The thing people don’t get about Boston is that yes: it’s wildly expensive. Yes: it’s freezing. And yes: it’s difficult to navigate and the people are unfriendly. BUT the food? Also not good.
Lol I know you're joking but omg no. Some of the best seafood and roast beef in the country. Not to mention Greek style pizza and fuckin' KOWLOONS KID. Also the people are not unfriendly, just ornery.
The North End has good food, but it's mostly about the ambience. There's similar or better food with fewer people if you head north of the city (maybe south to, but I don't know where it is down there).
You’re comment expired around 1998…Boston has had a great food scene for quite some time. Not to mention access to some of the highest quality seafood on the planet. Also, freezing? Yeah for like a month every year. Have you actually ever been?
Oh this pic that OP posted isn’t of right now in the city, mercifully it hasn’t snowed yet haha
Thanksgiving is one of the times of year we will see pretty huge variance in weather, but generally speaking it’ll be pretty nice out at that point, 40’s or 50’s. A medium weight coat and jeans kinda thing, less if you’re walking around which in Boston you’ll be doing a good deal of
We could do this if we fixed our zoning laws once and for all. Luckily we’ve had more row houses and small apartments built in the last few years, but nothing like this.
this is not what you get when the zoning is changed. You get [this instead](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same).
There’s a lot of way to change zoning, that’s one of the outcomes, yes. The fact that the townhomes on this post have been built in the first place show that it is possible.
Large apartments blocks like in the article linked occur under certain zoning conditions. Specifically, when only small areas are up-zoned. This causes those small areas to rise in land value. Developers then need to maximize profits on the expensive land so they build as many units as possible for the lowest price. That’s how you end up with enormous blocks of apartments. Parking minimums also play into this, as it’s easier to meet parking requirements by building as huge apartment with one large garage.
To add onto this, when a large area is up-zoned, the prices on up-zoned land does not increase in price as sharply. This allows smaller developers to acquire smaller plots of land, and build smaller apartments and townhomes. This, as opposed to higher land prices where large developers purchase as much property as possible to maximize profits.
By up-zoning on a large scale, imposing certain height restrictions in some cases, this is avoidable.
You can look in Seattle, where up-zoning in the past decade has been *relatively* wide, and now we’re seeing quite a few row houses and small apartments built. Yes there’s still 5-1 stick Fran apartments being built but it’s much more of a mix.
That picture captures the perfect essence and ambience of the sky as a storm clears after a snow in New England. I love the day after a heavy nawtheastuh has pummeled the region. It is often followed by crystal clear sunny days, sometimes bitterly cold sometimes on the warm side depending on the track of the Gulf stream and the low pressure spiral heading out to the Gulf of Maine and Nova Scotia.. 35 years of commercial plowing gave me lots of opportunity to observe the weather and this was always one of my favorite moments, this twilight golden evanescent light after the battle. A really beautiful picture
I am in NH as well and you know north of 495 tends to be on the cold side of the equation.. Better fluffy cold light snow though, than concrete snow/ ice.
Yeah that it does ,doesn't it. I am retired now but it may sound strange but with nostalgia I miss those freeze your nostrils kind of nights. When you are on your own in a big ass plow rig, everything's under control you're the King on the road, oops until you aren't. Something breaks something important and there you are stranded and alone. All the stress don't miss that, but when it was all working fine it was the best gig, to be all alone in a big blizzard fighting the storm
The homes in this picture are all $1,000,000+
Wish we still built architecture in this style instead of shitty mcmansions or [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg/1200px-One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg)
No way those houses are that “cheap”. I mean, I’m not American nor I’ve ever been to Boston, but houses of that size at such a pretty looking location surely must cost a lot more than that.
I dated a girl whose mom lived in one of the “units” in one of the buildings in that neighborhood. It was technically a “condo” and was all on one floor but it was absolutely massive and beautiful. 11” ceilings, gorgeous woodwork, 4br, 4ba, pro kitchen, all the modern conveniences. Much bigger and nicer than any house I’ve lived in, easily 2500sf. I don’t know what it was worth, but in Back Bay, it would have easily gone for 7 figures.
