Literally the 6th image when you Google "brutalism".

Well, considering the Aroostook War was won by a bear fighting for Maine, the state is arguably bigger because of a bear.

Also paddling the Mystic River and lakes or hiking, biking, or trail running in the Fells. There's plenty of nature adjacent spaces, if not entirely pristine and out of earshot from a highway, and putting the slightest effort into getting away from the parts accessible by vehicles, you'll find some real solitude.

Add to that options for linking up to bike paths into Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston (the terminus was actually Davis Square when it opened in the 90's)

Have you been to the Indian restaurants in Norwood? My only basis to judge is what I enjoyed, and I 've had some good meals down there.

From a certain angle it looks like two creatures made of arms, grundle, and groin tossing each other's salad.

Pretty sure this is what Calvin's mom drove, in Calvin and Hobbes, and definitely what my mom drove, in a similarly airborne fashion in the 80's.

Good bot.

Part of it is Charlie Deferred Maintenance Baker, part of it is the state capture that results from effective single party rule allowing a small number of companies easy access to the people making the rules on bidding jobs and procurement, and part of it, perversely enough, is Prop 2½. Because municipalities maintain good bond ratings by borrowing money, and because every bureaucracy 's primary objective is to expand, the override rule incentivizes expanding every budget by 2.49% every year, so a lot of things that should get done only get done in small portions (one year we borrow the money to bury the fiber or whatever, and the next year we borrow to fix the road we destroyed the year before, and each project only gets done 130 feet at a time to maximize the number of joints in the road and splices in whatever utility they're running.

Yeah, filled in salt marsh is rat habitat. This just in, marmots gonna marm.

You're doing it wrong. You don't compete with cars; you dare them. If you make eye contact with a driver who has time to stop, you automatically get the right to step in front of them, regardless of actual traffic rules.

In other news a lot of those doors have yahds.

The government can do it cheaper. Pharmaceutical grade morphine costs less than $1 a day.