There are more jobs than you'd expect within 1h rail commute of cheap housing The Boston area has among the most restrictive zoning regimes in the country and

There are more jobs than you'd expect within 1h rail commute of cheap housing The Boston area has among the most restrictive zoning regimes in the country and that's consistently driven up the cost of housing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/how-to-block-multi-family-housing-boston-style https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/how-to-bl... The cost of housing is driving up the cost of salaries. Until Boston/Cambridge/Somerville and so forth build more housing, housing is going to remain very expensive relative to locations that have legalized the building of housing.