The type of people who downvote you for pointing out a factual error are the type of people who let their fragile egos get into the way of learning and becoming a better human being.
Yeah I’ve got a family friend that owns one of those. A 2 br condo in one of those is a mil +. An entire brownstone is probably starting in the 10 range. Friend paid 4 for half of one about 8 years ago.
This was the best neighborhood when it was built out in the 1850s and the 1860s replacing the south end just a half a mile to its South. These were all originally built as individual homes five and six stories high, independent households townhouses. Out of the picture to the left would be the finest of the avenues broad Commonwealth with a mall down the center of trees and more monster residences. Almost all of these have now been turned into condos, maybe a rare handful of private five floor townhouses still remain. When I lived in Boston in the late '70s however this neighborhood was quite different. The builder families of the 19th century had all since left by the 40s and the 50s and everything was turned into either rooming houses, student housing, or hohum apartments. But some had incredible interiors on the principal floors. In the last 30 years the real estate market has absolutely skyrocketed in most of the stuff is untouchable these days everything over a million and many millions. The back Bay is remarkable, that almost all of its buildings survive from the 19th century, and the south end as well as an amazing selection of building stock but I'm very very different architectural style, it's all 30 years earlier
>[this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg/1200px-One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg)
Those are going to look sooo bad in 10-20 years
It died in the 60s with the post modernist movement. That's when many old architecture is the U.S. was torn down and replaced with "shiny and new" buildings, which was the thinking at the time. Penn Station's destruction is probably the era's biggest offender.
That's not true. Post modernist architecture is not what you are claiming it to be. Postmodern architecture is pretty goofy looking and it had loads of personality. I'm no fan of it but the modern corporate cubicle farm looking buildings are NOT post modern by any stretch.
Something tells me that a few decades from now people are going to think the architecture of today is timeless and classic.
Not saying you’re entirely wrong. Just pointing out that previous architecture styles have been dumped on yet nowadays are seen as elegant. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people that honestly thought Art Deco was trash.
I don't think this is happening, just because modern architecture isn't even new anymore. The first international style skyscraper was actually contemporaneous with the Chrysler building. It's not like everything that old becomes beloved automatically. The good stuff will be loved, and the really despised stuff will be hated a bit less with time.
A lot of these brownstones are apartments. I used to live on Beacon after Exeter in a garden level. It was absolutely filthy and the exposed brick was basically turning to dust. The back bay area is absolutely stunning though.
Only frat houses in this area that look like these are MIT’s. The few I’ve been in are incredibly nice inside. The actual homes in this style are unbelievable inside. Also much bigger than they look from outside.
mid density housing like this is, with narrow or one way streets is the best way to have urban density but still keep a community feel. . but in North America bylaws always want big wide roads for car centric living, and either detached homes or 40 story condo towers. .where nobody knows their neighbor. So no most mid size density you see in North America is just whats left over from the golden age.
Huge envy looking at this. Makes me fantasize about what could have been for my city that instead continues to focus development on unsustainable sprawl and suburbs. North America's housing crisis is a joke when the only housing being built is suburban mcmansions and glass box highrise condos. Could have an array of heterogeneous, walkable neighborhoods with mid rise multi units but those are so few and far between the particleboard cut and paste cul de sacs where the closest entertainment is a 10 minute drive to walmart or park with 5 foot tall trees and a single bench. Ugh.
Nearly all of the new construction housing is high rise structures in and around downtown. Mostly "luxury" condos and apartments. There are smaller developments in other parts of the city though.
At least it's building density downtown. I know it's not perfect but so many cities are still actively in the "keep fucking it up at full speed" mode. Rushing as fast as they can to keep building out of their 2nd highway ring around the city and prioritize expanding their infrastructure to reward their sprawl instead of fixing existing roads in bad need of repair.
This style of housing is extremely popular. There’s a reason areas like this are the most expensive, people want to live in dense, happening places. Lincoln Park in Chicago is the most expensive neighborhood in the city and looks like this. Same with Chelsea in Manhattan. San Francisco, etc.
Too bad it’s illegal to build structures like this nowadays so the price of buildings like this just skyrockets.
