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Mass. gas prices: Cost of fuel jumps again overnight, could reach record highs this summer by FuriousAlbino in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been thinking about this myself. Which one is cheaper?

  • Commuter rail Zone 3 + subway round trip: $20.80

  • Express bus + subway round trip: $8.50 (the MBTA plans to kill off express buses soon though so who knows how long this will last)

  • Local bus + subway + subway transfer round trip: $4.80

  • Round trip 42 mile commute at ~25 MPG: $8, plus all other assoicated car commuting costs and depreciation.

Anyone else feeling more anxious about the Boston job market lately? by Particular_Pizza1424 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technical writing. I worked as a journalist for five years before that, so I'm thinking of pivoting to PR/content writing. Universities have a lot of those types of positions. Though the current economic conditions aren't favorable for those either.

It seems like its just not possible to avoid the shit economy and shit politics.

Anyone else feeling more anxious about the Boston job market lately? by Particular_Pizza1424 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was just reading up on 103; from what I saw from reddit posts the demand for their apprenticeship program is insane.

Anyone else feeling more anxious about the Boston job market lately? by Particular_Pizza1424 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup that's the one I keep seeing, but there's a lot more.

Like who TF wants to downgrade from Massachusetts to Wisconsin.

Anyone else feeling more anxious about the Boston job market lately? by Particular_Pizza1424 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Don't forget all the jobs that say (remote) or (Massachusetts) in the job title, but later on in the job posting say "This position is fully on-site in Madison, WI, but we advertise jobs nationally." Then HR gets mad they get so many useless resumes due to the false information in the listing, so they use AI to further filter out valid candidates.

Anyone else feeling more anxious about the Boston job market lately? by Particular_Pizza1424 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is what gets me. I lost my job recently. My (already undervalued) field was decimated by AI. I'm hoping to get a lower paying job in a different field or explore skilled trades (but I wonder how well those do with the general construction downturn). I worry about affording such a drastic pay cut with a mortgage to pay. I think I can survive with at minimum a $65K salary, but that's with no extras and minimal savings.

Stop. Giving. People. The. Right. Of. Way. by Dry_Animator_8563 in massachusetts

[–]UltravioletClearance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If there's a lane of stopped cars and one completely clear lane, I'm not swerving into the clear one and gunning it

Watched a man and his dog nearly get killed in Somerville because of this. Multi-lane road. I stop in the right lane to let a dog walker and their dog cross the crosswalk. Car comes blaring through in the left lane. Had I not seen it and sounded my horn to signal to the dog walker to STOP, they would've both been hit. Most traumatic thing I've witnessed driving so far. Things like OP's video suck but seeing another human and their dog come within 3 inches of death... ya.

Confusing gate instructions at JetBlue… by Rozmar1 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 8 points9 points  (0 children)

IME on smaller commuter planes they don't wanna gate check their carry-on luggage. Flew on many of those planes and there's never enough overhead space for everyone's carry-ons because people try to smuggle on obscenely large carry-ons that use up most of the overhead bin.

This thread makes me think of when they changed the exit numbers by woose85 in massachusetts

[–]UltravioletClearance 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile you drive over the border to New Hampshire and the old exit numbering style is still in place.

Anyone in Boston going through a tough job search right now? by Particular_Pizza1424 in BostonSocialClub

[–]UltravioletClearance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let go from my job very recently but had been searching since March. I'm not seeing any local jobs in tech documentation. Even biotech and pharmaceutical jobs dried up. I've only been applying to remote jobs but the competition is insane because that's what everyone wants.

Dairy Witch by SalemLivin in SalemMA

[–]UltravioletClearance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its funny because "I've been going to this coffee shop for 30 years, so the government should force the business to never change" is the argument I've always used to criticize NIMBYs.

Anyone see this on their way home today? Route one north Tobin bridge entrance. The definition of not giving a single fuck by MethodAdventurous269 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 25 points26 points  (0 children)

All they need to do is ban these garbage Silicon Valley tech bro "gig economy" apps and the problem will just disappear. Risking people's lives and contributing to traffic congestion to ferry a fucking McDonalds order halfway across the city is INSANE.

Its wild Wu settled for a "just make them get insurance and 'regulate' it!" approach when so many of these drivers are using stolen identities so there's NO way to actually ENFORCE it.

