There are obviously general concerns like walking alone at night, even in safer neighborhoods and just being aware of your surroundings, locking your car at night, or not leaving valuable or things visible in your car. Otherwise, unless you find yourself in specific neighborhoods for some odd reason, you still have a low chance of robbery/assault

Generally MA is pretty safe. Even the most dangerous towns here, crime is typically not random. Like, towns/cities to watch out for are downtown lowell, Chelsea, Lawrence, Lynn, certain neighborhoods in Boston and i say that with a huge reluctance, because compared to other parts of of the country, those cities have crime, but not really that bad and have really neighborhoods.

I grew up there and have seen the town change slowly, for the better, throughout the years. The town still has it's quirks to put it lightly, but isn't bad overall. Billerica does have some traffic during commuter times, like route 3 north backing up northbound in the afternoon, or southbound in the morning. If you commute from Somerville/Cambridge area, you'll find you're largely always traveling easier as it's reversed. Traffic here is bad, but it really couldn't be worse and there are definitely areas you want to avoid if you can like the southeast expressway at any given afternoon, including weekends.

Tips for pronouncing MA town is to not break them up the way you'd think.
Worcester - Worce-ster
Gloucester - Glouce-ster
Haverhill - Have-rhill (have rhymes with nave)
Billerica - Bille-rica

Other once are just you have to know and there is not shortage of towns like this.

Quincy - Quinzee
Medford - Medfid

Grew up in Billerica and currently work there. If you're in your 20's or 30's and plan on roommates, you can still live near Boston in Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, East Arlington and come in at or under $1200 a month. I used to "reverse commute" from East Cambridge to Burlington and Somerville to Billerica. This is assuming you'll have a car. You can live in Allston/Brighton, it's not a bad ride, you'll just hit bottlenecks that will make your commute a little longer. You'll find having a social life and making friends in that area far easier than living in Lowell/Billerica/Burlington/Woburn.

I now commute from central MA to Billerica.

I got called in 2017. It was painless. I didn't get chosen due to my employment. It was a 20-something year old assault charge. Otherwise, make sure your phone is fully charged, charger, bring a book, some cash for the snack cart. Snack cart didn't accept cards even at that point.

Sabatinos was decent enough, but that closed in 2016

Somewhat related, but Davis County, Utah, the sheriffs are paramedics available to do ALS intercepts with Basic units.

I used to love the weekly boston calendar post!

I can translate that their inspection sticker is expired by quite a few years

This happened to my in fresh pond two nights ago. Like, dude, you're IN the rotary, don't stop

Any bar. Go to a bar on a trivia night and ask a group to sit in if they don't look maxed out for people.

I've googled my VINs from my old cars. One of my cars got in a crash and is sitting in some junkyard in Texas with accompanying picture. This was like less than a year after trading it in.

I am a paramedic. We bring people straight to the waiting room all the time. I will give certain patients a heads up that they will most likely go to the waiting room.

Not really. You can already tell a lot about the bike. Looks fixed. Front and back fenders, narrow AF flat handlebars. That bike shouldnt be too hard to spot in the wild.

My kid was transferred to the NICU at MGH after birth. This was pre-covid, but the rule there was only children that were siblings could visit. Otherwise, if you want to stay the night, MGH had a limited amount of bunk rooms you could crash in that were part of the unit. As for food, see if you qualify as a patient to receive food. If there is a community fridge in unit, be careful. My food got stolen or picked through multiple times at MGH, even when marked. Not sure what BWH will be like, but I'm sure you'll have a great experience with the staff

If you don't mind going to Hudson, try firehouse seafood. Small, hole in the wall Portuguese market, but I think I've seen this there.

My dad was just diagnosed with glioblastoma. Honestly, with this cancer, the extension of just those 3 months is huge. It's such an aggressive tumor that most treatments don't really work all that great unless your one of the few lucky enough to have them work.

Lived in Clinton for 5 years. Moved out last year. The occasional worcester County/DEA drug busts, but overall, pretty awesome place to live.