From Sister #1 in Lexington
Apr. 19th, 2013 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vamysteryfanAll you wanted to know about Watertown!
"Watertown is a close in, older suburb of Boston/Cambridge. It has a large, long-established Armenian population. There are two large Armenian (Eastern Orthodox, I think) churches with their own schools there, and there is an Armenian elementary school here in Lexington, run by Armenian nuns. I am not aware of a large Russian population there or anywhere else, in terms of a community. In the 90s, and early 2000s, there was a modest influx to all the Boston suburbs of Russian families. The only ones I ever met (several families here in Lexington) were well educated and had left because of the chaos in Russia after the fall of the USSR.
Aside from the Armenian population, Watertown is kind of working/middle class, along with students and grad students. Rents are a little lower and there is convenient bus service into Cambridge/Boston. Also, great Middle Eastern food. It is not a town that is dangerous in any way, just a little gritty looking in parts. There are also some large, beautiful old Victorian houses there.
[I] have been to the area they are showing now, the Watertown mall, countless times. It is just a couple of miles from the WBZ-TV studios where I worked in the 80s and early 90s, and I still go over there sometimes, because for a while it was the closest Target and Best Buy!
It is about a half-hour to 40 minute drive from here. Sister #3 is much closer, only a mile or two away. [I] have talked to her and she is safe and watching TV at home. Niece and her night owl friends heard some of the explosions last night in the gunfight. She is a few miles away from that part of Watertown in North Cambridge."
"Watertown is a close in, older suburb of Boston/Cambridge. It has a large, long-established Armenian population. There are two large Armenian (Eastern Orthodox, I think) churches with their own schools there, and there is an Armenian elementary school here in Lexington, run by Armenian nuns. I am not aware of a large Russian population there or anywhere else, in terms of a community. In the 90s, and early 2000s, there was a modest influx to all the Boston suburbs of Russian families. The only ones I ever met (several families here in Lexington) were well educated and had left because of the chaos in Russia after the fall of the USSR.
Aside from the Armenian population, Watertown is kind of working/middle class, along with students and grad students. Rents are a little lower and there is convenient bus service into Cambridge/Boston. Also, great Middle Eastern food. It is not a town that is dangerous in any way, just a little gritty looking in parts. There are also some large, beautiful old Victorian houses there.
[I] have been to the area they are showing now, the Watertown mall, countless times. It is just a couple of miles from the WBZ-TV studios where I worked in the 80s and early 90s, and I still go over there sometimes, because for a while it was the closest Target and Best Buy!
It is about a half-hour to 40 minute drive from here. Sister #3 is much closer, only a mile or two away. [I] have talked to her and she is safe and watching TV at home. Niece and her night owl friends heard some of the explosions last night in the gunfight. She is a few miles away from that part of Watertown in North Cambridge."
