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Apartment listing shows just how exciting Mission Hill can be
By adamg on Wed, 03/29/2017 - 10:38am
Check out the slideshow for this apartment listing for 15 Eldora St.. The fun never stops on ol' Mission Hill. Also exciting: The $3,750 rent for a three-bedroom on Mission Hill.
Via Bill, via Boston Reddit.
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This is the best thing I've seen all week
All it needs is a Ron Howard Arrested Development voiceover.
Cleary nothing happened
All I see is a fight almost breaking out between the dad and maybe 3 other people. Close only counts in horseshoes. And curling to some extent.
I guess the takeaway from the ad is that yes, you might get into arguments with your neighbors and random passers by, but they rarely even rise to the level of fisticuffs.
so
So the cops showed up for...?
See below
I'm tossed between "sure the cops show up, but usually EMTs are not needed" and "and there's good police presence in the neighborhood".
I think the better question is: why the heck did this guy post these photos is a rental listing?
Street life
Maybe these photos are intended to illustrate the advertised "surroundsound" feature?
in case anyone is having trouble following the action...
I made an album of the surveillance images in chronological order:
http://imgur.com/a/wJcSM
Aha
Thanks. I missed the part where the cops showed up. I also missed that the guy in shorts isn't wearing shoes.
I dunno. I guess the takeaway is that the yuppies should be beware that the locals still do crazy things like play basketball in the street. I wonder what street hockey season is like?
what leads anybody to the
what leads anybody to the conclusion that this is about the kid playing basketball?
There are 4 instances where the man in the grey shirt puts his hands on somebody (red shirt near jeep, man with messenger bag, black lady, and no shoes guy). None of them are near the hoop or seem to be addressing the kid in anyway.
also, who exactly is a 'yuppie' in these photos to you other than potentially the man with the messenger bag?
Um, okay
The kid is holding a basketball in several of the photographs.
Also, perhaps it's my looking at the photos, but I don't see any contact between grey shirt guy and the guy who he is having the, um, discussion with. Oh, he is being held back by 2 different guys, but if you can't figure out the difference between contact with someone you are, say, having a heated discussion with and the people restraining you, I'll just assume you don't get out much.
And yes, messenger bag guy would be the yuppie.
Glad this has been documented
Looks like they updated the original listing...all the good photos are gone.
Lets add some dialogue
"Its a free country! My kehds can play ball where ever they want! Streets public property idiot!"
That definitely looked like a
That definitely looked like a drug deal or some other criminal activity going down. As for the price, this is our new reality. A realtor friend sold a 3 family in Mission Hill last year for around 1M that needed everything.
The foreign money that has been driving up prices would KILL to be near MCP and HMS. Very prestigious location for them.
On our side, it's sad to see so many people being priced out of Boston.
We sure its foreign money?
Last I've read building permits for Boston decreased again last year, and another report says to expect 150,000 new residents by 2030. That's not too far away. Meanwhile, more companies are either leaving the state altogether, or moving their HQ's from suburban locations to the city.
07-11 was a nice respite, but where prices were going down double digits across the country Boston on average saw them just stop rising. That was foreshadowing to the last 4-5 years and the future.
3750
Kehd, $3750 in Mission Hill? Wicked retahded bro. Fack outta heeyah.
room and board
Room and board at Northeastern: $15,050
Splitting this place three ways for the 9 months you're in school and then subletting the summer: $11,250.
Staying in the apartment year-round: $15,000
Basically, it seems that Northeastern's lack of adequate housing has turned the real estate in the West Fenway and Mission Hill into a simple formula for landlords in the area: take the room and board for the school year, and charge in the ballpark of that per bedroom, and you're going to have plenty of demand. And you also strip neighborhoods of their character and turn them into rows of dorms, pricing out long-term residents and forcing upon those fortunate enough to stay groups of students who don't really give a shit that you have to get up to work in the morning because THIRSTY THURSDAY, WOO! but I digress.
Boston is PACKED with
Boston is PACKED with colleges, and we apparently have no strategy to deal with the students. Northeastern, Emmanuel, BU, Wentworth, MCPHS all have locations right around Mission Hill. I have no idea how to solve the problem, but it's not just a Northeastern problem- it's systemic to Boston.
Part of Northeastern's
Part of Northeastern's strategy is to reward some of the bad actors for their bad behavior.
Not inherently the universities' faults for not having housing
I went to BU. My parents insisted I live in the dorms, so I did.
For the same price as my two-beds-to-a-room, bathroom-in-the-hallway, cafeteria-meal-plan, security-gates-and-housing-rules dorm room for 9 months, my friends were able to move off campus and get an apartment where they could stay year round, have their own bedroom and kitchen, and come and go and do as they please.
Universities offer apartment-style housing, but it's often more expensive than off-campus, with fewer amenities, and requires students who stay for the summer to relocate in June and again in September.
When I graduated, my roommate and I were 22 year old women, dating our now-husbands, and sharing a bedroom. At that point, an apartment with a little more space would have been nice.
What locations does BU have
What locations does BU have near Mission Hill?
Not far as the crow flies
I used to walk from Mission Hill parties to my dorm in Kenmore Square back in the day. With a bicycle or car BU is close. On the T, not so much.
That Basketball Hoop
Has got to be the ultimate, year round space saver.