Driving and Houses in Westborough Massachusetts

Coming from beautiful well-built Oregon, Massachusetts is in comparison wanting. Yeah, just plain wanting. Of everything structural, roads for example that actually have center lanes. Wouldn't that be convenient when turning left? There are suicidal maniac drivers here who will dysfunction-ally turn left expecting right-of-way drivers to actually stop for them. And, the roads (unless they are highways) all have a single lane on either side. Who is the idiot who designed these? Of course my ears are deaf to my colleague's argument that these roads were built way back when people in construction were let's say inexperienced, that is a long time ago.

Compared to the relatively modern state of Oregon, Massachusetts is old. It's too late now to widen the roads because there are shops built on either side.Getting stuck in traffic because of these one lane roads is the norm here. No one complains unless they are from Oregon. Oregonians know better of course; they know of multi-lane roads, wide with center lanes. It is a driver's utopia! Drivers who actually obey the rules of the road, respecting one another's rather large comfort spaces. Drivers are mindful of each others comfort spaces and will not intrude into it. Massachusetts drivers have no regard for that, they come so close you that one starts to wonder if they are putting the moves on you. Then you realize, yeah, folks drive differently here. One of the disadvantages of an old, mature state, structurally speaking, is that the houses here are, to put it mildly, AGED. So aged that lead testing is compulsory before entering school. I had to have my 5 year old lead tested so that she could enter kindergarten.When I asked the nurse the reason for that, she simply said, "Cause the houses are so old here." You get the point.

I am amazed that actually a pretty significant number of houses here have pools. Yes, POOLS! They probably get about 2 months use out of them out of the entire year. Winters last 5 months and are so cold that the pool water freezes. The rest of the time is taken up by the frozen water thawing and slowly stabilizing to a temperature where a human could comfortably set foot and body in. Which happens in July. Then September starts getting cold and of course too cold to be wet. But, the puzzling thing is that houses are built with no consideration of a garage. Yes, many houses do NOT have garages. And of those that do, a single car garage adorns the house proudly about 90% of the time. My question is, most families have at least 2 drivers , the woman and the man which translates to 2 cars, right? Who gets to park their car in the garage? I mean, does each family toss a coin or do they take turns: it's my turn to park the car in the garage, this week, honey. Ridiculous! Yet, they have pools.