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FunLife64 t1_irruj2i wrote

I think there’s a number of factors here, some of which you can only answer.

  1. How close in PVD Will your house be to the station? Revisit this after #3.

  2. The train itself from PVD to BOS isn’t bad although it seems to have picked back up in ridership (not sure if number of trains are back to pre-pandemic).

  3. You’d have to get from the train to Mass Gen - luckily that transfer isn’t that bad. You’ll see other horror stories of transfers and the unreliable and slow T.

  4. Revisiting one, this will be the 3rd leg of the commute. That adds up.

At the end of the day, you can get a lot more bang for your buck in PVD. And that can lead to a much higher quality of life. It’s just a matter of whether that 90 mins on a train each way is worth it and every day. The one thing to also consider is if you’re looking actually in PVD and have kids/considering kids, consider the cost of school of private school is needed vs other locations.

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