If you're not wearing gloves or boots and sticking your hands/feet in pools of water, yes.

I said your mother was a toaster.

We should update the stupid bot to be smarter and screen out "Beantown" if it's immediately followed by "pub".

We are approaching the singularity.

Nightlife/restaurants are on average better in Somerville. Malden is a bit older/more family friendly. Somerville is a bit denser/more walkable than Malden.

Yeah, I guess that's only around 25k a year.

LMAO, you'll be fine as long as you don't have a $500 a week cocaine habit.

I saw people including it as a factor in rent prices at least as far back as 2012.

I own in Malden so I'm not really worried about getting priced out by rising prices.

However, I own in Malden because I got priced out of buying in Somerville 6 years ago.

It will still effectively cost than $7000 upfront compared to selling it before moving (a trade off of the $5000 they could get from selling it, plus the $2000 they'll spend to ship it).

You really do need to take advantage of the few chances you get to see that much of the country.

And yet you want to pay for downtown parking?

I have a membership but have popped into the Everett location just for a hot dog and soda several times while in the plaza for other reasons, and not needed to show my membership.

I often use the manual plaza on 93 in NH because the "fast" one is backed up but the plaza is empty as long as you pick one of the E-ZPass lanes.

We've finally broken the pre-shutdown mark. Actual progress!

I know what the new space saver is gonna be!

Hmm, interesting idea. It would get around the big issue of converting to apartments because central plumbing and heating work fine for a school.

But that's only gonna fill up the tiniest portion of the potential office space.

Go to Boston Burger Company.

Order the King Burger. Hold the patty and bananas.

Godamn 86 pages. So I'm definitely not going to spend the time to read through that whole thing, but here's the policy goals from slide 6:

• Ensure the continued vibrancy of office space downtown, working with both companies and building owners to maintain and grow building occupancy

• Expand housing downtown

• Expand the daily use of downtown beyond work by bolstering downtown's cultural, art, retail, services, and hospitality ecosystems

• Support connectively and mobility downtown via multi-modal transportation infrastructure and protected infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists

• Enhance economic opportunity downtown by supporting women, BIPOC, and other underserved populations, and by strengthening the small business and creative community

• Grow Boston's footprint as a global tourism hub

Seems like a mixed bag to me, but mostly good. The housing and transportation goals seem like they'd do the heavy lifting if actually implemented.

It's not necessary at all. If the government stopped actively preventing development it would happen naturally as people try to profit off their property.

There's tons of resistance to building offices or labs. It probably is somewhat less to housing because it avoids a few of the complaints NIMBYs will use, most frequently using up residential services/parking (and doesn't compete with their own housing, which often goes unsaid), plus often times these aren't in residential areas so they have fewer neighbors to be NIMBYs in the first place.

You probably are, as I've done multiple hikes in the hundreds of miles distance (one of which was even out there in the Rockies). If you were a more experienced hiker than I am I doubt you'd have mentioned that possibility.

I've yet to do Rainier, but if it's actually got any grade or technicality it'll be the first for me out of hundreds of miles worth of trail out there. Being high elevation doesn't make a hike difficult, and switchbacks are boring AF. They're the treadmills of hiking.

Meanwhile, yes the Green and White Mountains have been tougher than anything I've found out west yet. Going straight up rocky terrain instead of winding around on a horse graded trail is a huge difference.

This is the weirdest series of trolling since pony.

No, the views are a small part of it. Otherwise you should just drive up a mountain road and take a photo instead of hiking it. A good hike is supposed to be tiring.

And not a single brewery I've been to in the area has had air conditioning. This doesn't matter for 99% of the year, but when you get a week like happened at the end of this past July every sucks because the city hvac is built assuming that's not going to happen since it's almost always 70 degrees instead.

I've had to spend a lot of travel time there for work, including multiple weeks at once.

I find it more boring and soulless. The food is very mediocre. Public transit is worse, and I feel much more forced to drive than I do around Boston. Lots of car parking is a bad thing. The weather is hardly ever "good", it just avoids most "bad".

I disagree that western hiking is better; the views during it certainly are, but the hikes themselves favor switchbacks far too much. They're just too easy.

Also nothing has AC. That's fine for the majority of the year, but it means when there is that one week heatwave you can't even comfortably sit in a brewery.