Time to Start Looking for a New Place, Kids
Our MySpace friend and multi-media mogul City Councilor Mike Ross has succeeded in his bid to limit the number of undergraduate students in a single apartment to four. A large crowd gathered at today’s Boston Zoning Commission hearing about the measure, which was approved in a 9-0 vote. And it appears that some of the affected students don’t quite understand how to dress for a high-profile meeting.
We don’t want to go all What Not to Wear on you, but you’ve got to see the first picture that accompanies Boston.com’s report. Go take a look, then come back here and we’ll discuss.
We know.
Come on, dude in the orange shirt. You’re showing up at City Hall to argue that you and your undergraduate ilk deserve the right to cram yourselves into a dumpy 9-bedroom apartment in Allston, and you wear Uggs and basketball shorts. Were you raised by unemployed wolves?
This is why most people are happy the measure passed.
Captain William Evans, a Boston police officer, said he had seen first-hand how large groups of students living together could hurt residents’ quality of life.
“We dread September and October in the Fenway and Allston-Brighton area,” he said. “It’s a tremendous drain on our resources. Nothing bothers me more than hearing people are fed up and fleeing the city.”
That outfit alone makes us want to flee the city.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Cute comments on the students clothing. Not all of us can afford to shop at Uniform and Louis Boston for all of our clothes.
On a more serious note, do you really not think that these “kids” who are paying upwards of 40k a year cannot afford to live in nicer apartments?
The fact is that the cost for me to live on campus(I am in my last year at Northeastern), at it’s lowest point is 1000 dollars a month to share a room in a dorm. Therefore, anything south of 1000 comes off as reasonable. Hell, even figures north of 1000 for a place that is nicer seems reasonable in exchange for more freedom and less restrictions.
Since college students have the capital (sometimes in the form of easy to get loans from Sallie Mae ) to pay rents in this increasing difficult recession and most families are struggling how will this make the situation any better?
The only thing that this will accomplish is to push families out of neighborhoods as college students take over their failed mortgage payments.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Sounds like someone is going to get their college teducation paid by the BoZo commission when they win their class action discrimination suit
April 7th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
i live with this kid. it’s a “statement” that makes us all look bad. he owns a suit and i have asked him to wear a jacket in the winter, but he resists. good luck to him.