There is a Thai restaurant in South Hadley that Harrison Ford visits when he’s in town. His kid goes to one of the local universities.

Plumbers and electrical. Plumbers are in a bit higher demand in MA as far as on the job training goes a lot of the trades are up to 5 years of (paid) apprenticeship.

You could try the Thai Place. Favorite of Indiana Jones and Han Solo.

That entire area is boring. It's the quiet exurb smack dab in between Boston and the next "major" (minor) city. If you can't drive you'll need to find something in walking distance or get an e-bike or something.

That seems high for closing costs. My closing costs were less than a third of that and my down payment was more than 15k. We put about 9% down only too.

Get a prequal letter as soon as you start looking and use a local lender. Credit unions are great and they’ll give you better rates if you open accounts with them.

Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden county are Western Mass.

Springfield is one town from bordering Connecticut.

Sort of and on paper sure. The connection isn’t one of a typical metro area. There is quite a bit of work commute between the two or rather from their suburbs to each other, but there isn’t a ton of built up infrastructure connecting them like other metro areas.

How would you get cited if nobody saw?

Likely. Our Fat Tuesday foods have more Polish roots with Pączki.

Oh shoot now I understand why we don’t have it here. Our Fat Tuesday celebration isn’t based much at all on the New Orleans/French one. It’s based on the Polish one so we have Pączki instead.

It was a federal initiative and they paid for the original construction but part of the deal was the state was responsible for maintenance.

The most ironic thing is that it was lobbied by Springfield to increase commerce but it made 75% of the waterfront unusable and it just acts as a way to pass through the city to VT and the Pike.

RT 5 through West Springfield recently has been making me think about the highway infrastructure in the area. It could be argued that either RT 5 or 91 doesn’t have to exist as separate roads on separate sides of the river. From the Memorial bridge to the Riverdale shops you could just get rid of Rt 5. I know it’s a hot take but neither Springfield or West Springfield have a real waterfront district and that section already has a stretch of residential and the rest is useless car dealerships. There were apparently plans to bury 91 many moons ago but that seems more costly. That section of RT 5 is convenient but I wouldn’t be mad if it was gone.

It was a joke

Yeah they’ll put a market basket and some condos where each unit costs $600,000

Local municipalities have more rules on outdoor fires than the state does. Check with yours.

It’s crazy due to the old indurstries there property values can be kind of low but they have really good municipal services including cheap symmetrical gigabit broadband.

Besides houses being really close to the street in the central parts it is home to 2 specific dangerous places to be a pedestrian, Chicopee Center, and the Walmart parking lot.

They’re also both right off of 391 and the pike.

Sundays are special in that typically the businesses that operate the most on them are retail hence why the wage increase was given to those workers. Weekends are factually busier at these establishments requiring more work as M-F workers are shopping at them.

The original intent and connotation be damned it was to encourage a day of rest and with the primary affected group being retail employees, which tend to be lower/working class it was excellent way to benefit those who have seen some of the worst wage growth (only worse are probably truck drivers) since their fruition. The world is a little quieter too when every retailer isn't open for 12 hours a day one day a week.

I work nearby and live pretty close, and the 104th is actually a small client for us at work. I know there was some chitchat about new planes shortly before the increased noise a few months back.

Idk if it’s new planes or new pilots or new drills but the 104th at Barnes has been ripping like that for the past few months.

So the reason why we are going to lose having holidays is because people with the level of wealth we’ll never achieve said it was bad for them. They can go to hell.

We should try. But this time come back harder and get double time on Sundays and holidays.