Living and Working in Boston

Boston Harbor	Zakim Bridge	Community Boating	Public Gardens

Boston is one of America’s premiere cities. It has a large population of young professionals and students but is also a very family-friendly city. Boston is located at the mouth of the Charles River and has a protected harbor with islands belonging to a National Park off shore. Boston offers a wealth of cultural opportunities including a great symphony orchestra, the Boston Pop’s and its July 4th fireworks concert, world class museums and excellent restaurants. There is even an orchestra composed entirely of physicians, the Longwood Orchestra.

In Boston the neighborhoods are integrated into city life. The Mass General is located on the Charles River and adjacent to the old Beacon Hill neighborhood. It is accessible by train, the Charles Street station stop on the “red line”. The idyllic Boston Public Gardens is a short walk up historic Charles Street from the MGH. Across from the Gardens is Newbury Street, a major upscale shopping and dining district. On the other side is the State Capitol Building. Community Boating is just across the Storrow Drive overpass from the MGH and offers sailing lessons and sailboat rentals on the wide mouth of the Charles River at low cost. Further downtown is Faneuil Hall Marketplace and the North End with its bevy of Italian restaurants and Old North Church.

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Boston Marathon	Bunker Hill	Downtown	The Commons	July 4th

The BWH is located adjacent to Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical Area which includes the Beth Israel/Deaconess Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Joslin Diabetes Center. The Countway library is one of the country’s major medical libraries. Close by are a number of colleges, the Museum of Fine arts, and the Isabelle Gardner museum. The area is accessible by train as well as the “Riverside Green Line” to the Longwood stop or the “Arborway Green Line” to Brigham Circle. BWH is on Boston’s outer border with Brookline, a mostly residential area. The “Emerald Necklace” of parks encircles Boston and the runs adjacent to the BWH and then connects to the Jamacia Pond and ends in the Arboretum.

One major advantage of Boston is the accessibility of wonderful places for day trips. Cape Cod, the mountains and lakes of New Hampshire and Maine are within 2 hours drive. The Berkshire’s of western Massachusetts and the Tanglewood home of the Boston symphony are also major attractions. Sports feature prominently with the Boston Marathon, the Head of the Charles Regatta, college and professional teams and skiing there is activity throughout the year.

Residents choose to live in a variety of communities in and around Boston. Some live in apartments across the street from the hospital, some in Cambridge across the Charles river where Harvard and MIT are located. Others live in Brookline, Somerville or even the suburbs. There is high turnover of housing due to the large numbers of students in the area. Housing prices are however on the high side.