My friend just rented a room in a 4 bedroom in Allston for $550/mo. I just helped her move. So.. I guess I don't know anything.

Maybe if you want to live in Newton.

OP says he wants to find a place and can't.

> healthcare and teeth and retirement are luxuries or not.

Def not, but plenty go without.

Sadly - 50% of wages is 'normal' these days. This place is FUCKED.

$1000 for a room gests you in a very nice place, look around tons of shared housing for half of that, if you look in more reasonably priced areas.

If you can afford $1000 / mo for rent there no reason for you to sleep in your car. Plenty of shared housing that would run you well below that. Posting over and over on Reddit probably isn't your best course of action. Easily find something for $5-600 withing the greater Boston.

I'm just saying there are probably way better places than Reddit to get help with your situation.

Dude this guy has been posting this for months. Sonething def ain't right.

Probably mental illness.

On the MA Jury website it says the only thing you need to bring is your jury duty summons doesn't mention ID at all.

I assume actual Federal Courthouses may have a requirement for anyone but a juror, I went jury duty at the Federal Court in Woburn and I don't remember if they even asked for ID, I still have the summons it also makes zero mention of an ID requirement.

Sorry the whole 'ID is not universally required' was escaping my pea-brain, but it's hard to function these days without one, and pushing back on getting a Real ID at this point is just dumb. It's literally bring two extra things when you renew.

It's current law to enter any federal building or airport (or other federally approved ID, witch I believe only counts Passports and Military issues IDs) but they pushed back the requirement date for MA (for like the 6th time) for all state issued IDs to be Real ID, it's now 2025, you won't be able to get anything else after then.

https://www.dhs.gov/real-id seems to say it's mandatory as of May 2025 now, and does say any state issued ID's need to be federally compliant.

TSA Complaint ID FAQ give me a Error 404, very helpful.

They've pushed the date back like 6 times, but yes eventually this will be mandatory.

Yep!

https://northeast.aaa.com/automotive/registry-services/massachusetts.html

And are not a requirement to get a real ID you have several other options.

https://www.mass.gov/guides/massachusetts-identification-id-requirements

Standard Passport fee is $165 and extra $30 if you want the card too. $60 extra for expedited services so the most you can pay is that.

Does AAA do Real IDs, i thought they didn't.

2018, then 2021, Then 2023, now deadline is to May 7, 2025.

Except that not how it works.

"The Real ID Act prohibits federal agencies from accepting driver licenses and identification cards issued by U.S. states and territories that do not satisfy certain standards, for the purposes of accessing federal government facilities and nuclear power plants and for boarding airline flights"

According to the feds you ARE legally obligated to get a Real ID tho, and have been for like 6 years. MA DMV needs to get their shit together and make it mandatory. This started in 2005 they've had almost 20 years. MA was originally supposed to be compliant by 2018.

If I groped a coworker at work I'd be fired on the spot.

He was on paid suspension.

Oops, this one was unpaid, Ive read way too many of these stories.

And still nobody needs snow tires because 'I have all wheel drive'

This is an unused parcel that is locked between a residential neighborhood in Waltham, rte 95, rte 2, and the Cambridge reservoir..

I never understood why they build them to dump the snow into the car lanes.

Some places have this already.

> This is a disused lot in Waltham.

Lexington, and there is already a powerline ROW there. so a huge swath of treeless space.