Help needed with info on Boston
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Help needed with info on Boston
Does anyone live there? I'm writing about Boston and I really need some background.
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Writing about what?
And about the city itself or surrounding area?
Plenty of people live in the burbs...less so living in the city itself, unless they're loaded/mental
And about the city itself or surrounding area?
Plenty of people live in the burbs...less so living in the city itself, unless they're loaded/mental
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Re: Help needed with info on Boston
Very basic background for a novel.
Where would you live if you were a young, wealthy couple with children. I'm looking for an affluent, maybe slightly pretentious neighbourhood. The kind of place where the houses are big, brick monsters with three car garages and people drive Lexus SUV's.
Also, what are the areas that people are leaving. Mixed areas, not really rough though.
I need some direction, really.
Thanks!
Where would you live if you were a young, wealthy couple with children. I'm looking for an affluent, maybe slightly pretentious neighbourhood. The kind of place where the houses are big, brick monsters with three car garages and people drive Lexus SUV's.
Also, what are the areas that people are leaving. Mixed areas, not really rough though.
I need some direction, really.
Thanks!
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Isn't Beacon Hill where all the pretentious *****s live in Boston?
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But for that kind of housing, you'd not be living in Boston but the burbs, brownstones are nice and all, but it'd be on street parking...
Living posh, in a flat, cambridge st, beacon st, storrow dr...places over looking the charles river.
Kendall Square is nice, MIT area...
Going a bit out and not technically Boston, Somerville and Cambridge (especially the central square and around Harvard area). Brookline also, but mostly flats, housing not really affordable.
Areas that are a bit iffy and mixed, Jamaica Plains on the button, JP has fantastic rich side, a shitend ghetto with a awesome Portugese area and a huge gay community...very cool place actually and quite transcient.
Lawrence is another area, not really rough, but it is a shit hole, but it's outside of Boston.
Dorchester, Rochester, Roxbury....all shit and roughish at night but okay during the day, kind of.
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Having said that, I'd suggest Wellesley, Newton or Weston. Newton is slightly more new money than the other two.
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That is so helpful! Thank you!!!
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Newton, less so, more apartmenty at the moment as the houses have gotten split up, Newtonville next door is worth a punt.
Can't say I know Weston, but it is one of the 3 W's of expensive living, Wayland would be the third, and if you go up the hill from the centre area, there are some large places out there too.
While we're this far out....Framingham, especially the southern park would be a bit of a shitter and shady, not exactly a bad area but rather pants compared to northern Framingham for example.
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Thanks for the great info!!! I've been looking at these places. I didn't know they made houses that big.
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> Dorchester, Rochester, Roxbury....all shit and roughish at night but okay during the day, kind of.
Some one was shot there (Dorchester) last night :-)
Some one was shot there (Dorchester) last night :-)
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someone was shot in the park the next town over from me a few weeks back too and we're well out in the burbs
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I remember years ago the term Combat Zone being applied to certain areas.........