Possible?: More millenials want liveable neighbourhoods, more transit, etc.

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My oldest son could not wait until he could drive himself to the train station. I started letting him go into Cambridge by himself when he was in 9th grade (I dropped him at the train) and many parents thought I was terrible. He spent his entire high school years "walking" around Boston and Cambridge, going to stores and coffee shops with his friends. We lived in a rural town of 5,000. There was nothing to do at all. My younger son never had the desire to do this. He was too busy training for racing on our rural and suburban roads. However, now he lives close to the downtown of his city, and one block from the beach, too. You can walk to plenty of places and catch also a train, which for southern California is good.
I remember so clearly, the first time I took my kids into Boston, after we moved here from AZ. They were 5 and 7. We went to do a walking tour, which involved taking the commuter rail and the subway to the start, as we lived up near the NH border at the time. My kids were "amazed" that I knew where to go, what trains to catch and the fact that I had started doing this at age 11 (and, that my mother let me).

Crankin, by this thread I realize you live where I am going on vacation next month. I'm hoping to go to the Walden pond one day and were staying in Cambridge across the Charles River. Our hotel rents bikes for free and I plan to use them but my other half will not. He doesn't believe in commuting by bike and/or using them for practical nature. He likes to MTB, but I'm still working on the rest. Me, though I'll ride almost anywhere and love to do so. We are not renting a car and plan to use the transit system everywhere. I think the stop closest to our hotel is Lechemere. I also read that we get to Concord taking the Fitchburg line from the North Station. I am so excited!