I feel like if you do something significantly better than DD’s, Starbucks, etc. then it won’t even matter where you are. None of the chain coffee places have decent donuts, if you can excel at that you can take a fair market share regardless of location.

I am a millennial in a SE MA town and would prefer to deviate from the chains. Good food and/or cozy space and/or community events are a great way to set yourself apart. Host book clubs, mom groups, advertise a TON in the mom Facebook groups and you should have a golden business opportunity I think.

Watch it snow in May again.

Do Quincy. Lots of new work from home people in the luxury condos. Other than the library and one Moroccan coffee shop there’s no where to go unless further into the suburbs (hingham Milton Braintree) but must have car

Anyone talking about dunks honey dew etc has noooo idea what a coffee shop is

My advice- make it comfortable, offer something unique that you can only get there, make it cute for the internet lovers, and then host events. I used to live in pismo beach and would go to an over priced coffee shop bc they had a creme brûlée latte and the guy would torch the froth. Looooooved it lol. I work in a coffee shop in the south end and the people that come in daily love the employees so deff invest in a good team that is in a good mood lol. Ok good luck and again pick Quincy :)

Maybe near a college. Stonehill?

I asked a very similar question to an arborist when I was looking to cut a few trees down on my property. I found his response pretty insightful: He said that the NGrid/Eversource crews that perform this work prefer that these trees come down during a storm, so they can get paid overtime to remove them.

They certainly should come out to trim your trees, but there may not be the impetus to do so.

u/mullethunter111 my square footage is close to 3600.

The center of Foxboro is def missing a good coffee option. Crosbys in wrentham is pretty much the only one. Otherwise it’s just low quality, chain choices.

Edit- there’s been some newer places opened recently ( a cute bakery, shoveltown a new restaurant) and they are bumping. Town is a former blue collar area turning upscale, but most businesses are long standing and cater to the older residents. I love those places too but the town is just wanting for variety that’s not in patriots place.the specific area I’m talking about is the Common, in Uptown.

What about near one of the colleges?

Make sure you got banging espresso!

Here’s why Sharon - only Starbucks is in the Shaws, there’s one other decent place with coffee but it is a sandwich/lunch kind of place.

The reason they asked that question is because that is an unusually high price to replace a heating system of course depending upon the size of your home? I am a plumbing and heating contractor and have been for 30 years hear in Massachusetts. Please be more specific about your situation so we can give you some positive feedback and maybe help you with your situation.

I live in one of the surrounding towns from what you’ve mentioned and we finally got a local coffee shop. But it’s super expensive. I hate all of the chains and want more local places

When was this photo taken?

What’s your square footage?

I think my town had the last one

Get some insulation board and tighly seal it. It is an easy DIY project. Check around windows and doors and make sure you get some of the trim that goes around the doors and windows to let them close completely.

Our home is new and has blown in insulation, but the unused fireplace was causing at least a 20 degree temp difference despite the damper being closed.

> Any opinions on differences from the Debian/Fedora-based distros?

Despite what the Debian community may say, I find Debian SID to be pretty solid. That's because SID is mostly sourced from all the independent developments without any Debian modifications or customization. It is Debian Testing that is more "alpha" (unstable) than SID, since SID is vanilla and often untouched, while Debian Testing is continuously modified and customized.

Fun fact, I have a working server in production running Debian SID, and it has done so, issue free, for nearly 8 years. Again, my theory is that because it is so vanilla and untouched (from the source), which is why it remains dependable.

For a desktop, which has a lot more components and dependencies, I still find it more toward my liking. I ran a desktop of Debian SID for 3 years, only needing to fix it once (1x). The issue at the time was GRUB and that was an issue with GRUB itself, as the bug impacted more than a few distributions (not just, Debian).

If you're looking for something out of the box and not looking to build everything up, then Siduction Linux, which is built around Debian SID, may be worth checking out.

My desktop interface of choice is KDE and LXQT. KDE was one of the first desktop interfaces for Linux (older than XFCE and Gnome). They've continued their development for decades and have really done a great job fine-tuning things. I used to be an XFCE fan, but I have switched to using LXQT, which is as light on resources but supports Wayland.

Fedora, eh? Every time I have ever tried to like Fedora, they've killed it for me. lol

The most recent issue was they killed off hardware acceleration support for H265 and H264 media codecs, which impacts video playback, streaming, broadcasting, and gaming. There is a "workaround" (now) through RPM Fusion, but it isn't guaranteed to last. Fedora is USA based and in America (as you know) you can patent software. It's why a development such as, for example, VLC Player, could never be developed here. And while certainly, the most recent issue is technically outside of Fedora's control, it is just another thing to add to the list of previous disappointments.

Which is a shame, I have to admit, until that happened, I would have tried to sell you on Fedora 37. lol But if you are a more advanced user, you can try, Nobara.

The Nobara Project is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. The distribution comes with certain features that do not ship with the regular Fedora, such as WINE dependencies, OBS Studio, 3rd party codec packages for GStreamer, NVIDIA drivers, and some package fixes. Nobara's latest release is based on Fedora 37. My only reserve is it is a 1-man show, developing that project, and if you visit r/NobaraProject here on Reddit, you can get a good understanding of when things go wrong, they go wrong. It's still worth watching the progress, though, as it does show some promise. I am hoping as the development matures and perhaps if more people contribute, it will be worth giving it a true try.

Southeastern MA is an over saturated market. You’ll compete with: Dunks, Cumbies, HoneyDew, Starbucks, McDonalds and MaryLou’s.

Brand loyalty is STRONG here.

You need a game changing differentiator with very few communities with your target demographic.

Few ideas: Bridgewater, Norton, Easton.

Just so you know, I don't think there are any coffee shops on main street in North Attleboro (where most foot traffic is), but there is a bakery that serves coffee that has a pretty good local following (Whisk and Paddle, their cinnamon buns are LEGIT). Depending on your business model you may find yourself in competition with them.

I haven’t been out that way in a long time! I’ll take a trip, thanks for the idea!

For sure, that’s my goal. I have been a FIEND for mirasols in dartmouths’ chai latte, (vanilla chai specifically) if you’re ever down that way you need to make a stop for it

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That is great input. The fireplace is not sealed. I recently brought a thermometer that is a temp sensor option. That is something I can start with for sure. Thank you for your input.

Frost King window wrap, or the equivalent from Ace Hardware. it’s kind of a fussy process, but it makes a huge difference. you can literally feel cold air rolling off the windows as you put the film up.

I'd give both a call and hopefully it's an automated system to report downed lines for both you don't want that fiber cable snapping... That's a really good amount of out telephone and television if that happens too