[woodbutcher1963]

This is why so many young people are living at Mom & Dads after college.

My 24 year old son just moved out of a one bedroom apartment and into a two bedroom townhouse. He is sharing this with another young man he works with. His monthly cost went from $1750 down to $1200. This is about an hour NW of Boston. If he was in Boston/Cambridge it would be about $500 more for each of them.

[Vermont Lt]

I have a friend who is paying nearly $4.4K per month in Cambridge. Top of the line place. But that rate just blows me away. He works for dot com startups. So he is on his third or fourth go-round at 35.

[SamAdams76]

My sons are a few years older than yours but they were both able to find reasonably priced properties in Leominster, which is just north of Worcester.

They lived with me in Chelmsford until they were in their early 20s but I moved down to New York for my job. They were not able to touch anything in Chelmsford (NW of Boston) but just a half hour west of there and prices get much more reasonable.