Totally down for better social safety nets and yeah that’s a huge plus for MA vs NH.

We’re also home to big pharma and healthcare so indirectly benefit from it at perhaps the expense of having serious discussions of universal healthcare.

It’s a weird place to be here, so much progressive potential but so much old money, corruption and nimbyism holding things back.

I intended that list more as a list of opportunities to improve things here and less of grievances but realize it may have come across poorly.

I’ve owned a business here and there is a LOT to be done to make things better for small business.

Don’t have to look far from Boston to see them closing and being forced further away… we get banks and chains now. I’ve lost count of shuttered local business in metro west.

The financial burdens to the little guys (but maybe not those in “need”) is astronomical these days. Something needs to change or folks won’t like where we end up.

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I just see the same tired Taxachusetts argument, old as Methuselah and just as fictitious. I paid more taxes as a percentage of income in WA, OR, CT. I paid WAYYY more for healthcare, home and car insurance, utilities, water, gas and groceries in FL, SC and GA. We have plenty of shortcomings in MA, who doesn't, but the fact is that we get a lot of bang for our buck, compared to most states. Particularly all the low-tax states that our tax dollars subsidize. I work in public service, caring for "invisible throw away people" (elderly, disabled, mentally ill) and we could always do better, but are doing light years better than any of the other 6 states across the nation I've lived and worked in. But that's not your cohort, so you don't see it. No offense and I hope you don't, but chances are someday you'll need some of the services we pay for and then you'll see the value.

Well it was about that time I realized this inmate was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the plethazoic era.

At some point this gets super unsafe, if they can't perform maintenance or replace parts/bulbs (or if they do it anyway on live lines). After a year, some higher authority needs to step in and resolve this ASAP, replacing the system if they have to.

A bird in the hand is the only thing keeping me from eating the food that is left in my house

A bird in the hand and the bird is the one who has a fly ride.

A bird in the hand is the best one ever to have

So we’re better than FL but can’t improve? They aren’t comparable and I never asserted as much.

MA has plenty of shortcomings and if you don’t see that I’d love some of what you’re smoking. Is it better than some areas? Absolutely. The bar isn’t very high if FL is your comp.

A bird in the hand is a bird in the mouth and a bird in the nose is a bird.

Maybe you should move to Florida with the rest of them. If you do the snowbird thing like all of my family's neighbors do, you can live in MA half the year and enjoy all the perks of a functioning society, and hang out in the cockroach heaven of Florida the other half, for no income taxes. Down here helping out a sick family member caught up in a sick underfunded system right now, and you're deluding yourself if you think less is gonna be more. We have an amazing quality of life in MA, and we take care of each other. Don't believe the hype- it's not any cheaper in Florida- and if you need any sort of help, ever, it's fuck you you're on your own. Same goes for NH. Live Free or Die means if it ain't free, go ahead and die. My aunt just died of cancer up there and it was unnecessarily stressful and unpleasant. Worst kind of blessing that she went fast, as it was all pain, suffering and fighting for any little scrap of help. We get what we pay for, and must experience true lack before we can appreciate anything.

A bird in the hand of the devil and a man of his own heart and a woman who has a very good sense for the human mind is the one that will make the world go by.

Massachusetts has significantly fewer deaths from firearms than the Northern New England states.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm

It's the 2nd lowest rate in the country after Hawaii.

How about 3.50?

A bird in the hand is not a big deal.

That’s what I got, too. Weird! What happens if you keep going?

A bird in the hand is bird in the mouth and the bird in the nose is the bird in the middle of the mouth and the birds are the bird in the throat and the bird is the bird is the bird is a bird in the head and the bird eats the bird in the stomach and the bird has a bird in the front mouth and the mouth is the bird eats it and the bird eat it and the birds eat it and it eats it.

Wtf

Maybe they shouldn’t have asked for a 3 story school they only had to pay 1/2 of…?

I visited Boston once, nice place mean people.

A bird in the hand is a bird in the mouth

Hard to believe your argument about having the best schools.

They probably just gave up on the breakers.

Less outrageous than real life.

Here's my favorite real life court transcript, read by rick and morty: https://youtu.be/7vN_PEmeKb0

A bird in the hand is a human being who has been living for the longest time and has never been touched before

Wow, what a fuster cluck! I thought crap like this only happens in large cities and smaller towns and cities were better run.

A bird in the hand is the most common form in humans of the world but the most important is a human bird in a bird in a human mouth or an elephant on a human ear.