Magaziner actually moved to CD2 after being criticized by his primary opponents for not living in the district, but yes, he was under no legal obligation to do so.

You know what's not > Del's, though, is New England Lemonade

The day of my first Del's is usually my favorite day of the year.

I always feel weird about this stuff because I'm deeply sympathetic about increasing social stratification in America and how hard it's become to live a secure lifestyle with a working-class job, but I also get so frustrated by how little people understand about this stuff. I feel like I'm on the side of the assholes when I point it out, but it's true.

So many of the comments in this thread are "it's family money" or "they're up to their eyeballs in debt." I've been inside many big, fancy houses in this state and known many people who live in others. The answer has literally never been "it's family money" or "they're up to their eyeballs in debt." The answer has always been "they have jobs that pay a lot, often with a dual income." It's weird to me that people don't seem to understand that a) a lot of these jobs exist, and b) they can buy you a big-ass house. It's such a simple answer, but I guess the logic is "I don't know how to access these jobs so they must not exist"?

Just off the top of my head, here are some jobs held by people I know who live in houses I would characterize as big and fancy, all of which I've been inside:

• Owner of software development company and attorney
• CTO of software development company and spouse with unknown job
• Executive at major corporation and non-working spouse
• Executive at major corporation and financial adviser
• Corporate attorney and editor for a national news publication
• Two executives at a large engineering firm
• Owner of said engineering firm
• College basketball coach and hairstylist (cheated a little on this one, it's my wife who knows the hairstylist, and I've never been in the house but they did give us their piano. I just thought it was cool)

These people exist and there are a lot of them. That's who's living in the houses. Remember, these are just houses that I've personally been inside and it's not even all of them. Of course there are some people who watch TV all day and live off their trust funds from their robber-baron great grandfathers, but they're a small minority.

I'm a senior product manager for a tech company that was headquartered in Boston when I joined but is now based in DC, with all the former Boston employees fully remote. (I was hired with the understanding that I would never go into Boston more than once or twice a week.) I've got almost 25 years of experience. My wife is a civil engineer for a local company.

We bought a big fancy house a year ago because we wanted it and could afford it, plus both of us work from home most days and dedicated office space for both of us is key. Zero boats. We could maybe afford one but we'd sure be saving a whole lot less, if anything.

I'll never forget in the summer of 2016, only three years after I moved here, I had to drive my son up to camp in Burrillville every day for a week, and oh my God. I would estimate literally every third house had a Trump sign, and every second house had a "NO NEW POWER PLANT NORTHERN RI" sign, which made me really angry because every house with a Trump sign also had a power-plant sign, and Trump was the guy running on increasing energy production from pollutants.

Rocket to Mars on Broadway.

I once saw someone say, LONG before Covid, that Providence is a perfect example of how a city can do everything right and still not attract people downtown.

I grew up taking the Long Island Rail Road, which is electrified, and the first time I rode the Purple Line, I couldn't believe how slow it was.

Any Newport Restaurant Group restaurant is kid friendly. In Providence that's Hemenway's and Waterman Grille.

This got downvoted but they have the best PB&J I've ever had

I slightly prefer the fried-chicken spot (which despite the name has a lot more than fried chicken), but they're both great

I love that the first restaurant on your list is literally in Connecticut

Neither had I! I'm almost embarrassed after seeing the menu.

It's the respectful way to dispose of a flag!

I used to work there and would argue with my co-workers about it. "I don't get it, it doesn't seem that bad," I'd say. "There are murders here!" one of my co-workers shot back. I looked it up and it turned out there's usually either one or no murders in a typical year.

This is easy for me: Warwick. It seems to get shit on a lot, but it's got a ton of really attractive waterfront; a surprisingly large number of excellent parks (Goddard, Rocky Point, City Park, etc.); a number of excellent residential neighborhoods (Cowesett is my favorite in the entire state, Buttonwoods Beach is amazing, Potowomut, I could go on); the best big-box retail strip in the state terminating in the state's second largest mall; half of beautiful Pawtuxet Village.

People seem to put it down because of a few dead strip malls and mediocre schools (though people also say they're moving to Cranston for the schools, which are ranked essentially the same), and nobody likes living near the airport (though it can be really convenient, including commuter rail to Boston). I've lived in four places in my 10 years in RI and three of them have been in Warwick, and that wasn't an accident.

This is cool but there's actually a proposed light-rail system that goes past TF Green and terminates at CCRI, so I think this should cover that base, at least. Would be nice to extend it even further to Main Street East Greenwich.

I grew up on Long Island and moved here in part because it felt comfortable culturally to me.

I kinda like Gregg's but I still LOLed at this.

To me this is the purest "fancy-ass dinner" place in Providence.

There'll be a special election this year. But the seat isn't really at risk either way; RI-1 is even more left-leaning than RI-2, where Fung couldn't beat Magaziner last year despite a favorable national environment and being generally a stronger candidate.

That's a very modest commute by the standards of a lot of areas. I used to work in New York City and live in New York City, a two-minute walk from an express train, and it took me 45-60 minutes to commute eight miles to work depending on wait times and delays. Even here, I used to work in Cumberland and most people came from the Boston suburbs and had commutes of about an hour.

Wasn't the proposal that got canned a different location than the one that got approved? The failed one was Mulligan's Island, the new one is the old Citizens Bank offices, I think.

It's one of the best restaurants in town. The fried noodle rolls will blow your hair back.