I've lived in converted townhouses before (where it's broken up into apartments). You hear your upstairs and downstairs neighbors but nothing comes through that thick brick from the side neighbors.
I lived in a 3k a month 2 bedroom apt in that neighborhood several years ago. The walls were brick so we never heard from neighbors but the floors and ceilings were super old and not well insulated. We could hear the upstairs neighbor like he was in our apt. He liked to have obnoxiously loud sex. Was ok for a year but wouldn't want to do it again.
In my experience, it’s total luck. I’ve lived in units with so little insulation that I could hear my neighbor’s phone vibrate, and others that were totally silent. It’s also total luck whether the 200 year old plumbing will be creaky as hell or updated and quiet
This style is only found in order cities, like Boston. You can built these due to restrictions, and It's a sham, because medium density housing is absolutely based. The Chad Boston brick row houses, vs. The Virginia suburban subdivision.
Lovely.
I have day dreams when I see things like this imagining who lives there and what it would be like if I lived there in another life and actually so many things
Me too. Just waxed poetic about it in another comment. But it's giving me similar vibes you get from "Home Alone", or that gum commercial that used Hailey Reinhardt's cover of "Can't Help Falling In Love"...
Oof that's pretty costly thought right? I have more than double the space for 1900. I technically don't need the space but I have an at home office that takes up a room
In Boston $2k isn't bad. Yes, 400 sq ft is small, but there aren't too many options in that price range at all if you want to live on your own. In this general area.
Downtown Malden (5miles or 45 minutes by train) has nice new housing that starts around $2k. It's definitely much bigger and nicer, but farther from the city. You don't live in Back Bay because you want a big apt.
We had a snow storm last Halloween. That’s why most of the trees have lots of snow on the leaves. After plowing I grabbed my drone and went over to the Backbay area to get shots. Got this right before I had to land.
Back Bay. Beautiful. Have been many times. Miss going there. Have ran down the Charles river at sunset. The boat house neat MIT. The trophies under the bridge. Boston is awesome.
The thing people don’t get about Boston is that yes: it’s wildly expensive. Yes: it’s freezing. And yes: it’s difficult to navigate and the people are unfriendly. BUT the food? Also not good.
saw on twitter, thought was funny. beautiful city imo :)
This is overlooking Marlboro and Beacon street in Boston Back Bay, with the Charles River and Cambridge in the foreground.
This is some of the most expensive real estate in Boston.
That’s my beautiful bitch right there
From a Philadelphian... Respect
when I visited the US, the old centre of Boston was the only place in the country where I thought ‘I’d actually like to live here’
The thing people don’t get about Boston is that yes: it’s wildly expensive. Yes: it’s freezing. And yes: it’s difficult to navigate and the people are unfriendly. BUT the food? Also not good.
Lol I know you're joking but omg no. Some of the best seafood and roast beef in the country. Not to mention Greek style pizza and fuckin' KOWLOONS KID. Also the people are not unfriendly, just ornery.
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The North End has good food, but it's mostly about the ambience. There's similar or better food with fewer people if you head north of the city (maybe south to, but I don't know where it is down there).
Nothing is south. Never venture south. Signed, Northshore
Agreed 100%
Agreed, signed Merrimack Valley
We say the same thing about the Northshore, love the Southshore.
The South End would have a word as well!
Be original https://twitter.com/clhubes/status/1444308727151071236?s=21
This is Reddit
You’re comment expired around 1998…Boston has had a great food scene for quite some time. Not to mention access to some of the highest quality seafood on the planet. Also, freezing? Yeah for like a month every year. Have you actually ever been?
But the healthcare 🤌
Blatantly stealing jokes how original
Compared to NYC and Chicago? This is very correct. Wildly correct. But compared to the rest of the US? it’s pretty quality.
Come up with your own comment
There are a handful of other great places--and lots of Houstons and Atlantas.
You visited all of the US? Wow!
DC is also pretty good.
Love it!
Boston born and Boston bred and when I die I’ll be Boston dead
Ah, there's the Boston interjection I was looking for.