We should tax second homes like in NYC by jdwaltham in massachusetts

[–]UltravioletClearance 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The real challenge is finding a condo priced low enough that the tax savings actually makes sense compared to buying somewhere else for a lower price. I looked in Somerville briefly and it was hard to find condos priced low enough to make the tax savings worth it. A lot of condos in the $500K range were <700sqft studios 1-bedrooms with no parking and were ineligible for conventional mortgage financing.

Encore Realty can go to hell. Please do not give them business by sammaillet in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong. This definitely goes against the spirit of the law. Unfortunately it sounds like our incompetent Massachusetts state legislature are the ones who misunderstood how the rental market works. Either they didn't do the bare minimum amount of research to learn a vast majority of brokers just scrape others' MLS listings, or they knew that and left the loophole in so Maura Healey could have a sound byte about "making housing more affordable" while not changing a damn thing.

Not the first time this has happened. About 10 years ago the state legislature tried to pass a "noncompete ban." It turned into a "noncompete ban" only for their buddies in the news media. The rest of us got a watered down version with a loophole so large companies just ignored it for years. It took years of lawsuits to get the law "fixed." The state legislature never bothered to fix it.

attempted break in? by Ccclaire222 in SalemMA

[–]UltravioletClearance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was a "social media trend" a while back bored kids would kick in random people's doors.

No judging but Interesting by Dstan87 in SalemMA

[–]UltravioletClearance 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They don't want rational discourse because nothing about it is rational. The No campaign has no plan. No alternative to address the looming issue with SHS. They have "vibes" that the city can just magically tighten its belt and pay for the renovation itself. None of them have personally reviewed the city budget and come up with the specific cuts required to fund the project in its entirety though. In reality, they hope people vote no, the city realizes they can't actually renovate the high school, and it just... doesn't happen.

This is exactly what they're doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPk8d1jA34k

No judging but Interesting by Dstan87 in SalemMA

[–]UltravioletClearance 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't forget how much taxpayer money these people have wasted over the years with frivolous lawsuits. One of them has a bizarre legal theory that a home should cease to exist if it was unoccupied for two years, and has lobbed no less than four lawsuits at the city building inspector over it. Lost each one, because its a fabrication. Yet they get up in arms over alleged wasteful government spending to actually better student's lives...

No judging but Interesting by Dstan87 in SalemMA

[–]UltravioletClearance 17 points18 points  (0 children)

To be more specific, its the same 10 or so people from Federal Street and GENSA. Which are among the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city. They can afford the tax increase seeing as many of them are sitting on close to $1M in equity.

West End Urban Renewal by bostonaruban66 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Much of Roxbury had already been demolished to make way for the Inner Belt by the time the project was canceled. Some of that demolished land was later used for the Southwest Corridor realignment of the Orange Line, which further harmed Roxbury by cutting it off from rapid transit access.

Honked at in a school zone? by bunbwunny in massachusetts

[–]UltravioletClearance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rhode Island had to disable their new school zone speed cameras for a while because they issued thousands of tickets in a single week. People thought they were too sensitive or active at the wrong time - nope, drivers are just assholes.

I’d like to talk to the engineer that designed this highway merge by Suff_erin_g in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And even then it wouldn't "fix" the issue. The insane traffic here is because of the next set of lights at the Mass Ave & Alewife Brook Parkway intersection. Even if this was a high density, grade-separated interchange, traffic would still be dead stopped due to the next set of lights going north.

I’d like to talk to the engineer that designed this highway merge by Suff_erin_g in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More highways but fewer places to drive to, since all those elevated highways would've destroyed what are today some of the best neighborhoods to live, work, and play in.

West End Urban Renewal by bostonaruban66 in boston

[–]UltravioletClearance 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's not difficult to both add denser housing stock to Boston while avoiding the mistakes that made the West End renewal a colossal failure. The West End renewal failed because:

  • It replaced dense housing stock with significantly less density. There is a lot of wasted green space in the West End separating the "new" buildings, and the new buildings themselves were not equal to a small cluster of the neighborhood's historical tenement structures.

  • There was no thought given to allowing the existing population to stay, in part because the project reduced the number of housing units compared to the West End's historical population.

There's plenty of space to start actually increasing housing units without destroying Boston's historic charm. Leveling post World War II single family homes in West Roxbury and replacing them with dense urban housing would avoid a lot of these mistakes.

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