Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

mandapanda2891 OP t1_j4nq31y wrote

I appreciate this! I have been on the generic this whole time, but I may ask them to price the brand name with my next fill, cause when I did it myself on their site (which who knows if it’s even accurate) it was actually cheaper for the brand name than it was for the generic.

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Yestattooshurt t1_j4nmu6h wrote

Honestly we have 3 grocery stores within like 2 miles. Stop and shop is constantly out of like broccoli and green beans, Shaws has half rotten produce on the shelves, market basket is the only one fully stocked, but it’s so much of a shitshow to even walk in there that it’s barely worth going.

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runninginsquare_s t1_j4ngvd4 wrote

No way! Is that how that works????? /s

What is shitty is that these house values have been hyper inflated to values that just are not true. My house went from 300k to 450k in less than two years. It isn't worth that. I am sure the value will sharply decline to its actual value again, but I am positive that town won't be so sharply declining my taxes with it.

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Graflex01867 t1_j4ngckw wrote

Apples were effected by the drought - they didn't really rot, but with less water, they didn't grow as large.

Potatoes - don't shop on Sunday afternoon with everyone else.

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highlander666666 t1_j4ndddt wrote

The house prices are nuts! I wonder how first time buyers do it..The houses were selling so fast. There are not that many good paying jobs round so how people coming up with half million for A nothing special ild home ? Every thing has gone up crazy!! food prices eggs $5 dozz ??? electric bill! it is crazy!!!

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MediumDrink t1_j4nb7lk wrote

2% interest rates may have been needed in areas of the country hit hard by Covid, but they destroyed the housing market in places like Massachusetts with serious housing shortages and high rents where most of the jobs kept right on trucking and just moved to work from home. There was a 2 fold effect. First off, since there aren’t now and haven’t been for years as many single family homes as there are people who want to buy them, the bidding wars we’ve been seeing on every decent house for the last 20 years spiked up because people could suddenly spend more money and keep the same monthly payment. And secondly with the housing market booming and rents remaining high it became almost a no brained for middle aged people with enough liquid retirement money to put down 20% to outbid young people trying to buy starter homes by offering “all cash” (they were actually taking out mortgages but had enough economic stability and extra funds available that they didn’t need mortgage contingencies on their offers) for the condos those young people should have been buying and then renting them back to the same people at rents so high they were making more money off that 20% down after paying their mortgage, any upkeep and hiring a property manager to take care of their tenants to do way better than they would have done if they left that money in stocks. It’s an awful situation that we will be feeling the effects of for a generation.

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