Also in bioinformatics, I think it depends on your company tbh. Pre-demic at my old company, we expected to be on-site and seldom WFH. Some of my coworkers were commuting 4 hours a day. My current gig is hybrid, with coworkers on-site as often as they choose to. Most of us are in 2-3 days a week. Another place I interviewed at recently is requiring minimum 3 days on-site. No harm in asking in your interview about the culture. Some companies are really stodgy about requiring on-site time for silly reasons (team cohesion, insurance/liability etc...), while others are cool.

Ciao in Chelsea. Best pizza in Boston and fits your other criteria

Boston Area is very safe, particularly Cambridge and you should have no worries walking anytime of day or night. I generally feel safer in Boston than I do in Berlin or Munich. In fact, I think you’ll find it downright pleasant that time of year.

You still need to be vigilant, as you would be in any dense city. For example, There’s some homeless that hang out in the Central Square area and a few of them have been known to verbally harass passerbys. But after living here for a decade, besides the occasional person asking for money, I’ve never had anything resembling an issue.

Also, with you coming from Germany, we know our trains are an absolute embarrassment right now. Particularly the Red Line. We’re working on it.

Since you’re only here for a week - and if you were worried about traveling at night, you can always call an Uber. Distances in Boston a relatively short, a nighttime Uber from downtown to Cambridge would be like $15. I know your student, but I don’t know what your budgeting looks like. Just something to think about.

your lender should be able to tell you more about the various programs.

as someone who went through all that stuff kind of recently though, expect to be disappointed. lots of the programs have income limits and "assets on hand" limits that are completely out of line with what houses cost in mass (especially since these limits don't exempt your down payment).

you end up in a situation where the downpayment needed to make the DTI ratios work for an income under their cap will disqualify you for having too much cash available.

maybe the programs work in other parts of the country, but they suck here.

Actually, Boston is pretty big. And magical thinking will not disappear all the cars. There is no injustice in our streets being used by cars. That’s why we have the streets. Yes, I understand you wish it were otherwise, but it isn’t.

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Personally, I think you'll be fine. I've lived in Boston as a single woman for years and walked alone at night all the time, so that's just my personal opinion, but you do you. If you're not feeling good about it, get a place in Back Bay.

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Also not in Boston proper, but Pini's in Medford is cheap and delicious

Boston is not a big place.

And yea, electric vehicles are not going to solve injuries and deaths to people, they are going to make them worse because they are a thousand pounds heavier. Electric vehicles are not going to solve the fundamental issues of geometry imposed by how large cars are relative to people and streets. Electric vehicles are not going to fix the injustice of city streets being clogged by a handful of people in private vehicles, most of whom don’t even live in the city, while residents can’t safely bike and are crammed on narrow sidewalks. Electric vehicles are not going to fix the primary source of particulate pollution from cars which is brake dust.

The list goes on and on.

Technically not boston but if youre near the Newton area I recommend 4 corners pizza. They've got good pizza and also do these pizza cupcakes that are innovative but more importantly taste good

Nothing changes because suburbanites want sprawl, going so far as to make density of any kind illegal. They then call people living in cities raging elitists, despite they themselves being the reason for the insane costs. I’ll take a pass on that argument.

I didn’t say anything about privilege.

Yes, we have to stop using ICEs everywhere, I agree. But when all the cars are electric, you’ll hate them anyway.

We can’t just flip a switch and transform the entire nation. It’s a big place.

Literally I see at least one car a day go through a red light in Rozzie walking to the train. People just do not care.

Forest Hills station is at the Arboretum. It's a 10 minute bus ride on the 34 or 40 bus from Forest Hills to Washington St @ Walworth St, which is directly in front of Pleasant Cafe. That, or walking, would be my preferred method of making that trip. Maybe a Blue Bike if the stations are close.

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Ok thats all well and good in theory. The reality is certain lower demographics dont have an option to move to a place where this happens. Shoot, take out those last three words even - they dont have an option to movie period. I mean you see it in MA especially out west but all of rural america its like that. You talking “theory” about towns being less expensive is not current reality (even though i agree, towns without cars are much less expensive; my first 10 years were spent in a town that did not have a single car).

Writing to my reps expecting change? Lmfao first time?

There is a pretty good book out there "Road Rage to Road Wise" by Dr John Larsen. It's a quick read and touches on some good reality check.

Aggressive drivers became emboldened by the early free-for-all days, where commute times were quartered and you could get away with anything. They also got used to not having anyone or anything really in their path.

As traffic got back to normal, a lot of them never adjusted their driving style or considered the idea of sharing the road. Now being passed for yielding at a crosswalk or even while making a rolling stop, getting honked at for not running reds, and people tearing down residential streets are much more common.

Then why are you going on about privilege if you don’t. One group causes 40,000 deaths and 1M hospital requiring injuries per year and is the leading source of CO2 in the US, the other isn’t. It isn’t “both sides are right”. Cars have been a disaster for our health, our cities and our environment.

Yeah people have a hard time controlling their emotions in general

And some of us don’t. One group is not superior to the other.

They drain and clean it every spring - not just to get rid of all the trash, but to scrape a layer of mud off the bottom so the pond doesn't slowly get shallower over time.

looking for bodies.