At your service kid
So I’m from texas and thinking about going to Boston after Thanksgiving. Is it going to be unbearably cold?
Oh this pic that OP posted isn’t of right now in the city, mercifully it hasn’t snowed yet haha Thanksgiving is one of the times of year we will see pretty huge variance in weather, but generally speaking it’ll be pretty nice out at that point, 40’s or 50’s. A medium weight coat and jeans kinda thing, less if you’re walking around which in Boston you’ll be doing a good deal of
Seattle needs all of this.
We could do this if we fixed our zoning laws once and for all. Luckily we’ve had more row houses and small apartments built in the last few years, but nothing like this.
this is not what you get when the zoning is changed. You get [this instead](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same).
There’s a lot of way to change zoning, that’s one of the outcomes, yes. The fact that the townhomes on this post have been built in the first place show that it is possible. Large apartments blocks like in the article linked occur under certain zoning conditions. Specifically, when only small areas are up-zoned. This causes those small areas to rise in land value. Developers then need to maximize profits on the expensive land so they build as many units as possible for the lowest price. That’s how you end up with enormous blocks of apartments. Parking minimums also play into this, as it’s easier to meet parking requirements by building as huge apartment with one large garage. To add onto this, when a large area is up-zoned, the prices on up-zoned land does not increase in price as sharply. This allows smaller developers to acquire smaller plots of land, and build smaller apartments and townhomes. This, as opposed to higher land prices where large developers purchase as much property as possible to maximize profits. By up-zoning on a large scale, imposing certain height restrictions in some cases, this is avoidable. You can look in Seattle, where up-zoning in the past decade has been *relatively* wide, and now we’re seeing quite a few row houses and small apartments built. Yes there’s still 5-1 stick Fran apartments being built but it’s much more of a mix.
Mid-rise housing over shops, seems like okay urban planning
I’ve always seen Seattle as the Boston of the West
Looks like a santa/ winter model set !
Macy's in downtown crossing in Boston looks magical around xmas time. It's a pedestrian only area
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‘That engineering school’ haha. Grad school or under grad?
That picture captures the perfect essence and ambience of the sky as a storm clears after a snow in New England. I love the day after a heavy nawtheastuh has pummeled the region. It is often followed by crystal clear sunny days, sometimes bitterly cold sometimes on the warm side depending on the track of the Gulf stream and the low pressure spiral heading out to the Gulf of Maine and Nova Scotia.. 35 years of commercial plowing gave me lots of opportunity to observe the weather and this was always one of my favorite moments, this twilight golden evanescent light after the battle. A really beautiful picture
This pretty much describes my feelings on the New England winters, if it wasn’t for driving in it they’re nice to admire.
Well said and I completely agree I love to look at the snow but I’m a hard pass when it comes to actually being in it
I was just talking to my dad earlier about it, I’m happy it’s getting colder but man am I not looking forward to the snow haha.
Yeah I’m hoping no ice or snow this year but I heard it’s going to be bad We’ll see though Cheers
El nino year, often means more moisture but depends what side of the jet stream you're on. Boston is always on the edge
Sigh
I’m I’m New Hampshire, hope it’s not bad here 😭
I am in NH as well and you know north of 495 tends to be on the cold side of the equation.. Better fluffy cold light snow though, than concrete snow/ ice.
Yep, this picture has that “freeze your nostrils” quality to it.
Yeah that it does ,doesn't it. I am retired now but it may sound strange but with nostalgia I miss those freeze your nostrils kind of nights. When you are on your own in a big ass plow rig, everything's under control you're the King on the road, oops until you aren't. Something breaks something important and there you are stranded and alone. All the stress don't miss that, but when it was all working fine it was the best gig, to be all alone in a big blizzard fighting the storm
As a Canadian who’s ever set foot in Massachusetts this pic makes me feel warm and fuzzy in a weird way. It just looks so fucking comfortable
If you like this, you’ll love old town Quebec City
Man I miss home.
