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Showing posts with label Braintree Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Braintree Street. Show all posts

The Apartment Hunt Continues (And These People Have Lost Touch With Reality)

The Apartment Hunt Continues (And These People Have Lost Touch With Reality) To bring you up to date, we have to move this year. We have most probably been priced out of Allston, but I look at listings sometimes. What I'm finding is astonishing. The housing prices have skyrocketed in the 15 years we've been living here. This is Allston we're talking about.  People used to make fun of Allston. But we love it. I wrote about the neighborhood I've called home for two decades in 2016: Allston is a thickly settle…

Michelle and the Very Odd Fellow (A Brief Encounter With A Trump Voter)

Michelle and the Very Odd Fellow (A Brief Encounter With A Trump Voter) I approached his cab from behind, so I didn't get a good look at the driver. Given the unseasonably warm day, the driver's side window was down, so a friendly "hallooo, are you free, sir?" was enough to get a wave from a meaty hand attached to a hamhock of a forearm. I climbed into the back seat with my haul from Trader Joe's."Thanks! I over-bought. These bags are too heavy for walking home." I told the cab drive…