WaketheDeadDonuts

WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j9ti73p wrote

Reply to comment by SuperSpartacus in People are leaving Mass. Thoughts? by Original_Musician103

Hard disagree.

East/West Rail would be around 1.75 hours from Springfield to Boston, pretty much the same length of Metro-North from New Haven to Grand Central.

Have you ever boarded the 6am train in New Haven on a weekday? It's often standing room only by Milford. Ditto the 5-6pm trains (aka the drinking trains) back to CT.

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j9p07er wrote

Reply to comment by novolog in People are leaving Mass. Thoughts? by Original_Musician103

You can take the Vermonter direct to Penn Station. If you miss it or need more options, you can take one of a few trains to New Haven then switch to the Metro-North that goes to Grand Central.

I don't do it that often because I don't go to NYC that much anymore, but with Phish doing a 7 night residency this summer at Madison Square Garden...bet your bippy I'll be training it down to funk town!

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j9ojyb6 wrote

Reply to My controversial relative, Pancho Villa (Doroteo Arango) - Mexico 1916 by scoundrel1680

"Pancho was a bandit boy His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel

Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words Ah but that's the way it goes

All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose"

-"Pancho and Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j9oi60r wrote

Reply to comment by novolog in People are leaving Mass. Thoughts? by Original_Musician103

Ha, absolutely, but that's not the point.

Parking one's bike in sleepy Northampton, taking a nap, then waking up in Manhattan without having to find parking is a dream.

Still, driving and parking in Manhattan rarely takes less than 4 hours and can take significantly longer depending on traffic, so 4.5 hours on a train is nothing.

I can drive to Boston in under 2 hours, but between busing to Springfield and busing to Boston, it would be 6 hours...not even close.

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j9oaev6 wrote

Reply to comment by novolog in People are leaving Mass. Thoughts? by Original_Musician103

East-West rail!

Moved from Boston out to Easthampton during the pandemic and love everything about Western MA

...I can ride my bike on a protected bike trail to the Northampton Amtrak station and hop a train to Manhattan. To get to Boston, my own state capital, I need to bus down to Springfield then catch a nearly 5 hour Greyhound to South Station.

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j1x0xy6 wrote

Reply to comment by itallendsintears in Greenfield by Another_Reddit

My dude, I was trying to give you an out playing S. Hadley a complement, but you had to double down on this delusion of grandeur. I'm sorry I just don't know S. Hadley like you clearly know Easthampton, so I don't know what else you to say.

Totally agree with you, Comfort Bagel in Holyoke is great. But, #HolyokesHappening

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j1ww4uv wrote

Reply to comment by itallendsintears in Greenfield by Another_Reddit

Well, for starters, half of Mt. Tom the mountain + all of Mt Tom ice cream.

Then there's a hot music scene, a regular artwalk, breweries, dispensaries, an Italian butcher shop, kayaking, decriminalized shrooms, Cultural Chaos, Food Truck Fridays, Millpond Live, an arcade stuffed with every video game console from Atari to PS5, and the trifecta of good eats: Daily Operation, Calico, Small Oven Bakery

...and, coming this Fall: Western MA's first Porchfest.

Now, I'd tell you I'm talking about Easthampton, but you already knew that.

All good tho. S. Hadley's a fun little spot w/ more to recommend it than nearby Amherst.

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_j1wo4io wrote

Reply to comment by Griledy in Greenfield by Another_Reddit

Yep, moved here after the pandemic killed my food truck job in Boston...started a little mobile donut biz, did a little business incubator program run by the city where I met a bunch of town officials and shop owners, all bending backwards to help us.

A couple of weeks ago we were at a free, jammed packed Saturday night show at Luthiers...when the band finished at 11 (normal end time), the mayor came out from the crowd and basically ordered them to play another song.

After, we followed the guitarist down the street to the Marigold where he played trombone in a salsa band till 1am...

Plenty of times living in Brighton / Medford (aka Boston) + there wasnt as much going on as in this sleepy town of 16,000

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WaketheDeadDonuts t1_iveu2es wrote

Reply to comment by keegan1015 in Common Massachusetts W by Rannrann123

Just got to say…50k Americans died and idk how many thousands of Vietnamese between 1968 when LBJ started peace talks that Nixon secretly, illegally wrecked by promising the North Vietnamese he’d give them a better deal only to do the opposite (expanding the war to Cambodia + Laos) and when he announced the war’s end in 1974

Sorry, but fuck Nixon.

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