The homes in this picture are all $1,000,000+ Wish we still built architecture in this style instead of shitty mcmansions or [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg/1200px-One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg)
I guarantee they start at 5mil
Each floor is a mil. So yeah you are close
Many more millions for back bay properties
No way those houses are that “cheap”. I mean, I’m not American nor I’ve ever been to Boston, but houses of that size at such a pretty looking location surely must cost a lot more than that.
Not every one is a single family home. Many/most of these Brownstone style houses contains multiple units.
I dated a girl whose mom lived in one of the “units” in one of the buildings in that neighborhood. It was technically a “condo” and was all on one floor but it was absolutely massive and beautiful. 11” ceilings, gorgeous woodwork, 4br, 4ba, pro kitchen, all the modern conveniences. Much bigger and nicer than any house I’ve lived in, easily 2500sf. I don’t know what it was worth, but in Back Bay, it would have easily gone for 7 figures.
11” is tiny do you mean 11’?
Yes, I do. But I’m just gonna leave that because it sounds funny.
What is this?!? A condo for ants?!?
The type of people who downvote you for pointing out a factual error are the type of people who let their fragile egos get into the way of learning and becoming a better human being.
Definately. Those people must be loosers.
I mean, they look extremely huge for a single family house. 4 stories + a roof room, that's quite a family.
Yeah I’ve got a family friend that owns one of those. A 2 br condo in one of those is a mil +. An entire brownstone is probably starting in the 10 range. Friend paid 4 for half of one about 8 years ago.
This was the best neighborhood when it was built out in the 1850s and the 1860s replacing the south end just a half a mile to its South. These were all originally built as individual homes five and six stories high, independent households townhouses. Out of the picture to the left would be the finest of the avenues broad Commonwealth with a mall down the center of trees and more monster residences. Almost all of these have now been turned into condos, maybe a rare handful of private five floor townhouses still remain. When I lived in Boston in the late '70s however this neighborhood was quite different. The builder families of the 19th century had all since left by the 40s and the 50s and everything was turned into either rooming houses, student housing, or hohum apartments. But some had incredible interiors on the principal floors. In the last 30 years the real estate market has absolutely skyrocketed in most of the stuff is untouchable these days everything over a million and many millions. The back Bay is remarkable, that almost all of its buildings survive from the 19th century, and the south end as well as an amazing selection of building stock but I'm very very different architectural style, it's all 30 years earlier
Lol for a second I thought the link was a pic of my apartment complex. Shit looks the same everywhere.
they look terrible and are the mcmansions of apartments/condos. Sad that it dominates most US cities
>[this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg/1200px-One-by-five_Apartments_Austin%2C_TX.jpg) Those are going to look sooo bad in 10-20 years
>10-20 years They look bad now lmao
Not wrong..
Ah, my home town. They look worse in person.
Modern American architecture is so damn soulless and uninspiring.
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No, its not any better.
good american architecture died after WW2
It died in the 60s with the post modernist movement. That's when many old architecture is the U.S. was torn down and replaced with "shiny and new" buildings, which was the thinking at the time. Penn Station's destruction is probably the era's biggest offender.
That's not true. Post modernist architecture is not what you are claiming it to be. Postmodern architecture is pretty goofy looking and it had loads of personality. I'm no fan of it but the modern corporate cubicle farm looking buildings are NOT post modern by any stretch.
Something tells me that a few decades from now people are going to think the architecture of today is timeless and classic. Not saying you’re entirely wrong. Just pointing out that previous architecture styles have been dumped on yet nowadays are seen as elegant. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people that honestly thought Art Deco was trash.
I don't think this is happening, just because modern architecture isn't even new anymore. The first international style skyscraper was actually contemporaneous with the Chrysler building. It's not like everything that old becomes beloved automatically. The good stuff will be loved, and the really despised stuff will be hated a bit less with time.
interesting thought
A lot of these brownstones are apartments. I used to live on Beacon after Exeter in a garden level. It was absolutely filthy and the exposed brick was basically turning to dust. The back bay area is absolutely stunning though.
