This is Cambridge, MA.. it is incredibly hard to go most places in Cambridge and ever find a parking space on the side of the street. If you are not a resident

This is Cambridge, MA.. it is incredibly hard to go most places in Cambridge and ever find a parking space on the side of the street. If you are not a resident the majority of non-metered parking is not legal for you to park in. The metered parking has strict maximum time limits and they enforce parking aggressively. It can be very hard to find a parking space at all. If you need to travel in for business/pleasure in a car you basically are forced to either go to a subway/train station with a parking lot and then park there and take the subway/train/bus into Cambridge, or you will need to go in and have a parking garage ($$) to park at, and then walk a long way. It is seriously stressful to use a car in Cambridge and Somerville. It's already so dense & hard to use cars that the retail businesses don't really have anything they can complain about. By locating their business their they already decided to be hostile to customers who want to use a car.