I'm all for poking fun at other states.

But there's a difference between "poking fun" and assuming that everyone in the South is a redneck idiot.

Built my house a year ago, went with R5 continuous exterior insulation + R21 cavity with ducted Mitsubishi Hyper Heat pumps. Make sure your HVAC contractor knows what he's doing, mine didn't and the units are more than double the BTUs I need. This results in the system cycling a lot & crazy electric bills (last month $660) for heating only 2200sf... Otherwise it's a way better system purely because you never even notice when it's running unlike a furnace. The fans can be set extremely low if you buy a good unit.

Got Mitsubishi minisplits at our place last year which I found out no longer qualify for the rebate. Put a Bosch system in to replace an old AC ducted system literally yesterday at our rental and made damn sure the AHRI is on the qualified list this time.

Def nice to have a nat gas boiler on extremely cold days. The efficiency of even the best HP today drops significantly the colder it gets. I’d go IBC combi if you need both a water heater and gas boiler. We have oil heat and I plan on removing the tank and boiler down the road or converting to wood pellets.

I believe in 2023 you can get 750 back for a heat pump water heater as well which can also help control humidity in a basement.

Means testing is generally a waste of resources. If it's free, it should be free . No need for a costly bureaucracy that costs more than the simple inclusive option.

Mitsubishi H2i is the king of heat pumps

$10,000 rebate? I thought the federal program was only for pumps installed in 2023?

Lawrence is closer to Methuen but is really dangerous. At south station you can get on the commuter rail (purple line) and get off in Andover, which is a billion times safer than setting one foot into Lawrence.

You can’t call yourself an adult and have cartoon pony porn all over your profile.

I don’t feel bad for Judith, you can get in your car and drive south like any common sense individual would do to not live in a car. Or heck even better, north! Rural NH

Fuck off. Just admit you made a bunch of terrible life mistakes. You are the reason why communities are falling apart.

This is such short sighted privileged thinking.

I honestly don’t remember what the street is called, but I do believe it is to the south of beacon.

The things that make MA nice for locals make it nice for immigrants too. You would need protectionist policies and to limit immigration significantly to house everyone even if we built like crazy. This is impractical being the state with the most colleges driving a huge influx of young talent every year.

Excellent.

Newark to Methuen. Sounds like a drug deal to me.

Emergency shelters are overwhelmed and the waiting lists for subsidized permanent housing are years long. This state is in the midst of a housing crisis that requires institutional level intervention. Individuals cannot be expected to just beat the system on their own.

Different states are not interchangeable. Massachusetts has unique features that make living here desirable, plus people should not be forced to leave their home communities because of housing costs. We should make it affordable to live in Massachusetts instead of telling everyone who isn't rich to just leave.

nicely done.

i got a question.

i only lived in brookline till i was 4ish years old but i recall having to go upstairs after going through the front door. i’m guessing the bottom floor was a home our were upstairs. are there homes like that there?

Beautiful! Do you sell prints and if so do you have a website?

"Reasonable" my ass. A law that bans manufacture of guns to be sold out of state is not reasonable. Imagine telling a lab in Boston they cannot do research for use out-of-state and see how quickly they'd run away.

Hush now honey, the adults are talking.

Fuck S&W, they chose to shutter the factory instead of simply complying with a very reasonable law.

hey buddy :)

Beautiful!

This works way better, you’ll get 15 different answers and then you’ll have to do even more work to find out what the easiest way is