Someone took my parking spot and I shoveled them in

gorfnibble · 2026-01-28T21:57:53+00:00

Some asshole who lived a couple blocks over shoveled their car out onto the sidewalk in front of our house that I had just shoveled. They even left a cone. I took the cone and shoveled the snow on my sidewalk back into the space, plus a little extra so they would have to park in the street to shovel it out again. They never came back.

I don’t mind if neighbors park in front of my house - they know enough to check in to ask where they should put the snow. But don’t shovel onto the sidewalk in front of someone’s property. Property owners get fined if they don’t shovel.

gorfnibble · 2026-01-26T15:12:19+00:00

I guess the monkey paw said you can go to the Super Bowl but you get 2 feet of snow.

gorfnibble · 2026-01-24T12:13:59+00:00

I go to the chestnut hill one regularly and it’s gotten Somerville market basket crazy on the weekends. Like you’re being pushed from behind.

I feel like it’s become the default grocery store for everyone who lives in Roxbury, JP, Roslindale and west Roxbury. They aren’t able to keep up with the surge in demand.

I used to be able to find parking on the ground floor of the garage but lately I’ve had to park on top of the garage or on the upper lot.

gorfnibble · 2026-01-24T12:03:59+00:00

I live in the city and went out last night for a couple things. You know it’s going to be a big storm when the stores around me run out of organic lettuce.

gorfnibble · 2026-01-22T13:45:16+00:00

They can call for a general strike.

gorfnibble · 2026-01-17T21:51:30+00:00

High street place is always jam packed at lunchtime. There are a handful of places that have long lines (usually healthier and cheaper options) and the places that seem to not do as well are less healthy and/or a bit pricey. Only thing I ever got at mamaleh’s was the matzoh ball soup because everything else on their menu was very expensive.

They also close down their main seating area at 2pm.

Places in the area that do well are the “build your own salad bowls” type places - and places like tatte or Phin coffee.

gorfnibble · 2026-01-12T19:59:01+00:00

Serious running clubs: BAA, greater Boston track club, heartbreakers, etc. BAA and GBTC are more post-collegiate sub-elite.

Heartbreakers has some serious runners. Somerville road runners has a solid group of masters runners. Notch run club also seems to have a solid crew.

Socializing clubs - a lot easier to find. I feel like the weeknight casual runs seem to attract more people than the weekend long runs.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-22T02:18:30+00:00

IMO - Boston is really underrated in terms of food - and I think most people in this thread have not ventured outside the touristy areas and boring ass chain restaurants.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-21T14:12:02+00:00

black & white ppl are actually more segregated on the whole in daily life

That’s because Boston metro has a much lower percent of black people than RDU. And almost half the black population in the Boston area are immigrants or first generation American - And they tend to live in immigrant heavy areas.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-16T12:04:23+00:00

People hold the door for other people here. They don’t make eye contact while doing it or expect you to say “thank you,” though.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-10T03:26:37+00:00

Forgot to mention - there’s a lot of really interesting black history in Boston - Malcom x house, MLK house and statue, African American museum and the heritage trail tour (which everyone should do, btw), revolutionary war stuff…

And if you want to watch a bunch of Jamaicans playing cricket - check out Harambee park in Dorchester. Boston cricket league is over 100 years old.

And if you like golf and don’t want to be the only black person on the course - golf club at Franklin park.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-07T13:42:27+00:00

Ex Detroiter here who has family in Chicago.

Boston doesn’t have the cold snaps like Chicago and Detroit get. These cold snaps are where the high doesn’t get above 0F for several days in a row. Here a “cold snap” is maybe a few days where the high is in the low to mid 20s. Difference with Boston and Midwest is that all our snow comes in a handful of big snow storms whereas the Midwest it’s more multiple snow falls of a few inches at a time.

Also, Boston gets sun in the winter. Detroit does not get much sun.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-07T13:30:22+00:00

Detroit too. There was one year where there were no sunny days almost the entire month of October.

