Proposed Old Colony Avenue apartment building would come with a car for residents to share

about 10 years ago when a local drinking establishment wanted to put an outdoor drinking patio abutting a bunch of residences? This yuppie chick said that it would be good for the neighborhood and her and her Muffy friends wanted to drink outside because her condo had no open space.
Well guess what? The patio was shot down and Miss Muffy doesn’t live in Southie anymore.

Keep telling yourself these people are transients as they have kids and send their kids to school there, etc. The resentment is so thick. It's embarrassing.

Unlike the newbies who will high tail it out to suburbia

I know plenty of yuppie families raising kids in southie.

Having lived in South Boston for eight years now, I have yet to meet any of these old-timers who so actively invest in their community and their neighbors.

If anything, the old-timers are more standoffish than the younger residents, harboring resentment because their friends and family long ago left the neighborhood for a comfortable retirement elsewhere.

And in the spirit of being neighborly, they of course rush to deride others as "yuppies."

I'm happy their expectations were formed in a post-White flight era that blighted our cities, but the reality is that times have changed.

Yeah, that should go over really well if its included in the condo fees. Who will do the regular maintenance and repairs. I can hear it now "why am I paying for a car that I use once a year when Karen in 2B drives it to McDonalds at 2am every Friday?!". No thanks.

The city where I worked in the past had its own small fleet of city vehicles, but they were managed by Zipcar - the booking site looked similar, and each car had the same tap reader on the windshield. So this building could do something similar and contract Zipcar to manage bookings and the technology. I wonder if they will need to hire someone to do cleaning and maintenance though, or if Zipcar provides that.

I can only imagine the families that allow their guests to borrow "the car" to run over to Medford for a play.

I laughed at this. Twenty years ago, townies would wonder what day you possibly would return, but forgot, now everything is new throughout the city.

Certainly respect those needs. My only question is to whether or not there are some folks who own a car and need it so rarely that they could realize tremendous savings annually by utilizing zip car, daily rentals occasionally. Avoiding costs of fuel, insurance, repairs and maintenance, monthly car payments, inevitable ticketing and towing Boston etc. As we continue to grow as a city AND a region, it's going to be something that we;ll have to look at more as parking becomes more difficult and traffic becomes gridlocked more and more often.

I love living car-free and I know a lot of city-dwellers have cars buried in snow that they obviously don't use every day. But it doesn't always work and life throws curve-balls.

And then people adjust accordingly. If you need ample parking, you won't buy a condominium with no parking. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

I’ll go ahead and take the under on that, please.

My sentiments exactly.

BUT, if you are paying $900K, I think there will be appealing lifestyle surroundings throughout