Parking issues

The town of Brookline, MA has a certain luxurious aftertaste to it: overnight parking is banned in the whole of the city. That's right: you can't leave your car in the street overnight. Ever.

The solution? Well, the more expensive apartment complexes offer complimentary parking space. The less expensive ones offer it for an extra fee. But in either case, the space is rarely enough for everybody. So some of proud brooklinians are forced to seek parking space somewhere else - also for a fee, of course.

But even that still seems not enough.

Therefore, in it's infinite care for the citizens, the generous city of Brookline is offering municipal parking space. Of course, also for a fee. And of course, not for the whole day. During the business hours, you see, the lots are used for other - business-related - purposes. But come 8PM, the proud municipal tenant is free to occupy the space. Until the next morning, that is. Because come 9AM, any proud tenant who neglected to remove their car will be towed away. For business-related purposes.

So the bottom line for the aforementioned proud tenant would be: come from work, find an on-street parking space, hang out until 8pm, move the car to the parking lot (possibly enduring a line of similar-minded proud tenants), go home, go to sleep, wake up at 8am (or so), go to the parking lot, take the car, find an on-street parking space (in case you don't have to go to work right away), repeat.

Really nice. Real Commonwealth - as in, giving up personal comforts in the interest of the group.