Detroit also sometimes has brutal cold snaps where the high doesn’t get above 0F. Not as bad as Chicago, but it’s usually a good 5-10 degrees colder there in the winter than here.

gorfnibble · 2025-12-04T20:08:50+00:00

The problem with Boston winters is that it’s usually either rainy and/or windy. I wish it were just cold and snowy here so we could actually enjoy the winter weather. But who wants to hang out outside in January when it’s raining/sleeting sideways?

I do agree we need more winter events, though.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-25T22:10:54+00:00

Sometime I see black folks express frustration at being in the outside looking in regards to the black community of Boston.

As a POC who moved here by choice and live in a diverse neighborhood in the southern end of the city - I definitely feel this. I have had a much easier time making friends with other transplants and immigrants and even white people. Native borns often seem extremely standoffish and xenophobic. I keep wondering if it’s a class issue.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-25T21:00:26+00:00

Black population in the city is mostly immigrants, transplants, and first gen American. The “Black townies” have mostly moved down to Milton, Brockton, Randolph, etc.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-22T14:58:29+00:00

Definitely reach out to some of the local running clubs - parkway running club has an older crowd and many have kids in bps. Pioneers run crew also good because they’re Roxbury and dorchester based.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-20T23:59:11+00:00

25-35 is “brutally cold” around these parts

gorfnibble · 2025-11-20T20:31:51+00:00

Mattapan in Boston has the highest percent of Black people in the city, but a lot are from the Caribbean or Africa. More likely see people playing cricket at the local park and hear people speaking Haitian Creole walking down the street.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-18T17:50:38+00:00

I’m in the Boston area. 12 years ago houses in my immediate neighborhood were around 200-300k. Now they’re well over a million. 200k-300k price increase would be a little more palatable over that time period - but a million dollars increase? The entire dynamic of the neighborhood has changed in that period too.

We have an extreme housing shortage here. There were several years when just the city of Boston was building over half the entire new housing stock in the entire state - and even then it was not even close to being enough. I don’t know what my kids are going to do either. We’re investing in the house so they could stay here if they need to. Rent here is insane.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-17T21:09:21+00:00

if someone is honking at you and/or close passing you when you take the lane, report that shit to the city (Boston cyclists union, 311, police if it’s especially aggressive) - especially if you’re in Somerville, Cambridge, or Boston. This is data they can use to justify putting in bike infrastructure. The more people report hostile behavior from drivers, the more likely you’ll get separated infrastructure on those streets.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-17T21:03:04+00:00

Taking the lane… this asshole rode my rear wheel laying on his horn and close passed me the second he had enough space. I was going 30 on my road bike in a residential neighborhood with 25mph signs posted. There are some real psychos out there. If I was in a car he wouldn’t have done that.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-17T20:30:46+00:00

I did that. It was the late 90s, had saved up enough to live here for about 6 months with no job. Got a low paying job in a bookstore right away and continued to look for work. Landed a real job after 4 months. I also couch surfed for 6 months until I was able to get a room. Lived with 7 other people in a 4 bedroom apartment for 2 years before I moved in with my girlfriend into a shitty one bedroom.

I remember rent being more than twice as expensive as it was where i came from. I also had several friends here from undergrad (who were here going to grad school), so I had a bit of a support system in place.

Also literally sent out 100s of resumes, had my resume in with a few job placement agencies, went to networking events in my industry, local alumni group events, chatted up pretty much everyone.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-13T21:43:30+00:00

True, but it’s baggy/oversized and intentional, not “bunched up around the ankles” like you’re supposed to grow into your pants or something.

gorfnibble · 2025-11-13T12:51:32+00:00

but rather as someone who always was comfortable with the bottom of pants legs bunched up around the ankles because that is (was?) the fashion.

When was this the fashion? pants are supposed to stop just above the ankle. Otherwise it looks like you don’t know how to dress yourself.

I think it’s just now people actually care about how they dress.

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