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Hello! My husband and I are planning on moving back to the US from London with our young daughter in a year or so and are starting to think where we should live. Our top priorities are good schools, a nice town center, within reach of Boston preferably by direct train, and with an approximate budget of $1 - $1.3 million. Our top choice based on research and driving through the area would be Acton as you can get a pretty decent sized house in that price range and the schools are meant to be top notch. However wanted to see if there was anywhere else that may match Acton that we maybe hadn’t thought of yet? We love Concord but slightly out of our price range!
Also, if anyone does live in Acton, is it a nice place to live ?
See, the thing is that the train ride just to Porter is 43 minutes, and there's only one train per hour. Then you'd have to get on the subway... and the headways right now aren't that great...
Hello! My husband and I are planning on moving back to the US from London with our young daughter in a year or so and are starting to think where we should live. Our top priorities are good schools, a nice town center, within reach of Boston preferably by direct train, and with an approximate budget of $1 - $1.3 million. Our top choice based on research and driving through the area would be Acton as you can get a pretty decent sized house in that price range and the schools are meant to be top notch. However wanted to see if there was anywhere else that may match Acton that we maybe hadn’t thought of yet? We love Concord but slightly out of our price range!
Also, if anyone does live in Acton, is it a nice place to live ?
Thank you!
Acton doesn’t really have a town center, nor does it really have good access to the city via train.
At that price range, given the requirements, I’d go Andover.
Far nicer core, train built into downtown, and a mix of walkable neighborhoods and very bucolic ones as you move away from Main St.
Acton doesn’t really have a town center, nor does it really have good access to the city via train.
At that price range, given the requirements, I’d go Andover.
Commute would be even worse from Andover. Doesn't have the synergy with Kendall or South Station like the Fitchburg line does, and it'd be worse to 128. Not that Acton is great.
It wasn't that long ago you could have gotten Lexington for a million.
Commute would be even worse from Andover. Doesn't have the synergy with Kendall or South Station like the Fitchburg line does, and it'd be worse to 128. Not that Acton is great.
It wasn't that long ago you could have gotten Lexington for a million.
Someone posted on another thread yesterday $860K or so now gets you a 1200 sq ft 2 bedroom starter home in Westwood! So, yeah .....good options for that price point are dwindling.....$1M is the new starter home price point I guess.
Commute would be even worse from Andover. Doesn't have the synergy with Kendall or South Station like the Fitchburg line does, and it'd be worse to 128. Not that Acton is great.
It wasn't that long ago you could have gotten Lexington for a million.
Someone posted on another thread yesterday $860K or so now gets you a 1200 sq ft 2 bedroom starter home in Westwood! So, yeah .....good options for that price point are dwindling.....$1M is the new starter home price point I guess.
What makes it worse is this is one of Andovers most modest neighborhood that borders Lawrence and sits on top of 495.
$719K for this seems even more nuts than the smaller Westwood one for $860K. To pay all that to probably hear highway noise and be in such close proximity to Lawrence....big no thanks!
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