Living in Union Square, Somerville, MA | Pros and Cons

If you're moving to Boston, you should consider living in Union Square in nearby Somerville, MA! Living in Union Square gives you great access to bars, drink, and the green line to get in and around the rest of Boston.
Please let me know in the comments if you have anything interesting to add about Union Square that I missed in the video.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Perks of the T
01:41 - Food Gems
02:35 - Nightlife
03:16 - Drinking and... axes?
04:04 - Porchfest
04:33 - Grocery situation
05:15 - Gym situation
05:44 - Lifestyle
06:56 - Cost of Living & Rent
08:00 - Thanks for watching!

[@peadhill]

When I was a kid we went to St. Thomas in Union Square (now condos). Then when I was in my 20s we went there for the Chinese Food once a month. Now I'm 7/10 of a mile from the square and love it. I think the new bike path is really exceptional when you need to get into Boston and don't want to take the T.

[@617somerville]

I grew up in union sq from 1982-2020. We have MB, 2 Whole Foods one near central in cambridge, and one on beacon street. We have star market at twin city and beacon street. Lots of restaurants and great pizza. The best breakfast in all of the Boston area the neighborhood on bow street. We have Target and a gym at twin city plaza that’s great. You also have Marshall’s and such. So much to do in that area and it’s the best area of Somerville hands down! You have the green line 2 stops Union square and East Somerville, the red line Harvard and central, and the orange line Sullivan.

[@617somerville]

Tons of bus routes

[@normanwyatt8761]

I worked at the WHOLE FOODS site on 47 Beacon St. In the late 1950's when it first opened as a STOP & SHOP. We also had lots of stores like WOOLWORTHS, GORINS, a supermarket, BACKER'S hardware store, a breakfast and lunch restaurant, a variety store with fruits and vegetables and a soda fountain and the best of all, the STRAND movie theatre. For a teenager, that was a great square.

[@normanwyatt8761]

My rent near Union SQ in the late fifties was 35 dollars a month for 6 rooms on the 2nd floor of a 2 family house with a coal furnace in the cellar for your winter heat....

[@normanwyatt8761]

When I was a kid growing up in the 1940's, I lived 2 minutes away from the square and had to walk through it twice a day for 6 years To go to school ........Back then only low income people lived near the square to enjoy it's one theatre ( the STRAND ) and two 5 and 10 cent stores,a bank, a police station, a firehouse, a church, etc, .........We all got along great 'cause we were all the same, White and poor.... Times were tough but more enjoyable than today.....

[@markda_shark8201]

Do you remember a man named Hibbert Henderson (brother) by any chance ?

[@normanwyatt8761]

@@markda_shark8201 I just happened to notice your shout-out and i'm sorry to say that name is not familer at all......I can remember lots of things from the past but don't ask me what I did 2 weeks ago....Ha......Yesteryear was a great time to live and today I can't seem to be able to afford anything being on Social Security....Next year I'll be 90 years old if I make it.....Nice chatting with you.... Norm....

[@apersonwiththoughts]

Hey, Norm! Thank you for sharing your story. It’s always such a pleasure and honor for me to learn more about the neighborhood I love so dearly from those who knew it years ago. I moved to Somerville 5 years ago and have never been happier. My dog loves it too! Be well, Norm! ❤❤

[@normanwyatt8761]

@@apersonwiththoughts I'm so glad that you like Somerville like I did many years ago. It's been mostly a blue-collar city and never crime - ridden like a lot of other cities were. Everyone went to St. Joseph's church and all us kids hung around Lincoln Park to play ball and basketball and football. In the wintertime the city would flood the park for skating and sledding and hockey. Back then all you needed was some change in your pocket to buy everything you wanted as everything was a nickle or ten cents...Enjoy the city.

[@lunamethyst7]

For the gym, the YMCA is up the hill. Decent spot if you want to work out and swim.

[@BreakingDownBoston]

Great add! Thank you!

[@Roma_eterna]

Wait, axe throwing? 😂😂