Chill out and invest in a good pair of noise canceling headphones.

It depends on what other income and deductions you have. When they withhold taxes at the lottery office, they are doing this based on an estimate of what your tax liability will be. But they can't know for sure. You will only know for certain when you prepare your tax return.

My point is the delay has to do with the due process of law. If you compare the list of charges they are comparable cases.

Also who cares if the victims were passengers or pedestrians, all of them deserve justice.

There was another fatal crash in Norwalk in November and it took the police one month to arrest the driver, who happend to be hispanic.

https://patch.com/connecticut/norwalk/driver-charged-fatal-norwalk-crash-police

If you are arrested, you have the right to go before a judge and challenge the legality of your detention (habeas corpus). The police can't just hold someone indefinitely while they figure out what to charge them with. And in cases like this, it is really important to get the charges right because there are no do-overs (no double jeopardy) if the police screw it up.

Better to wait a bit to make the arrest than to have the driver get off on a technicality.

Oh no, I totally get it. Any time an entire building needs to be vacated, it is right and fair to criticize the developer for that. BLT absolutely needs to account for this moving forward. At a minimum so the buildings can be properly insured.

Hopefully the city has enough info to reach a proper conclusion about the root cause, because if a change somewhere else made this happen we want to avoid repeating that mistake too. Cheers!

In hindsight, the building never should have been renovated in the first place. But if the change in the water table happened after the renovation, it would have been impossible to spot in advance. Hard to say if the engineering survey missed something, or if a change elsewhere destabilized the building. Regardless, sucks for all involved.

I know everyone likes to shit on BLT, but I live in one of the buildings in Harbor Point and I've had a good experience. We really like the neighborhood, it is very dog friendly. Love walking the dogs out to the water, going to Sign of the Whale, Fortina, or Mexicue, or getting coffee in commons park. You won't have trouble meeting people down here.

BLT is the building developer but they contract out the management to a variety of management companies. I would stay away from Infinity, there are a couple absolutely scathing threads on facebook with a laundry list of issues related to the management company.

I'd say don't write it off, take a look and decide for yourself.

You are talking about Yale & Towne, right? This building was converted from a 100 year old factory - changes in the water table caused the old wooden pilings to rot. Also a common issue in Boston's Back Bay, where I used to live.

Your comment makes it sound like the structure itself is less than 10 years old. Let's at least be a little bit fair.

As someone from Boston currently in Stamford who loves both, I'd lean towards Boston area for you.

When it comes to dating, career opportunities, even just going out to bars, you are going to get more and a greater variety of opportunities in Boston. You will probably get better projects in the Boston office, and if things don't work out with Deloitte you'll have a greater selection of other opportunities that don't require you to move.

Also, if you are a consultant, flying out of Logan is waaaay easier than fighting your way over to JFK or Laguardia. I'm sure your compensation will be enough to get by. Make sure you get the full match on any company retirement benefits (i.e. 401k) but don't stress too much about saving tons right away.

Look in Cambridge, Somerville, Allston, Brighton, Southie for housing. Anywhere on the red line or green line.

I played flag football for many years with BSSC and they do tons of other sports as well, very well run intramural sports org.

Don't get me wrong. Stamford is awesome, I absolutely love it. But I think it is a better spot for young couples and NYC commuters. Another option for you could be to live in NYC and reverse commute to Stamford.

To me, Stamford is like a moon that orbits New York. Boston is its own planet. In your situation, you want to be on a planet, not a moon.

+1 for Battlegrounds, give them a call for sure.

This home is overpriced, but not to the extent you think it is. And since it is still for sale, the market seems to agree that it is overpriced.

Homes that are move-in ready command a premium. You cannot live in a home while you do a gut reno. So you have to pay to live somewhere else, and additionally you have to pay all the carrying costs associated with the home, such as taxes, insurance, utilities. Plus, don't forget that real estate agents take a 5-6% commission. You seem to have neglected these costs.

We are at Postmark, but I'm guessing your experience will be similar at most of the big buildings. They have a website where you can go select the apartment you want and the term you want and it calculates out the rates. The rates changed frequently, at least weekly, but not for every apartment. We knew what apartment we wanted, so we waited until the slow season and watched for the price to drop. This took some patience. Once it did, we pulled the trigger via the website.

Rates definitely do move up and down. But they are not 'negotiable' in the traditional way of the leasing agent tells you X, you counter offer Y, and so on. The leasing agent won't have the ability to make concessions because the price is controlled by the technology.

Instead, I'd suggest saying something like "we really like the apartment, but our budget is Y, we would sign if we can get that, but we're going to keep looking." And then you leave. You look at the other buildings. And you watch the website and wait. Hopefully the leasing agent will circle back with management and get them to drop the price for you.

Check out Lorca in Stamford for coffee!