Housing Costs Driving Academics From Boston

While Boston has long been an nternational hub for university life, ich with labs and libraries and cademia's juiciest cocktail parties, the city is increasingly a tough sell to professors due to high housing costs.

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June 25, 2001, 11:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera


Dennis Trout's news last year stunned his colleagues at Tufts University: He was trading in the intellectual vibrancy he loved in Boston for a teaching job at the University of Missouri-Columbia. But his reason didn't surprise anyone: a 2,500-square-foot, four-bedroom house on a quiet suburban street. "Housing here is a third of the cost of Boston," said Trout, speaking from his office in the Missouri classics department, a five-minute bike ride from a $152,000 home. "The difference makes it possible to have a nice house and a nice lifestyle - something that's a real challenge to find in Boston."

Thanks to Christian Peralta

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