dskippy

dskippy t1_jdkdbw5 wrote

This is a very LGBT friendly place. I think the vast majority of the greater Boston area would love to have you. This is not going to change in the next four years, it's only getting better. Especially if you come and help.

Let me put in a pitch for my town, Somerville, which is a great place to live. We have a history of being extremely progressive and productive on protection for LGBT rights. We also just a few days also past a few bit of legislation protecting polyamorous family units as well. There are rainbow flags all over the place and businesses as well as homes.

Jamaica Plain and Cambridge are also pretty great but honestly I can't think of any place that would be a bad place to be queer in Boston.

One thing to know about Boston that most people don't know if they aren't from here is that we are a very old city and thus the town, city, district lines are drawn very small. This is a bit pedantic but it's worth understanding. It means that there are many places in Boston that are effectively part of the city (mid range urban, plenty of public transit, walkable, etc) that are technically different towns legally. So if you're thinking "oh we'd rather be in a city, not outside of Boston" just know that in most other American cities, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Everett, Newtown, and a dozen others would all just be Boston.

If you like a quieter slower pace and more rural areas, western mass and places like north Hampton and Pittsfield are beautiful and very queer as well.

Anyway, welcome. You should come here. It's great and we will all probably like you.

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dskippy t1_j9sojuz wrote

So just got to a party and you've been starving for hours but you were waiting to eat because you know the host makes really great party food. The moment you get in you see the buffet and also an incredibly attractive person approaches you and asks if you want to go upstairs right now and fool around. I don't need a scientist to explain to me how this is going to go.

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dskippy t1_j84v4g7 wrote

There are loads of walkable areas in and around Boston. Your posting to Cambridge and basically all of Cambridge is walkable and has access to public transit. The same is true of Boston and Somerville. Notice I say most. There are some little alcoves I don't think are great for car free life. But seriously you'd be hard pressed to find a spot in any of those three towns that are more than a mile from public transit and day to day resources.

I would check out "walk score" for any neighborhoods that come up as interesting to you.

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dskippy t1_j2lnfgr wrote

Sounds like you're getting mostly suggestions to not go through with your plan rather than an answer to the question about living in a car with a kid. In case you do end up wanting to still do it, you might get more experienced answers on r/vandwellers or r/vanlife. Despite the van centric names, it's common to have car and truck dwellers.

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dskippy t1_j1ke3uk wrote

Yes. If you want to know why the working class is feeling really squeezed to make ends meet these days, it's actually not a bad idea to follow the money. Where is it going? Who's been getting more and more and more money lately. Clearly handouts to poor people. Poor people have all the money. We solved it.

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dskippy t1_izmltu2 wrote

Republicans these days are so easily manipulated. It's sad. Ted Cruz can literally run a campaign on anti cancel culture and go on a cancel culture tour with Marjory Taylor Green and win this guy's vote. But they never realize that as much as they pander to the culture wars it's not a politicians job to fight the culture wars and what could they do about it? But the war in Christmas wages on in the hearts and minds of the media illiterate.

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dskippy t1_itwos61 wrote

Omg they have all the amenities. McDonalds?! Dollar Tree? Two Walgreens? What the fuck am I still doing in Camberville? Also what is a Big Y? Don't answer that. The fact that I didn't Google it shows I don't care enough about the answer and don't deserve one. Who's moving to Holden with me?

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