Massachusetts woman takes advantage of refugees in an interesting way (houses, employment)

[CaseyB]

I hope she cleared this with her landlord ahead of time, lease or no lease. It would be nice to let tenants in other apartments in the building know as well.

[johngolf]

Some years back I knew a father of two toddlers that "hired" a live in older woman to take care of the toddlers when he was not home. She needed and inexpensive place to live and his home had an in-law suite that she lived in and he paid her some money but not a lot. The arrangement worked out for both of them. She lived there for almost 15 years.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by johngolf

Some years back I knew a father of two toddlers that "hired" a live in older woman to take care of the toddlers when he was not home. She needed and inexpensive place to live and his home had an in-law suite that she lived in and he paid her some money but not a lot. The arrangement worked out for both of them. She lived there for almost 15 years.

I dont see the problem with that. It certainly doesn't sound like an ideal situation for the father...and he was doing what he could to better the situation. Sometimes I wonder what people expect other to do? Not everyone can afford daycare...so if they find another way that is safe and works so be it.

[justyouraveragetenant]

Originally Posted by CaseyB

I hope she cleared this with her landlord ahead of time, lease or no lease. It would be nice to let tenants in other apartments in the building know as well.

Let's just say I live in an apartment and drugs and other activity happens and I live near the upstanding town of Lexington.

[BruinsGirl]

Originally Posted by johngolf

Some years back I knew a father of two toddlers that "hired" a live in older woman to take care of the toddlers when he was not home. She needed and inexpensive place to live and his home had an in-law suite that she lived in and he paid her some money but not a lot. The arrangement worked out for both of them. She lived there for almost 15 years.

I know situations like this. For elderly people too. What I cannot see is people en masse inviting migrant families to live with them. Seriously... in US where even within extended families people rarely live under the same roof.

Remember only migrant families with kids have a right to shelter. So this means inviting families with kids.

[Chas863]

Originally Posted by justyouraveragetenant

slaves in the South worked for free. the only difference is this woman can leave if she wants to but probably has no money. so yes working for free in any manner is slavery.

she is stuck in this situation if she works 8 hours a day for this woman because she can not get a job.

Clearly, you don't have a clue what you're talking about, but I imagine that several other people have already said the same thing. I just didn't bother to read 6 pages of comments before making my comment.

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[justyouraveragetenant]

Originally Posted by Chas863

Clearly, you don't have a clue what you're talking about, but I imagine that several other people have already said the same thing. I just didn't bother to read 6 pages of comments before making my comment.

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You know this lefty woman is racist. She loves it that she has a hired cook for free Lefty's are the most racist and condescending.

[CaseyB]

I don't believe she's racist.

[blisterpeanuts]

My town, a less wealthy community near Lexington, got about 200 Haitian families dumped into the local fleabag hotel. The state reportedly pays $6000/month per room, plus 3 meals a day delivered from Hanscom base. 2-3 families per room. My wife has visited there and was told a lot of the food was tossed because the Haitians didn’t like it. It seems the menu has been updated however to be more to their taste.

There’s not that much available apartment stock around here and it’s not clear where these people are going to go, once the hotel decides it wants to be a hotel again, though it seems like it’s just going to be a homeless shelter forever. A few long time residents of the hotel were kicked out to make room, by the way.

One or two Haitians work at the nearby McDonald’s, which will hire anybody. They speak zero English but the mostly Hispanic workers can communicate with them. Once I stopped there and had an order brought out to my car by a Haitian. I said “Is this my quarter pounder?” and he just smiled nervously and babbled a non-response. My kid, who works there, says they’re very hard workers.

I can guarantee you, no one in my town could afford to or wishes to let such people into their homes. I’m pretty sure my wife, an ultra liberal, would not do it, though I’ve not asked her. Anyway we don’t have room. No one knows why they’re here, or what the plan is for when another hundred Haitians arrive. Some of them brought children and I have no idea how the school system is going to deal with them. Suddenly adding 20 new kids to the elementary school would be difficult.

Kudos to the woman who enslaved a Haitian, but it doesn’t sound like a sustainable way to absorb the newcomers into society.

[newenglandgal123]

Originally Posted by blisterpeanuts

My town, a less wealthy community near Lexington, got about 200 Haitian families dumped into the local fleabag hotel. The state reportedly pays $6000/month per room, plus 3 meals a day delivered from Hanscom base. 2-3 families per room. My wife has visited there and was told a lot of the food was tossed because the Haitians didn’t like it. It seems the menu has been updated however to be more to their taste.

There’s not that much available apartment stock around here and it’s not clear where these people are going to go, once the hotel decides it wants to be a hotel again, though it seems like it’s just going to be a homeless shelter forever. A few long time residents of the hotel were kicked out to make room, by the way.

One or two Haitians work at the nearby McDonald’s, which will hire anybody. They speak zero English but the mostly Hispanic workers can communicate with them. Once I stopped there and had an order brought out to my car by a Haitian. I said “Is this my quarter pounder?” and he just smiled nervously and babbled a non-response. My kid, who works there, says they’re very hard workers.

I can guarantee you, no one in my town could afford to or wishes to let such people into their homes. I’m pretty sure my wife, an ultra liberal, would not do it, though I’ve not asked her. Anyway we don’t have room. No one knows why they’re here, or what the plan is for when another hundred Haitians arrive. Some of them brought children and I have no idea how the school system is going to deal with them. Suddenly adding 20 new kids to the elementary school would be difficult.

Kudos to the woman who enslaved a Haitian, but it doesn’t sound like a sustainable way to absorb the newcomers into society.

Now they're catering to the menu preferences of these migrants while wasting food that plenty of other homeless in our state would love to have? Have they heard of beggars can't be choosers? I guess not since they're now so used to getting everything handed to them.