how much of the land around Carbuncle is public, but I think more is now than when I was a boy and it butts right up against the Trestle Trail. I always liked hiking and riding out there.

My initial thought is how many people commute in that direction?

I'm surprised you found any under $2,000. Those locales are all well within the 128 Loop. Prices are going to be a lot higher.

I think you lost me at the first sentence. You wrote, "It's 21k working only 40hrs." As this was in response to my minimum wage $15 an hour comment, then I'm guessing you are responding, saying you only make 21k at that? I am not a tax professional and not familiar enough to even hazard a guess at what your rate might be earning $15 an hour for 2,000 hours in a year, but keeping only 21k out of a 30k earnings is a 30% rate which seems really high to me earning so little.

Could be your problem. I don't really look as I'm not in need but I share what I see. To humor this request I just hit up Craigslist housing and checked my local area. I'm in Attleboro. I was quite correct. I see options in Bristol County and along the South Coast as well as in Rhode Island, plenty of Pawtucket and Providence. I knew a friend who was a property owner out in Warre, which tends to run even cheaper. Where have you looked?

$15 an hour is only $30k a year at regular 40-hour a week job. That said most of us on SS get even less. It's not a lot, but you can certainly live on that amount.

Where are you looking? $2400 for a 2-bed is not the average here. You are about $500 too high in your estimate maybe a bit less but I still regularly see 2-beds for less than $2000.

Nothing to do with current really but simply maybe steeper currently? Houses always cost more year after year. Look at the timeline for MA housing costs since 1980. Buying a house is one of the best investments you'll ever make as it has always risen. I was lucky to get into mine in 2000 saw it rise to the 2008 Great Recession and then dip but recover and is what it is today with estimates of three times what I paid for it common. I'm not selling though as my mortgage payment is much less than what I see in rental adverts for similar or smaller. It certainly is daunting.