College students have returned to Boston, creating visible signs such as U-Hauls, discarded IKEA furniture on sidewalks, long lines at popular cafes, and iced matcha-drinking, TikTok-watching crowds. More than 50 colleges and universities in the region mean some neighborhoods feel like college towns while others remain populated by families and working residents. Proximity to student activity depends on residence and destination. Some residents rarely encounter student-driven late-night culture, while others navigate frequent student takeovers. Residents are invited to share bars and restaurants that tend to avoid students by providing business names, addresses, and reasons via a form or an email for inclusion in a future guide.
U-Hauls have taken over the road, old IKEA furniture blocking sidewalks, and the line at Tatte is longer than ever: Boston's college students are back, and you may already be in search of a place to escape the iced matcha-drinking, TikTok-watching youngsters at a Boston area restaurant or bar. Boston can feel like a college town, especially when class is in session at the more than 50 colleges and universities in the area, but it's full of families and working residents outside of higher education.
As a result, your proximity to Boston's student population depends on where you live and where you go around town. There's a chance you may never get hit by a Berklee student's tuba on a rush hour Green Line, or that you ever require a 3 a.m. burrito from El Jefe's. But you have to know where and when to go out around Boston.
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