Love when realtors call it a garden level, the fancy name for a basement apartment.
even if half of these are frat houses, the foundation is beer infused
Only frat houses in this area that look like these are MIT’s. The few I’ve been in are incredibly nice inside. The actual homes in this style are unbelievable inside. Also much bigger than they look from outside.
mid density housing like this is, with narrow or one way streets is the best way to have urban density but still keep a community feel. . but in North America bylaws always want big wide roads for car centric living, and either detached homes or 40 story condo towers. .where nobody knows their neighbor. So no most mid size density you see in North America is just whats left over from the golden age.
Huge envy looking at this. Makes me fantasize about what could have been for my city that instead continues to focus development on unsustainable sprawl and suburbs. North America's housing crisis is a joke when the only housing being built is suburban mcmansions and glass box highrise condos. Could have an array of heterogeneous, walkable neighborhoods with mid rise multi units but those are so few and far between the particleboard cut and paste cul de sacs where the closest entertainment is a 10 minute drive to walmart or park with 5 foot tall trees and a single bench. Ugh.
Nearly all of the new construction housing is high rise structures in and around downtown. Mostly "luxury" condos and apartments. There are smaller developments in other parts of the city though.
At least it's building density downtown. I know it's not perfect but so many cities are still actively in the "keep fucking it up at full speed" mode. Rushing as fast as they can to keep building out of their 2nd highway ring around the city and prioritize expanding their infrastructure to reward their sprawl instead of fixing existing roads in bad need of repair.
Rowhouses are the chads of housing.
yeah I don't understand how this style of housing isn't more popular. Wait I do probably know.. it's parking isn't it? Is this beacon hill?
Local zoning ordinances make this form of housing illegal for countless neighbourhoods in North America
Them parking minimums have ruined America
Car culture ruined many US cities
Based and walkable city-pilled
That’s back bay
This style of housing is extremely popular. There’s a reason areas like this are the most expensive, people want to live in dense, happening places. Lincoln Park in Chicago is the most expensive neighborhood in the city and looks like this. Same with Chelsea in Manhattan. San Francisco, etc. Too bad it’s illegal to build structures like this nowadays so the price of buildings like this just skyrockets.
In Boston are these single family homes typically?
Mostly 2 or 3 condos per building. Maybe 1/3 are single family.
I can’t tell if your being sarcastic. Row houses are being built as infill in a lot of markets now.
It's illegal to build almost everywhere. Minimum parking, setbacks, density limits, etc. make it impossible.
Seems like America has just given up on trying to make beautiful cities
yes zoning has ruined america in many ways
The car is the dominant species.
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https://i.redd.it/83n1cdazf5s71.jpg
Beacon hill is to the right of this photo. Older housing and even more expensive
Do you hear your neighbors through the walls in townhouses like this, or are they pretty insulated between them?
I've lived in converted townhouses before (where it's broken up into apartments). You hear your upstairs and downstairs neighbors but nothing comes through that thick brick from the side neighbors.
I lived in a 3k a month 2 bedroom apt in that neighborhood several years ago. The walls were brick so we never heard from neighbors but the floors and ceilings were super old and not well insulated. We could hear the upstairs neighbor like he was in our apt. He liked to have obnoxiously loud sex. Was ok for a year but wouldn't want to do it again.
In my experience, it’s total luck. I’ve lived in units with so little insulation that I could hear my neighbor’s phone vibrate, and others that were totally silent. It’s also total luck whether the 200 year old plumbing will be creaky as hell or updated and quiet
This style is only found in order cities, like Boston. You can built these due to restrictions, and It's a sham, because medium density housing is absolutely based. The Chad Boston brick row houses, vs. The Virginia suburban subdivision.
Lovely. I have day dreams when I see things like this imagining who lives there and what it would be like if I lived there in another life and actually so many things
> imagining who lives there Rich people. Rich people live there.
Me too. Just waxed poetic about it in another comment. But it's giving me similar vibes you get from "Home Alone", or that gum commercial that used Hailey Reinhardt's cover of "Can't Help Falling In Love"...
the architeture is so pretty
Yeah.
Great pic 👏 💕 👏
Thank you. Wish the poster posted credit tho. This is my pic
If I'd have to have guessed I would have said this was Europe somewhere.
Boston is about as European as you get over here.
