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missitnoonan78 t1_ixmd3wg wrote

Reply to comment by dny6 in The lack of homes could strangle our life sciences industry: Why the concentration of biopharma in Cambridge and Boston would ratchet up costs, exacerbate the housing crisis, and pitch the region from its throne. by writethefuture3

Wasn’t talking about non-science roles. I was a scientist, almost all of the senior / PhD level folks lived in the suburbs. You telling me that they care more about Research Associates than Senior Scientists?

I got out of the field and moved into software so I could work remote / outside of the city.

No matter what, Life Science in general is much more tired to on-site work than other well paying industries in the area, so housing, transportation, etc in the whole Greater Boston area are key to keeping it healthy.

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dny6 t1_ixmu391 wrote

Well they clearly care about something in Cambridge, these companies don’t pay multi million dollar rents for the fun of it.

Part of the solution to the problem you describe is upzoning the suburbs to provide enough density for subway expansion to make sense.

The state has already started this by mandating upzoning near train stations.

I would fully expect in the next ten to fifteen years for SFH only zoning to be non existent inside 128

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