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| Harvard Square, at the heart of the University, is an area of shops and retail stores, ethnic restaurants and caf?s |
Brookline is a very high quality suburb that begins just 3 blocks west of the Longwood Medical Area. It has superb schools and shops and multiple subway lines. Although homes in Brookline are extraordinarily expensive, condominiums and apartments are more reasonably priced, and many interns and residents live there.
Cambridge lies just across the Charles River from Boston and is home to Harvard University and MIT. Many housestaff enjoy the intellectual ferment of Cambridge and live in the residential areas near Harvard Square. There is a regular shuttle bus from Harvard Square to Harvard Medical School and good subway connections.
Suburban Communities
Greater Boston is actually a conglomerate of over 100 small to medium-sized towns and villages, most of which were incorporated in the 17th and 18th centuries. As such it differs greatly from the more homogeneous towns in many other parts of the country, because each of the Greater Boston communities has its own character, government and school system. The range of variation is quite remarkable. Marblehead is centered on sailing, Lincoln and Hamilton on horseback riding, Lexington and Concord on colonial history, and so on. Individual towns are well described in a website devoted to Massachusetts Towns and in a section of the online Boston Globe.
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