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)