The high tomorrow is 40° and then on Sunday it'll be 45°, don't skate on any natural ponds in the 36 hours between

Yeah they don't work for free anywhere else either, but it's just in Boston that they work entirely for the landlord but get paid by the tenant.

Yeah this is right- when I got my first apartment in college with 2 roommates, we got the bog-standard Boston lease with brokers fee/last month up front. We all sent it to our parents to check if it looked reasonable, and our parents (PA, CA, WA) were like "all seems normal except this extra month of rent for no reason???" pretty much exactly like OP said.

Not sure about if Chameleon is still open in the garage, but I learned at Halloween SomerStreets that when the Garage closes, Chameleon will move to a new location in Union Square- so at least it won't be gone forever

This mf eating unseasoned turkey filled with no-additions box stuffing

We get ours from Restaurant Depot but you need a membership for that. Last I checked, the Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge (near fresh pond, not the tiny Kendall one) sells the same block chocolate as Restaurant Depot. It's great quality but especially from Formaggio it's expensive. I would give them a call.

Buying insurance takes like 30 minutes with a license and a website that guides you through it step by step, whereas becoming a legal resident of the US takes months or years and involves complex bureaucratic hoops, lengthy scheduled meetings, and at the end a high likelihood of rejection. Hope this helps

OP has made several posts in the past few days (under different accounts, since he keeps getting banned) all about the superiority of suburbs over Cambridge/Somerville/Brookline. He's specifying this suburb because I think he's living in Worcester and either just bought, or is considering buying, in Holden. His trademarks are being obsessed with how the city is both a ghetto and full of $2mil homes, and SUPER concerned with how many people are driving a brand new sports car

Look at it. Your house would be a waste of space for a childless couple. Most families are one couple in the city and a small cat or dog. You have to ride your "luxury" car prone to explosions and deal with the distance and the traffic while I have the luxury of my cool bike and getting exercise while I commute in Cambridge in my prime-location 1000 sqft condo.

Look at this:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/41-Somerset-Ln-Holden-MA-01520/57600118_zpid/

Looks garbage

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3-Crawford-St-APT-9-Cambridge-MA-02139/56430820_zpid/

Majestic and beautiful

While you have to see your ugly and crappy too-large house in nowheresville and being broke from rising gas prices, I get to do a monthly payment on this beautiful condo, ride my bicycle and commute less than 30 minutes, and still pay less than your suburb house and car and gas payments. I even get to not create meaningless e-waste

I live in the Boston area and love Cambridge as not only is houses there so great location, they also have very good public schools, apartments of many sizes depending on your need, bikeway access to Somerville, Boston, and Brookline, close to Boston, close to work, as well as having a lot of decent parks and walking spaces and biking spaces.

Why would people buy a house in Holden, MA that is way too big for them, takes forever to clean and to mow the lawn, and that has 100 rooms they’ll never use since all their friends live 50 miles away? Instead they could live in a walkable, center of industry, easily maintainable condo in the Boston suburb of Cambridge? In Cambridge, you basically get nearly the same benefits, but even more so including the fact that there is a better public school system, bigger houses, more bike paths, more walkability, fresh air, close to the city, close to work, close to the highway, as well as no need to own a car, so no need to worry about parking meter maids. Also, there is that place in Central i forget the name of as well so you could buy organic food without having to worry about Whole Foods being expensive and Holden, MA ditching all mom and pop food stores in favor of Dollar Tree and Wal-Mart.

Holden is too overpriced, given it is a wasteland of suburban sprawl and the public school is absolutely trash, parking is expensive, prices are so damn high for housing, it has no fresh air, nothing. No reliable old cars, only spending $2k/mo on a new car payment, while in Cambridge (Boston suburb), people get a cool 1996 Honda Civic.

Well some strategies are, for example, getting people into long-term housing (instead of into temporary and restrictive homeless shelters), providing basic needs like food and clothing, and otherwise addressing the problems that cause people to be on the street and chronically homeless. Those are all the purview of social workers, though. The other approach would be to just lock people up, at expense to the state and with basically no chance of long-term behavioral change. Is that what you'd suggest? (Also safe injection sites are not on the street they are indoors???)

The idea of harm reduction strategies like needle exchanges and safe injection sites isn't to get people to go to to rehab, it's to keep them from getting HIV and hepatitis and dying from overdose.

Weird! I voted early at Somerville City Hall yesterday, and my bf voted by mail, but neither of us had questions 5 and 6.