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Originally Posted by Shawn
That's my bad, for some reason I mixed Coolidge Corner in with the Fenway and Longwood tracts to its immediate east. I should have realized that wasn't right.
But yeah, you summed up why I love Brookline with the census tract gradation. And that you get all this so close to downtown, with multiple Green Line stations. Whatever urban-suburban-(nearly) rural form you want to live in, it's available in Brookline. If you can afford it, of course.
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I lived in Brookline for years -- once off the C Line [off Winchester Street], close to CC, but a majority of the time off I lived next to D-Line [one stop away from Longwood], however I used to skip the D-Line and walk a tad bit farther to the E-Line just across the River Way [technically in Boston city limits] if I wanted to hit up the South End, or the backside of the Prudential Center/Copley Plaza -- especially on game days!]
Most of Brookline is 'Boston' -- the Southern half is another story.
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Back in the day when I lived off Winchester St:
Boston has always been a gritty working class city up until about the late 1990s. One of my sisters had an apartment in Brighton for about $400/month. At night, after supper, I used to walk her to her apartment because it was F'n dark and shady back then. And by back then, we're really not talking that long ago, gang.