North, south, and west of Boston, there are towns where you can live in a single family, six-room, three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath house for under $350,000.

With the recession has come a window of opportunity to find a nice house in an overlooked town, where new homeowners don’t have to get a jumbo mortgage to get a roof over their heads.

Read what Boston.com readers have to say about these six towns.