You’d think they would have time but the market the past ~18 months or so has been absolutely brutal. My wife is 1 year without a job. My brother is 2 years without a job (aside from a stint at dominos.)
HR and Dev.
The roles my wife keeps getting end up disqualifying her salary wise. She was making over 100k before in her last two roles. Now everything wants to pay 50-60k for Boston based labor in places that are a nightmare commute like boston’s seaport (no public transit, snow for 3 months of the year, no free parking and typically $400+/mo parking costs.) They’re all ass in chair based roles with 5 on site expectations too, where in the past it was typically 2-3 days on site.
Fresh grads basically can’t get jobs nowadays so the desperation drives down wages, meanwhile rents are basically static and other costs of living keep on rising.
I definitely understand where you’re coming from but you don’t really need a car in Boston. Also the assertion that seaport doesn’t have transit is false.
I don’t live in Boston. I own a home in a nearby city. I can get to the subway line, but the connections required blow.
Let’s just pretend I live at oak grove and I work at vertex pharmaceuticals. They’re RIGHT over the bridge at seaport. What’s the sensible public transit option aka not a 18 minute walk from orange line to vertex?
For another thought experiment, try living in Wilmington and commuting to Vertex. There’s a rail station right there. It gets nightmarish especially if we have snowpocalypse again.
Everyone I know who lives in Boston who is not exceptionally wealthy or in a very high paying role (350k+/yr) is very young and living with roommates. The second you have a couple of kids the math gets real tough to justify anything. Most of the working professionals I knew 10 years ago who were just about to turn 40 were buying homes out in Salem, Beverly or some other distant commuter rail destination to raise their kids. Even the guy who owned a 2BR condo downtown did this as his kid got to kindergarten age ended up in Stoughton.
I’ve also lived and commuted from Cleveland Circle and i’d take a cambridge pharma job over that vertex commute any day of the week.
You’d think they would have time but the market the past ~18 months or so has been absolutely brutal. My wife is 1 year without a job. My brother is 2 years without a job (aside from a stint at dominos.)
HR and Dev.
The roles my wife keeps getting end up disqualifying her salary wise. She was making over 100k before in her last two roles. Now everything wants to pay 50-60k for Boston based labor in places that are a nightmare commute like boston’s seaport (no public transit, snow for 3 months of the year, no free parking and typically $400+/mo parking costs.) They’re all ass in chair based roles with 5 on site expectations too, where in the past it was typically 2-3 days on site.
Fresh grads basically can’t get jobs nowadays so the desperation drives down wages, meanwhile rents are basically static and other costs of living keep on rising.
I definitely understand where you’re coming from but you don’t really need a car in Boston. Also the assertion that seaport doesn’t have transit is false.
I don’t live in Boston. I own a home in a nearby city. I can get to the subway line, but the connections required blow.
Let’s just pretend I live at oak grove and I work at vertex pharmaceuticals. They’re RIGHT over the bridge at seaport. What’s the sensible public transit option aka not a 18 minute walk from orange line to vertex?
For another thought experiment, try living in Wilmington and commuting to Vertex. There’s a rail station right there. It gets nightmarish especially if we have snowpocalypse again.
Everyone I know who lives in Boston who is not exceptionally wealthy or in a very high paying role (350k+/yr) is very young and living with roommates. The second you have a couple of kids the math gets real tough to justify anything. Most of the working professionals I knew 10 years ago who were just about to turn 40 were buying homes out in Salem, Beverly or some other distant commuter rail destination to raise their kids. Even the guy who owned a 2BR condo downtown did this as his kid got to kindergarten age ended up in Stoughton.
I’ve also lived and commuted from Cleveland Circle and i’d take a cambridge pharma job over that vertex commute any day of the week.