I lived in Union Wharf in 92, it was flooding then.

In the past and present, the water receded back. In the future it won't.

Build the wall is going to get a whole new meaning

There's a relevant XKCD for that

Looks like venice

As a former mover, is for aaaaalll Boston/Mass area.

that's the PG-rated preview of the future

End of August and September are the most competitive for pretty much anywhere in MA. June is also rough due to all the medical residents moving in/out in the Boston area (they can be anywhere inside the 95 stretch.)

I actually had my best luck in starting a lease in July when I was looking in the summer. Actually got discounted rent for the year because so few people were looking.

FWIW I've been on lots of the beaches and never been arrested or anything so go for it anyways

Yes, greater Boston and Massachusetts generally follow a September move in schedule.

Luxury new construction apartment buildings will have leases expiring year round, but most small mom and pop operations will be September 1st move in.

Nope, no announcement. The train just went to alewife, so I stayed on and it stopped at Davis and Porter on the way inbound.

Oh my.

No utilities included is pretty common, especially in double/triple deckers where it's easy to hook things up separately for meters which is required to shuffle the cost of utilities onto the tenant.

As for why the broker won't provide proof of the utilities, that's probably because the landlord/broker aren't the ones paying the utilities. I imagine the best they could do is ask the current tenants for a copy of their last bill, but that's not something they generally do.

Since it's oil heat though, you could probably get the size of the tank and how often it's generally filled from the landlord/broker. Use that to call a few heating oil suppliers in the area for quotes on how much filling a tank of that size would cost this time of year. That should get you a fairly accurate estimate. YMMV though because you may use more or less heat/hot water/etc so I'd just toss on a bit extra to really be safe budget wise.

i'm gonna go with "yes"

Yep. Trains and busses will often run "express" routes if there is a backup of busses/trains behind the current one. It's fairly common on the Green Line going outbound when they don't load Branch manage well. Gotta love seeing tons of people waiting on the D platform at Park St and see 3 E trains go by.

Yep. I remember walking through Seaport and just looking at the walls and going: "that's gonna start flooding a lot within a decade.

Mayor Wu really needs to start building Sea walls. To fit with the "big dig" naming convention I reckon we should call it the "tall wall" and get 100 billion in federal funding.

Having lived in beacon hill before moving to back bay I find it to be amazing. Beacon hill was hell. I haven’t spent longer than 10 min looking for a spot since I moved here five years ago. (not including street sweeping days which can be a nightmare you just gotta pay a meter for 90 min)

That's an issue of infrastructure, maintenance, etc. Plenty of snowy countries in Europe maintain their bike paths and bike lanes year round.

Though the commenter is being a of a dick I'll admit - it's not like everyone can bike long distances, or will when we've built suburbs sprawling out for tens of miles. Ideally we would have developed the core metro, built up a strong transit network, and walking/cycling/micro mobility in general would be easier if people had 2 mile commutes instead of 20 mile ones.

marriot long wharf

It’s not “whether it happened” it’s how frequently.

Boston had more high tide tide flooding days between 2010 and 2020 than it had in the previous forty five years.

If you value safety at all don’t drive in a city. Pedestrians, cyclists and T riders don’t kill people, only drivers do.

The warning was there over five years ago when FEMA updated their flood maps.

It's also been the past too

So is foreign currency exchange rate. (0.0077 USD = 1 JPY in early January, now 0.0084 USD = 1 JPY).