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Old 04-23-2015, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Wayland, MA
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Probably just a coincidence. I think I saw one was a middle schooler and the other is an adult. But then again, if you are really bored and registering several different accounts, I can almost see how it's fun to take on 2 different identities. The internet creeps me out.
Sorry! I have asynchronous so I am three different ages inside. I apologize for the whole mashup
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Old 04-23-2015, 07:31 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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I'm not depressed at Pho Pasteur. Or Harvard Ave. Coolidge Corner is pretty cool. Comm Ave is scenic. Like the architecture. Pretty places. Tree-lined streets. Lots of pretty girls. People walking dogs. Trader Joe's. Annie's Tacos. IDK. Kinda like the neighborhoods. Kinda relaxing.
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Old 04-23-2015, 08:41 PM
 
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I'm not depressed at Pho Pasteur. Or Harvard Ave. Coolidge Corner is pretty cool. Comm Ave is scenic. Like the architecture. Pretty places. Tree-lined streets. Lots of pretty girls. People walking dogs. Trader Joe's. Annie's Tacos. IDK. Kinda like the neighborhoods. Kinda relaxing.
Lol none of those places are in Brighton. And it's Anna's not Annie's and they've gone way downhill.
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Old 04-23-2015, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Baja Virginia
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OP also mentioned Allston, Newton and Brookline.

Also, Allston is part of Brighton.
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Old 04-23-2015, 08:47 PM
 
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OP also mentioned Allston, Newton and Brookline.

Also, Allston is part of Brighton.
I see. It's up for debate whether Allston and Brighton are the same. And I'm not sure how the OP lumped one image into so many very different places.
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Old 04-24-2015, 05:41 AM
 
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Allston-Brighten, IIRC, used to be an industrialized area back in the day. The slaughterhouses were located there, as were the big commercial bakeries (Dorothy Muriel's -- anyone remember them?) and probably some other food-prep businesses. Housing in such areas was put up hastily and as cheaply a possible to house as many workers as possible; hence, the triple deckers. All that is now long gone but it still retains that particular aura, I guess you'd call it. I personally don't see it as depressing, but that's me.
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Old 04-24-2015, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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What's depressing to me is to roll through Wayland on Route 30 and see all those unremarkable little ranch houses that are STILL too damn expensive for me to ever afford. As if I'd want to sentence myself to suburbia in the first place.

Want "depressing"? Roam the side streets of south Waltham while you wait for a window table at Solea to open up, or the Sunday crowds at In a Pickle to dwindle, or whatever. It's mostly drab white or gray apartment houses way past their prime, filled with the Caucasian downtrodden (many of them substance abusers, "recovering" and otherwise) and Spanish speakers who may or may not be here legally. The latter probably help keep lawn care in Wayland cheap. For a similar counterpart to the west I offer downtown Marlborough.

Maybe a good shrink (going rates still under $200/hour mostly) could help the OP process why the existence of people outside the Wayland income range is so troubling. How tough it must be.
Those side streets in Waltham used to be filled with Irish and French families. My father grew up on Taylor St. in one unit of a two family, eleven kids. It really was a great place back then.
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Old 04-24-2015, 08:00 AM
 
Location: Baja Virginia
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I see. It's up for debate whether Allston and Brighton are the same.
They're not "the same", one is a part of the other, and it's not "up for debate", it's a matter of historical fact, dating back to the days when Brighton was an independent town in its own right, which included Allston.
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Old 04-24-2015, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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They're not "the same", one is a part of the other, and it's not "up for debate", it's a matter of historical fact, dating back to the days when Brighton was an independent town in its own right, which included Allston.
Mattapan used to be a section of Dorchester.
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Old 04-24-2015, 09:04 AM
 
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Default La plus ca change...

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Mattapan used to be a section of Dorchester.
And, as someone recently pointed out in the Bay State Banner, Roxbury used to include Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, the Fenway/Northeastern Univ area, Kenmore Sq, and the Longwood Medical area and, of course, Parker Hill/Mission Hill.

While many people still consider Mission Hill to be Roxbury, some of these historical changes are due to the history of annexations to Boston. The more recent reductions in Roxbury territory, according to the writer, are about defining Roxbury to be coexistent with the areas of predominantly black population.

Apparently Brookline was part of Boston once, then separated, and when Boston wanted it back in the 1870s, Brookline refused.

Brighton was part of Cambridge before it was independent.
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