Recent content by TallIsGood

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and as a partner in a big law firm in Boston with a national and international practice that mostly travels for work and WFH the other days, I’m a few weeks out from closing on my new Florida home. We will keep the house here for the summers for a couple years...

This isn’t realistic for most people who live on the cape, spend summer weekends or just go for a week with the family.

Studies generally show folks move from high tax states to low tax states and tax increases don’t generate the income that politicians hope. https://studyfinds.org/tax-the-rich-theyll-just-leave/ Also, rich folks that have connections here probably keep their home for a few years after...

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Isn’t it right in Logan flight path?

Can you still connect E to D with the new Brookline Place?

There was a big tax increase first which is supposed to be focused on transportation and education.

At what point could the T have HRT lines be without drivers? Would that help the personnel shortages?

My contention is Massachusetts and Boston population has been dropping the last few years. It’s not a big increase as was suggested earlier. Boston population was 617k in 2010 and now 650k in 2022. A drop of 3.7% from 2020 and a 5% increase from 2010. See also...

If it takes two years to do an environmental study on this things have gotten way out of control. It’s a thousand feet of cut and cover subway tunnel in a city.

My contention is Massachusetts and Boston population has been dropping the last few years. It’s not a big increase as was suggested earlier. Boston population was 617k in 2010 and now 650k in 2022. A drop of 3.7% from 2020 and a 5% increase from 2010. See also...

Highly suspect but based on actual Census Bureau data? I didn’t content, I stated fact based on data. Sorry your anecdotal experience doesn’t match.

Wikipedia or US Census - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts

Years of meetings and review by community group, BRA, zoning etc plus community benefits, low income set asides you get excessive costs that don’t make sense in an outlying neighborhood.

The population of both Boston and Massachusetts has been dropping. Apparently labs aren’t drawing that many new ‘outsiders’.