Or maybe somebody just likes all the raptors that have been showing up at Jamaica Pond lately. Trout House Comics shows us what's written in the snow on the pond today.
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By John Costello
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 1:42pm
I willing to wager that 73% current residents of JP aren't originally from JP.
Many, many people there now displaced working and lower middle class people from the neighborhood because they could not afford to live in Brookline or Cambridge and decided to usurp vulnerable people.
They will deny it but they are no better than "greedy landlords" who force people out and destroy communities.
Go have a drum session if anyone is angry at my completely true statement.
My next-door neighbor...
By necturus
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:01pm
...sold his house to a developer who knocked it down and built a really ugly McMansion in its place that will probably sell for $2 million. Soon, only the very rich will be able to afford to live here.
Housing shortage affects everyone
By mg
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:07pm
I have friends who moved to JP two years ago - not because they decided to "usurp vulnerable people" but because they were desperately trying to find a place anywhere in the Boston area. They had already made bids on 4 other places not in JP, only to have other people's bids accepted each time. When people are offering cash, no-inspection bids above the asking price and sellers are getting multiple bids, it affects those who would otherwise be able to afford to live elsewhere in the Greater Boston area.
There's Room In Lynn...
By John Costello
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:47pm
Haverhill, Lowell, Brockton, Worcester, Springfield, Southbridge, Greenfield...
Living in JP and displacing people is a choice of others.
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By BostonDog
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 3:21pm
Every time you move, you displace someone else. There are more people than houses so it's just musical chairs.
If someone moves to Haverhill, that means someone in Haverhill got priced out. If that person moves to Springfield in search of cheaper housing, that's one less apartment in Springfield for someone who might have grown up in that city and would like to stay.
If you really want to be pedantic, we've all displaced indigenous residents of Eastern MA who were doing fine until Europeans came along looking for more land for themselves. (And hey, many of them felt forced to leave England.)
Maybe it's got nothing to do with the Super Bowl
By necturus
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 1:59pm
Didn't someone recently post a picture of an actual eagle at Jamaica Pond? Or do I have it confused with somewhere else?
or BC
By mg
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:08pm
Caption on original Bluesky post:
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