A Tale of Two Cities

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

My Google News sidebar just gave me pause:

City of Somerville’s survey finds people are happy living there

Study: Somerville residents fleeing high rents

This after coming home tonight from a meeting about affordable artists housing and the lottery for the Millbrook Lofts spaces.
Better odds than the politcally cowardly and regressive tax state lottery, I guess. And....  my landlord is finally planning to jack up my rent (though since my rent has been way below market rate, no fault to him, but it likely means it is time to move on. Waltham?).

Opps... TMI. Ah well. I lived in Wicker Park in Chicago when it was on the "cusp of cool" and then when it was cool. And then it peaked and many of us had tp move to Logan Square, Pilsen or wherever. Just how it goes.

Maybe Somerville Open Studios is a really, really BAD idea.... if artists want to keep living here ;-)

And the earlier link from Ron N. about the Lonely Planet story:
Somerville is one of the best places to visit in the country, according to Lonely Planet

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Part of Somerville's magic is proximity to the Red and Orange lines (even if no good buses cross Somerville itself) and a population density almost 4x that of Waltham and higher than anywhere else in New England (including Cambridge, probably second, and Boston, lower than either.)

(Not to mention Somerville's proximity to Cambridge...)

[ifotismeni]

yea, I know! but people can't afford it, so....