Nice! If you want to visit a genuinely French town/city, I cannot recommend Quebec City enough.

Visit Ogunquit in the summer. About half of the tourists are Québécois.

From a local perspective, I totally agree with you. However, the map software likely considers Rt. 202 to be more major since it's a federal route. U.S. Rt. 202 is also way longer than MA-Rt 2.

Mem Tea. Main store is in Davis Square, but they are sold in many local grocery stores.

In the first paragraph you said we can't compare the USA to Australia, then you went on to compare them in the following paragraphs.

The gun homicide rate per 100,000 residents (that's adjusted for the population difference) is over ten times greater in the United States. Looking at raw numbers, we have 330 million people and 38,390 deaths by firearm, of which 24,432 were by suicide. Australia has 26 million people, and had 229 gun deaths in 2019. Their gun deaths have continued to drop ever since the laws changed.

Australia had a lot of shootings. Then in the 90s they made it way harder to own a gun and did a buy-back program. Gun deaths plummeted thereafter. We could do the same here, but it'd have to be enacted nationwide. The current state-by-state laws make it way too easy to buy in one state and transport to another.

Also saying this as a gun owner, guns are very dangerous and a lot different than they were in 1783. It's common sense to restrict who can own one and which types are available.

The great majority of guns used for homicide in Massachusetts come from out of state, like 90%. So yes, gun laws work.

Law breakers really don't like getting pulled over by the cops. Opens up a can of worms for the police find other things to fine or arrest you for. Like drugs.

According to today's article in the Boston Globe, the Cambridge Police don't wear body cams.