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Originally Posted by Shawn
For real, you could buy an entire South End bowfront for $60-80k in 1993, methadone stoop-junkie included. That same bowfront won’t sell for less than $1 million now, at the low end. You might even still get the methadone junkie though if you’re on the BU Medical side of the South End...
I never got to go to college in Boston, but my brother lived in the Brighton student jungle in the early 2000s and it was still rough then.
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My dad rented a 5th floor historic brownstone, 3 bedroom apartment on Beacon St / Hereford in Back Bay. Free parking spot in the alley, view of the Charles River -- this was back in the days before recycling, so we would separate our own trash and leave it for the bums to make some money.
The owners decided to sell and offered my dad first dibs. The price was $300,000 and my dad thought it was OUTRAGEOUS. That same apartment is probably well over $2 million now.