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In article <DE2MyG.90w@world.std.com>,
Stephen Boursy <boursy@world.std.com> wrote:
>In article <41u0ij$lvn@sundog.tiac.net>,
>David Chesler <chesler@sunspot.tiac.net> wrote:
>>  $1200?
>>  Since 1986 I've been renting within 128...

 [and I listed my rents, $600 to $800 for 2brs with driveways, etc.]
 BTW, I mis-typed, my current rent is $700, not $600.

>	Yes--but remember that many residents of Boston/Cambridge
>are completely dependent upon public transportation.  Many do 
>not have cars, cannot afford cars, or in the cases of elderaly
>and disabled cannot drive cars.

 This apartment is 7 minutes walk from the T.  The Belmont apartment
was 3 minutes from a bus that ran, every 5 minutes, to Harvard Sq.
The Waltham apartment was about 12 minutes walk from Waltham Center,
which has commuter rail, an express bus to downtown (my $50/month
roommate used it most of the time) and a bus to Cambridge (I think
it was also served by a Brandeis jitney.)  In most of these cases, 
I could have had better apartments for the money if I didn't insist 
on a driveway.

>	Harvard Real Estate, the largest landlord in town, has

 In the City of Cambridge maybe.  But they're not the only game
in town.  And Cambridge and the more desirable parts of Boston
are hardly representative of the metropolitan area.
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