Baroclinic Zone

It’s the same just about everywhere right now. Housing stocks for sale are at levels we have not seen in a long time. My wife and I are kicking ourselves for balking at pulling the trigger on moving to North Attleboro. We had everything lined up to sign a P&S to build a home with a builder I work with and Covid spooked us and we didn’t know was going to happen and whether or not we’d have our jobs still. Move forward 9-10mo and the 46 lots went from opening sales to having reservations on all of them. They were starting in the low 5’s and they are now in the low 6’s. Sucks but we’re not dwelling on it and are pushing to get an addition added to our existing house.

There’s been a large increase in sales outside of Boston. People are moving out of the city to escape the congestion. Metro Boston does have issues with affordable housing but we are better equipped to deal with the issue compared to other places. Apartments are becoming a huge boon along the 495 belt. Feel good knowing you live in a market that is less susceptible to market downturns. We have a broad spectrum of industries that can weather a lot of downward market trends. We have a great hub of education, sciences, and finances that feed a broad spectrum of fields. No better place to live in the US IMO.

Metro west 495 belt is the new 128 belt. Some communities are already at levels of the 128 belt but give it another 10-20 years and they’ll be there. We have new homes we’re designing that will be starting at $800k and up in the next year or so.

Soon? It’s been there for 15-20yrs. Not sure the salaries of the people I have done work for, but most of them are above my pay grade. My guess is combined family income is well north of $250k to just touch the $600-700k homes and go up from there for the million plus ones.

Mine was wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.

Lol, it took till March 6th to receive my next snow.

Gotta be 1” aggies

Looked that way. Matt and Brett would be in line for that one

Lasted a minute or 2

Couple big fatties falling from the sky

1-3"+?

Not really warranted, If we go by your definition, we should have a thread every day for NNE upslope snows.

How intense is it?

50s in January is not common. Plenty of days in the mid/upper 40s here though. Speaking from where I live, it's a pretty close split on the highs/lows. Within 2-3F.

What's fraudulent about it? We're all sitting at close to +8 MTD. That's a torch by any definition.

I had almost double what I do now, this time last year. 12.80" vs 22.25". Thing is, last year crapped the bed and it didn''t snow again till March.

I've done it for everyone I've been through.

It was nice to go about a month without the mention of that model.

We do seem to have fun when s/w's eject out of the SW. See what comes of this upcoming one.

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For the most part. Southeastern MA is where most of our work is, from Cape Cod all up to the Natick area.

Yeah, lumber has seen a 200-300% increase in price. Hearing a lot of it has to do with lumber yards not being able to dispose of the sawdust waste thus having to curtail operations. Also due to reduced staffing because of the rabbit in the room. PT lumber and composite decking are also in short supply. Most other building material costs have remained stable though.

We've been lacking a solid baroclinic zone. Maybe this upcoming period can give us that which would present better chances of frozen precip in SNE.

I should have proof-read what I wrote. Daycare is ridiculous. I don't even remember how we paid for it back then. Now I just need to worry about helping my kid through College. Finding contractors right now is hard. They are all busy and booked out, so it may take time to hire one who can work with you. You may want to also hire a local Architect/Designer to put together a set of plans you can bid with, that way you can make sure your getting a good price for the proposed work. That's what my wife and I do. We each have our day-to-day jobs but also have our own company because the need was there. We do everything from small interior renovations to full blown million+ homes. People are leaving the cities in droves and are looking for places to live. This is driving up the values of existing and new homes astronomically. We've seen the appraised value of our own go up $100k in a little over a year.