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.
people want to live in Boston, not in the exurbs
By tetsuya
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 3:09pm
if someone has the opportunity to live in the city, you can't reasonably expect them to pass it up just to placate old townies. the actual solution of course would be to greatly increase the housing stock in Boston and its surrounding communities
Please
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.)
This is not new; i got
By lkitch
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 3:50pm
This is not new; i got gentrified out of JP in 1979. 1979!
22 years later (after th usual Allston/Somerville route) i wound up buying a little home in Lynn.
After 12 happy years there (other than th usual gripes) i retired to florida, and 3 years later my financial-loss-at-sale home in Lynn sold for 3 times the price. NOT sustainable for future generations!!
By that measure, everyone is causing displacement
By anon
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:27pm
Unless they end up living on the street, the people who are displaced out of JP are going to move somewhere else, thereby displacing the people who used to live in that home.
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:
it's spelled
By anon
Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:21pm
Iggles
It's been 40 degrees in the past week
By erik g
Tue, 02/11/2025 - 10:34am
...and these chuckleheads are walking out on the ice on the pond where BFD actually does its live practices for fell-through-the-thin-ice-rescues. It's almost TOO one-the-nose for Philly sports fans.
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