There are bound to be conflicts when college students, young professionals, families, and older residents all call the same neighborhoods home, especially when it comes to noise levels at night. One resident’s idea of hanging out after dinner can sound more like an ill-timed romp to the people on the other side of a thin plaster wall.
That’s why city officials, university administrators, and neighborhood associations in places like the North End, Allston, and Brighton must encourage landlords, student groups, and residents to keep lines of communication open. Familiarity prevents some problems and makes others easier to resolve.
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What is unreasonable about this?
The colleges and their students are what makes Boston something special -- a much better known and revered place than most other medium-sized cities in this country. After their education is completed, they disperse all over the country and the world. Memories of Boston go with them and influence how people elsewhere view our city.
Why is it that everytime there's some sort of minor (yes, minor) problem, passing a law is the first choice of the complainers.
Instead of complaining constantly about students, residents of the neighbors should thank their lucky stars the students are there, noise or not. Without the students much of Allston-Brighton, Fenway and Back Bay, for example, would be ghost neighborhoods and many of the businesses would cease to exist.
this party whatchmacallit would be a perfect fit for city council member michael ross who excells at parties if nothing else. ma