You're talking to a city with a near 20% poverty rate. People are already getting priced out by the increasing housing costs, nobody is going to want to vote for increasing their taxes. Even if it does make life easier.

I live in the center of town, I couldn't find literally anywhere to park. People were everywhere. I miss living in the woods.

Remember that time Trump diverted necessary PPE away from us when we were the epicenter of the pandemic?

Same on Rt2. There's T intersections and stop lights, yet everyone treats it like a highway. People would revolt if you tried to increase their commute times.

I think you could probably find a plethora of labor violations in a vast majority of restaurants, and I've worked for some sleazy assholes in my day, but everybody knows you don't mess with minors' scheduling restrictions.

Or just figured out transportation in general. There's a lot of places, especially around downtown, where parking is a nightmare. And only getting worse when they build new complexes without adequate parking. The busses are pretty bad too, the streets aren't really pedestrian or bike friendly, so there's absolutely no good way for residents to get around.

That's why we needed a New Braintree.

Good point! Which I guess is the type of wasteful behavior they're trying to target here.

It's always been crazy to me that it can be profitable to ship stuff thousands of miles when it's already essentially worthless here.

I thought it was, until all the Bostonians started killing our housing market. I mean, it's pretty much central to all of southern New England. You get the best of both worlds.

Why does this have to be so unsurprising to me?

I like this! Make it a turkey riding a clipper while holding a lobster roll and I'm in!

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Probably because, despite all our advances in surveillance technology, there's still zero proof for any of this type of stuff. There is always a more mundane explanation. You just haven't found it yet. Check for coroding lead plumbing fixtures, faulty electrical, leaky gas lines, and vermin, then maybe I'll start to believe.

Have you checked for CO leaks?

So it's not a front profile of a trebuchet? Lame.

Seeing as how the state Republican Party are pushing to go full red hat, I'd say so.

Where's the video of them pushing their way into the Capitol Building to try to stop the certification process?

Disney has always been packed. They've raising ticket prices to try to discourage crowds for years.

I'm honestly a bit confused here. Living in Holden or Sterling isn't really any cheaper than Worcester, while Paxton and Rutland are more rural so land is a bit cheaper. These towns aren't even really comparable to each other.

Good. Looks like those fuckers weren't paying their employees to the point it got them shut down.

Looks like a 2%er flag.

We'll Try (to block the footage from going public)

Probably Lowell.

I buy a quickpick when I get gas. I think I can swing $2 a few times a month for the infinitesimal chance I might be able to retire.