I’m not sure exactly why you are mentioning Framingham when you work out of Boston? Is the idea that it’s possible your partner could commute from Framingham to Amherst because that’s not realistic. At all.

You mentioned that you will only have one car. How will that work? On the days that you need to go to Logan, is the idea that you would take the car and your partner would stay at home? And they would not need to get to school on that day? I’m going to assume that’s the case.

My recommendation is that you look for somewhere close to the pike in western mass. If you’re close to the pike, that gives you the best shot at getting into Logan. Ludlow would be about 30 minutes to Amherst and 90+ minutes to Boston depending on time of day. Add up to an hour if you are going at rush hour.

Ludlow has no wine bars and nothing whatsoever is hip about it. But it is convenient for your purposes. Palmer is another option. Keep in mind for your purposes of getting into Boston you want to be as close to the mass pike as you can be.