Regarding the AirBnB itself: the room is spacious, the apartment is clean and maintained, the stove works well, and Marie is a clear and helpful communicator — I especially appreciated the extra laundry detergent, soap, and food staples she left her AirBnB guests. You should know that there are two other rooms in the apartment, which during my stay were occupied by other AirBnBers.
Some jumbled thoughts about the location: if you look up the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood of Dorchester, you'll see Reddit posts and Boston Globe features from the early 2010s about the high rate of violence in the area. I hadn't done much research before showing up at the AirBnB, so reading these posts/articles on the premises, I started to feel quite worried. But after staying there for a month and talking to some locals, I came to realize that violent crime has significantly decreased since then. Walking to the commuter rail, the laundromat, and the local vegan restaurant, I never felt unsafe. That said, I did, at times, feel uncomfortable. I think a lot of this discomfort is inextricable from my own identity and past experiences — I'm a young white man who had never lived alone in a majority-Black working class class suburb for a month. There's not much foot traffic on the roads around the AirBnB (it feels less like a bustling city than it does a distinct suburb), and it seemed clear that most of the people walking around were longtime locals — this is to say that I felt like I stood out quite obviously as I walked around. At times I felt like a harbinger of future gentrification. I ended up mostly avoiding the Fields Corner T stop, which is about a 12 minute walk away, in favor of the commuter rail stop in the opposite direction, only about a 5 minute walk—even though that made it significantly trickier to schedule commutes into the city.
So, if you're someone like me, you might want to consider the political and personal ramifications of booking this AirBnB more thoroughly than I did.