Week Three - A Home in the Heart of the City.

I find my self seriously able to relate to the stories about JP. While I have only visited the area once, and found it beautiful, I grew up in another small town kind of place. Less problems, more snobbishness, but the same sense of community and family all over the place. Now when I think about where I want to live someday, I think of many places. I don't want to go back to Wellesley where I grew up- the people there are simply too stuck up. I think I want to live around Boston, though I'm not sure where. So many different parts of the Boston area have grown into my heart that I find it hard to decide. I generally say that Somerville is my favorite area, the strong sense of a unique creative community fills the halls and walls. Good unique resturaunts, indie video stores, beautiful tiny houses everywhere. Bike paths and a huge concetrate of young professionals, its nots hard to understand why I might want to live there. Still, in relation to Boston, Davis Square may be on the T, but it feels very far from the heart of Boston. An area much closer that I have also come to love is Allston. Its like younger college sibling of Somerville: much more ragged, more more raw and bare and honest and full of personality. Many a night have I slept over on my friends couch in Allston, and found the sounds of running traffic and apartment complexes to be strangely comforting in the dark.

I also really like the description of JP in the beginning. I can relate to the sensations that are described because I have a strong sense of home all over New England since I lost my own actual home, and little communities hit me pretty hard. JP has this sort of green hue to it in some areas thats really reminesent of where I grew up, which I love. I can totally relate to the pond, having had many a pond or babling stream at home I called my own. I also think that Roxbury is a community thats waiting to burst open and flower, and no just in the political sense like they have already done there. I think Roxbury wil eventually become so gentrified that it'll be this JP area: lots of housing crammed in around greenery and a rare sense of community. I know people are always telling me how dangerous the area is there, but I've walked on those streets at 5am alone and felt safe, so I tend not to take the threats so seriously. I hope I find my own community some day to own a home in, it'll be really when that happens.