For real. The price to quality ratio on restaurants in Cambridge is terrible!

https://www.universalhub.com/

A building is only as good as it’s management company.

We need to be neighbors as I am also very sensitive to noise 🔥

Id for sure enjoy these restaurants around me if my rent wasn’t so prohibitively expensive

Is it really the most livable if most can’t live there?

What a title, now tell me which food is most edible pls.

Cambridge also deserves to be on the Most Unaffordable U.S. cities list too.

Stay away from these train yards and train lines- we live next to one of the train lines now and it is always honking as it passes our building. Not for someone who is sensitive to noise for sure.

I think we toured that building two years ago and there were way more reviews complaining about an evening noise from the train yard. When we asked the leasing agent he replied, “Some people like the noise.”

Has been our favorite joke about the train since.

LOL that’s funny hopefully it’s not like that

Thank you for the feedback! Appreciate it (:

It was the location of the first scene in The Social Network which was a very awkward date lol:

https://youtu.be/uvap4gEOC5I

Lol it’s good to know the yuppies have to deal with that

You can pretty much always get a table or a spot at the bar. In my experience though the music volume is such that it gets a bit annoying to sustain a conversation over it, although it depends on the exact type of music. I love Thirsty Scholar though, great food and drinks, super nice staff, and it's never as crowded as similar places in the area like Trina's.

I get kind of anxious with crowds so sometimes it’s hard for me if I don’t know what it’s like before hand :(

just pop in and check it out man, cmon

Probably a bad fit. You are choosing a highrise building close to the urban center. Unsurprisingly, the center if big cities are dense and noisy

Not a perfect match for what you are looking for, but as a transplant in Cambridge I love these two sites: If you want to keep up with restaurant news: https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/?m=1 For a bit of a fun spin on local news: https://www.universalhub.com/ Cambridge day is good to keep up with local politics.

I read the Axios Boston newsletter every day!

http://cambridgeday.com/

Things to note:

Noise: • The train engines run all night long so you’ll hearing humming and noise from the yard.

• Green line runs right by it now so you’ll want to be as high up as possible of you face that direction, same goes for note above.

• Construction still going on around the area. In terms of neighbors it’s luck of the draw, my area is quiet, but others seem loud.

• the property is maintained pretty well, maintenance staff is great.

• concierges are hit or miss: they’ll leave for long periods of time, they won’t scan in your packages (which then notifies you something came in) or they’ll take 2 days to process your packages. A lot of them act like your bothering them, but they turnover a lot so it changes.

• I constantly flag concerns over safety/security, people will leave random doors propped open to the building and garage.

• Mgmt is basically non-responsive, we had issues with neighbors (leaving trash in the hall, bikes/scooters in hall, leaving their door open when they cooked, kids screaming/playing in the hall) and mgmt did nothing.

• overall it’s not terrible, we got/have a decent deal and a bigger 1 bd unit, but had we not gotten lucky now with better neighbors we would have left.

North side will be facing the rail yard.

A friend of mine lived there and moved out because they jacked up the rent.

Edit: I should list some pros too. Proximity to the green line, the bike path should be opening soon, and Cambridge Crossing seems nice. I didn't actually live in the building so I can't comment on what it's like to actually live there, but it seemed nice.

I can tell you with certainty nearly 100% of my female friends would be bothered and annoyed if a man sidled up to them when they were taking time to do a personal workout. When most women go yoga class or the gym they are doing this generally solo activity for themselves, not to find a date. I'm in my 40s now but I spent a lot of time in the gym in my 20s and 30s and it was exhausting having men bother me when I was trying to workout. I can't count the number of times I've seen women have to take their earbuds out while they are in the middle of an exercise to talk to some guy who decides to invade their space.

That being said there totally are physical activities that welcome social interaction, intramural sports teams, running clubs, pick-up games of whatever. I think people drawn to these activities are looking for friendship, camaraderie, and maybe a date. A much better situation than tapping a woman on the shoulder in the middle of a workout at the gym.

Aside from those types of activities, there are tons of others that offer a meeting space: trivia nights, karaoke, speed dating, concerts, public lectures and discussions on topics of interest, adult education classes (CCAE has some cool ones across lots of topics), any kind of group class whether it be dance or something at a maker space. And then of course the tried and true option of going to a bar. And of course the dating apps galore.

I have been with my husband 23 years and I found his approach of asking me out by saying "I'd like to ask you on a date." to the point and refreshing. Instead of "Let's hang out." Or something else ambiguous.

You do your thing! welcome to politely decline in this hypothetical. Repeated interaction in a common physical and social space is a great way to build social bonds. Friend networks are fantastic, but you have to start somewhere in the absence of that. What are your suggestions?

There is no switch. It's just shitty drivers. Some people are just much better at driving than others.