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TouchDownBurrito OP t1_iu0zsg9 wrote

Reply to comment by No_Judge_3817 in ‘A 24-hour neighborhood’: Wu outlines plans to bring downtown Boston back to life - The Boston Globe by TouchDownBurrito

> standards of a true Boston resident

>flair says Somerville

Don’t mean to gatekeep but I’d say the requirements would, at a minimum, include actually living in the city limits of Boston…

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Snoo_97625 t1_iu170a2 wrote

Wonder if that guy even remembers when Somerville was 'gritty'

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FitzwilliamTDarcy t1_iu174iv wrote

>Most office workers have been priced so far out of Boston they were commuting 4+ hours a day to the Financial District

That's a little disingenuous in a thread where the initial comment says "Most office workers have been priced so far out of Boston they were commuting 4+ hours a day to the Financial District"

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TouchDownBurrito OP t1_iu1o5py wrote

Not when Somerville rivals some of Boston’s more expensive neighborhoods in price.

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FitzwilliamTDarcy t1_iu4wvi9 wrote

Huh? You were gatekeeping the guy by saying more or less that being a Boston resident was a requirement. I pointed out that this part of thread is explicitly about people having been priced out of Boston, the implication being that no, other people (non Boston residents) get to play too.

Not remotely sure what Somerville's cost has to do with the price of fish except bolstering the point made at the top of this thread that people have been priced out of Boston.

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TouchDownBurrito OP t1_iu4y4mn wrote

> You were gatekeeping the guy by saying more or less that being a Boston resident was a requirement.

Yes, living in the city of Boston is a requirement for calling yourself a Boston resident. Idk how that is controversial.

> Not remotely sure what Somerville’s cost has to do with the price of fish except bolstering the point made at the top of this thread that people have been priced out of Boston.

If they can afford to live in Somerville they haven’t been “priced out” of Boston. The median rent in Somerville is $3k a month, that’s higher than a great deal of, if not most, neighborhoods is Boston.

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