If you’re both working in Longwood, you should be looking at Newton, Brookline, and maybe the posh portions of Jamaica Plain. These three would set you up long term for walking, bicycling Green line to work. Based on the trolley cars/green line and a bicycle you're set-up for sinking deep into your new “village” and in a good position to make car commuting optional

Newton is great. Also consider Concord, Carlisle and Lexington. Concord is a tightknit community that is awesome for families with a killer school district, although a little more rural!

If you folks are physically active it’ll be a huge help. Getting into Longwood for work, the MBTA will give you fits and traffic plus parking can be just as frustrating.

I think there’s lots of good running in Newton. I like the chestnut hill reservoir personally.

Arlington and Milton are also excellent towns to live in. Many a family has been raised in Milton.

This is right on the money.

Sherborn isn't as convenient to Longwood.

Newton has some of the best schools in Mass. It is a very nice town. It is close to Boston. It is the home to Boston College. It has public transportation. West Newton has an old theater.

Nearly 20-30 kids I knew worked there throughout high school. If you’re a guy and go in with stubble or any kind of peach fuzz, they’re handing you a razor and sending you to the bathroom to shave it clean. This was only a few years ago. For girls there’s also rules but not sure on the specifics.

My experience as a customer for 30 years is that all of the employees are neat when it comes to hair, including facial hair. I've always assumed that it's a requirement there as it isn't the case at other grocery stores.

My son has long hair and they wanted him to cut it. Ponytail wasn't acceptable to them.

You'll probably need to add a power circuit to charge it.

OP my father and his wife were house hunting in Newton in 2018 and both make 6 figures at their jobs. They could afford nothing, median home price in Newton back then was $1.8m, unsure what it is now. Hope you’re well off if you’d like to live there, you’re likely looking at $30-$40k just in property taxes per year EDIT: forgot to mention 33% of Newton residents in 2018 had a household income of $250k+, can cite this stat if you’d like

I grew up in Newton and spend a day a week there these days taking care of my mother's home.

Newton is very nice in that it's made up of villages and you are generally no more than a mile's walk to any village for shopping. It also has several MBTA stations (Woodland, Waban, Eliot, Newton Highlands and Newton Center) which you could use to get into the Longwood Medical Area. Or you could take Route 9. There's also ample bus service.

The schools were excellent when I went but that was a long time ago. I would assume that they are still good but others could comment or you could look at ratings and reviews.

Newton is convenient as there's easy access to the Mass Pike and Route 128 so you can go east-west and north-south. There is often a lot of traffic on those highways. There's also Newton-Wellesley Hospital which is part of Partners for medical care if you need it in a hurry or if you want something nearby.

A lot of the homes are older and not necessarily in the best of shape and may require work to get to modern standards. Newton is friendly to senior citizens and many live there.

Do you make enough to afford it? Even if you have doctor money it’s still going to be well over a million to get a single family in Newton these days and that will be a stretch if you’re a one income household with kids. If you want under a million for a single family you’re going to have to not be on the MBTA rapid transit lines at all and rely on commuter rail - there’s a shuttle bus from the ruggles station on the providence/stougton line if you don’t want to car commute to get you to longwood or if it’s nice out it’s an easy walk from that station.

Most outer towns in Boston metro are still going to be far more walkable and have better schools than Arkansas by a long shot even if they don’t have the the T (t as in rapid transit subway/trolley lines not the commuter rail)

Newton is an excellent town. A great place to raise a family that will allow for a very reasonable commute to Longwood. Yes, it is expensive. But then again, any town that has top tier schools, parks and public services will be.

Long hair is fine but has to be in ponytail if you work in a fresh department. Other than that, you have to shave everyday except for your mustache. You can have a porno mustache but no beard hair. You are required to wear a clean white dress shirt and tie.

I totally agree, but that doesn't give them the right to be discriminatory.

If you have the time and way of getting places, you could just do a walk through of MB and see how people look. You could also stop and speak with any of the workers there and just ask them about your concern.

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MB 4-Eva!

yes - let's say "greater Boston areas"

This year we decided to run all electric heat.pumps and got a bit too cozy with our thermostats and the bill was $500 nd that was extreme.

What is your thermostats actually set to?

I'd get mass save into your house IMMEDIATELY. It's free, they'll help you figure out what's going on. We pay for mass save with taxes, so call them up

Short natural colored hair, clean shaven, white collared button up shirts. Those are the staple uniform for males.

>we've also lived all over the state including Quincy, Malden, Allston, Brighton, etc.

"all over the state" according to a Bostonian, haha
good info on Newton, though

Newton drivers are a special kind of insane, watch your shit crossing the street.

Newton seems more city like…. More stuff happening and more people. Sherborn seems more country, my uncle lived in dover which is next town over and there didnt seem like a lot to do, just a few stores in the center, less people around.