Boston has hella black people though, in the city. Seattle and Portland do not. That has historically driven divestment and scared off investment. Until he pandemic Boston had a much higher violent crime rate and concentrations of generational poverty.

It also has a liquor license cap.

That’s why it’s been hard to turn these neighborhoods around. They were extreeeeemly blighted at their lowest and it’s taken a long time to revitalize these neighborhoods just to this point.

Take a look at this video of Roxbury around 1980- it was super rough. https://youtu.be/tjtYIWdK2aE

I get that the commuter is basically " you" time, since you're not driving, and it's way better than driving. And you can do what you want. But I feel like reading on the train hurts my eyes? I'm trying to get into podcasts.

I used to like The Coop

Not exactly in the North End, but if I'm in that area and need to go I always go to Fairmont Battery Wharf (although it may have had a name change)

Agree with this 100%. C&J is so easy and reliable.

Market rate Rents not cheaper in the black neighborhoods. There no available housing for anyone that isn’t already plugged into the social ecosystem of those neighborhoods

I mean the entire MBTA system is broken but I live near Quincy so taking the red line to Park St took well over an hour when I did it every day. Now on the rare occasions I go into the city and don’t drive in, its def almost an hr and a half now or longer. The subreddit has a ton of mbta stories going on right now.

You’re fairly close to the city so you shouldn’t have too many issues since you can take either Braintree or Ashmont without worrying about it.

🙏🙏

I was the opposite. Hated the social aspect of the office but loved commuting. I used public transportation, so I had lots of time to read. Now I work from home. Or live at work. It was so easy to pick up groceries on the way home.

Wait is the red line worse than green or orange? Im asking bc my commute to school ( I live w my parents and only have to be on campus 1-2 times a week) involves the commuter and orange line. I don't mind it.

If a internship/ Job is in Cambridge, I'd need to take the commuter to North station, take green/orange, and then red. Is there something wrong w red?

Nubian Markets is about to open in the old Bartlett yards with Afro centric food and cafe and ready to go meals.

Should be open any day now.

Their IG: https://instagram.com/nubianmarkets?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Black Market Social needs to be granted a liquor license too.

Jazz urbane needs to open up by July

Boston Public Market near Haymarket

Black Market Nubian is looking for a liquor license so they can become a bar and be Black Market Social.

Them and Nubian Gallery often hold events with one day liquor licenses, and want to make it permanent.

Here one event coming up right in Nubian Square called “WYD?”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqI5jQbug5I/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Oof. In that case I’m sincerely sorry you got fucked. Good luck in your quest.

Have been full time WFH since 2015 (tech sales). Prior to Covid I went into office about once a week for a team meeting and tried to book client meetings on the same day. Moved jobs in 2021 and now it’s more like once every 6 weeks or so, almost everything online.

It’s big, I’m going to guess 25 feet in diameter.

Solutions Engineer/Sales Engineer.

Had to be in office on all days except our team got an “exception” for twice a quarter (every three months) to wfh if it was really needed. The excuse was the Account folks need us to be there to come by and ask questions and we can’t wfh due to that “collaboration” (total bs bc it bordered on annoying with them doing drive-bys). And it accounted dr appt days so we didnt need to use a full sick day.

It sucked and once covid happened it proved we didn’t need to be in-office. I left that job for a new one and it’s fully remote. Wish I could meet my team in person since we’re spread across the US but I do not miss the awful red line commute.

From Logan you're already north of the tunnels. Just take 1A to 1 to 95. Your GPS might try to send you 93 for speed, but ignore that or it will send you through the tunnel.

That’s why they didn’t fix the elevators in the parking garage!

$3k if you want to easily shop around for at a variety of options. $2500 if you want to put in work and hunt for good place.

Trader Joes single stalls ftw

Right. That's why I anticipate no more than 1WFH day for the 6mo-1 yr of my career at the least. I know it limits new employees.

I get that you're joking, but if commutes weren't so awful, I actually like the social aspect of the office. I just hate commuting.

I can't tell from the photo---what is the approximate diameter?

I graduated from college in 2012 and never worked in an office full time once I started my career.

Motion graphics/animation