<p>is brighton a possibility?</p>
<p>Given his job, he’d rather be in Cambridge or Somerville.</p>
<p>bookworm: Union Square would also be a good area for him. There are two bus routes that run through Union Square directly to the Kendall MIT red line subway station…Your son should check the 85 bus route-Spring Hill/Kendall MIT and the CT2 Sullivan Station-Ruggles via Kendall MIT (both run on weekdays only). Union Square is a safe area with small ethnic restaurants and businesses and a saturday farmers market (and at the moment some major road reconstruction). Like Porter and Davis Squares, it is urban, mixed business and residential and very populated. Somerville main Police and Fire stations are located in Union Sq. Also bus lines run through Union Sq. to Lechmere station seven days and up through Porter and Davis Squares. Any apartments along the somerville Ave., Summer St. and Spring Hill area would have easy public trans. access. Two other areas if he hasn’t looked already might be North Cambridge/Mass Ave. (easy access to Harvard Sq.) and North Cambridge/Arlington Line that is accessible to the Alewife Station (red line). Any questions about specific streets or areas, feel free to get in touch.</p>
<p>I think Davis Square is fun and has a lot going on… That’s where I’d go, out of the places you mentioned. It’s very safe, hip, sorta granola in some ways (as a pp mentioned), and is the location of my favorite Indian restaurant as well as my favorite cafe. :p</p>
<p>However! Much cheaper, a little more suburban (though still with every sort of restaurant possible, several parks, a bikepath, a movie theater, and much more) is Arlington. Not on the T (probably has something to do with the lower rent average), but with buses straight into Harvard Square. It’s quite nice.</p>