Semantics and OP trying to justify bringing their kids to one but not the other

>How is it for children?

It's a place soley for buying and consuming alcohol, so not good

People still lounge around at malls?

The people who need to be embarrassed intro action are in the legislature, and after 2+ decades of watching the MBTA struggle with insufficient resources in various degrees, I doubt the FTA taking over would change anything

What would that have accomplished? The FTA taking over wouldn't have unlocked more resources for the MBTA, it simply would have forced the MBTA to use its existing resources to improve safety like it's currently doing. We're now seeing what happens when the MBTA starts to take safety more seriously while not having the resources in place to maintain service.

Canton and Norwood seem to check your boxes for having walkable areas, easy commutes to Boston, within 45 minutes of Milford, and don't require going through Boston to get to the Cape. Idk what their schools are like or if you can find housing that meets your needs for under $1 million, but it's somewhere to start looking at least

Gotta keep an eye out for poop over there though

I bet they hired Vito the handyman for this

It's walkable to downtown and the waterfront with a huge concentration of restaurants and other shops. If you don't care for it no one is forcing you to go there, but it's silly to act as if it's only for tourists.

I assume it's against their terms and conditions but idk how they would enforce it. I also wasted my free money on stupid parlays so I'll never find out

I don't think that's what they're describing, but rather if you bet one side on one app and the other side on another with free money, you're guaranteed to win. For example, if I put $25 on the Celtics to cover the spread on Draft Kings and $25 on their opponent to cover on Fanduel, it's a guaranteed win with no risk because the bets are made with free bonuses (assuming the spread/odds are the same on each site)

The average and median being above that doesn't tell us about the availability of apartments below those figures

Do you eat macaroni with a fork or a spoon?

I think the Common is better with this sculpture than with the half dead patch of grass it replaced

You can ask for whatever you want, but if you can't pay the up front costs right away then the landlord might think twice about renting to you

Is $5720 the broker fee or the total up front costs to move in? For a $1900/mo apartment I would assume it's the latter. Most apartments will cost 3-4 month's rent up front to move in (1 mo each for first month's rent, last month's rent, security deposit, and broker's fee). $5700 would equal 3 month's rent for this apartment, leaving the $20 for something else (new locks, application fee, etc.).

Like the other commenter said, it's kind of a weird location. It's not too far from all the new development in the area, but it's far enough out of the way that people who live/work there might not go on a regular basis. A lot of the other businesses there don't really bring in foot traffic which limits it even more, and the pike cuts it off from being more walkable from the other side of it. As that area gets more developed it will probably turn into a better location for a place like Brato.

Aside from all that, it was pretty mediocre. The food was good, but not necessarily good enough to draw in people from outside of the Brighton/Allston area, and the beer wasn't anything special compared to other beer in Boston. It also felt like it was trying to be both a restaurant and a tap room, which made me feel like it wasn't much of either. It was nice that they almost always had patio seating available when it was warm, but that wasn't a good sign for the businesses itself.

Agreed. I'm not a huge soccer fan either, but I'd probably go to a Revs game here and there if it didn't require going all the way to Foxboro, and an outdoor concert venue with more availability than Fenway would be awesome

I appreciate the responseand always forget to put their games on. Maybe one day Kraft will get his dream of a smaller soccer stadium closer to Boston and the Free Jacks can play there with more ticket options

I love rugby and would really like to see it grow in the US, but $35 for a standing room only ticket at the end of the field seems like a lot. Do their games sell out and are they strict about moving from SRO into the seated sections? It's hard to justify $35 for no seat with a bad view or $50+ for a seat at a low level rugby match (globally at least). For comparison to other lower level leagues, this about the same as it costs to see a Revs game and is significantly more than a Woo Sox game. You can even get Red Sox tickets at that price for certain games.

I accept your apology

Bro. No budget, no food preferences, no idea what your idea of "entertaining" is. McDonald's has room for 10 and the one in Allston attracts plenty of entertaining characters as the night goes on. Bring some nips and you got yourself a party

No problem, I did the best with what I had to work with

I'd start with places that have reservations available for 10 on a Saturday

Implementing rent control will make it more difficult for the city to attract developers to build new housing (see St. Paul for example). Reducing the quantity and quality of housing would make it more difficult for the city to continue growing. We can hope our local industries will keep raising salaries just enough keep their employees here like in San Francisco, but if they decide it's not worth it and leave then we could see the city end up like any of the rust belt cities that lost it's major industries and never recovered. Basically, it's very difficult for cities to maintain or improve their standard of living without growing, it's more difficult for them to continue to grow without enough housing for the people needed to keep that growth going.