One sister is in the medical field, has to live out east bc she could only get a job at MassGen (her specialty is nonexistent out here); sister who is in early education had to go to CT to get a job. My BIL is in construction and spends half the year unemployed. I’m a teacher in a district of about 500 staff, 25+ of us will be laid off next month because the district can’t afford to pay us. Meanwhile, I can’t keep a steady GP because my medical provider’s offices keep closing, first the one in Wilbraham, then Westfield, so now I’m stuck going to Springfield with my third different doctor who is impossible to get an appointment with because the few doctors who did stay in the area have too many patients.

VT is also laughing...

(With a 1/10 of the cars)

Funnily enough, here in Littleton everyone gets a 3 minute limit at Town Meeting, apart from the board presenting the article which gets 10 minutes. At least here though, if something has made it to Town Meeting, the important discussions have already happened.

That's what my town does.

I love how clearly you can see the Metacomet Ridge.

> you don’t need a degree to acknowledge the vagueness inn language

No, but a general comprehension of spelling and grammar helps.

But in all seriousness, this is how the federal code basically works. Very simply put, Congress enables the federal government to do something, and leaves the details up to the executive branch to carry out the specifics. Look up any bill currently pending in Congress and you'll find very similar language.

I'll believe there's an issue when credible constitutional scholars say so; not when someone who is about to lose their income from making funny filtered videos on a dangerous platform scares me into believing it.

I'm in Amherst. There's a ton of mental health related jobs here so that works for me. Teaching isn't that lucrative but it exists out here. Construction. Retail. I mean what do you want ?

Ok. I am more looking for western or central mass but thank you :)

Dr Nero in Acton and Concord does it

Houses isn’t the problem. I’ve live in western MA my whole life, but I and all my siblings had to move away from home because there are no jobs available in our home region. Even in my new region, there’s a shortage of healthcare and jobs.

Amherst, northampton, Holyoke. 5 top tier colleges is one area.

If you get a medical card, you get pretty good discounts. Besides the % off, most dispensaries give me $50 off of my first four orders. I used to like Cornbread (Indica) when I could get it.

I think my same comment still applies.

Not that many. There's room.

you don’t need a degree to acknowledge the vagueness inn language

I love seeing all these instant legal scholars freaking out about fairly common legislative language because they saw an "influencer" scare them on TikTok while doing funny lip-sync dances.

First or second part of Mein Kampf?

The two parts are two totally different monsters.

Also, pretty sure Open Meeting law may have some input into all this drama.

Wait… people live in western mass?

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Have you considered car go vroom?

Ok that makes sense

Cumberland farms. It's cheaper. $1.06. Easier to stop in a few times a day , if you love iced coffee as I do.

We can work on that. Building houses in the woods is what Pioneer type Massachusettians did right? They can do that.

Nah. For one, Mass. is super densely populated already. We can't just build out into open land like they can out west. And when we try to, people get upset about woods being torn down.

Secondly, there's a lot of zoning tyranny. You can only build single family homes in a lot of areas, which provides housing for far fewer people. And a lot of SFH owners wanna keep it that way for "the families" cause they don't want college kids and young professionals making noise in their neighborhoods.

Thirdly, where you can build apartment buildings or triple deckers, they build luxury apartment buildings because apparently there are still enough people to make those profitable.

There's no rich people scheming to keep poor people out of an entire state or city. Stuff like this is almost always caused by bureaucracy or NIMBY shit.

You need to take the tinfoil hat off. You are sounding like a flat Earther.