Newton is big bux,,,ftr I grew up in Bedford...the main road in Bedford (Great Rd) is really Mass Ave in Lexington, Arlington, Cambridge and then of course Boston.Karma_tba wrote:Jamaica??....I think you mean Jamaica Plain! J.P. is gangs and guns. As far as Newton not sure where you got the idea it's inexpensive...it's upper middle class and not cheap. Also it is quite accessible to Boston and the surrounding areas by public transit(10 minutes to downtown Boston). One thing I've always hated about Boston is tourists and students. They make everything overpriced and the students(from out of state) treat Mass like their private playground. Maybe the BeeGee's could tell you about Mass, ( they wrote a song about it).MarlaPodolski wrote:MIT. MIT. MIT. MIT ... but it's also a very cool place if you can afford it. I lived there for a year or so right after university. Very expensive unless you are happy to live in Jamaica area or newton or somewhere 20 miles out. I wasn't. Was a block or three from Berklee, Cars studio and even more important a good dozen of the finest restaurants of any style you could want. Met a guitarist every day somewhere out and about (most were not very good players -- money gets you enrolled in Berklee really, unlike Julliard and Eastman -- but a few guitarists I met were just incredible).
It's also an extreme liberal enclave, massive welfare state, low unemployment (need to be dead not to be employed), etc., etc. Weather not too bad. But going back to MIT, it's a powerhouse for releasing trained geniuses into the world including great programmers. That Scholz guitarist, leader of band Boston went there. We rented rehearsal space from him in the basement underneath his company. It's like, if you are sick of NYC, afraid of NYC or just can't deal with the even higher cost, on the East Coast it's Boston (unless to want to go to Philly and probably be shot, robbed and/or raped). Just the way it is East U.S.
One thing I miss as I haven't been in town in a while, across the street from the pru (Boylston St) is a great place for burgers...The Pour House...