Ah, Somerville 

Here’s why I dig Somerville:

• For lunch, the gf and I walked about 15 minutes down a reasonably tree-lined street to the Five Horses Tavern for lunch.
• We had awesome fried buttermilk chicken tenders and pork belly tacos (really good)
• I had a Hobgoblin beer (there were lots of good options)
• It cost about $30 for two of us
• For dinner, we went across town (could have walked or taken the subway, but we drove the 10 minutes) to meet friends for dinner. The place we were going was packed (we were going for a local beer tasting, so we walked next door, heard some live music and ate some decent, cheapish food.
• Oh, and drank some good beer.
• Then we went down a couple of doors and had a couple of beers.
• The whole thing was probably $30 for the two of us again.

A bunch of good beer, some good food, some live music, and most of it within walking distance. $60.

Today, if I wasn’t lazily watching football, I’d probably walk down that same tree-lined street and go see a movie. If I lived in the ’burbs, I’d have trees, but not the array of stuff in walking distance. If I lived in a bigger city, I’d be poor and stabbed.

I’ll take the happy medium.