The million-dollar price tag for this two-bedroom Brookline ranch house says a lot about today's real estate market, but the interior screams of yesterday. Still, the fact that the house is surrounded by more expensive homes suggests that rehabbing the place would prove to be a good investment. (Photos / Sam Gray)

Would You Pay a Million Dollars for This?

With everything from modest homes to million-dollar dumps now commanding princely sums, it's no wonder that Boston's hospitals, colleges, and biotech firms are seeing so many job offers rejected. Who can afford to live here?

By Neil Swidey

Globe Staff / September 12, 2004

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SO THIS IS WHAT it has come to: a two-bedroom ranch with a shallow backyard, sitting on a well-traveled road in Brookline not far from the hum of Route 9, with white Formica countertops in the kitchen, powder-blue carpeting in the living room, and pink tiles in the bathroom. The musty basement family room, which abuts a two-car garage, has ... (Full Article: 5385 Words)