I live in the Boston area and love Cambridge as not only is houses there so great location, they also have very good public schools, apartments of many sizes depending on your need, bikeway access to Somerville, Boston, and Brookline, close to Boston, close to work, as well as having a lot of decent parks and walking spaces and biking spaces.

Why would people buy a house in Holden, MA that is way too big for them, takes forever to clean and to mow the lawn, and that has 100 rooms they’ll never use since all their friends live 50 miles away? Instead they could live in a walkable, center of industry, easily maintainable condo in the Boston suburb of Cambridge? In Cambridge, you basically get nearly the same benefits, but even more so including the fact that there is a better public school system, bigger houses, more bike paths, more walkability, fresh air, close to the city, close to work, close to the highway, as well as no need to own a car, so no need to worry about parking meter maids. Also, there is that place in Central i forget the name of as well so you could buy organic food without having to worry about Whole Foods being expensive and Holden, MA ditching all mom and pop food stores in favor of Dollar Tree and Wal-Mart.

Holden is too overpriced, given it is a wasteland of suburban sprawl and the public school is absolutely trash, parking is expensive, prices are so damn high for housing, it has no fresh air, nothing. No reliable old cars, only spending $2k/mo on a new car payment, while in Cambridge (Boston suburb), people get a cool 1996 Honda Civic.