I moved from Palo Alto to Cambridge in 2004. My rent decreased by $50, and the size of my house doubled.
On the other hand, you're probably sitting outside in the sun eating a tasty burrito.
On the other hand, you're probably sitting outside in the sun eating a tasty burrito.
All the mexican places around here (downtown at least) are hoity toity and expensive.
Also some great burritos at La Bamba on Old Middlefield in MV. The new location on Castro is pretty tasty too.
Anna's at MIT definitely holds its own though.
The point is that living costs are lower in Boston than Silicon Valley. I suspect that most hackers don't care about money directly, but they do care about not having to worry about whether they can pay rent.
Apparently one of the big apartment leasing companies there, Woodlawn Arms or something, that he leases from, has been facing legal action over some practices that involve shoving out older tenants so that they could reset the rents from ~700 to ~1100.