You might think "no, of course not", but once you've settled in for a few years...
Well, we *are* slowing down a smidgeon to begin with, and that's a consideration unto itself. Actually, that's one of the attractions of the house -- it looks more comfortable for us to *live* in than anything else we've seen.
That said, we've never really been ones to let location prevent us from doing anything, and that seems unlikely to change. The actual time to get into the city isn't much greater except for rush hour, and in practice we do most of our going-to-stuff from work, so that doesn't change at all. So I think it's unlikely to change how much we do, although it might tweak exactly *what* we do. It probably has significantly less impact than getting jobs in other towns would.
Snow. How hard is it going to be in the winter?
Worse, certainly. The house is on a fairly small and backish road. OTOH, it's on a small but important road with a lot of *much* more expensive houses on it, so I suspect there is a lot of motivation for the town to do good snow removal. We need to ask some of the current Framingham residents, but my suspicion is that, in practice, it's not dramatically worse.
Are you going to be screwed if Major Road going to your area goes down for the summer, or are there alternatives?
Well, they're not going to close Route 90. And actually, there are a *lot* of ways to get within a couple of miles of the house: 90, 9, 20 and 30 all run pretty close. So one road going down might inconvenience us, but it doesn't trap us.
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Well, we *are* slowing down a smidgeon to begin with, and that's a consideration unto itself. Actually, that's one of the attractions of the house -- it looks more comfortable for us to *live* in than anything else we've seen.
That said, we've never really been ones to let location prevent us from doing anything, and that seems unlikely to change. The actual time to get into the city isn't much greater except for rush hour, and in practice we do most of our going-to-stuff from work, so that doesn't change at all. So I think it's unlikely to change how much we do, although it might tweak exactly *what* we do. It probably has significantly less impact than getting jobs in other towns would.
Snow. How hard is it going to be in the winter?
Worse, certainly. The house is on a fairly small and backish road. OTOH, it's on a small but important road with a lot of *much* more expensive houses on it, so I suspect there is a lot of motivation for the town to do good snow removal. We need to ask some of the current Framingham residents, but my suspicion is that, in practice, it's not dramatically worse.
Are you going to be screwed if Major Road going to your area goes down for the summer, or are there alternatives?
Well, they're not going to close Route 90. And actually, there are a *lot* of ways to get within a couple of miles of the house: 90, 9, 20 and 30 all run pretty close. So one road going down might inconvenience us, but it doesn't trap us.