Thank you Cosmos for this far more realistically sunny view of our favorite nabe, the Back Bay. I posted last week about how our magical area's wonderful attributes have insulated it from the so-called "real estate bust" that might or might not be happening in lesser towns, and your post goes far in explaining why.

The Back Bay is the most desirable address in all of New England. Perhaps on the whole eastern seaboard! Outside of perhaps Manhattan, what neighborhood offers what we have? What other neighborhood can count the sorts of society winners we have happily strolling our charmingly gas-lit brick sidewalks?

Famous authors, titans of industry, sports legends, television celebrities and more are proud to call the Back Bay home. Not to mention your run of the mill surgeons, high powered lawyers from white shoe firms, venture capitalists and other swells less prominent in the public eye, though no less monied than their more celebrated neighbors.

Indeed, the Back Bay has a cachet that can't be matched anywhere. And this is why an address here will forever claim a lofty price, one that can be paid only by the most upper of echelons. Though the South End might be catching up, the Back Bay is still the wealthy matron, commanding a venerable perch though peering proudly at its progeny across the Southwest Corridor Park.

The line of buyers I have waiting in the wings for any available Back Bay flat would make any agent in a place like, say, Worcester, or worse, Dorchester, almost pale with envy.

Phil O. Math take note!! This is why the city center markets are immune from any real estate bust! And thank you so much Mr. Calatano for your most perceptive post!