Ever wonder why deep blue Massachusetts has the best quality of life by every metric? And why deep red states are always much worse?

Pretty sure it’s $2.90 Cumbys Plainville with Smart Pay.

My husband and I bought our house a little over 2 years ago and it’s increased in value almost $100K for no reason at all. Our friends can’t find anything even remotely comparable to what we bought our house for and they’re better off than we are… it’s just super unfortunate

Same. Our household income is $120k, yet we're still struggling to save between price gouging, 3k rent, etc. We have decent savings, but we can't grow it to keep pace with the 10% needed for down-payment. I got outbid on so many properties by $50k each time early on during the pandemic that we basically gave up. Hoping we can snag a condo, this year because our landlord's trying to get rid of us to renovate and we really don't want to rent anymore.

it will fall at least 10-20%, rentals are already offering 1-3 free months in order to not drop their monthly rates in their reports to their investors.

I happily anticipate the hard landing.

93 premium is at $3.79 at the BJs gas on route 9/route20 area in Northborough.

99% are based on the yard signs

You are probably right. However, not everyone that lives in Harvard is on the left.

Damn, we bought in 2021 and that was pretty bad. I thought the market was cooling?

2.99 in the station i go near in that area

Years ago, I lived in Braintree and the NIMBYs were intolerable. At one session opposing high density housing development near the T Stop, some imbecile described Braintree as a “rural community that shouldn’t be developed.” Yeah. A rural community with a major subway stop, commuter rail hub, interstate connector/intersection, ginormous shopping mall and a couple commuter rail stations.

And the worst part was when she said “we need to save the town for the people who live here and our children.” Imagine if someone had told her that when she wanted to have her house built in 1982.

I understand that the state has since stepped in and mandated higher density zoning near all commuter rail stops, but I’m not holding my breath for affordable housing to appear.

Yeah my grandma is really confused why I bought a house in springfield when all of my family is on the south coast. Meanwhile, she voted to limit new housing construction.......

My SO and I are in the same exact situation. Both struggling to save between rent, student loans, utilities, and everything else...

Not sure how the fuck we are supposed to save up 30 grand to put down on a house. Just feels so fucking impossible

Bigfoot

The rich libtards that live there don’t care.

Exactly why my husband and I stopped searching. I feel your pain.

$2.89 in Brockton

I was thinking more of a theoretical condo that they still won’t allow to be built 😁

And am also thinking of the larger Boston Metro; young people simply cannot afford these prices and they will leave.

watch 'Sachs Realty' on YouTube - he says prices are going down already and will go down (although maybe not in the Northeast), because everyone is SPENDING too much in general and people can't afford this, or to repair and keep up the huge houses they bought. So in 3 years we will have a repeat of 2008, it is just starting now though. Personally, I would wait for this house to do price drops and then offer $250,000 and put in $100,000 in repairs to make functionable - https://www.redfin.com/MA/Attleboro/25-Dailey-St-02703/home/15969095 Then you have a house for $350,000 near two high ways..

In Weston, $600k is a teardown.

Whoa

Don't worry about those sounds, they're harmless. Just, uh, keep your doors locked. For peace of mind, y'know

If remote work is dialed back, housing near the commuter rail will go parabolic.

In RI, we are already seeing housing prices grow as people squeezed out of Mass migrate west and south but still within commuting distance.

We could solve this pretty easily. Allow new construction of higher density housing.

All the “Stop the Weston Whopper” people have guaranteed that their kids will all leave the area because a starter home is $600K.