I have a feeling people will prefer charging at home or in an EV spot at work than going to a gas station

Gas station food is what this area is really missing

The ones at train stations just stand there and wish people a good morning at most. Seems pretty chill to me

It makes perfect sense

Unfortunately I don't think the USPTO accepts osmosis as the basis for a science background, but if your wife wants an equally grueling but higher paying job than a medical residency she could always look into it. Of course the pay tips back to favor doctors after residency, and she has probably spent close to a decade working towards just her residency, but I guess it's an option nonetheless

FYI, without a science background you won't be able to get into patent law. I'm not an attorney but I'm familiar with the field and you're right that there is a separate licensing exam through the USPTO, in addition to needing a science/engineering degree. There are other areas of IP law where you don't necessarily need that science/engineering background, but you might struggle to break into them in Boston. The common path for patent attorneys is science/engineering first, and then using that knowledge to practice law rather than the other way around. Trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and transactions would be your avenues into IP.

And if you have a bachelor's or higher in a science or engineering field then you can ignore this entire comment and look into patents

I would hope anyone going to Salem on Halloween is well aware that they're one of tens or hundreds of thousands of people with the same idea which is part of the appeal. They're going more because it's a huge event than to explore local shops.

You can buy it anywhere, and if you get a paper ticket the conductors don't always check it or punch it which means you can use it again

You warm up quickly when running in the cold, just don't stop during that naked jog

Don't listen to them. Contrary to popular belief there is more than one common in Boston

In some cases yes; it depends on the building

This is dependent on your other expenses and financial goals, but in general yes you can live comfortably on your own at that income

And again, this development includes over 700 new housing units. Having high housing costs doesn't mean it's a good idea to stop all other forms of new development

Did you miss the part about this development including over 700 residential units?

Probably because the project already has lots of residential and office space

Did you miss all the pretty pictures in my second link?

Regarding number 2, that development includes over 700 new housing units of which more than half have already been built at The Sudbury, and the entire project will include retail/restaurant space. Writing the entire project off as a hideous lab building is laughably off base.

Franklin St isn't Newbury St which the previous commenter specifically mentioned, and I'm not sure why you're bringing it up. The city has had 39 bank closures since the pandemic started, and nationally the trend for over a decade has been more branch closures, especially in metropolitan areas and among larger banks. One street isn't representative of the larger trends.

Bank branches in major cities have been declining for years, and art galleries and small businesses still exist on Newbury St

I guess making the region a worse place to live by hampering the local economy is one way to bring down housing costs, but I'd rather not see Boston become like every rust belt city that lost a bunch of manufacturing jobs and never recovered. No one strives to be like Detroit

A lot of these aren't really comparable to implementing single payer healthcare at the state level since they're either one time costs that make sense to use our one time record surplus on or aren't at all comparable in terms of cost to single payer healthcare. Our one year surplus isn't useful when talking about a new, massive public health program that would need to be funded in perpetuity.

A one year record surplus isn't a sustainable funding source for single payer healthcare

It doesn't matter if you care or not because it doesn't exist without funding

5 is highly dependent on how it would be funded, and a more realistic state level improvement would be to build on our existing healthcare policies and maybe to expand MassHealth as a public option.

6 is a no brainer, but our legislature won't actually make it happen. I'd be interested to see their reaction if this ever made it as a statewide ballot initiative.

2 birds with 1 stone. Use it as a space saver and leave it for the city to pick up when the snow emergency is over