Wilforks

Wilforks t1_jcvg3rx wrote

If you’re staying in Boston overnight anyway, probably best to stay downtown, the price for parking nearby or an Uber to and from is going to be high enough that it will offset the value of staying further out. Plus, you can show your kid the city a little before or after. Omni parker house is right there.

It’s safe if you need to walk a bit further though, and there are plenty of reputable places in walking distance, just stay at any chain hotel and it’s going to be sol8d.

Sounds like an awesome trip with the little one

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Wilforks t1_jc2akt0 wrote

By the coast, 3-5 inches mixed with rain over the course of 30 hours means it could look like anything from a significant snow storm to nothing at all when it’s over. Makes sense for there to be a wide range of forecasted snow totals, even if they get it right, it might not look right to the people commuting the next few days.

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Wilforks t1_ja8xn18 wrote

It was a mediocre king book. He’s a compelling enough writer to keep me reading even when I know the book isn’t good, and there was some interesting world building mixed in with everything else in Fairy Tale sure. In the last 10 years it’s the second worst thing he’s written (behind sleeping beauties, and that was a project to get his kid published). That said, King has a pretty high floor, people finish his books even when they don’t like them, he’s got such talent for plot progression.

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Wilforks t1_j9q4mrr wrote

It was a fun read, it lacked a little dramatic tension as the ending never really seemed in doubt or ever uncertain. The journey was entertaining though.

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Wilforks t1_j9ou71l wrote

Easy access to the center of city, looks like that neighborhood is also very close to Roslindale, walkable to Forest Hills. That stretch of Hyde park Ave doesn’t really have anything to do, I think there are a couple takeout restaurants and liquor stores, but also a lot of auto body shops and nail salons.

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Wilforks t1_j8omj3k wrote

I’m all for rent control, but I also recognize the cost of building in Boston, and would generally not consider any new developments that are walkable to transit to be anything but luxury. Their sale prices will need to be over $1000/sqft to justify the effort of construction.

Where rents are now, even if increases for existing tenants are capped at 3% annually, there’s money to be made in most neighborhoods. I don’t like to see people who pay their rent reliably displaced out of greed.

If you’re near a road, you’re near transit, move far enough out and car+housing can be affordable. I think the perpetually young city of Boston needs a reality check every so often, that walkable living and eating/drinking out a few nights a week isn’t a sustainable lifestyle for most people, certainly not for people who also don’t want roommates. Demand is high and those amenities that make city living attractive are competing with housing for land under foot. Do people really want to live that way forever? It gets repetitive, doesn’t it?

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Wilforks t1_j6nt0rh wrote

The thing about the traffic is, it’s like 8 lanes all the way to the highway from there. They could build 2000 units of new housing and it wouldn’t overwhelm the roads. The only exception is during the month around Christmas, but then the traffic is already a mess to the point that you’d hardly notice the added volume.

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Wilforks t1_j6nnfvk wrote

I think the length of the line is a part of the problem though, the number of trains needed to keep the line running frequently enough to make it convenient would be so high compared to ridership that it wouldn’t make sense as an investment in space and resources.

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Wilforks t1_j6nn2mx wrote

Honestly, unless it’s Dave or Buster complaining, I have a hard time believing anybody complaining can realistically complain about this development going up in “our neighborhood.”

The area is already set up to handle massive volume due to the mall, and there’s enough dead space all around to put physical plant support in place without any resident actually seeing anything except the designed exteriors of the buildings.

It will get built im sure, the declining fortunes of the mall are not good for Braintree’s bottom line, even if the loudest voices in the room are all negative.

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Wilforks t1_j6n2gq1 wrote

The yellow line seems a bit much, with that much line extension and intersection already, it’s probably better as a few local buses.

If they just extended the mattapan line and E line to Forest Hills, the city would be much better connected. Orange line out to Readville/West Roxbury would make sense and would be at least a little bit realistic, since there’s already right of way and track down those routes.

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Wilforks t1_j6402xj wrote

Carla was in Winthrop or Revere I think, but she probably bounced around apartments for a while before finding her house on the flight path maybe Somerville in the 70s/80s.

Norm was an accountant, decent job, bar was near work not home, he’s taking the train out to Arlington/Melrose.

Sam lived in Back Bay, walk to work, walk to Fenway, lots of places nearby to meet women.

Woody was definitely a Somerville/Cambridge guy.

Diane’s in Harvard Square for sure

Frasier is in Beacon Hill

Cliff and Coach are both along the Red Line between Broadway and Savin Hill.

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Wilforks t1_j61liez wrote

I was a member from 2016-2019, they canceled my membership with no issue when I asked. After the first year i wasn’t in a contract and was paying month to month anyway. I think a lot of the issues came from when they were forced to close during Covid for a very long time. The gyms themselves are typically clean and well equipped, and not crazy expensive for what they offer.

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Wilforks t1_j60eq0p wrote

I watched good morning America or one of those shows during lockdown, and I swear they had a guy on who had the exact same books on his shelf that I do, in almost the same order. It wasn’t just like The Power Broker with it’s clearly identifiable title either. He had a graphic novel of slaughterhouse five next to the paperback, a bunch of pretty obscure European history books, the same set of authors for fiction. I never felt more basic.

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Wilforks t1_j5p2m8q wrote

Express trains, they’re a real pain if you’re not going to one of the stops they retain, or if you have headphones on, or if you’re on one of many redline cars with broken PA speakers.

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Wilforks t1_j5k5pue wrote

Oil isn’t so much more expensive, it’s just a big hit every time they come fill the tank. Instead of having a steady monthly bill, you get basically no cost all summer and fall, then a few 600 dollar bills in the winters, then nothing again. If you have some flex in your income it doesn’t matter, you end up spending the same amount of money on heat. For some folks it’s a little easier to have monthly payments that never go above a couple hundred bucks even if annually it’s the same amount paid.

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