There is more than enough land already locked up forever in trusts and preservation deals,lol. Every town could easily add another 5% in new housing and it would hardly change the landscape. Dont worry it will still look pretty for the damn tourists.

My first thought was an old Datsun. Remember those? I'll see if I can find a pic for comparison online.

You could even park somewhere with bus service to a T line--but yea, if you don't want to have your wallet simultaneously experiencing projectile diarrhea and projectile vomiting when it comes to parking, that's what you've gotta do. If you've got handicap tags meanwhile, you don't need to worry about parking nearly as much.

The orange car looks like a Yugo to me but the tail-lights don't seem to match. Been so long since I've seen one in person.

If you are going down 3 feet by hand then you may as well spend another 10 min and go another foot if you can. 4' is the rule that i grew up with and deeper is better cause you can add drainage first, which is always a good idea. I had to reset a meter post that was at 3 feet that i didnt set after like 25 years so take from that what you will.

My mailbox is a treated 4x4 about 4-5 feet down. It's been 3 years and still straight. My horse fencing was fresh cut logs 2 feet. No problems with the posts stoutness, some of the skinny ones broke at ground level when I tried to remove them.

May your dig be rock free.

All meters are free in Boston From Saturday night through Monday at 7am. Also free on Holidays. You can probably park in Permit parking for free too but I would stick with the meters.

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And weed out the ones they don’t want to do & make sure that the profit is commensurate. For OP I’m more or less expressing how challenging it is to get small jobs contracted. I was ready to write a check for 50k and couldn’t get someone for 6 years even with excepted bids and 50% material down payments to reserve slots.

I dig until I hit my first boulder or ledge. Usually 4-6 inches.

But seriously, 3' it ideal. Less if the digging is tough!

Post depth should generally be equal to half the height. Clean 3/4” in the bottom of the hole can help especially if you have poorly drained soils. If you are on clay maybe go deeper. If you’re going to use concrete and you’re on sand, you’ll be fine with 3’. Better yet use a ground screw, there’s very little surface area for the frost to push against.

They should eliminate 5 and 10 acre zoning, as well.

Good. Local municipalities shouldn't be able to restrict all housing development, maybe barring large single family homes. The median home in Massachusetts costs well over $600K. If you'd like to fix the problem before we arrive at a similar point, the only way to do it is to build more housing and that's impossible without addressing local zoning.

Corporate urine teats are a joke. Anyone who won’t pass for cannabis should just fake it. Ez-pz.

So weird seeing cars on church st, other than morning delivery trucks and confused tourists.

This is 100% the correct answer. OGE consignment is the way to go. Head straight downstairs when you get there. They don't rent though but you'll likely find great deals on a secondary ski outfit.

BTW, great timing on your trip, with today's storm.

The risk is there end up being more regulation on affordable housing because Act 250 comes into play with 10 units or more, and developers are generally going to want to build more than 10 cheap units at once (whether in an apartment building or single family neighborhood). Once Act 250 kicks in, it is a uncertain bureaucratic process which could lead to years of disputes (which adds to cost), and even ultimately shut down the process. It's much easier and less risky to build one or a few luxury houses because it is less regulated.

I think lots of developers would prefer to make 20 cheap homes than spend the same amount on fewer luxury homes, but it's just a risky process with act 250 on top of other permitting and zoning. Making tons of cookie cutter houses or an apartment complex is, in many ways, easier than making a handful of luxury homes, since you can much more easily reuse material and designs.

I was 18 years old then, and did hang out in that area a bit. Still, the cars look so old compared to what I'm used to now.

Yeah, I don't think they're leaving. Like, ever. They found out about what it's like not living in a city, and they don't seem to want to go back.

WIKE is AM radio, lol, used to be up Farrant street. We listened for school closures and away football games, otherwise it was generally old country music.

Are you seeing any extra critters around the area?

It's the NEK, Canada governs them...

i had a lot of good snow days when i was at school up there. was WIKE the moo house?

Due to the influx of covid transplants… give it time and it will go back down again. From 20011 to 2019 it was all decline…

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