Soon to be an ex-Cantabrigian

[dougo]

My roommate and I are moving on September 3rd. Our current landlady's daughter got married and wants our apartment, since it's the nicest in our building (I think the landlady used to live here). Our lease runs out at the end of August, so we didn't really have any negotiating leverage. Fortunately, after a frantic week of looking, we found a great apartment that's bigger, nicer, and in a better location (between Tufts and Davis Square in Somerville), so I'm actually pretty happy despite the huge pain of moving again only a year after I moved here. I suppose I'm glad I still have all these boxes I never got around to unpacking...

Anyway, my new address and phone number are on my vital information page, which also links to a map of the neighborhood. Stay tuned for the housewarming party invite.

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[jfb.livejournal.com]

Look! New England charm! (http://www.nothings.org/usenet/fts/1995/news0119.html)

Say hi to Pasta Pisa (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jfb/97266.html) for me.

Municipal Freedom Gives National Strength

[dougo.livejournal.com]

So that's where the Medford game comes from! I thought its origins had been lost when it fell out of Google's cache, but I'm glad to see it's been resurrected.

I've been sort of considering myself a dual resident of Cambridge and Somerville, since the border is literally about 5 feet from my bedroom. The towns are not really that much different; the differences are more neighborhood-oriented, so the Davis/Porter axis is much like the Harvard area while the Winter Hill/Union Square region has more in common with East Cambridge (where I used to live for 5 years) and probably Charlestown (which I don't know much about). Davis Square is actually more hip than any of the Cambridge squares; in fact according to The Hipster Handbook, Davis Square is one of the hippest places in the country. (Although I think Inman Square, where I currently live, is one of those "best-kept secret" hip locations, with The Zeitgeist Gallery, Bukowski's Tavern, 1369 Coffee House, and two different kitsch/antique shops. Too bad one of them replaced the used book store.) Anyway, things have changed a bit since that post (1995); Somerville Theater movies cost at least twice as much, rents are about the same as Cambridge now, and I think that Buck-a-Book is gone. Oh, and the mayor? Gay.

Cafe De Crepe is a really cool name.

[chrismwage.livejournal.com]

were you (up until now, of course) still in that place by the mall? Or am I way behind?

[dougo.livejournal.com]

You're a year behind. I moved in with a roommate in Inman Square (about a mile and a half from the mall) because it was cheaper and nicer.