anyone in or around Boston?

[kellikans]

do you like it there?

having thoughts of moving there. I have never been, but am interested in hearing about reasonably affordable areas close to Boston with good schools.

[magdala9]

I moved to the area 20 years ago and love it. It is a world class city with fantastic restaurants, decent subway system, variety of museums, stable housing market and lots of jobs. We have fantastic schools, but reasonable and affordable are not words usually used to describe metro Boston. Here are a couple of useful articles on schools in the area

www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/08/boston-best-schools-2012/
www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/02/boston-best-places-to-live-2012/

Boston has four full seasons which includes a full winter. Last year was mild with only a few inches of snow the whole season. 2011 winter was not. We had two feet of snow one afternoon where I had to shovel out my own car and then parallel park between snowdrifts taller than my car. I believe that 10+ feet was the overall total for the season.

[auntie]

Only someone from Southern California would use the terms affordable and Boston in a single sentence.

Boston is wonderful- a tiny gem of a city that thinks it's the center of the known universe. It's walkable, has great public transit, amazing restaurants, decent schools with a tradition of academic excellence, the Cape and North Shore, great museams and music.

Weston is great for schools but if I was picking, I'd move to Rockport, Beverly, Magnolia or Marblehead.

[kellikans]

we currently live in a desirable area of Los Angeles and after doing a little bit of real estate research, we could buy a larger home for the price that we paid for our house here. plus the state income tax, property tax and sales taxes are lower than what we have here. wondering what car insurance rates are like...

I grew up in PA along Lake Erie, so I've lived in snow. do I love it... eh, it's nice to visit, but I think that I could get used to it again. DH went to school in Boston and LOVES the city, but he hates the weather (but he is also a SoCal boy born and bred).

I'm just starting to think about kids and schools (we won't be TTC until 2014, but it's never too early to think about it). public schools here are terrible and we wouldn't be able to afford private. and I really want to be closer to my family (parents are in PA, sister is in FL). plus, there's a large hospital in the city that I would love to work at (and actually worked with one of their physicians here in L.A.) and DH's company has an office there.

I just need to convince DH to seriously consider it, haha.

[kellikans]

Nov 12, 2012 20:04:48 GMT -5 auntie said:

Only someone from Southern California would use the terms affordable and Boston in a single sentence.

sad, isn't it?

DH's company is located in Natick, so I guess greater Boston is probably what we would want to make it more affordable. maybe something between Natick and the city since that is most likely where I would work.