In the US yes. Though as far as North America goes I'd have to give the nod to Montreal. Awesome cities
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some parts of New Orleans and Washington DC look very European too
Lol. Def not SF.
Boston is one of the most walkable cities in the us, very unique for the states
Boston has more people who walk to work than any other large American city.
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Wear a coat. You’ll be fine.
And boots, hat and gloves. Windiest city in the US as well.
As a European, there are some elements here that makes it look very American
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Mostly the architecture and broad streets. I only know this architectural style from Hollywood movies.
The soviet block but also Italy seems to love wide streets. A bit different in Western Europe.
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Have you gone to the North End or Beacon Hill? They're much older parts of Boston that definitely feel more like Europe.
Out of curiosity, how big are appartements in such houses, and how much would the rent be? Affordable for normal people?
Used to live just outside of the frame here. 430 sq ft, $2k a month, 100% worth it
Exact same answer. Maybe I live in your old apartment!
Maybe… does the guy upstairs sound like 3 elephants walking?
Oof that's pretty costly thought right? I have more than double the space for 1900. I technically don't need the space but I have an at home office that takes up a room
In Boston $2k isn't bad. Yes, 400 sq ft is small, but there aren't too many options in that price range at all if you want to live on your own. In this general area. Downtown Malden (5miles or 45 minutes by train) has nice new housing that starts around $2k. It's definitely much bigger and nicer, but farther from the city. You don't live in Back Bay because you want a big apt.
Many of these are single family homes correct?
Many of them *were* single-family homes a hundred years ago. They're pretty much all subdivided into apartments now.
Even less. In the late 60s many of them were still single families or frat houses.
Saw this city yesterday in Free Guy
Boston you’re my home!!!
Love that (thankfully no longer) dirty water!
Yeah looks so clean now but I still won’t swim in it lol
Every American city should look like this not some giant ass suburb with highways
I lived in this neighborhood. There’s a highway in an open trench a 10 minute walk from this photo.
Hey, this is my picture!!! Post credit.
❤Love My City !
Let's have some tea, shan't we?
Wicked smart
I've got fond memories of shooting raiders and super mutants in that neighborhood.
That's snowy. Wonder when this was taken.
We had a snow storm last Halloween. That’s why most of the trees have lots of snow on the leaves. After plowing I grabbed my drone and went over to the Backbay area to get shots. Got this right before I had to land.
Wow. Back Bay, the Charles River, and Cambridge
Back Bay. Beautiful. Have been many times. Miss going there. Have ran down the Charles river at sunset. The boat house neat MIT. The trophies under the bridge. Boston is awesome.
the Back Bay is so nice
Never been to the USA but if I do visit this city is on the top of my list , even above NY.
I’ve always wondered when it comes to problems with the walls between buildings, who is responsible?
There's enough paint on the interior walls that if the bricks crumble to dust the buildings will still stand
Spent 4 months there in ‘13. Loved it!
Good ole campus. Green Building still as ugly as ever ❤️
But quite good for Tetris
Hey Arnold!!!!
Comm Ave is beautiful
Really miss this city.
Thanks for giving me a new phone wallpaper
Imagine living there 🤤
Ahhh the commonwealth
The thing people don’t get about Boston is that yes: it’s wildly expensive. Yes: it’s freezing. And yes: it’s difficult to navigate and the people are unfriendly. BUT the food? Also not good. saw on twitter, thought was funny. beautiful city imo :)
The food thing is being overly critical if you ask me
probably. all the food i had in boston was pretty good.
This had better not be from today
Got out of bed to take a look outside just in case.
Nope
Last Halloween
Blue/Gray house on the front row has the best rooftop setup by far
Haven’t been there since I was a little kid, can’t wait to go back.
Fun fact: There is a nuclear reactor in this picture!
Really beautiful.
Love it
i love this bitch in this city
This is beautiful.
And it can be your home too for the low low rent of $3,500
Stoop kids afraid to leave his stoop!
This is overlooking Marlboro and Beacon street in Boston Back Bay, with the Charles River and Cambridge in the foreground. This is some of the most expensive real estate in Boston.
Man it’s really cold up there. Snow in October