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Definitely happening here in Boston with people choosing to live in Portland, ME and Providence, RI. Both great places to live with a much lower cost of living.

Definitely happening here in Boston with people choosing to live in Portland, ME and Providence, RI. Both great places to live with a much lower cost of living. The commute is somewhat do-able from Providence. It's a great deal if you can get the Boston salary and make the remote/semi-remote life work.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
Yeah, Boston area housing prices will be the death NH/ME/RI. Considering how culturally incompatible the Boston area is with NH and ME I feel really bad for the people of those states who get to see their states turned into MA-Lite.
- jghn 7y ago
  We moved to the Boston area when I was a kid in the early 80s and the exact same things you described were said then. So either it’s not true or just taking a heckuva long time
- throwaway0xb 7y ago
  Portland, ME is just far enough from Boston that it's not feasible to do any regular commute unless you really, really want to live there.
  - jt2190 7y ago
    This is very true. I commuted from Newburyport MA (20 minutes south of Portsmouth NH) to Boston by bus for a few years. (My other option was MBTA commuter rail, which was further from my house and ran into North Station, which was farther from work.) The bus ride was routinely 1 hour 20 minutes, so add another 20 to get to Portsmouth. (Edit: I’ve also done the Providence, RI to Boston commute, by rail, which was just over an hour typically. Don’t forget that commuting works well when your job is near free parking/train/bus. It gets pretty bad when you have to add another 20 minute subway wait/ride in once in town...)
    - beowulfey 7y ago
      Damn dude how was it possible that the MBTA was further than driving all the way up to Portsmouth? The Newburyport commuter rail station is dead center of town. Was this before they opened the station up there?
      - jt2190 7y ago
        Sorry if I wasn’t clear. The bus runs Portsmouth NH -> Newburyport, MA -> South Station. (No drive to Portsmouth necessary.) The train is on the Newburyport/Newbury town line, so not quite the center of town... but that’s a quibble. Parking for the train isn’t free either, and tickets cost more than the bus. The busses run more frequently too (they’re smaller, so it’s like breaking one big train into pieces.)
seibelj 7y ago
Boston is building an incredible amount in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, the Seaport, and even downtown with new buildings. I’m optimistic that Boston can avoid the trap SF fell into with nimby’s blocking everything. Rents have stabilized the last few years.
- wasdfff 7y ago
  Rents have stabilized even in sf the last few years. Boston is still wildly expensive even compared to LA

dsfyu404ed 7y ago

Yeah, Boston area housing prices will be the death NH/ME/RI. Considering how culturally incompatible the Boston area is with NH and ME I feel really bad for the people of those states who get to see their states turned into MA-Lite.

jghn 7y ago
We moved to the Boston area when I was a kid in the early 80s and the exact same things you described were said then. So either it’s not true or just taking a heckuva long time
throwaway0xb 7y ago
Portland, ME is just far enough from Boston that it's not feasible to do any regular commute unless you really, really want to live there.
- jt2190 7y ago
  This is very true. I commuted from Newburyport MA (20 minutes south of Portsmouth NH) to Boston by bus for a few years. (My other option was MBTA commuter rail, which was further from my house and ran into North Station, which was farther from work.) The bus ride was routinely 1 hour 20 minutes, so add another 20 to get to Portsmouth. (Edit: I’ve also done the Providence, RI to Boston commute, by rail, which was just over an hour typically. Don’t forget that commuting works well when your job is near free parking/train/bus. It gets pretty bad when you have to add another 20 minute subway wait/ride in once in town...)
  - beowulfey 7y ago
    Damn dude how was it possible that the MBTA was further than driving all the way up to Portsmouth? The Newburyport commuter rail station is dead center of town. Was this before they opened the station up there?
    - jt2190 7y ago
      Sorry if I wasn’t clear. The bus runs Portsmouth NH -> Newburyport, MA -> South Station. (No drive to Portsmouth necessary.) The train is on the Newburyport/Newbury town line, so not quite the center of town... but that’s a quibble. Parking for the train isn’t free either, and tickets cost more than the bus. The busses run more frequently too (they’re smaller, so it’s like breaking one big train into pieces.)

seibelj 7y ago

Boston is building an incredible amount in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, the Seaport, and even downtown with new buildings. I’m optimistic that Boston can avoid the trap SF fell into with nimby’s blocking everything. Rents have stabilized the last few years.

wasdfff 7y ago
Rents have stabilized even in sf the last few years. Boston is still wildly expensive even compared to LA