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Old 07-01-2023, 09:56 AM
 
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I'd LOVE to live in Brookline. Not in my current stage of life. More likely I'd be happier there when my kids are older or moved out. I've love to live in a townhouse on Aspinwall Hill. Nice quiet area but you can walk down the hill to hop on the T. The big draw for Brookline (aside from the fact that it has excellent schools for such a dense/urban area) is that a lot of it is walkable and there's lots of public transportation options.

Where you want to live is such an intensely personal decision and sometimes it has to do with stage of life. So, that opinion can certainly change over time. Personally, you couldn't pay me to live in Duxbury. Way too far removed from the city for my taste. Way too quiet of a town. Plus, all of those reports of anti-semitism, etc. in the news last year really turned me off.
You could run into anti semitic people anywhere you live though.
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Old 07-01-2023, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Needham, MA
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You could run into anti semitic people anywhere you live though.
I certainly could! That doesn't mean I want to live where I KNOW that there are anti-semitic people.

That whole thing was going on with the football team for YEARS. It wasn't a limited one year thing or a new coach or a single incident. So that says to me there's plenty of people in town who it wasn't a big deal to and plenty of kids who went through that football program that likely now think it's OK to behave in that manner.

Plus, they had a few very negative incidents in town last year. It wasn't just the anti-semitism. Oh yeah! There was also the gym teacher who allegedly molested his student for years and even after the whistle was blown nothing happened. It wasn't until the kid committed suicide that anyone did anything. It wasn't just one incident or one issue that gives me pause about living in Duxbury. It was many incidents over the last few years.
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Old 07-01-2023, 10:18 AM
 
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OMG really? look at this incident in Brookline:

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local...dents/2671307/

https://www.wcvb.com/article/brookli...setts/39656307

Also at Curry college in Milton:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-n...ss-the-country

More:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/antisem...eport/43972744

You will find hateful people in any town. On that note Brookline would be way too liberal for me. That's fine to not like Duxbury but don't make it out to be some racist place. It isn't.
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Old 07-01-2023, 10:59 AM
 
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Not sure why this has turned into a my town vs. your town pi$$ing match, but here are the latest median home values:


https://www.bostonmagazine.com/prope...ce-chart-2023/


Brookline: $2,387,500


Wellesley: $1,888,000

Cohasset: $1,375,000


Hingham: $1,250,000

Duxbury: $955,000





This does NOT mean that one town is better than another town or that there aren't people who would rather live in Duxbury than Brookline, but we were initially discussing the "classes" of towns. Prices are the result of high demand, in which Brookline and Wellesley are clearly the "elite" towns in that category.



Numbers don't lie.
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Old 07-01-2023, 11:04 AM
 
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Oh ok. I guess anyone who ends up in Duxbury is poor and low class.

I'm surprised Cohasset is more expensive than Hingham...must be all those Jerusalem rd homes.
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Old 07-01-2023, 11:05 AM
 
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Oh ok. I guess anyone who ends up in Duxbury is poor and low class.

Never said that!
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Old 07-01-2023, 11:09 AM
 
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I'm also surprised Duxbury is more $$ than Milton and N. Andover. And scituate is more $$ than Norwell
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Old 07-01-2023, 11:10 AM
 
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msRB, if it makes you feel better, Duxbury ranks #28 out of 153 Greater Boston towns in median SF home prices. So it's still in the top 1/5th.



https://www.bostonmagazine.com/prope...ce-chart-2023/


Happy now?
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Old 07-01-2023, 11:13 AM
 
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msRB, if it makes you feel better, Duxbury ranks #28 out of 153 Greater Boston towns in median SF home prices. So it's still in the top 1/5th.



https://www.bostonmagazine.com/prope...ce-chart-2023/


Happy now?
I'm happy regardless of what any rankings are. Other people should focus on that too.
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Old 07-01-2023, 11:13 AM
 
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I'm also surprised Duxbury is more $$ than Milton and N. Andover. And scituate is more $$ than Norwell

Not really. Milton is desirable due to its proximity to Boston, but the houses there are smaller on average than Duxbury and on much smaller lots. Parts of it border the Mattapan ghetto.



From what I've seen of North Andover, there's nothing special about it at all. Average middle class.


Biggest standout to me looking at those higher ranking towns was Natick at $900K (tied with Milton). I mean NATICK??? wtf...
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