Do you miss massachusetts? (Weymouth, Plymouth: stores, food, oil)

[BXR]

I've lived in the Boston area my whole life, and I honestly can't wait to get out of here I do love the grittiness, and it will always be home. But it has sort of lost a lot of it's charm due to politics, inflation, unreasonable cost of living, and an influx of millennials from out of states who come here to be part of the "progressive" movement. There is practically no middle class within the city limits. You either need to make 6 figures or under 10k to have a place in Boston. Summers here are great, but we don't slow down to enjoy them.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by BXR

I've lived in the Boston area my whole life, and I honestly can't wait to get out of here I do love the grittiness, and it will always be home. But it has sort of lost a lot of it's charm due to politics, inflation, unreasonable cost of living, and an influx of millennials from out of states who come here to be part of the "progressive" movement. There is practically no middle class within the city limits. You either need to make 6 figures or under 10k to have a place in Boston. Summers here are great, but we don't slow down to enjoy them.

That sentiment is shared by many my friend.

[InNH]

Originally Posted by sombrueil

California is warmer but it is not greener. Much of it is semi-desert. If you think MA is unaffordable you will be unpleasantly surprised by CA.

That was just an expression and its a song. Of course I know California is expensive. The parts that aren't as much are in the Sacramento outskirts going south or the central valley. I don't desire to go there though or the Carolinas. I was just repeating a song because it hints movement of some kind.

[InNH]

Originally Posted by BXR

I've lived in the Boston area my whole life, and I honestly can't wait to get out of here I do love the grittiness, and it will always be home. But it has sort of lost a lot of it's charm due to politics, inflation, unreasonable cost of living, and an influx of millennials from out of states who come here to be part of the "progressive" movement. There is practically no middle class within the city limits. You either need to make 6 figures or under 10k to have a place in Boston. Summers here are great, but we don't slow down to enjoy them.

Touch on that will you. The millennial college students you mean right? They're coming here and making it like Silicon Valley I notice or there is that vibe in parts here now. Its not always a good one. Its more of a privileged whitebread vibe that's like danger upon an area. Its not a good feeling when you're literally trying to get things done or accomplish social feats. These are some of the most introverted, dorky, privileged mf'ers. And I also notice an increase of people who play games and are not down to earth. That comes from somewhere else because the original natives of this area who have been the last 60 years or more aren't like this. Its a new thing.

[InNH]

Originally Posted by massnative71

That sentiment is shared by many my friend.

Well if people are so upset by it, why cant they just run out their problems and just tell the police hey, we're going all in. We're going to get them out of here. If anyone causes harm to the general environment that's enough to step in in my eyes and say enough enough. Someone doesn't always have to break the law to live criminally. They can be sneaky, they can inflate things, they can do all kinds of bad things but it goes unchecked each time and I am sick of it.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by BXR

I've lived in the Boston area my whole life, and I honestly can't wait to get out of here I do love the grittiness, and it will always be home. But it has sort of lost a lot of it's charm due to politics, inflation, unreasonable cost of living, and an influx of millennials from out of states who come here to be part of the "progressive" movement. There is practically no middle class within the city limits. You either need to make 6 figures or under 10k to have a place in Boston. Summers here are great, but we don't slow down to enjoy them.

LOL, I'm amused not at your pain but the fact that people felt the same way when I was there going to college in 1974 .

[missionhill]

Originally Posted by G1..

LOL, I'm amused not at your pain but the fact that people felt the same way when I was there going to college in 1974 .

There was a back to the city thing in the later sixties and 70s. Still, the affordability thing was not the issue that it is now. Even though it seemed like one then considering that Boston , Brookline and Cambridge all imposed rent control around 1970 in response to rents going up. But for BXR to say no middle class left within city limits must be a wild exaggeration. Boston is mostly middle and working class neighborhoods as compared to so many of the nearby suburbs. It’s expensive to buy and rent, but the people living in most Boston neighborhoods are salary and wage earning, middle class people, broadly speaking— let’s say household incomes between $60 and $120k. Just a guess but don’t think I’m too far off. Many are higher and many lower but i’d say a majority are in that range.

[davebarnes]

I moved from Sudbury to Denver in 1982.
What I miss about Massachusetts are:
1. Swarms of mosquitos in the Summer.
2. Hot and humid Summers.
3. Winters where "February slush month" is an annual occurrence.
4. Two-lane country roads that now carry 10x their designed traffic load during commuting hours and will never be widened.
5. Higher real estate taxes.
6. A paucity of decent restaurants.
7. WalkScores of 4.

I was just there (Wayland, Concord, Waltham) for 8 days in January and am so much happier in Denver.

[bgrasser]

I miss it like an Arthritic Joint.
Grew up in DOT, MHH area up by the park, late 50s through the 60s, great times, lots of fun.
Back then I marched with one of the best drum & bugle corps in the country, and taught percussion to one of the best marching bands in the area...then it happened, the bus came,
and most people got on and moved out of town, then the deterioration started.

[tamiznluv]

Originally Posted by bgrasser

I miss it like an Arthritic Joint.
Grew up in DOT, MHH area up by the park, late 50s through the 60s, great times, lots of fun.
Back then I marched with one of the best drum & bugle corps in the country, and taught percussion to one of the best marching bands in the area...then it happened, the bus came,
and most people got on and moved out of town, then the deterioration started.

Ah, yes, the bus came to Randolph too, my late hubby's hometown that was granted to his family by whichever King was on the throne of England at that time. Hubs and I finally escaped in 2003. Then he died in 2012 but it was great while we had it.

Back on topic....with Hubs death I lost the house because I could no longer pay the mortgage. He had been fired from his job when the cancer came back and though I begged him to sue, he would not. He was too mellow a guy.

So, a friend invited me to come live with her down in SW Florida. No hubs, no parents, no siblings, nothing to keep me in Massachusetts anymore. I miss home so much. I lived in a "village" of Plymouth. We didn't have a stop light, sidewalks, stop signs or paved roads except for the main drag! It was wonderful. Not that I thought so when I was a kid. Now I have brutal heat, rain and t+l most of the spring and summer, bugs all year 'round, people who sound "funny" to my ears, way more bad drivers than Carter's has liver pills, "Season", with out of staters (and country) have no clue where they are going (like I used to be) and so much traffic on roads that were designed for one car each way.

Of course I realize most everywhere has that road problem, I just miss "Home". I miss the cold and snow when I am baking in 100+°. I DO like the odd day like today at 73°. It's been an above temp winter, lucky me.