Shawarma?

Borelli’s in Coventry has delicious ones. They have original, irish cream, and ricotta.

Da. Bucket.

Woonsocket, I’d also accept west warwick.

Pre-Covid yes, now not likely

Snow and coastline under $1500/mo?

With that budget you want the mountains of West Virginia.

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There is not. In some states there is rent control but RI doesn’t have rent control.

Actually I'm pretty sure there is a law in place already limiting the amount rent can increase in a given period of time. Like 5 or 10% or something

Absolutely west warwick

This is RI sir

You wouldn't find a Tupac hat in Chepachet. It would be a MAGA hat.

Palmieri’s

http://www.dpalmierisbakery.com/

Solitro’s:

http://www.solitrosbakery.com/

The Original Italian Bakery:

https://www.theoriginalitalianbakery.com/

I’m just kidding!! New England has so many fun things to do, you just got to go explore! Take drives, go for walks, go eat good food!

The Raq

Thats a low budget, try out in the sticks like Burrillville rather than the cities of Woonsocket and Central falls. You might find a good place, and its better than living in those dumps.

chepachet

Johnston

Central Falls

This chef says they are incredibly easy to make:

https://www.billyparisi.com/zeppole-recipe/

The breakdown is just the fact that I misused a single word so in good faith I'll just take that L. I was also very very tired at the time.

What are you actually looking for though? RI and CT have opportunities that range from being a 5 minute drive from a small city, to living in suburbs, to living quite rural. If you want to be within a 10 minute drive to a downtown as well as close to the water, yeah, that’s going to be expensive. I live just over the border of the Providence line (I own) and I occasionally look at Zillow for funsies and it’s crazy to me that I could theoretically rent my house for 2300 which is the rate in my neighborhood (I pay 1500 for my mortgage, bought in 2021). New England is an expensive place to rent in. We have a shit load of great colleges that are geared toward (let’s be real) rich white kids, and their parents will pay $$$ to rent for them, driving up prices. We have low crime, great schools, good hospitals…and in RI, you’re like an hour-ish from Boston, one to two hours from Cape Cod, three hours from NYC, and can drive to New Hampshire or Vermont for weekend mountain getaways, or up to Maine for a foodie weekend in Portland. Sorry for the long post, but I think it’s probably worth understanding that New England is not some secret place no one knows about. It’s a huge rich person summer playground depending on where you are. It can still be quite affordable in a lot of areas, but it’s going to be incredibly hard to find those opportunities from the west coast, because as someone else mentioned, everything here is “I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy.” And just so you know where I’m coming from, I’ve lived in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and now Rhode Island. If you think you might be moving to New England for the long haul, RI is, imo, probably the best investment just because of how centrally located it is from the major cities in the northeast. Much much easier to be here if you have the ability to WFH from one of the major cities.