Shelters and rescues are not the same thing. Not all rescues are shelter-based, many operate with the help of foster families. Your post is suspicious because both shelters and rescues vet adopters, and when people are looking to avoid going that route, it's possible there's a reason they wouldn't pass the vetting process.

Virtually every dog rescue is overrun with puppies they are trying to place in homes. Is there a reason your family members aren't going this very traditional route to puppy adoption?

You might like the Wickendon Street area in Fox Point. Easy commute, restaurants, bars, specialty shops, and two nearby grocery stores. Unlike the West End, it's already gentrified if that matters to you. You are far less likely to be displacing a longtime, low-income neighborhood resident or a family wanting to stay in the neighborhood.

Samson Reality is a Realtor who finds tenants for landlords at no cost to the renter. Worth checking out. They know the area and are probably no stranger to finding housing for people moving here to work for the major employers. And search this sub; this question pops up a lot, although I don't remember anyone planning to commute to the hospitals.

What is the timing of your move? I may know of a furnished sublet if you want to get your bearings before signing a lease.

The West End has it's benefits, but "everything in walking distance" is not one of them honestly. I wouldn't walk to Hasbro Children's Hospital from there, or to any grocery store.

"Real neighbors who look out for each other" is the luck of the draw. I'm sure some parts of the West End have it ... my daughter did not when she lived there. I have it in Mount Hope, but people I know just a few blocks away do not.

I can't tell if you're planning to take your MIL to a restaurant with a full bar, or plan to sit on bar stools for your meal. I just want to suggest that if you've never seen her sit on a stool for an extended period, don't make that part of your plan. Bar stools are not universally comfortable for all bodies (which is something that might not occur to folks who find them just fine. Seemed worth mentioning.)

I'm old enough to be a MIL and I love how well you seem to know her tastes and priorities for a good night out ... Have a great time!

Even if you didn't have an HOA there is much more involved work than drywall replacement that you can do without a permit when the HOMEOWNER is doing it. You're fine. But you may want to see what the HOA says about hours you can DIY, construction debris, etc.

I hope you are able to find out what happened to the pup and it's family, and give enough info to animal control that they can have a record of this. Did you try posting on Nextdoor? I see stuff like this there a lot. There's also a FB group "Dogs of Providence."

I'm happy the neighbors came out to help. I can't imagine how terrified that Mom was.

Goes without saying. For every New Yorker.

PVD-er

While this makes sense logically, as a NYC transplant, I don't identify with other parts of the state as home.

St. Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Pawtucket has a social hall they rent out. It's down the street from the church and doesn't give any church vibes at all (which IMO was a wise investment decision on their part. They make money renting it out.) It has a commercial kitchen and bar which you can use or not. Best kept secret in room rentals around here as far as I am concerned.

Also search this sub because this question has been asked before.

Facebook does tend to have more scams, but asking to be texted is not necessarily a red flag.

1. The person might prefer to have all their messages in one place and not receive FB messages; it is an extra place to have to check.
2. Once you text them they have your real phone number; they are tired of wasting time getting those from people.
3. Facebook pre-fills a message to the poster with "Is this available?" and it's super annoying. People just hit "send" when they may not really be interested in order to be be able to revisit the listing later (because they haven't figured out you can save posts to revisit them later.)

YES but they want to add height and depth to it. That stretch should be retail.

Even if you can afford Boston neighborhoods you'll still have a good choice of two bedroom apartments on the east side you can afford. I would look further up Hope Street and away from Brown for better prices. Even look over the border into Pawtucket; there are some nice tree-lined neighborhoods there. Again though, it depends on what you want to be near.

You probably already know this, but the predominant rental housing type here is two- and three-family homes. Some of them have a room that can't qualify as a bedroom but would hold an office just fine. If that's what you're looking for, don't rule out one-bedrooms if the listings appear to have a high square footage. That might indicate a spare room, no closet.

Samson Realty reps landlords on the East Side, and a couple here and there in East Providence. You don't pay the fee - the landlord does.

If you can afford Boston rents you can afford the East Side, but you might not prefer it depending on what you want to be near. What kind of neighborhood are you looking for and what do you want to be near? Will either of you still have to commute to Boston? (If so, do a search of this sub - people ask a lot about the best places to live if one has to get to Boston for work at all.)

Check out Mike's Estate Services on your way in or out of town. It's in West Warwick a bit of a detour off the highway, but worth it. The smaller items like glassware and art are upstairs, and first floor is mostly furniture.

>Thank you for the reasoned response instead of “wow look at this internet tough guy clueless rube.”

Fixed it for you. This is where you live now (I assume) so you should have have some idea of the poverty level in the public schools. Also school buildings here are built to withstand NEW ENGLAND winters, not the ones you grew up with. There has been much in the news in the past few years about their terrible condition, so we can assume the mechanical systems are old and not up to the task of heating them in arctic temperatures.

You're not coming off as a "tough guy" in this thread, but as a person who lacks self-awareness or any idea about where he now lives. I have a friend who grew up in central Canada where everyone she knew had a battery in their garage meant for starting cars on cold winter morning. I learned this through the course of normal conversation as in interesting fact, not in in accusatory "what, you think this is cold?" kind of way.

Thank you, I feel a lot better for having turned away a young woman who rang my bell and interrupted my work day - I felt so bad because i was sure she was under pressure to sell and someone had probably sold her a bill of goods over how great the money would be. I told her "I'm in middle of my work day I can't talk now" and she said "Is there a better time to come back?" I just said "No, sorry." I could have been nicer and said "it's just not in my budget now" or something like that but she caught me off guard. I hope she gets a real job where she can make some real money soon.

I disagree. I raised both my kids in Providence. We are also a multi-cultural family and living in an urban setting was part of their education. They went to Classical High school (the highest performing high school in the State of RI - not just the city) which is about 1/3 Latino.

Three Rhode Island chefs nominated. I guess she's the only one mentioned since this is the PVD sub, but I think the other two are worth mentioning.

I've worked from home since 2019 and I honestly don't now how I went to Cambridge five days a week. Those five years started in 2009 and I work in the building trades as a designer, so there were no jobs in RI architecture firms. Everyone had been laid off the previous year.

I commuted to Cambridge from Providence for five years, five days a week. It was terrible. Having to jump on the red line from South Station - or do the reverse later - really felt like a second commute on top of the commuter rail. Of course it was only 20 more minutes, but it just made the whole thing feel much worse. When I was job searching I did not look at anything that was not walking distance from South Station, Back Bay or Ruggles.

On the "home" side of the commute, I would not look in East Providence anywhere south of Rumford. That way you can cross the Seekonk River to the train without using 195/Washington bridge. The traffic on that stretch of 195 is terrible in both directions both morning and evening rush hours.

As others have said you can take the Red Line right from Quincy to South Boston and avoid South Station all together. But I would still avoid 195/Washington Bridge at all costs.

No, his friends who were searching for him thought he was on the bike path. That was posted here and on FB in their efforts to search for him. GoLocal scrapes social media for "news".

The ProJo is now reporting it, so if we didn't already know GoLocal makes things up, we do now. In their rush to be the first to "report news" they got several things wrong (when he was found, who found him, the spelling of his name ...) Brown was trying to respect the family, and legit news sources were waiting for actual information to report. Neither seems to be a requirement for GoLocal.

No because there is nothing to report and GoLocal knows it.