Keep in mind $100K in Boston is actually 45K. Also, since you are not a born and bred Bostonian or Boston suburbian, you are both forever outsiders. But welcome!

I'd he is.that good looking, he is used to the comments and response. Sure he won't remember..

People are afraid. Of offending someone. Of saying the wrong thing. Of inferring the wrong thing. Of referring to someone unintentionally the wrong way. And so on. So everyone minds their own business.

You call the shots if what you offer is valuable and can be done from home.

I have noticed global companies are creating hybrid work requirements, most 3 office days, and that this appears to be exponentially trending.

I work with CEOs and senior leaders and they are all now using the same catch phrases and ideology around the benefits of onsite presence. This trending is common, we see it in all areas of social business decisions.

But employees with options are simply choosing to find other opportunities or simply point out they will visit the office as they deem necessary which means companies have to decide where they draw the line.

With global footprints and technology the whole concept of an office space is no longer contemporary, and over time, for office work, the space will disappear. The hybrid model is part of that transformation as is employees with options (experience, educated) saying uh-huh, no thank you.

Wrong. Even negligible communities line Fitchburg and Gardner are renting absolute dumps for 1700+. A house rental is 2K.

Yes, housing is fundamental but it is not the responsibility of a home owner to house you. Especially in Massachusetts, people who can't afford housing have oodles of funding help available through the government. Many, many rental units are owned by a mom and pop landlord who has the property as an investment. Should this landlord go into debt or risk their investment to provide housing someone can't otherwise afford? If you can't afford rent you get a roommate or rent in a less desirable city or suburb. Also. Life choices. With the exception of a very small percentage, people who own a home rental or single family made a significant series of life choices and sacrifices to get there.

Exactly, renters who want emotional landlord response, ie, down voters. It is worse in the suburbs. People cannot believe a mom and pop landlord with one or maybe two rental properties would actually increase their rent simply because the cost of living went up and they are paying more for taxes, water, community space electricity, snow plowing, maintenance, unit revamping after a tenants dog scratches floors. They'll pay the COL increase for daily Starbucks and at the salon and whatever else is enjoyable but f the landlord. I think the software is a great idea because it takes emotion out of the equation. Family? You bet, my own lives rent free. Life. Choices.

There is frequently confusion that people who own properties to rent are doing this out of their interest in providing housing to strangers at a minimal profit or weakest investment for them. They are not. Unless renters are renting from a relative, you will pay market price. People put emotion into the rent filter. No different than buying groceries in a volatile economy.