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Southline, Dorchester

I am in need of a new pair of shoes. However, I require shoes to be custom made to fit my two feet. I moved up here about a year ago and my shoes fell apart after several years of use and repair.

I checked prior posts and nothing came up for personalized shoes for what I'm looking for. Are there any places in Massachusetts you recommend?

My husband and I will be in Boston for 24hrs for a work dinner. Both of our first times visiting! We’ll only be busy in the evening. What should be on our quick must do list / must eat.

We’ll arrive at 8:30am and have until about 5 to explore.

-best breakfast, lunch, coffee/pastries?

-top 2 or 3 must see landmarks?

-is public transportation easy or should we plan to rent a car?

Canadian currently living in Boston, need to do a short trip home by car. Where I'm going (Eastern townships, QC), the roads are snowy, and the law requires that all cars have winter tires from Dec 1st (technically doesn't apply to cars licensed outside of QC, but still). I've called and visited multiple Enterprise, Budget/Avis, and Hertz locations in the Boston area and none of them have cars with winter tires, only all-season, which they leave on all year round (even worse).

I know all-seasons are not good enough for my use; two years ago, my sister did a similar trip to the same location with an AWD rental with all-season tires, was skidding on the highway under the speed limit, and got stuck in a parking lot.

This seems like a big problem... don't people from around here sometimes rent cars for ski trips in snowy locations, like Vermont? Is there a known solution? Like a specific car rental service that specializes in winter tires, or else?

Update: thanks for the responses, it looks like the answer is no, that's not possible. I'll have to figure out a way around it.

There's a Ziggy's in Brighton, Ziggy Bombs, Ziggy's Coffee, and more I haven't listed I'm sure. Who is Ziggy??

Boston police detectives assigned to the fugitive unit continue to search for 31-year-old Gerald Vick, who is wanted on a warrant out of Suffolk Superior Court for eight counts of assault and battery with a firearm, unlawful possession of a machine gun, unlawful possession of a firearm and firearm use in commission of a felony in relation to an incident in August of 2023. Vick also has a default warrant out of Suffolk Superior Court for other firearm offenses, according to police.

The violence unfolded on the morning of Aug. 26, 2023. Police said two groups of people got into an argument on Talbot Avenue while the J'ouvert Parade was happening nearby.

Boston police were present at the parade and immediately responded to help the people hurt, applying tourniquets to some of them until emergency medical technicians arrived. None of the injuries were believed to be life threatening.

Vick is described as being 5'6" tall, weighing about 155 pounds, with multiple tattoos, police said. He is believed to have ties to Taunton.

I want to go to see the Holiday Pops with some friends. They list table seats in place of the floor seats, but I cannot find information on the benefit to the floor seats. One article I found from 2023 mentioned you can by food and drink at the tables, but the information was rather vague.

Does anyone have any advice?

Hey guys, I'm pretty mad right now and not sure what I can do. I have a storage unit in roslindale (fuck you Life Storage), and they keep increasing the prices. I've been there for a year and it's gone from 220 -> 250 and now I'm told it's 290 per month. That's almost a 50% increase. Is there some kind of law against this? It seems completely unethical that they start jacking the prices up once they have your stuff. Is my only recourse to find a new place? TIA.

Yeah I know, this has been known for years, but I still shop there because it's the closest grocery store and the least crowded. Workers there don't give a fuck anymore and I love it. Some nice old lady politely asked a worker if anyone was working the deli counter and got yelled at from a guy in the back, "I'll be out there in a minute!". I asked an employee where the blue cheese was, after circling the cheese counter a few times, "we don't got it". Love it. I go to checkout with like nothing, just a water because I had passed away internally, only to see that all 9 self checkout registers were out of order. Of course, there's only one cashier working and the guy in front of me is bartering with a soup coupon like he's haggling with a gypsy. But people are poor, so am I, so I get it, to some degree. It takes three different employees to explain the situation to soup guy. I just put the water down and walked out after like 20min of waiting, an effectively useless experience, but a somewhat profound one. I realized that the Stop and Shop experience is an almagamation to my own existence. I work to pay the rent, so I can live near where I have to work. My life is essentially pointless, paycheck to paycheck, with zero wiggle room for joy. I can't hate Stop and Shop, because I am Stop and Shop.

It seems they no longer allow you to use the site, without disabling the add blocker. I use chrome at work and there doesn't seem to be an add blocker we are using to disable.

Time to move onto a different site, and I'd like to hear suggestions!

Looking for fun “drivers’ roads” in the area. I’ll start with: CHICKATAWBUT RD in the Blue Hills.

Why is Broadway ALWAYS under construction? Besides the private projects (new condos, businesses) it seems like Eversource and Water & Sewer are permanently ripping up the road. I drive all around the city and no other street has this level of permanent construction.

What do y'all think of Wu's $110 million fund to incentivise housing development in the city?

I know very little but it seems like a drop in the bucket for the amount of housing needed to be built. But I guess you gotta start somewhere.

For fellow kids of the 80’s, does anyone know if those brach’s candy bins still exist anywhere? The ones with 10 ish options (butterscotch, cinnamon, Neapolitan, etc?) that were the only reason to accompany a parent to the grocery store?

Looking for project management jobs. But with a good work life balance. Tech preferably but any company with a laid back work environment. Do they exist?

How strict are they about their cabin luggage policy (has to be under 15 lbs for your cabin + personal item)? I'm flying with an 18 mo and I'm really worried about how I'm going to carry everything I need for the long flight.

Preferably private, I’m imagining just us on a rooftop watching the sunset over the city, but a nice rooftop restaurant recommendation would be appreciated if not.

Curious if anyone knows why some ducks do not have personalized jerseys?

Hello my fellow natives!

Quick question, does anyone know where in Boston (or anywhere in the NE area) hosts one of those over the top funny wrestling matches? I keep seeing clips of random matches and has me wanting to go to one.

Example:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAmWW1IJM0H/?igsh=MTY1cDJhZmlhc2g1NA==

Thank you :)

Just give it to me straight, my GF who turns 21 a week after NYE is visiting and I want to take her into Boston to celebrate. Are there any events/bars that are 18+ we may be able to go to? Or are there bars that would let a pretty girl in with a group of people who are all 21+ if we were to slip a $20? Serious answers only, please.