Harvard Square by Images by Arden
10:20 am It’s a windy, bright Thursday morning when my friend drops me off near Harvard Square on her way to work. Before I explore the center of the oldest college town in America, I walk east along the paved path that hugs the Charles River, where bikers and joggers are enjoying the first warm days of the year.
Oonas by KRob2005
11:05 am It’s the last week of the semester and the only people walking the twisting cobble streets seem to be students weighed down with books. On Massachusetts Ave a purple vintage coat on a rack outside of Oona’s catches my eye. I step inside the thrift store to look through the vintage jewelry.
After weeks of living on her sister’s couch, twenty-three-year-old strategy consultant Allie Shanholt finally managed to find a spot in the very popular, central neighborhood of Beacon Hill.
A Move to Somerville Proves a Great Alternative to Cambridge
Winter Hill (East Somerville) By Gig Harmon
Zoe Brookes, a 23-year-old graphic designer, left Providence after college for a bigger city with a strong artistic pulse. She and her artist boyfriend, Chad, loved Cambridge, but couldn’t afford the lifestyle they longed for–a quiet space to work and relax without the noise and clutter of roommates. They found their happy medium in East Somerville, a small nabe skirting Cambridge. “We were informed by family friends that the Red Line (Cambridge, Somerville, Medford) was becoming more artsy,” said Brookes. “It was actually easy to live outside of Boston and commute via the buses and MBTA subway.”
Tell us a little bit about Somerville and why you moved here?
Somerville is an artsy area that houses a lot of Tufts University students and is rapidly becoming the new “South Boston.” Still rough around the edges, we live at the bottom of a beautiful street with a small shopping plaza and Red Line station (includes a hardware store, a grocery store, a CVS, coffee shops, a book store, children toy stores, etc.), a pet supply store, several gas stations, a car wash and a florist. Our area of Somerville is immediately bordered by Cambridge, which has a lot of greenery and is very popular for young families to have their first home.
Chad and I moved from Providence after we graduated because we needed the financial and job security that comes with a larger city. Providence is suffering from major unemployment, and most of the local art businesses are flooded with cheaper student work, so it seemed like a logical move. Providence is awesome, if you are a student, but after graduating, to keep the job momentum up, we moved. Read More »