Who needs Back Bay? I fart in their general direction!

Daniel moves to Boston and hopes to live in Back Bay but it's too expensive:

But nothing like reality to get you down. Rents in these areas are at least 2000 USD for a small small oe bedroom and even then it’s hard to get a good small small one bedroom. Add in the utilities, cable, internet, parking fees, I’m looking at 2.5K for a space that is the size of my bathroom in Chicago.

Yikes. So with a heavy heart, I’m checking out …ahem… more residential areas such as Watertown and Arlington. Rents are lower, spaces are bigger and the commute to my office is shorter. Sounds perfect I guess.

Afterall, I’m more than my possessions right?

Don't despair, my man! Back Bay is really just a Hollywood stage set, a Potemkin Village mockery of a real community. Here's what I wrote:

Come to Watertown! We have public transit, an arts center with a 300 seat main stage and a black-box theater with all kinds of new work happening. If you live in Coolidge Square, you’ll be able to walk to the fabulous Armenian markets and buy fresh spices, fruit, and pita bread for nothing. Unlike many of the urban areas you’ve listed, we’ve got intact, walkable, urban neighborhoods where you can walk to buy food, go to a hardware store, a post office, or any of a dozen places to eat. Our old industrial buildings now squirrel away tons of tiny innovative businesses from bakeries to Dusty Clothing or one of our three animation studios. Like the outdoors? We have miles of lovely pathways to bike on along the river. Get a $20 dollar rod and fish from the dam in the spring — don’t catch anything, that would ruin the whole experience of sitting and watching the stream go by. Want to go to Harvard Square? Hop on one of the cute electric trolleybuses and you’ll be there in a flash.

Want a tenant? Go lobby Daniel to migrate to The Greatest Watertown Ever!