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Inappropriate signage in a residental area @ 42 Cedar Lane Way.
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Inappropriate signage in a residental area @ 42 Cedar Lane Way.
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In MLA format please
By Citations needed!
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:43am
In MLA format please
Goals & hard work
By trickycrayon
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:26am
are contributors, but it sure does help to have a leg up in the first place. That's the real point here.
Citation
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:25am
I would bet you that very few of the people who live on Beacon Hill made much of their money from a trust fund/inheritance. That's true nationally, probably for Beacon Hill as well.
The estimates I've seen are that 80% of millionaires are first generation wealthy in their families and according to at least one professor - they do work harder:
My experience with the wealthy is that they are often the grandchildren of immigrants and the children of college educated middle to upper middle class parents.
Kinda like it takes 3 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop, it takes 3 generations to make it in America.
In the reverse, I've also seen stats that show it takes about 3 generations to destroy a fortune as well.
"first generation wealthy", huh?
By trickycrayon
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:28am
As in first generation millionaires, but their parents had a quite comfortable living and were always able to help them through school, with rent on their first apartment in the big city, etc.?
So are you trying to argue
By gotdatwmd
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:38am
So are you trying to argue that no one is in control of their own destiny, people not born "special" can't ever make it in life, parents with money never push their children to be independent or children of those who have money are stupid spoiled automatons?
All and all it sounds like a message to the youth of today to not bother trying and just to hate those with more wealth than them.
Mind you this is the same argument people use against successful minorities. They only got where they are because of "affirmative action."
Nope!
By trickycrayon
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:57am
Just arguing that it's easier to succeed if you have wealthy parents.
Which it isn't if you're a minority, so please don't try the "this dumb liberal is using arguments that anti-AA people use!" tactic.
All it takes are rich parents
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:37am
Can you please let our governor and president in on that?
Or how about our friend Swirly who seems to have done OK by her own frequent admission without the rich parents. How about the Fresh Air kid we hosted when I was little. Now she lives in my hometown in a house my parents couldn't dream to live in.
There are lots of roads to prosperity in this country. We all have some inherent advantages. we just need to figure out what they are.
Yup...lots of advantages!
By trickycrayon
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:01pm
Money just happens to be a really, really big one.
But far from the only one
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 1:43pm
The vast majority of successful people are successful because of something THEY did - not their parents. Isn't part of the point to work hard so your kids can go on to bigger and better things - and maybe have an easier life? Again - the stats are pretty clear - most of the "successful" people in the world are that way because they worked hard and long to get there, not because somebody gave them a boatload of money.
Oh for heaven's sake
By trickycrayon
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:19am
Really subscribing hard to the American Dream hooey, huh? Just work hard/smart/something I did to get where I am, by golly, and you'll get good things!
That is flat out delusional.
Tell that to the 80%
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:26am
Noted above.
To be precise, we're talking
By Dot net
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 3:42pm
To be precise, we're talking about the 80% of 1st generation millionaires? Which make up some proportion of the top 10% of income earners? Any sociology statisticians want to chime in here? I'm just curious if anyone knows where all the numbers lie.
Also, there's an issue of income vs. wealth. That is money vs. capital. Working sclhubs who have made it to 1mil by sheer effort and smarts, vs those that invested capital again and again. I won't make any judgments, just thought I'd mention it.
No
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 4:44pm
the stats are that 80% of millionaires are the first in their family to be millionaires.
Top 10%? I think you need to make somewhere just a bit south of $1 million in income to be a 1%-er on the income scale. The most recent stats on wealth- I think from 2012 - put the 1% cutoff at about $10 million (I think that includes primary residence).
Nobody's arguing that it's easier to get there when you start a couple rungs up the ladder. But most of those who make it to the top rungs don't start anywhere near there. And once you get there, your family doesn't usually stay there for more than a few generations.
More and more wealthy families are even setting it up so that their children don't even get much from Mommy and Daddy Bigbucks - they want their kids to make it on their own. They'll get lots of help - but not lots of money - at least by their standards.
Billboards on Cambridge St
By Felicity
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:31am
How did the billboards on Cambridge St pass muster? I don't mean this as snark, I'm sincerely curious.
Outside the historic district boundary, probably
By Ron Newman
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:16pm
There were gas stations there too (not sure if any remain open today)
Not certain
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 1:45pm
I think those billboards are grandfathered from before the historic designation. The Hill would love to be rid of them - but until they fall down - I don't think there's much they can do - and even then maybe they have the right to rebuild. No expansions and no new ones though.
Stevil, did you mean to say
By bibliotequetress
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:41pm
Stevil, did you mean to say that in other parts of the city, people can deface the property of others? It reads like that but I'm guessing that's not what you intended.
that's exactly what I intended
By Stevil
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 1:46pm
You read about that regularly out here - especially in the winter.
Citizen's passive aggressive Complaint
By Kaz
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 9:36am
Seriously?
Just take it down and throw it through the mail slot a few days in a row. They'll get the picture after they get tired of rehanging it every day.
Man, people are so lazy today they can't even bother to be actively passively aggressive these days.
This is why we
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 10:26am
removed Governor Bowdoin in the first place.
The "BUT IT'S HISTORIAL" arguers...
By trickycrayon
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:20am
...are sounding an awful lot like all those gentrification fetishizers.
mabye there's more
By Lisfnord
Fri, 08/01/2014 - 6:47pm
It looks like there's an awful lot of writing in the box where one would expect just a phone number. And there's something else on the doorknob. Maybe it's not the "For Rent" sign itself that's the problem....maybe it's the stuff that isn't legible (at least by me) in the photo?
Those commenting here who are
By anon
Sat, 08/02/2014 - 1:21am
Those commenting here who are overly outraged with the irrelevant goings on of Beacon Hill neighbors are exhibiting a nasty case of reverse clutching pearls.
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