Where Would YOU Move?

[Len-2A Training]

I guess UMass Worcester is out then. I wonder if UMass Memorial also applies under this.

Having never been there, I have no idea if the hospital is co-located with their college or not, so I'd guess this is a "muddy one".

 

[Len-2A Training]

Just don't confuse what Len says about legal with the consequences of the hospital staff finding out. As Len says, the most they can do is ask you to leave (if you are not a patient) or secure the weapon with hospital security if you are a patient. However, if you are not a patient they may well call the local PD as well. It's not inconceivable in a worst case scenario for the local PD to contact your home town PD and inform them of what happened. From there, who knows what might happen?

In Boston, Boston Medical Center and Tufts are physically and institutionally attached to medical schools. It's a little bit murkier at Harvard MS, because their campus is next to Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. All three are HMS teaching hospitals, although none of them are "owned" by them.

Gary

I hope we can put this to rest (permanently would be nice) with my following statement that I believe we can both agree on.

IF ANYONE AT ANY TIME EVER SEES YOUR GUN, IT IS NOT PROPERLY CONCEALED AND "BAD THINGS MAY HAPPEN!" Thus, if you are truly carrying concealed there should never be any issue, your chief will never know, and you now know that you are not violating any laws.

If you expose your gun any time outside of a gun club/shooting range, any sheeple could call the PD, your chief "MAY" be notified, and thus you could lose your license (as happened to Joe in Dedham - he didn't do anything wrong and still got screwed).

My position is do a good job at keeping it concealed and don't worry about something that won't happen.

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Now to address some of your other examples:

- Since my Wife works for Partners Healthcare (as does SR's Husband), I know a little about their "structure". MGH, BWH, DFCI, Faulkner, McLean, Newton-Wellesley, No. Shore Med'l Ctr, etc. are NOT part of any college, they are defined as "teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School" by the www.partners.org website. Thus, you can LEGALLY carry at these hospitals.

- Short story: My Wife had terrible back pains one Saturday (a few years ago) and the doctor told her to go to BWH ER and get checked out. They decided to do an MRI, but no doctors present could read the MRI, so they had us hang out then put Deena in the overnight holding area for the ER. The nursing staff was great, but finally admitted at ~0230 Sunday morning that it was hopeless waiting any longer and I could stay overnight in a reclining lounge chair beside Deena or head home, picking her up the next day after they read the MRI. I opted for home. The nurse begged me to get hospital security (unarmed) to escort me to my car (way down on Brookline Ave, by the area that the street people live in the wooded area). Finally I told her that I was well armed and could take better care of myself than the security people could do for me. She got the idea and said "OK, just be safe". Nobody saw anything, nobody called Boston PD or my chief, no problem.

 

[JimB]

yes

I ahve been to U-Mass in Worcester. the college is behind it.

JimB

 

[JimB]

summing it up

LenS great job. there's a lot to consider if you plan to move. As for costs,
its the total of all of the costs, ie. sales tax or not, income tax or not, cost
of housing, real estate tax..... i could go on... You might want to get
a subscription to "where to retire" it does a good job of comparing the costs
of many places.

As mentioned gun laws are only a part of the total. I'm no expert, i'm also
looking for some input, i'm a native of this state, but i'm not certain i could
retire here.......

JimB

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Mrs WW: Recently was looking at an opening back in WA. My neighbors & co-workers from years ago say the Kitsap Peninsula has built up substantially since we left in '93. Still, I'd go back in a heartbeat. Even if I still gotta go through Gorst first. And I do miss the WGC's monthly gunshow at Puyallup.

My brother discovered a branch of the family living in the PNW when he was stationed at Ft. Lewis. Seems one of Grandpa's cousins back in Marquette MI went west on Rte 2 about the same time grandpa graduated high school & moved south to work for Dow.

I have lived, Seattle, Tacoma, Mercer Island, Lacey, Yelm, and Olympia. I loved Lacey and Yelm. They were small towns kind of like where I am now. I was back home 3 years ago when my father passed away. Yelm is like Northampton now, and Lacey I didn't even recognize.
Seattle and Tacoma I couldn't find my way around now if I wanted to.
Don't get me wrong I love the area, minus the rain.....but if I moved back that way it would definately be Idaho. All my family is in WA, except my brother. I love New England, and as I have told Glenn many times, it is a beautiful state here, but really messed up politically.

 

[Ray P]

I have lived, Seattle, Tacoma, Mercer Island, Lacey, Yelm, and Olympia. I loved Lacey and Yelm. They were small towns kind of like where I am now. I was back home 3 years ago when my father passed away. Yelm is like Northampton now, and Lacey I didn't even recognize.
Seattle and Tacoma I couldn't find my way around now if I wanted to.
Don't get me wrong I love the area, minus the rain.....but if I moved back that way it would definately be Idaho. All my family is in WA, except my brother. I love New England, and as I have told Glenn many times, it is a beautiful state here, but really messed up politically.

Sorry to hear about your father. But that seems to be the way things are for me. Nowadays, the only time I go to Michigan is for a funeral.

ID is beautiful; all the scenery of northern UT, but without the crowds. Must admit there are a few areas in WA/OR to which I wouldn't move. Especially the greater Pasco/Umatilla region.

From what my gun-shooting friends in WA say, the California migration has turned the five-mile wide strip at the foot of the Cascades into a liberal anti-gun hotbed. But I don't know if we'd ever see the Sea-Tac corridor driving Washington gun politics the way Boston drives MA.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Sorry to hear about your father. But that seems to be the way things are for me. Nowadays, the only time I go to Michigan is for a funeral.

ID is beautiful; all the scenery of northern UT, but without the crowds. Must admit there are a few areas in WA/OR to which I wouldn't move. Especially the greater Pasco/Umatilla region.

From what my gun-shooting friends in WA say, the California migration has turned the five-mile wide strip at the foot of the Cascades into a liberal anti-gun hotbed. But I don't know if we'd ever see the Sea-Tac corridor driving Washington gun politics the way Boston drives MA.

It's about the only time I go to WA at this point is for a funeral. I have been away for over 20 years now, and everytime I go back it is foreign to me. Oh, the Cali migration was getting bad about the time I left, and definately has gotten worse.
Nah, I don't think WA would ever have the gun laws we do. Even at the time knew too many that hunted. Lots of good hunting out there. Even Idaho is great for that.
You're considering over the mountains and into the Yakima area. That wouldn't be bad. Don't know how much that area has grown. You at least get the 4 seasons there. It's the one thing I liked as a kid when we lived in Spokane for a couple of years.
One of my cousins asked me the last time I was back home if I would ever move back. Don't think I could....I have been away too long.