Quincy

Is there any nightlife here, or will I need to travel farther afield (like to Boston)?

I spent the night camped out in the cemetery two blocks from the end of the mass transit line. A Quincy police officer woke me up in the morning! That’s about the extent of my visit to Quincy.

This was always where we went for toys (the Kay-Bee toy store) when I was a kid growing up in Boston, so it’s exciting because of that.

I go to school here. It’s about an hour commute for me but totally worth it. If the cost of living in South eastern Massachuttes wern’t so high I’d live here. Nice mixture of people. Great place.

Quincy (pronounced KWIN-zee), Massachusetts, referred to as the “City of Presidents”, is the birthplace of early US presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Downtown Quincy is the site of Adams National Historical Park (http://www.nps.gov/adam/), an urban federal park, so there’s a park service information center downtown with tourist information. Easily accessible to downtown Boston (and Cambridge and Somerville) on the Red Line of the MBTA (http://www.mbta.com/), it still has a very distinctive flavour and feel. Into the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was an important shipbuilding center.

(I’m about to move there, and looking forward to it.)