That's great to know, thanks so much. Yeah, we're looking for an office / hobby space. Most apartments over here are not built like that, a one-bed gets you a bedroom and combined kitchen/living room and maybe a hallway if you're lucky, ha. I'll look at Pawtucket as well.

Sometime in the next few months, but we're ideally looking for a two bed! Thanks for the offer though.

We actually can’t afford Boston rents anymore and we live on the edge of the city. Neither of us will be working in Boston. We want to be on the east side because the neighborhood looks nice, more trees, but it has to balance out with how much we save on rent in the end.

No, they weren't available or widespread before covid.

Allergies. I’m so ridiculously allergic to most fragrances. Using a triple layer mulberry silk mask with a PM 2.5 filter insert. Sometimes just the silk is enough to keep fragrances out of my nose when outdoors which is great. I keep one in every bag/coat just in case those people with the dryer sheets and a bath of perfume on walks in front of me. And I never caught covid while wearing one, though it did come for me from a family member.

We’re coming from boston where broker fees of a month’s rent are the norm, so that’s really good to know. So when you say east, you mean the historic district / hope etc and not east providence right? I remember seeing a ton of available places in january but much less now, worried that’s why!

Just looked through craigslist — cheaper prices than zillow and apartments.com. A few realty sites had listings that weren’t on these sites but the prices weren’t nearly as great.

Like I said just rentals. Not sure if anything you said still applies, but when you say fee are you talking broker fee?

Right? That is at least two week’s groceries and it was illegal. Treating $250 like a small amount not worth the hassle is some rich nonsense.

BWH Faulkner plastic surgery has a purely cosmetic aesthetician practice, or at least they did a few years back.

For him, I’m hoping tbh.

Thank fucking god, was super freaked out when he moved to the neighborhood last week.

Not to be a downer but isn’t this the guy that they keep arresting and when he’s out goes right back to Peeping?

Witchy folks: Are there any Samhain activities or group festivals / celebrations happening tomorrow either in Boston or the greater Boston area? Just found a couple that are too late to make today, kicking myself for not realizing most would be today.

Thanks for the insight. I’ll check those out. Eclectic is a good word for what we’re used to and what we’re looking to find again. Not into retiree/family-skewing suburbs which makes it difficult because that’s what most reviews seem to consider when describing an area. I’ll check out those towns you mentioned, but my gut is telling me that CT may not offer the culture, finance, and built setting that best fits us. And that’s fine, not every state is going to offer what everyone’s looking for. Glad I have a better sense from this sub of what’s out there and what to consider.

Edit: I should mention that I have no idea what Mystic is like. Friend recommended it heavily, but I don’t know anything about the town except the facts I gleaned from the internet. Just trying to rule things in or out in the search which has not considered CT yet.

This Brighton creeper is really starting to freak me out. He’s moved into our neighborhood and I’m not able to sleep knowing he’s targeting our street.

Yeah, I know that, it’s a search. You also gave a lot of reasons why the towns that ‘check the boxes will be virtually impossible to find rentals’, so that’s not the most encouraging thought going in, and makes me think that people similar to us will also not be abundant in these areas.

Noank is less than 2K people, 75% of people own, and the top age group is 65 and up. East Hampton’s age group is 45-65 and, like you said, extremely low on rentals as it’s more family focused. Neither town fits the bill or the community we’re looking for, which is the same story as other CT places I’ve looked at. Friend advised against Groton specifically. Thanks for the other suggestions, I really appreciate the advice, but as I said I do not think they’re right for us at this time and we should look elsewhere.

Thanks. I’ve actually found places that have rentals and check most of the list, but they’re in Western Mass or farther north. It sounds like this doesn’t exist in CT which was my guess going into this already.

Thanks, that’s important info.

We stopped into Gronton on a drive and went to a Dunks. The area wasn’t really notable, it actually felt pretty sprawl, but it’s possible we were in the outskirts of town. Is it the kind of place that vibes with what we’re looking for based on the post?

I’ve seen it at Wegman’s in the tiny international foods shelf. You might have to hunt around for the shelf but it’s been in every Wegman’s I’ve found and stocked with clotted cream, pickled eggs, vegemite, Barry’s tea, etc.