Anybody from Boston?

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Hello

I have got a new job in Boston and will be moving soon. Any tips on living in Boston or are there any good websites that you would like to share on Boston.

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I live in Boston, as do a good amount of other posters. Websites, I guess www.boston.com. Not sure what else to tell you. There was a good thread recently with lots of advice on where to live. If you post some specifics of what you're looking for, where you are going to be commuting too, budget etc people will probably help out.
 
i moved to boston a little over a year ago. i don't really care for it personally, but a lot of people like it, especially if they're new englanders.

if you have specific questions about neighborhoods or moving here in general you can post them...
 
I will try to look a place in Brookline and Cambridge. I guess those places are nice. I am wondering if I can have a car for weekend trips in Boston. Does it make sense to own a car over there just for weekends and going out?
 
I used to live in Brookline before moving downtown, I had a car and to me it was worth it, but parking can be a pain. In Brookline there is no on-street overnight parking allowed, so you'll have to pay for a monthly offstreet spot, which will probably run around $150 a month. Might be able to find cheaper, but that is about the norm, at least for Brookline. In Cambridge street parking will be a pain depending on the area, so you might want to consider a spot as well.
 
I think there are only 2 cities in America where you can comfortably live without a car: New York and Chicago.
 
Tiesto: What kind of job will you be doing in Boston. I am also transitioning to Boston soon.

With respect to living, what is your price range? Rent? Buy?
 
Hey Zforce12000:

I will be a quantitative analyst and would like to rent at least for the first year. Looking for a place between $1100-$1500.
 
"I think there are only 2 cities in America where you can comfortably live without a car: New York and Chicago."

I don't know why you'd need a car in Boston any more than in Chicago - I'd say car ownership is 50/50.
 
Ted Wrote:
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> "I think there are only 2 cities in America where
> you can comfortably live without a car: New York
> and Chicago."
>
> I don't know why you'd need a car in Boston any
> more than in Chicago - I'd say car ownership is
> 50/50.


I agree, I live downtown and have a car, but I rarely use it. Many of my friends live in town sans-car as well. Only time I use it these days is to visit family outside of the city, which would be the same anywhere.
 
"I agree, I live downtown and have a car, but I rarely use it."

I also have a car, but until I started driving to work, I drove it - at most - once a week.
 
i don't have a car in boston. driving in this city is a nightmare. you could definitely go without if you live and work in the city, although it is nice to have if you want to do stuff outside of the city on weekends.
 
TIESTO: Quant. State Street? Bank of America? I'll be around Bolyston Street.

I'm think about buying, 400K range. My fiance is in Boston, so I transitioning there soon.
I will probably rent before we get married. 1200-1500 range also.

With the big dig opening up the city and colleges such as BU and BC buying up a lot of property, I don't see it as a bad investment.

But I could be wrong, I'm not a real estate analyst:)...
 
I live in the back bay and usually park on the street with a resident's permit. I love the area, very central to everything in Boston and yet pretty isolated and private. It's nice to wake up in the city to birds rather than construction.

My car is quite old, I would recommend investing in a parking space if you have a nice vehicle. Mine bears the scars of many incompetent parallel parkers, and a couple snow plows. Also the trees have a tendency to drip caustic sap in the summertime.

I work on the desk at a fund in cambridge, but even so the commute is easy with public transportation or by car. You'll soon pick up the little tricks necessary to skirting the jams in Boston. I think having a car in Boston is useful unless you're a hardcore urbanite who never needs to see the woods or seashore. My mountainbike would get almost no use without it.
 
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